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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Woz in apple ad?
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:51:38 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au (Quinn) writes:

>In article <1b8ec9INNpk0@pollux.usc.edu> Stephen Kurtzman,
>kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu writes:
>>Is this the floppy disk controller? If it is, then I don't think you
>>can use the word "popular". From what I've been told, due to the
>>limited function offered by this chip, the whole darn CPU is
>>essentially turned into a floppy disk controller. This is not an
>>efficient use of a 68030 or 68040. (It may have been seen as a good
>>trade off at the time, but times have changed.)
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Yes but exactly in the opposite direction.  My Quadra spends virtually
>none of its time talking to the floppy disk and when it does I really
>don't care how long it takes.  So not including a sophisticated floppy
>IO system makes a great deal of sense.

>Now if you want to complain about Mac IO I suggest you start at
>synchronous SCSI and work upwards.

Well... that's because you have a Quadra.  I think Apple's Inside Mac 
(hardware reference manual) mentions that almost every Mac (with the 
exception of IIfx and up) does "pseudo-DMA" only.  Such "pseudo-DMA" requires
some cpu cycles to shuffle data in/out of the harddisk.

>Quinn "The Eskimo!"      <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>     "Support HAVOC!"
>Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
>  -- Who doesn't care that he can't format floppies in the background.

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin
e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: gjohn@ostrich.Stanford.EDU (George John)
Subject: How to upgrade PB100 memory
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, CA, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:25:09


could someone email me or post the instructions on how to open
the pb100 case and upgrade the memory?  I remember seeing it
before, but of course I didn't own a powerbook then.  It seems
like it should be simple but I'm afraid of ripping out a the
display cable or blowing the fuse on the motherboard.

(I looked for the file at sumex, but couldn't find it.)

Thanks in advance,
George

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele)
Subject: Re: New PB100 2/20 external floppy won't read HD disks properly
Organization: Tadpole Technology plc
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:18:49 GMT
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	<1992Oct6.204227.8525@netcom.com>

In article <1992Oct6.204227.8525@netcom.com> metlay@netcom.com (metlay) writes:

   >Doesn't exactly inspire confidence does it?

   I have to take issue with this. I'm not Apple's biggest fan, but I should
   point out that people generally only mention a piece of gear on the Net
   if they want to gritch about it. My wife and I own two PB100s, each with 
   its own external drive. We haven't been using them for a LONG time, but
   so far we've had no trouble at all with either of them. When and if they
   do go crufty, I'll post a note here after I send them to Apple to be fixed.
   It'll be interesting to see how long that takes....

I'm not trying to be rude about Apple here - the PB100 and StyleWriter
I bought are great products.  However, since they're brand new, I'd
like them to be as good as they can be, and there seems to be this
problem with the floppy drive, and I'm wondering if I can do anything
about it.

Thanks


Tim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: Re: price of LCII vs Perf 400
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 03:59:22 GMT

In article <1020059.2AD6B8A4@cmhgate.fidonet.org> Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
>CTB103@psuvm.psu.edu (Chad Burkins) writes:
>
>CB> LCII (4mb/80mb) --->>> $1349    (suggested retail price)
>CB> Performma 400 (4mb/80mb) --->>> $1499   (at my local Sears store.)
>CB> 
>CB> Granted, I believe a keyboard and mouse are included with the 400,
>CB> however, it's not the extended keyboard, so it can't make more than
>CB> a $100 difference.  What the heck is going on.....
>CB>
>
>Don't forget that software bundle.  EVERY Performa will come with some
>integrated applications package, which basically accounts for the extra $150.

Sears sold LCII's for a while before the Performa's came out (In
addition to Classic II's and IIsi's.  In fact my local store still has
some IIsi's). I picked up an LCII bundle containing an LCII 4/80,
keyboard, mouse, ClarisWorks, and a 2400bps Apple modem (plus a Prodigy
sign-up kit -- oh happy day! :-) for $1499.  Their prices on the Apple
monitors (12" and 13") were pretty steep, though.  Even with the recent
price "cuts" and the fact that the modem is worth zilch to me (I already
own three others) I still feel like I got a good deal.


--
Steve Kanefsky
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Question on SIMMs (for Mac Plus)
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:32:15 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

In article <Bw4nI7.5tC@mtholyoke.edu>, gewong@mtholyoke.edu (G.e.R.m.a.I.N)
wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Just a quick question: Does the Mac Plus take 2 Meg SIMMs?
> Or is it only upgradable to a max of 4 Megs (ie. 4 1 Meg
> SIMMs)..

