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From: wang_dj@zebra.cs.jhu.edu (David J. Wang)
Subject: Duo's in Boston
Followup-To:  wang_dj@server.cs.jhu.edu
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:02:21 GMT

I was wondering if anyone knows what retailers (if any) in the Boston area     
are currently stocking Duo's (specifically the 210), and how much they are.

Also, in general, what Apple dealers are there in the Boston area are there.


David Wang
wang_dj@server.cs.jhu.edu


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: sacg@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (giuseppe sacco)
Subject: Could be a vx's mem-manager problem?
Keywords: memory manager vx ci
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:05:21 GMT

Some time ago I read that the Mac ci had a bug in his memory manager on ROM, and someone proposing a modified one to fix.
Could be the same for the mac vx?

Bye 
Giuseppe

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 00:42:17 EST
Subject: Full page displays

I need a full page display, I want color, I don't want a dual orientation
feature like the Radius Pivot offers,  I want to spend around $700.00 ... less
than $700.00 would be nice too!   I doubt such a monster exists in the world
of Macintosh but it doesn't hurt to ask.  Does such an item exist or am I
dreamin'.  What about monitors for PC's ??  I know some of them are compatable
with the Mac and they are generally more afforable too (I think).  Help me!! 
Thanx,   Joe C.
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From: lc0v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Luis Abdon Cifuentes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SE/30 8/40 + Xceed color card
Date: 5 Nov 92 06:31:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.QeyIlY200iV3M1yHcy
Organization: Doctoral student, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


 
SE/30:
- 8 mb ram
- 40 mb hard drive
- Micron Xceed 8 bit color card (drives Apple 13, VGA, portrait monitors)
- standard keyboard
- aprox. 2 year old, card 6 mo old.
 
$1500
 
Please reply by email
 
 
Luis A. Cifuentes
Engineering and Public Policy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
lcifuentes+@andrew.cmu.edu
From: michel.picard@sophia.cnet.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Hyperdrive 20
Date: 5 Nov 92 11:50:51 GMT
Organization: Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications

I got a Mac+ with an internal hard drive. It is an Hyperdrive 20 from General
Computer (I don't know if the company still exists). This disk is used through
a special software 'Manager VR1' which requires a password for each partition
on the disk. My problem is that I don't know the manager password and I can't
run any thing.

Is there a mean to view passwords with Resedit for example or, better, does
somebody have a copy of the Hyperdrive 20 software and documentation and ship
it to me (make your price).

Please e-mail to michel.picard@sophia.cnet.fr. Thank you.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: a-kraus@uiuc.edu (Albert L. Kraus)
Subject: 1m or 2m vram for quadra with 16"
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: PES
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:02:12 GMT


I have 1meg vram now with thousands of colors.
What are the benefits with 2meg vram on a quadra with 16" Apple monitor. I
know you get millions of colors but can you see a difference? Is it faster?

Thanks!
Have a nice day!
From: fdm@WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM (Frank D. Malczewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Max Memory for a Mac II
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:43:34 GMT
Organization: GTE Government Systems

In article <noah-041192152509@noah.apple.com> noah@apple.com (Noah Price) writes:
#In article <1d8vluINN57c@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, wjb@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov
#(William J. Bene) wrote:
#> What is the maximum memory for a Mac II?  I have heard that you can break the 
#> 8 meg barrier using System 7 which provides 32 bit addressing.  Is this true?  
#> Does it run like a dog?  What problems may I run into if I go this route?
#
#On the _original_ Mac II, you are limited by the ROMs to 8 MB.  The
#SuperDrive upgrade comes (came?) with new ROMs which fix this.  Then, you
#are the same as a Mac IIx as far as DRAM is concerned.  For example, you
#can use SIMMs made from 4 MBit DRAM, but they need a PAL to suppress a test
#mode.  See the Macintosh Memory Configurations technote for details.
#
#To access more than about 13 MB (the exact number depends on how many NuBus
#cards you have), you need MODE32 and System 7 for 32-bit addressing to take
#advantage of this additional DRAM.


True or False: The SuperDrive upgrade is not necessary to add the special
PAL 4MB SIMMs to one of the Mac II's memory banks, giving 20MB total.

My answer was "True", based on my last reading of the M.M.C. TN.  Did I read
it too quickly?  (I've read various versions of the TN, even the version
which first revealed the SuperDrive/ROM requirement, but (one of) the
latest version(s) of this TN seemed to indicate that the SuperDrive upgrade
was NOT needed).
-- 

Frank Malczewski		(fdm@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com)
From: jjd@bbn.com (James J Dempsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: When will DUOs/Docks be available to purchase?
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:45:17 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <ibhan.721679309@husc10>, ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) 
writes:
> summeral@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SUMMERALL  ELMINA LANIER) writes:
> 
> >My Mac II just died, and I'm thinking of moving up, but I want a Duo.  I
> >need it soon!  Any idea when they will be available to purchase?
> > 
> >Connecting point tells me not until late 1Q93.
>
> Several people have a Duo already.  The Docks are a different matter...

