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From: un032463@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Help with Bernoulli & syquest Drives
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:44:24 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

I am thinking of buying another means of storage, and I am torn between two
types of removeable media.  I am looking at a Bernoulli 90MB drive and a 
Syquest 88MB drive.  Anyone out there have any recommendations about either of
these drives?  Thanks in advance.
From: brnt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Internal Floptical (Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?)
Date: 14 Aug 92 08:11:04 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

	Does anybody know of, or (better yet) does anybody have an internal
floptical drive.  I've got a Mac LC and that extra internal drive slot is just
begging to be filled; a floptical would fulfill my fondest desires and help
alleviate my bursting hard drive.
	If such a thing is out there: who makes them? how much do they cost?
and how fast is the read/write time?  I mean, could it be effectively used as
an alternate startup disk or is it too slow (like a floppy)?
								Vielen Dank
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From: golub@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Robert Golub)
Subject: Strange flicker with Apple 13" RGB monitor
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:41:50 GMT

I have a new Apple 13" Hi-Res RGB monitor, and it intermittently does a
quick black jump of the screen image, similar to what happens on-screen
during a restart. It is rare, and doesn't seem to have any particular
pattern to it, and though it may be associated with closing windows I think
it occurs at other times. There may be a "static" sounding crackle with it.
It is *not* at all like the degaussing effect.

Again, it is rare, and otherwise the monitor seems to be working fine. I
have a new Mac IIci, 8 meg RAM, cache card.

I know that this is somewhat vague, but does it sound familiar to anyone?
Any ideas about it?

Thanks in advance for you help!

-Rob

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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: powerbook100 by mail - missed the article
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:44:08 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Aug12.194635.13380@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, mzajac@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Stephen Zajac) writes:
> 
> A colleague of mine just decided he would definately buy a 
> Powerbook 100 for the Price Club price, but that darned article
> has expired on our news server.
> 
> Can anyone please send the telephone # of the Price Club that
> will sell them through the mail?

The Price Club does not do mail order.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: PHEACOCK@utmmg.med.uth.tmc.edu (Philip Heacock)
Subject: Re: Strange flicker with Apple 13" RGB monitor
Organization: UT MEDICAL SCHOOL AT HOUSTON
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:51:26 GMT
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In <1992Aug12.124150.20068@news.acns.nwu.edu> golub@casbah.acns.nwu.edu writes:

> I have a new Apple 13" Hi-Res RGB monitor, and it intermittently does a
> quick black jump of the screen image, similar to what happens on-screen
> during a restart. It is rare, and doesn't seem to have any particular
> pattern to it, and though it may be associated with closing windows I think
> it occurs at other times. There may be a "static" sounding crackle with it.
> It is *not* at all like the degaussing effect.
> 
> Again, it is rare, and otherwise the monitor seems to be working fine. I
> have a new Mac IIci, 8 meg RAM, cache card.
> 
> I know that this is somewhat vague, but does it sound familiar to anyone?
> Any ideas about it?
> 
> Thanks in advance for you help!
> 
> -Rob
> 
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> 222 E. Superior                 Northwestern University Medical School
> Chicago, IL 60611               E-mail: golub@nwu.edu    Voice: (312) 908-8630


I have talked to three people who have bought 13 inch monitors in the last
six mo. All of them exhibit this behavior.  The "problem" (is it?) is
independent of cpu.

-Phil

I disclaim all ideas of my employer; as they do mine.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: yeomans@austin.onu.edu (Charles Yeomans[x2317])
Subject:  printing to an IBM lp on a network
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:14:32 GMT
Organization: Ohio Northern University

Here's my problem: we have an IBM laserprinter on a network
served by an IBM RS6000.  I have a MAC running sys7 which talks
to this network via telnet.  How do I print from my Mac to the
printer on the network?  The printer supports Postscript.

I am so woefully ignorant of what to do that I don't know what 
else to ask.   Any help would be deeply appreciated.