256K or 1-Meg SIMMs only.  4-megs max RAM.

(quick question-->quick answer)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tokma@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Kamel Al-Khalil)
Subject: Speedometer Results for "AE QuickSilver"w/FPU ?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 16 Oct 1992 13:24 EDT  

Anyone out there using the Applied Engineering "QuickSilver" cache card
with FPU on a Mac IIsi ? If you are, can you please post or e-mail results
of its performance using "Speedometer 3.06". I am considering buying one.
Any recommendations or information would be appreciated.
How about results of other cache/FPU cards ?

Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
Subject: Re: Duo's, new port...
Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: As little as possible
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:17:17 GMT

mute@cartan.WPI.EDU (The Amazing Immolating Man) writes:

>In article <7699@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:
>>  The latest MacWeek (10.12.92) describes the Duo 230 as having "built
>>in microphone and speaker, a serial port, a post for connecting an
>>optional internal modem to a phone line, and a 152 pin 32 bit bus for
>>connecting to docks."  I assume the modem port is a RJ-11, but what is
>>the "serial port?"  A scsii?  

>Um, no. A modem/printer/Appletalk port is the same as a serial port-
>it's just an RS232 with a different plug and socket. 

Actually, Apple uses RS242 ports...

	-=Alan
From: chogend1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Chris Hogendorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: IIsi video and 16" monitors
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:55:02 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College

Since you can run an FPD at 4 bits of the IIsi internal video, can you also
run a 16" monitor at 4 bits too?
From: nhowland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Neal Patrick Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Anyone have extra 256K SIMMs?
Date: 15 Oct 1992 20:49:29 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: SIMMs

I was wondering if anyone out there has any extra 256K SIMMs that they
would like to sell for a reasonable price.  I have an SE/30.  I think
that requires a SIMM speed of 80ns.  Anyway if anyone wants to get rid
of extra SIMMs and earn a little money, drop me a line.

Neal Howland
nhowland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu

From: Ladd.Morse@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ladd Morse)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: APPLE LASER IIG
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:16:23 -0500

We just started using a new Apple IIg laser printer and have stumbled upon a
(hopefully) small problem.
 
I noticed that a Persuasion file using Adobe Helvetica titles prints
differently to our II NTX and our IIg. For example, on the IINTX the hyphen is
a rectangle, on the IIg the hyphen is a rectangle on top and the bottom quarter
is beveled.
 
The computer that this file was printed from has only Adobe fonts loaded, no
TrueType at all (they were stripped from the system file after installation)
 
Our first guess is that perhaps the IIg has TrueType built-in and it's
defaulting to that. But that seems too weird.
 
Our second guess is that there are differing versions of Helvetica somehow on
the two machines.  I'm not sure there's a way to check that.
 
Heaven forbid we have to read the documentation.  Any clues?
 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele)
Subject: Re: PB100 battery power
Organization: Tadpole Technology plc
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:24:17 GMT

In article <SMARGARI.92Oct6223731@emmy.nmsu.edu> smargari@nmsu.edu (Susan Margarit) writes:

   When I charge my PB100, it Hi-charges to 7.2 volts, drops to a
   lo-charge 6.9 volts and then, when I disconnect it (even after
   charging all night) it immediately drops to just over 6.2 volts which
   registers as 6/8ths full on apple's battery DA. It does this with both
   batteries. I self installed a 4m non-psram expansion so I though that
   I might have a short so I took it apart, checked everything, and
   reassembled it. I still get almost 2 hrs of life with the screen on
   half way or more. Is this typical?

It's what happens to my PB100.  I was worried about it, but now you've
posted I'm less worried!

The thing to remember, apparently, is that the PB100 draws power from
both the battery AND the adapter when you have the adapter plugged in.
So you get some weird effects.. like the one Apple mention in the
manual, that if you plug in ADB periperhals that are too hungry they
will discharge the battery even if the adapter is plugged in.