I picked up a Apple newspaper-like flyer called "Intro News" at an
apple dealer soon after the Oct 19th intro that described the new
machines.  It also described the two E-Machines' docks called
PowerLink Presentor and PowerLink DeskNet.

The PowerLink Presentor was listed as "available now" and I have seen
a couple of vendors in MacWeek advertising it for $499.  Perhaps it
really is already available.

It has video out for 256 colors at 832x624 or 16 colors at 1024x768.
It has a external floppy connector and an ADB port.  It apparently
doesn't block the existing serial port and modem out ports on the Duo
itself.  It provides NTSC/PAL output for the video as well as RGB.  It
lacks any SCSI port.

		--Jim Dempsey--
		jjd@bbn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Rise in memory prices, why?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:50:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1992Nov11.174402.27832@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:

>It seems that SIMM DRAM prices are rising.  I seem to recall reading why,
>but I forgot (sorry).

Can you say "protectionism?"

I knew you could!
From: kurz.1@ipa.fhg.de (Hermann Kurz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Address Error
Date: 10 Nov 1992 16:48:31 GMT
Organization: IPA Stuttgart
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: leila1.ipa.fhg.de

Hello,

after upgrading a 2,5 Mbyte Mac SE to 4MByte (using 2 1Mbyte SIMMs with 2 
chips in addition to the 2 8-chip-SIMMs) there is quite so often an address 
error or an illegal instruction error. What am i doing wrong ? Are the 2-
chip-SIMMs not suited for this purpose ? Or is it the mixing of 2-chip and 
8-chip SIMMs or what?

any suggestions welcome 
---
ern
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: d88-sli@dront.nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark)
Subject: Can I buy a Quadra 900 case ?
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:15:57 GMT

Anybody know where I can find an empty Quadra box (including power supply) ?
My dealer claims I may buy one, *if* I have an old case to trade in :-(

	Stefan
--
Stefan Lindmark, Mambootor Datakonsult
Smedbyvagen 40, 184 32 Akersberga, Sweden. Phone: +46 764 63864
"Look, a bug! Take this! <smack> <thump> Arrghh..."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted,misc.forsale.computers,misc.forsale.computers.mac
From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Subject: Rise in memory prices, why?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:44:02 GMT

It seems that SIMM DRAM prices are rising.  I seem to recall reading why,
but I forgot (sorry).

So if anyone knows why SIMM prices are going up, I would be really like
to know.

Thanks,

Jess Holle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: serhody@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Stephen e. Rhody)
Subject: Re: Max Memory for a Mac II
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 11:09:29 EST

In article <1992Nov5.154334.13266@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com> fdm@WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM (Frank D. Malczewski) writes:
>In article <noah-041192152509@noah.apple.com> noah@apple.com (Noah Price) writes:
>#In article <1d8vluINN57c@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, wjb@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov
>#(William J. Bene) wrote:
>#> What is the maximum memory for a Mac II?  I have heard that you can break the 
>#> 8 meg barrier using System 7 which provides 32 bit addressing.  Is this true?  
>#> Does it run like a dog?  What problems may I run into if I go this route?
>#
>#On the _original_ Mac II, you are limited by the ROMs to 8 MB.  The
>#SuperDrive upgrade comes (came?) with new ROMs which fix this.  Then, you
>#are the same as a Mac IIx as far as DRAM is concerned.  For example, you
>#can use SIMMs made from 4 MBit DRAM, but they need a PAL to suppress a test
>#mode.  See the Macintosh Memory Configurations technote for details.
>#
>#To access more than about 13 MB (the exact number depends on how many NuBus
>#cards you have), you need MODE32 and System 7 for 32-bit addressing to take
>#advantage of this additional DRAM.
>
>
>True or False: The SuperDrive upgrade is not necessary to add the special
>PAL 4MB SIMMs to one of the Mac II's memory banks, giving 20MB total.
>
>My answer was "True", based on my last reading of the M.M.C. TN.  Did I read
>it too quickly?  (I've read various versions of the TN, even the version
>which first revealed the SuperDrive/ROM requirement, but (one of) the
>latest version(s) of this TN seemed to indicate that the SuperDrive upgrade
>was NOT needed).
>-- 
>
>Frank Malczewski		(fdm@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com)

Mac II's do not need the SuperDrive upgrade to use PAL 4MB SIMMs.  All you 
need is a PMMU and Mode32.  I just did this upgrade one month ago and 
everything is working fine.