Charles Yeomans
yeomans@austin.onu.edu
From: jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re:  MacSE screen wavers during disk access
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:44:56 GMT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

>>> I have been having some trouble with my SE screen occassionally having mild
>>> fits of waviness in the display.  I recently put in a new, bigger hard drive
>>> and now it appears that the waviness occurrs more often and correlates with
>>> disk accesses.  
>>> - tom willett  drwho@lab12.gatech.edu
>>
>>I had a similar problem with an SE over a year ago.  I took it to an *Apple*
>>dealer.  The repair person checked the serial number and told me the problem
>>was covered by a [secret warrenty].  The machine was repaired for free.
>> --john (jmoudler@mis.mcw.edu)
>
> When my Mac SE started doing this a few month ago, I took it back to the
> store (it still had warranty on it), but they told me that they couldn4t
> find that it had problems. I was irritated because this thing still occured,
> so I went to the dealer4s again. All that repeated 3 (THREE!!!) times.
> 
> Since the problem occurs right the way you described it, I think it4s the
> same thing. But my SE is only one year old...
> Felix Gesic felix@dino.dinoco.de
> 

Is it possible that you are operating your Mac on a inadequate, or marginally
adequate circuit?  I had the screen waver problem worse at home than at work,
and had trouble reproducing the problem at the dealer.  My home wiring is
marginal (its what you get for liking old houses), and I suspect that the
dealer's wiring in very good.

Are MACs very demand re wiring?  Could the demand on the circuit be higher
during disc read/writes?  I don't have the testing equipment to answer that.

John Moulder (jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu)
Radiation Biology
Medical College of Wisconsin
From: Ladd.Morse@p804.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ladd Morse)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: RasterOps 208 video board
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:04:50 -0500

A couple of years ago I retired my apple monochrome video card and purchased a
RasterOps 208 video board.  This is an 8-bit color card, expandable to 24 bit
with the appropriate v-ram chips.  It suited my needs at the time (greyscale)
and would be upgradeable to 24-bit when I got a small color monitor.

That time has come. Now, much to my dismay, I find that everything and everybody
uses V-ram SIMMS, and I can't find any of the appropriate chips anywhere.

Anybody know where I can find these chips?
 
 Ladd
From: amfahr@taligent.com (Jeff Amfahr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: System 6.0.6???
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:36:33 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Taligent

In article <Bt3F4v.B52@iat.holonet.net>, kellys@orac.holonet.net (Kelly
Schwarzhoff) wrote:
> 
> I was just reading Newsbytes and read an article in which a program recommends
> System 6.0.6 or higher.  Question:  I know abou System 6.0.5 and System 6.0.7,
> but what exactly is the difference between 6.0.5 and 6.0.6?  I don't remember
> ever hearing about 6.0.6.
> 
> 
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kelly Schwarzhoff
> Internet: kellys@orac.holonet.net   Fidonet: 1:161/445.0
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

System 6.0.6 was actual the short-lived predecessor to 6.0.7. It only saw
the light of day in Europe. It turns out that right before ship (and I mean
RIGHT before ship) some fairly nasty bugs were found. They were fixed for
the release in the U.S. (which was called 6.0.7), but there wasn't time to
role all the new international versions. So outside of the U.S. people got
6.0.6 with patch INIT (sort of like Tune-Up). And of course all this
happened right as 7.0 was trying to go beta.

 Jeff Amfahr
Taligent
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: sullivan@athena.mit.edu (Jason R Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Adding RAM to Q950
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:29:19 GMT

I have 24 Mb in my 950.  Eight 1 x 8's in banks A and B.
Four 4 x 8's in bank C which is the next two rows of two slots
directly below the filled rows.  That's all ....

Jason Sullivan
From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quadra graphics acceleration??
Date: 22 Aug 92 01:04:25 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <GERLACH.92Aug21041903@greyrock.greyrock.mso.colostate.edu> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), gerlach@greyrock.mso.colostate.edu (Scott Gerlach) writes:
> We're getting ready to purchase a Quadra 950 for use as a multimedia
> station in our lab on campus, and we're wondering if anyone has any
> suggestions concerning graphics accelerators for the Q 950.  My boss
> is planning on buying the Apple 16" monitor and we'd like to have
> 24-bit video with fast redraws for use with demonstrations and
> displaying/creating QuickTime movies.

As long as he's using the on-board video (it will support 24-bit video
on a 16" monitor with enough VRAM added (add 4)) it's pretty much
like using an accelerated video card.  