Tim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: chogend1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Chris Hogendorn)
Subject: Can you plug an FPU into the Color Pivot IIsi interface?
Organization: Swarthmore College
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:06:18 GMT

I think I've seen mention of an FPU slot on the interface for the Color
Pivot. Is this true? Does it have the same performance as a regular FPU
card? Can you still add a cache card to the interface? Are there other
similar arrangements on other video cards for the IIsi? Any answers would
be greatly appreciated. --> Chris




Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: UC525655@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Mark Eaton)
Subject: Re: SI at 25 Mhz INSTRUCTIONS REPOST
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 17:21:31 CDT

Well, I guess the next question is has anyone with the FPU/NuBus expander
tried this procedure? what were the results?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Brennan.J.Murphy.53@nd.edu (BRennan Murphy)
Subject: These new Powerbooks?????
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:01:20 GMT

I want a powerbook but I have heard mixed reviews about the new ones
coming out..Some say they are not much better. They say the screen is the
only improvement.  Is it worth waiting for the new ones?  I heard that
Powerbooks have problems with their disk drives.  Does anyone have this
problem?
I need some advice here---come on all you mac lovers--tell me how it is.
Is there any speculation as to the price opf the new ones?  Will they be
cheaper and better?  
Thanks,
Brennan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Danny W. McCampbell <danny@utkux1.utk.edu>
Subject: Will the Powerbook 160 have a FPU slot?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A704A19D7B01CC3E@revelation.utcc.utk.edu>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 16 Oct 92 16: 43:09 GMT
Organization: The University of Tennessee
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:44:09 GMT

Just as the subject line says will the Powerbook 160 have an FPU
slot?  

Danny McCampbell
From: fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: mac powerbook internal fax modem
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:26:24 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

> fax modems with voice mail

Global Village has promised this capability as a software upgrade
to the PowerPort/Gold (and, I assume the desktop TelePort/Gold).
No dates given.

    fleming@cup.portal.com
From: nrz@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac Models comparisons?
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:43:51 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

In article <1bljl1INN2vh@bigboote.WPI.EDU>,
firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins) writes: 
> In article <1992Oct16.045736.17409@news.arc.nasa.gov> keradwc@news.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Connery) writes:
>>If anyone HAS such a table, I, too, would be interested. I've been trying to
>>put one together, but every time there's a new generation of machines, the
>>magazines change their benchmarking tests and change the baseline.
> 
>   Why not just run the most recent version of Speedometer on the new machines
> and the old ones.  It uses the Classic as a 1.0 for most tests and for FPU 
> tests it uses the original Mac II.  The machine records don't take up much
> space and someone could collect them and put them into a larger record and
> post it or send it to an archive.  I am very curious how the new machines will
> stack up versus the old ones.
> 
One needs to be careful to run the benchmarks on the same system software,
or we'll be comparing apples and oranges (inadvertent pun there).  There 
are also other factors that might lead to different benchmark results, but 
system software is an important one.
From: eyoung@cisco.com (Eric Youngman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: q
Date: 8 Oct 1992 22:36:34 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: hy7919@thor.albany.edu (HONG-HSEE YUAN)
Subject: Energy Consumption Rate of a Powerbook 170 ?
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 19:14:20 GMT

	Anybody knows what's the battery consumption rate of a
powerbook 170 (i.e. How many Walts)? I'm trying to drain the battery,
but couldn't find the energy requirement in the manual.
Many thanks in advance!

Hong
From: chaoyang@sal-sun82.usc.edu (Chao Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SCSI port pinout
Date: 14 Oct 1992 15:52:25 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sal-sun82.usc.edu


Does anybody know where to find out the pinout for SCSI port and internal
SCSI slot pinout?  Thanks.
From: chogend1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Chris Hogendorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Powerbook Caps Lock
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:53:52 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College

I'm forever hitting the caps lock key on my Powerbook 140. Does anyone know
of a good way of disabling it? --> Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wirehead@cheshire.oxy.edu (David J. Harr)
Subject: Apple 16" color Monitor and 256 color card for sale.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Summary: $1200 or best offer
Keywords: for sale, monitor
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:29:17 GMT


$1200 or best offer. I might be willing to split it up and just sell
the monitor or the card. Give me a try. The card is an Apple 8.24, and
it will drive the monitor in eight bit color. Compatible with all
Mac II class machines and Quadras. The monitor is only 6months old
and is in beautiful condition. Comes with all original packaging.
I can be reached at wirehead@cheshire.oxy.edu or (818)281-5639.

David.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox)
Subject: New life for used internal Powerbook hard disk
Keywords: Powerbook, hard disk
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:48:11 GMT

I've discovered that 20Mb is awfully small, and am considering
replacing my Powerbook's drive with something bigger.

My question is: what can you do with the 20Mb drive that you pulled
out?  I'd like to use it inside of my desktop MacII. Heck, the thing is
small enough that I could probably Scotch tape it to the inside of the
case somewhere.  But I don't know what kind of connectors or other
interfaces would needed.  It's just a SCSI drive, after all, but the
connector must be unusual.

Has anyone tried doing this?  What did it take?

David Willcox
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: peterbak@microsoft.com (Peter Bako)
Subject: Ram board?
Date: 09 Oct 92 20:53:55 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Keywords: ramdrive, memory board, nubus


I have a handful of spare 256k and 1M SIMMS that I would like to
put to good use.  Is there any company that sells a card onto
which I could install this memory onto and then use it as a large
RAM drive?  I seem to recall hearing about a product like this a 
long time ago, but it might have been for the pc....  Please
post your replies since I'm sure there will be others interested
in this as well.

Thanks....
Peter

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: keradwc@news.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Connery)
Subject: Macintosh II RAM upgrades
Keywords: RAM, II, upgrade
Organization: Sneakernet West, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 07:17:57 GMT

If this is a FAQ, I missed it, and apologize.

What is required to increase the RAM in a Macintosh II beyond 8 megabytes?
I know they require either composite or PAL-equipped 4-meg SIMMs. But:

   Apple's Technical Note #176 says that it needs to be upgraded (via 
   the SuperDrive upgrade) before it can use 4 meg SIMMs, but that it
   can then be expanded to 32 meg.

   Connectix' Macintosh Memory Guide says that Bank A can't accept any
   SIMMs larger than 2 meg, and that _this_ can be worked around by way
   of the HDFD upgrade, permitting only 20 meg (4x4+4x1) on an un-
   upgraded II, or 32 on a SuperDrive II.

   MacWarehouse's memory guide says that the max a II can be expanded
   to is 20 meg, and that that requires the FDHD upgrade.

Who's right? Is anything _else_ required?

I'm looking for people who HAVE upgraded Mac II machines beyond 8 meg, and
what they did to get it there. ROM or motherboard rev-levels won't hurt, if
you have them; the usual stuff. Theory is well-and-good, but working
examples are even better.

E-mail, please. I'll summarize if there's interest.


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From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple CD300 announced
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:27:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: outpost.D2150035.fjfc4c
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1992Oct8.023022.8583@netcom.com> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall) writes:
> 
> Which machines can take the 300i?  Just the Performa?

The Quadra 900/950 has a place for an internal CD-ROM drive.

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From: marc@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Marc Regenos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Laserwriter Plus Time-out
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:52:27 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

Greetings...

Does anyone out there know how to change the timeout settings on a 
Laserwriter Plus?  I'm running into problems printing a database in 4D.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...

Marc

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From: TOGE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Nobukazu Toge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Where to buy RAM?
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:37:53 GMT
 <1992Oct8.173046.7555@rosevax.rosemount.com>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

aj -

It may not be the best price, but Technology Works offers a reasonably
good price.  A recent quote (2.5 weeks ago) I got from them was $99 for
a 4 MB SIMM.  Their phone # is 512-794-8533, fax # 512-794-8520.
4030 Braker Lane West, Suite 350, Austin, TX 78759.  They've been
recommended in the BMUG NewsLetter a couple of times.

The most economical has been ChipMerchant, located in San Diego (or LA?).
Look up the ads in MacWeek.  They may or may not take credit cards, however.

- Nobu Toge (ex-SLAC, now-KEK)

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From: gt4586c@prism.gatech.EDU (WILLETT,THOMAS CARTER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Tokamac 33Mhz 68040 accelerator for Mac IIfx
Summary: Tokamac 33MHz '040 info
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:58:42 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <Bw5502.Cu3@acsu.buffalo.edu>, yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> Anybody has information or experience on this accelerator
> board?

A while ago i had Fusion Data Systems send me their info packet on their
accelerators.  Briefly, here's what they say about their 33MHz '040 
accelerator for the IIfx:
- 33MHz Motorola 68040 CPU
- full sized board plugs into bothe the PDS and the NuBus
- 128K onboard static ram cache
- uses "Nexus" and "Fusor" gate arrays to bypass IIfx graphics
  bottlenecks
- comes with "multipatch" application which scans your hard drive to 
  identify applications which are not '040 compatible.  if an app is not
  compatible, the accelerator can return control to the 
  motherboard '030 (via a control panel)so you can run it without having to
  reboot. in some 
  cases multipatch can patch the code to run properly on the '040.

For more information, you can call them at 512 338 5326.  Also, they are
supposed to be working on a 33MHz acceleratore ('040) for the IIci.


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