Does anyone know whether 80ns PAL SIMMs can be used in Quadras?

Steve

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wdh@netcom.com (Bill Hofmann)
Subject: Dead SE battery
Summary: How do I fix it?
Keywords: SE Battery
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:46:36 GMT

After many, many years, the battery on my archaic Mac SE seems to finally
be dead.  Actually, since I don't use it very much, it may have died
a year ago.  But now I'm pressing it into service as a QuickMail server,
and, although I usually just leave it on all the time, when I do shut
it down, I need to immediately set the time, etc.

The battery appears to be soldered on to the motherboard.  Does anyone
know a source for replacement, and whether I can avoid some work with
the soldering iron?

Replies by email, preferably.

-Bill Hofmann
 wdh@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: cjh36367@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (The Phantom of UXA)
Subject: Re: IIcx upgrade advice needed
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:25:53 GMT


>Or, of course, they might discontinue the IIcx/ci->Q700 upgrade path 
>completely.  If Apple's listening, please keep this upgrade path alive.

>Steve Wall     Mac IIcx owner, currently too broke to buy a Quadra.

Don't you think that they might change it to the  IIc?-->Q800
It was my understanding that the Q800 would be a 33Mhz 700.  Theoritically
there will be a Q700 -> Q800

Chris Haid    Happy IIcx owner and student (obviously to poor for a Quadra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: robb@mentorg.com (Rob Bartel)
Subject: Re: PB170 ram in PB100....
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:24:20 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Paul mather (pmather@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:
: ASM@snowyt.me.psu.edu (Aravind Melligeri) writes:
: 
: - Can I use PB170 ram in PB100.
: - thanx
: - 
: - --Aravind S. Melligeri				

: I'm using PB 170 RAM in my PB 100 (and have been for about two weeks).  
: No problems so far!
: 
: 
: Paul mather              pmather@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 

2M and 4M modules work fine in both, but you need a special (small) 6M module
for the 100 that is typically $30 or so more expensive than the 140/170
module.

--
Rob Bartel -- Mentor Graphics Corp.
rob_bartel@mentorg.com <<<< Please use this address!!!
    *** These thoughts are my own and should in no way be construed to be
    *** related to Mentor Graphics thoughts in any useful way
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: Re: Apple 14" monitor - looks like 13" area
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:21:48 GMT

Ah huh! I suspected that a 14" gave the same working area as 13". It seems 
that marketing has been doing this for some time... Apple may just be joining
the club of misleaders.

One question: does the quality of the image appear better on the 14" - flatter,
focus, accuracy in shapes?

Dale
parkyn@sfu.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: martin@nynexst.com (John Martin)
Subject: Problems with IIsi memory upgrade
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 13:47:11 GMT

I'm trying to upgrade my IIsi to 17 Meg, by using 4 4 Meg, 80ns SIMMs.
When I bring the machine up, everything seems fine until I move the mouse.
Then, I get a series of black horizontal lines near the cursor. If I
switch the SIMMs around, the black lines sometimes appear in other places.
The lines disappear as soon as the cursor stops moving. The black lines
are more like a distortion than a row of black pixels. It is annoying enough
that the machine can't be used.

I assumed that the memory was bad, but I installed a new set of SIMMs with
the same results.

When I return to my original 5 Megabytes of RAM, the problem goes away.

I would very much appreciate any facts or even speculation about what is
going on.

	John Martin
	martin@nynexst.com
From: pierce@radius.com (Pierce T. Wetter III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Radius vs. Daystar Powercache
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:41:24 GMT
Organization: Radius

In article <1992Nov01.004254.20048@fourd.com> , Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
writes:
>I heard one of the two companies was developing some software that
allowed
>seperate processing. 
>In other words .... you can lauch Microsoft Excell on
>your Radius Rocket and maybe Claris Filemaker Pro on your Mac ][vx or
whatever
>you might have.  So I'm not talkin' about Multifinder or running stuff
in the
>background, just to avoid confusion. ....... I'm talking about actually
>running two different applications in two different processors on the
same
>machine simultaneously.  Has anyone heard anyhting similar???  Be warned
... I
>think I read this somewhere ..... this is not fact ...... yet.  Joe C.
>P.S.  anyone from Daystar or Radius is more than welcome to answer this
>question.

It's called RocketShare and it's shipping! Yay!

I just posted the press release so comp.sys.mac. announce.

Actually you can have up to 3 Rockets (5 in a Quadra or a mac with a
beefed
up power supply.) along with your motherboard, all acting as independent 
computers.

The graphics work best with Radius display cards or cards with block
transfer
capability.