The Quadra video was designed for speed.  Its VRAM is on the local
processor bus so it doesn't have to go over the relatively slow NuBus
to access it.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ronaldw@sco.COM (ronald wong)
Subject: Re: PB 140/170 Power Supply
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 18:31:43 GMT


In article <1992Aug07.125615.875@sunfs3.Camex.COM> kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg) writes:
>
>General Question: Could someone tell me roughly how the Powerbook
>power circuitry is layed out?  My current guess is that the coax
>connector goes straight through to the internal battery, and that
>there are voltage regulators coming off there for actually powering
>things.  Correct?
>
>Specific question: Can I just plug a 6 volt lead acid battery into the
>coax connector?  
>
>
>--
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>                                            H:(617) 776-6899  W:(617) 426-3577
>As always, things look better when some costs are left out.
>						      -Economist 3-28-92 p. 94

Kent,

6 volts won't be enough --- the bottom end of the Battery DA corresponds
to roughly 7 volts.  If there isn't enough voltage, it won't boot.  

I tried one of those cigarette lighter adapters, suitably re-worked to 
drop 12 volts down to 7.5 volts and beefed up for to handle a little more
current (this device was built around an IC voltage regulator).  On paper
it looked like it should've worked, and bench testing with a meter showed
everything was okay.  But after a day of using it, my PowerBook got fried
such that it would work if I used the regular AC adapter, but it wouldn't
charge the battery nor would it boot off of the battery.

I decided to stick with software instead after that --- the consequences
of making a mistake aren't as $$$$!

- Ron Wong




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: harry@DIALix.oz.au (Harry Werkman)
Subject: Greater than 640x480 on an LC
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 11:30:27 GMT
Keywords: LC video


Does anyone know of some software that alters to video attributes of an LC. I have a NEC MultiSync 3D monitor which can support greater than 640x480x256.

Regards,
Harry WERKMAN (harry@hjwmac)
From: dlc@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dennis Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Spectrum 8 video loses mind
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:26:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Hi Mac folks,

  I have a Mac II with a Daystar PowerCard 030 in it and a SuperMac Spectrum 8
video card, and a Exelan LAN card as well.  My question and my problem is 
thus:
  
  Every once and a while I have been losing the configuration of the Supermac
video card.  It will power up and think that I am using the Apple 14" 
display instead of the 16" inch one that is configured.  I then have to plug
in the 14" monitor and reset the control panel data to the correct card and
restart.  Usually when this happens one or more of my usual folder windows
that I leave open will not have the correct size or location.

  My question is this, what is going on?  Is this some sort of PRAM problem?
Is it maybe a battery-backup problem?  The Supermac folk have no ideas or
solutions, the local Apple techs are such a laugh that they make my sides
ache!  (One said that it must be a motherboard problem, it'll have to come
out!  Yea right - ever hear of a P-RAM?  <Dumb look, then explanation of what
the motherboard does...>

  Anyone have any ideas, part numbers?

Thanks,
DLC

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
Subject: Where to get Mac Portable memory cheap?
Originator: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:06:07 GMT


I'm trying to find the lowest price on memory cards for the Mac
Portable (not Powerbook)  The cheapest I've found so far is $549
for a 4 MB card.  Anybody know of anyone cheaper?

--Tony
quan@cs.stanford.edu
From: mccarty@vmser.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 8-bit or 24-bit, that is the question...
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:04:05 GMT
Reply-To: mccarty@vmser.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


I am considering getting the XCeed MacroII 24bit board for my IIci to get
away from internal video and also give me up to 24bit capability.

Do these boards also allow a 16bit setting?
			-bret
From: umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SiliconGraphics IRIS Indigo vs Quadra 950
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:12:58 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

The Indigo certainly appears to be a popular machine. I just got
back from a conference in Pittsburgh at which many of the exhibitors
had Indigos running their software (modelling)


CKC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Subject: Re: PC printing to Mac printer on Ethernet: how?
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:08:00 GMT

In <1992Aug14.044443.13946@morrow.stanford.edu> HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky) writes:

>DO NOT attempt to use Dayna's software NOR Farallon's and print to a
>shared AppleTalk printer. Put simply, these products only work in
>theory. Dayna's software is not compatible with Windows 3.0 or 3.1

[details deleted]

>Incidentally, I have spent over 20 hours on the Farallon solution,
>with Farallon tech supoort, Microsoft tech support, Dayna tech
>support, etc. I didn't want to give up on it because it should work
>in theory. Theory and practice are not the same thing, though.

Thanks. Great to hear from someone who has actually tried this stuff -
saves the rest of us a lot of headache! I must admit that the ONLY
solution I have direct experience with is to use a Novell Netware 386
server to share a LaserWriter with both Macs and PCs. It works extremely
well!

OK, I did it a few times with TOPS in the past, but that was a nightmare!
I haven't been keeping up with my reading, but I have a feeling TOPS is
dead now (didn't see them at Mactivity and haven't received mail from
Sitka in a long time). 
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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:30:23 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

heilmayr@jaffna.berkeley.edu (Stephan Heilmayr) writes:

>Through mid-October, I can get a Mac IIsi 5/80 for $1572 (bundled with
>Word, a dictionary, an encyclopedia, and some other stuff) through
>the university.  This certainly seems like a good deal in comparison
>to standard retail prices.  But I would be really annoyed with myself
>if I threw out all of this money (which I would have to borrow) only
>to find on October 19 that I could get a bigger-better-stronger-faster
>IIvi (or IIvx?) for even less money.  Does anyone out there have a
>sense of how the new Macs will stack up against the IIsi in performance
>and features? 

    Well the pair are billed as the replacement for the IIsi and IIci.
Both come is a case similar to the size of a IIci with 3 NuBus Slots,
and on-board video. The IIvi is the low priced one, but will have only a
16MHz '030 (anyone remember the IIcx?) and the IIvx will have a 33MHz
'030 and a cache card. If you wait, you will probably be able to get a
IIvi for about the same price as the IIsi, but the IIsi is a bit faster,
less expandable and available for you today. But you aren't going to
find that "bigger-better-stronger-faster" computer for less than the
price of the IIsi, the IIvx will undoubtedly be more expensive probaby
in the $2500 - $3000 range depending on the size of the HD.


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From: marty@radarsun.jpl.nasa.gov (Marty Slade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: TurboFloppy 1.4 and System 7?
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:29:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

I have an external SCSI floppy drive, the Turbo Floppy 1.4, from 
Peripheral Land Inc.  I have talked to their customer support and
they claim that this device is System 7 compatible. However, I note that
in the Mac WareHouse catalog, it is not marked with the little 7 symbol.
In fact, none of their products are - even hard drives that I know will
work with System 7 given the appropriate driver. Howver, PLI claims that,
as is, the Turbo Floppy 1.4 *IS* System 7 compatible. There is no software
driver supplied with it, just an INIT to provide the ability to read MS-DOS
disks.  
  I would like to move to System 7, but if I have to get the HD floppy
upgrade to my internal (800 K) floppy drive, I would prefer to know that
now rather than after upgrading. System is a Mac II with the Daystar
Digital Powercache 50 MHz accelerator.
  Please email and I will summarize if there appear to be interest to
warrant it. Thanks for any advice!
                               Martin Slade
                               JPL/Caltech Mail Stop 238-420
                               +818-354-2765
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: sold@kit.uni-kl.de (Christoph Sold)
Subject: Re: New IIvx and IIvi...why on EARTH 16mhz? 
Organization: Universitaet Kaiserslautern
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:59:16 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.025007.26454@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:
>Subject: New IIvx and IIvi...why on EARTH 16mhz? 
>From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
>Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 02:50:07 GMT
>
>Just to add to the anarchy here on the IIvx and IIvi (and which processor
>which one uses), I've heard 32mhz and 16mhz....my question is: Why on EARTH
>would Apple goto a 16mhz chip...I'd think the MINIMUM they'd use would be
>20mhz!
>-- 
> "When I was young we got our first color TV set and our neighbor kids got
>jealous 'cause their parents wouldn't buy one. So the parents put red green 
>and blue celophane on it and called it color...now they have Windows 3.1"
>    Travis Grundke --- an780@Cleveland.Freenet.edu --- Cleveland, Ohio


I think 16.xxx MHz divides easily in hardware to some video timing 
signals -- but I may be wrong.

-Christoph

Christoph P. Sold                   CATS Software GmbH
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ger.xse0035@applelink.apple.com     Germany

"If an apple is fun, what the heck is an appletree?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PowerBook Data Buses...?
From: ttak@ellis.uchicago.edu (toki  takeuchi)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 18:13:24 GMT
Reply-To: ttak@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations


I guess the PB 145 WOULD be faster than the SE/30 and si, minus the MC.

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