Pierce
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem with PB170 ???
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:28:40 -0600
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing

In article <17306@mindlink.bc.ca>, Daryl_Spitzer@mindlink.bc.ca (Daryl
Spitzer) wrote:
> 
> Marc Bizer (mlbizer@bongo.cc.utexas.edu) writes:
> 
> >         I'd appreciate hearing from other people whose 170s have been less
> > than reliable. Someone on the net mentioned that his PB 100 had never
> > failed him, while his friend's 170 had broken down no less than 7 times!
> 
> I've had my 170 for about 5 months now without a single problem of any kind.
> It's most definitely the best computer I've ever had (most reliable and
> most-used.)

  I would have to agree.  I've had my PB170 for about 5 months also, and
have had not a speck of trouble with the machine.  I can't recommend the
machine highly enough.

- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
                                   |The opinions expressed above are my
own,
 "A censor is a man who knows more |and do not necessarily reflect the
 than he thinks you ought to."     |opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona
                 - Granville Hicks |State University, its faculty, staff or
                                   |students.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:26:42 EST
Subject: Re: Duo's in Boston

I don't know about the availability of the Duo's in Boston but as far as
dealers .... Computer Town in Boston has pretty good prices....617-523-4200, 
give em a ring.  Joe C.
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From: udarryl@mcl.ucsb.edu (Darryl 'Well)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac SE Internal HD mystery (Miniscribe 8425SA 20 MB)
Summary: Something fishy with this SE
Keywords: Mac SE Miniscribe Internal Hard Drive HD Mystery
Date: 12 Nov 92 09:30:18 GMT

again i throw my problems onto the collective shoulders of y'all :}

a friend of a friend has brought me her Mac SE with FD/HD.  it has one
meg of ram, and a 20 MB Miniscribe 8425SA hard drive.

upon initial investigation, i got a hard drive that seemed to spin up
(we heard it whirr and sort of click in gear), but saw only a floppy
with a ? in it.  no disk drive light.

after checking all the symptoms in the dead mac scrolls, i had a hunch
to try plugging in my roommie's external hard drive into the se.

for whatever reason it worked, IF the external hd was on.  apparently
it doesn't matter which kind of external hd, cause it worked with mine
as well.  (different mechanisms, different scsi id's)

so far, i've checked termination (replaced the terminators on the internal
hard drive, tried to hook it to a cable with an external terminator),
and well, that's about it.

in terms of what else i've done, i've backed it up, and installed
system 6.0.8 (it was previously running 6.0.3).

same story.  no happy mac (and it would boot from the internal!) until
i plug in an external hd.  and no, i don't think the solution is to
buy an external hd :}

by the way, does anyone know where i can get system 6.0.5 now that 
ftp.apple.com no longer "carries" it, and apparently the new policy in
our campus bookstore is that they no longer distribute system
software...

system 6.0.8 eats up too much of her skimpy 1 mb, and for her
purposes, IF her system was smaller, one meg would be all she needs.

ANYWAYS...norton's came up pretty clean when i ran it on the internal
hard drive (after plugging in the external to get it to show up,
otherwise nortons scans and scans the scsi bus to no avail)

i also used silverlining to test the drive, came up clean for bad
blocks, seek, read/write tests....

very strange...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :} 
please e-mail me responses at:



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:29:34 EST
Subject: 68050

Eric Smith writes .....
The reason that Apple has an alliance with IBM now has to do with corporate
alliances and shrinking market share for both companies, not with IBM's
technical expertise.
------------------
Why would two companys that were competing with each other get together with
each other so they could decrease the others market share.  That sounds like a
dog chasin' it's tail to me...... then again I don't know anything about
bussiness.  Lets face it .... IBM is good at makin' RISC ships,  Motorola is
good at developing technology to mass produce complex microprocessors, and
Apple is good at designing software and users intfaces that are easy to use
and productive.  Instead of being imature like the rest of the world these
three companies know that "Hey my competetition is better at doing that than I
am... I wonder how they do it???  Imagine what we could do if we worked
TOGETHER and SHARED our knowledge with one another".  
Joe C.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wrast@nyx.cs.du.edu (Winston MacKenzie Rast)
Subject: Re: Theory on IIsi upgrade failure
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: IIsi, 25mhz, upgrade
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 06:26:21 GMT

I hadn't thought about the RAM that was soldered into the motherboard. You
also mentioned a good point. Apple could have changed the speed of installed
simms at some point. Maybe when they went from 2/40 to 3/40. Anyway, I'd be
interested in knowing how many people have tried the upgrade and bought their
IIsi when it was first released. I bought mine during the first week they were
released. At the time it was the 2/40 config. Anyone done the upgrade within
and bought their machine say during the first month of release?
wr

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware