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From: fisher@ncselxsi.uucp (Chuck Fisher)
Subject: Re: Dock for a Powerbook 180?
Keywords: dock, powerbook 180
Organization: National Computer Systems, San Jose, CA 95131
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:51:56 GMT

In article <jonathan.728114992@author.ecn.purdue.edu> jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander) writes:
>
>A friend of mine is going to be getting a Powerbook 180 soon for use on his
>job.  Since this will also be his desktop machine, he'd really like to be able 
>to hook-up his monitor/network/printer/etc connections with a minimum of fuss,
>and a dock roughly similar to the ones being made for the Duos sounds pretty
>ideal, if anyone makes them.
>
>So how 'bout it folks, does such a beast exist?  

Yes, there's a place in Minneapolis, MN that makes docks for PB
160/180 and also for the first generation of PBs.  I don't have the
information at hand, but they've advertised in MacWorld recently.  I
think the price is around $120.

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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: ESDI-to-SCSI Converters
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:00:27 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu


Has anyone successfully used one of the Adaptec conversion boards to
use ESDI drives on SCSI systems with a Macintosh?  I have several of the
boards, as well as several big ESDI drives that I would like to use with
a Mac.  Most of the boards were used with Sun workstations previously
to permit them to chain ESDI drives on the SCSI bus.

If you've done this, please send email -- this group moves too fast
for me to follow it.

Summary on request only.

Email to pauls@umich.edu

Thanks!
From: trice@brtph330 (Tony Rice P885)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Stylewriter I and envelopes
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:14:46 GMT
Organization: Bell Northern Research, RTP, NC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

David Joshua Mirsky (mirsky@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
: 
: Hi. I have had some difficulty printing envelopes on my Stylewriter I.
: Firstly, it always seems to feed the envelope all the way through
: without printing anything on it when I try to print an envelope. I then
: have to reinsert the envelope, and most of the time it works.  But I
: am wondering why it feeds it through the first time. I am sure I have
: selected envelope in Page Setup. It acts kind of like a larger paper
: size was selected.

This works for me:

1) Select envelope or select manual feed paper
2) press print 
3) wait for the Mac to ask for the paper
4) take the printer off-line
5) stick the envelope in the back of the printer and let *IT* feed
   the envelope in part-way
6) put the printer back online
7) hit return

never had any problems with this method.  Did a 100 wedding invitations
on odd sized envelopes this way and only screwed up 1. (used green
ink too! very nice)

: I have also found it frustrating trying to print smaller envelopes:
: 6.125 X 4.5   

The rollers are placed in possitions that look to be optimal for
8 1/2" X 11" paper.  Printing on small envelopes rarely works without
manual intervention (i.e. opening up the front and straighening up the  
envelope)

Also make sure you have the lever inside the printer set to envelope
not single sheet (mine stays on envelope and again I've had no problems)

: 
: I was using Quarkxpress, because I like the interface, but the Page
: Setup does not allow me to print a envelope of that size.  
: 

Overkill!  While Quark does lots of neat stuff, use an envelope DA.
They are optimized for doing stuff like this and are easly found
as shareware.  I use FastEnvelope which stores addresses in a simple
database, allows for multiple return addresses, and even prints
bar codes!  

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From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 68000 & Lisa VM (was Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:13:54 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


jchandy@crhc.uiuc.edu (John Chandy) writes:

> In article <77386@apple.apple.COM> north@Apple.COM (Don North) writes:

> >In article <D2150056.oaq0me@erics.infoserv.com> erics@infoserv.com writes:

> >>I don't know how this was accomplished. When the 68000 first came out
> >>it was not designed to support virtual memory. At the company I was
> >>then working for, we did a lot of looking to see how we might get around
> >>the limitations that prevented implementing VM. Finally we decided that
> >>there were some instructions (notably the block move instructions I
> >>think) for which not enough information was saved on page fault to enable
> >>them to be restarted. Possibly Apple's compiler never generated these
> >>instructions? On the systems I was working on, we couldn't guarantee
> >>that users wouldn't program in assembly language and use these instructions.

> >The Lisa OS and H/W implemented a segmentation-based VM environment.  It
> >was not a demand-paged system as are most today (ie, Mac VM in Apple's case).
> >References that might cause a fault - by convention ONLY intersegment
> >procedure calls - had to use a calling sequence which was KNOWN to be
> >restartable on a vanilla 68000.  Demand paging of data references WAS NOT
> >supported (ie, would result in a bus error trap to the application). All
> >this, and a full multitasking OS and GUI on a 5 MHz 68000 in 1 Megabyte!

> Of course, there were UNIX workstations from Apollo that also
> supported demand paging on a vanilla 68000.

Not "a" vanilla 68000, but as you say below, two vanilla 68000's.
The company I was working for at the time the 68000 came out was producing
microprocessor Unix systems; that's why we were so interested in whether
the 68000 was capable of demand paging. (We weren't in the business
of putting two CPUs in one box though :-).

> I believe Apollo
> addressed the problem by using 2 68000's.  The second one was only
> used to load the faulting page into memory and then the other
> processor could continue.  I think the main processor was simply put
> into a wait state until the page was loaded.  Thus no faults were
> incurred on the main processor.
> 
> I don't know if HP or Sun used 68000's in their first workstations.  I
> would guess not, since I think they both started with the 020.

The 020 didn't come out until 1985 I believe. Surely there were Sun
workstations produced before then? I would guess they started with the
68010, which was capable of virtual memory.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: 870120g@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael I. Gerrits)
Subject: WANTED:   NEC 8719X7 Keyboard Decoder IC
Summary: wanted
Keywords: keyboard
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:13:26 GMT



WANTED:  NEC 8719X7 Keyboard Controller IC


This IC is out of a Macintosh Keyboard, model number M0116.
It is originally from a Macintosh SE and is about 5 years
old.

I have tried several local sources who would only recommend
replacing the entire keyboard. Apple Computer parts listings
do not contain an entry for this IC, so the local dealer was
of no help. 

Please reply to this message or use the following e-mail address
if you can help in any way:

michael.gerrits@acadiau.ca


mig.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: billy@irvine.com (*** Bouncer **)
Subject: Re: The bottom trackball button on a PB 160 is stuck
Organization: Irvine Compiler Corp., Irvine, California, USA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:59:07 GMT

>It is not in the "click" position, so it is still fully possible to
>use the PB with the top button.  However, I must press the bottom
>button _very_ firmly (in fact, I think what I am doing is bending the
>button enough to make contact) to register a click.

My PB145 upper mouse button is busted on one side.  It seems that a little
plastic clip broke (under normal usage of course).  Since I'm in school and
all and can't afford to be without my mac except for "fatal" repairs, I was
wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if they new how to fix it
of if Apple is aware that the button "clips" are fairly weak?
-- Billy@irvine.com
From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Dock for a Powerbook 180?
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:16:38 GMT
Organization: USC-ISI
In-reply-to: jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu's message of 27 Jan 93 06:09:52 GMT

yIn article <jonathan.728114992@author.ecn.purdue.edu> jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander) writes:

>    A friend of mine is going to be getting a Powerbook 180 soon for use on his
>job.  Since this will also be his desktop machine, he'd really like to be able 
>to hook-up his monitor/network/printer/etc connections with a minimum of fuss,
>and a dock roughly similar to the ones being made for the Duos sounds pretty
>ideal, if anyone makes them.
>
>So how 'bout it folks, does such a beast exist?  

As far as I know, Bookendz from Pilto Tech is the only game around for
PB (non-Duo) docks.  It's not quite the same as a DuoDock (much lower
tech), but it's essentially a cabel and connector caddy.  You
reconnect them all at once by sliding the PB into the bookendz unit.

jas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:50:59 -0500 
From: Greg Howard Rhodes <gr1c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Am I the only one?

At first I thought it was just because the computer store was
clueless, but now I really am starting to believe that I am the only
one. Let me explain.

I really had little experience with actually OWNING a Mac, though I've
used the ones at school a great deal. So I go and buy a Powerbook Duo
210. A friend of mine has a Mac Plus. Since my floppy drive and
adapter had not come in yet, I wanted a way to install some software
on my hard drive. According to the brochure, my computer was "capable
of easy networking...like every Mac (tm)". Cool, I say, all I need is
some sort of cable, right? 

So I ask the computer store, and first of all, they tell me that the
best way to go Mac-to-Mac would be if I got a SCSI adaptor. After I
convince them that the Duo doesn't have SCSI (and I really don't want
to buy a DuoDock just for this purpose), they finally understand that
I want to just go through AppleTalk. So then they tell me that I need
a PhoneNet adaptor for both Macs, etc, etc, etc. 

I really don't think so, so I go to my friend's apartment with a
serial cable, hook up the two Macs together, and have no problem with
transferring files that way. Just hook up my printer/modem port to her
Plus' printer port, turn on filesharing and appleshare, and ta-da!
I've also done this connecting my Duo to a Mac II. 

I figure that the computer store just wanted to sell me something. BUT
THEN-- I read the article in the latest MacUser about Powerbooks and
what to bring along when on the road. And they talk about how easy it
is to make your own networking cable. ("For about $75, you can make
your VERY OWN NETWORKING CABLE! Just buy two PhoneNet adaptors, a big
bunch of phone wire, and ta-da--now you can hook up your Powerbook to
any other Mac!") 

Am I missing something? Am I the only one who knows this wonderful
cheap method for hooking up two Macs with just a $10 serial cable?!?

Greg Rhodes
gr1c@andrew.cmu.edu

ps. On a different note, in the same article, MacUser tells how I
should probably bring along a MOUSE when I travel. This isn't an exact
quote, but, "Most people like the Powerbook trackball. But how
comfortable is that trackball going to be when you are sitting in that
airline seat, or at your hotel desk?" Excuse me, MacUser, but isn't
that the whole point of the trackball (not to mention a series of
Macintosh propaganda ads against other laptops)???
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: fester@parnasus.dell.com (George Ludwig)
Subject: CDROM: Share one between PC and Mac?
Organization: Dell Computer Co
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:16:59 GMT

I have a Dell 486 PC and a Mac IIci. I've been wanting to get a CDROM
for a while, and now that I have the two machines I was wondering if
there are CDROM drives that are compatible between the two, and what
do I have to do to make a switch to switch them around. 

Any suggestions?

George Ludwig

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From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Laserwriter 600/630 vs. HP Laserjet 4M
Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:37:57 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <C19Ezz.Cu4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian
Hughes) writes:
>    I don't know about that. The PS1700 that I have processes a page so
>quickly that it appears to be slow because it has to wait for the
>information to be sent over the LocalTalk port (what I wouldn't give for
>EtherNet).

Phone QMS and ask for the Release 2 ROM upgrade. They say that it will
optionally support EtherTalk, but only if you don't use any other protocol on
the Ethernet port. I can't try it myself, because we have the Ethernet port
answering TCP/IP print jobs.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: lau@aerospace.aero.org (David Lau)
Subject: Re: My Duo Battery Problem
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:21:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.123328.17837@fel.tno.nl>, rlap2@fel.tno.nl
(R.Laterveer) wrote:
> 
> fairchil@helix.ucsd.edu (Kevin Fairchild) writes:
> 
> You should also check the switch on the Duo battery. I was
> wondering what the switch is used for and flipped the switch. After
> that the battery would not charge anymore. With the switch back
> in the old position everything worked again.
> 

> Rene Laterveer
> 
That switch has nothing to do with the contacts.  It is simply 
a marker for the user so he/she can mark it as charged or
discharged.  This is helpful if you have multiple batteries
in your bag and you wonder which ones are good...

  The reason why your batter worked again is probably because you inserted
it again and it made contact this time.  The batter latch has to be fully
flush with the Duo case in order for it to work.

David Lau
lau@aerospace.aero.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wier@merlin.etsu.edu (Dr. Robert R. Wier)
Subject: Quadra 700 questions..
Organization: East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:21:07 GMT

Sorry if this is a faq, but I've not been able to find anything
on the following, and don't want to get any sales-droids 
on my scent yet -

In looking at buying a Quadra 700, and talking with some people
who already own one, a couple of unresolved questions have 
emerged. (I'm looking at a 700 vs a 950 because I'm using my
own money :-)

When you look at the memory slots, you'll see some sockets
in addition to the standard SIMM slots which are labeled
VIDEO SRAM - since the Quadra normally comes with 8 bit color/
b&w capability, what does filling these memory slots give you?
Increased speed? 24 bit color? 

Dayna Cache Card - From the ads, I've seen that Dayne sells a 
cache card for the 700/900.  Can anyone say what kind of speed up
this gives (it appears not be be an acclerated card, just memory).
It there a difference between that model and the one for the 700/900/
950 model (other than about $100)?

Please either e-mail or post here.

THANKS!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: eric@sad.hp.com (Eric Lucas)
Subject: Re: SE with 1Mb SIMMs from IIfx - What Problems?
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:41:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Eugene C Tsai (etsai@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: Hi there,
:  I just helped my roomate install some 1 Mb SIMMs into his SE to
: upgrade it to 4 Mbs. He bought it from a friend who may have gotten
: them from a IIfx, though he isn't sure. If these SIMMs did come from a
: IIfx, what kind of problems would you expect?
: The SE, after the installation, booted up fine with the finder;
: however, some applications now no longer work.. ie Word 4.0. I feel
: guilty since my roomate is currently working on his thesis and is
: being inconvenienced by this fiasco. Since his SE was one of the older
: version, we had to cut a resistor (R35). We hope to avoid resoldering
: it.
: 
: Thanks,
: Eugene Tsai
: etsai@hstbme.mit.edu or etsai@athena.mit.edu
: 
: 
-----------------------------------------------------
The fx uses different SIMMs than your SE does.  Get them outta there.  I'm
surprised you were able to boot up.  I forget the exact specs of the fx simms,
but I know they are only meant to be used in the fx.  Maybe someone could 
shed some light on this.  You may as well buy some new simms, they're cheap
enough.  

Eric Lucas
Hewlett-Packard
From: frankenp@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Paul Frankenstein  )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 200 meg external HD, Recommendations anyone?
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:06:33 GMT
Organization: x=(x^2)+C

My dad's IIsi has run out of space on the internal 80 meg HD, so now
he's in the market for an external 200 meg drive.

Does anyone out there have any recommendations, warnings, or other useful
advice?

please email, as I normally don't read c.s.m.hardware.....

thanx in advance,

paul
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tsai_c@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: Apple 13" monitor flickering
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:56:10 GMT


My new Apple 13" monitor is flickering sometimes when I close a window.
I am using the monitor with IIci on board vedio circuit. Any people out
there have the same experience or maybe I just got a bad one?

Please send mail to me or post. Thanks.

EricEric.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tom@visix.com (Tom Carstensen)
Subject: Re: The bottom trackball button on a PB 160 is stuck
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:22:54 GMT
	<C1HMqJ.zt@irvine.com>
Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA

The little plastic clip broke on my PB 170 also.  It is still barely
under warrenty, but taking it in means no machine for while.
Any fixes?

Thomas Carstensen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: oueichek@gram (Ibaa Oueichek)
Subject: Re: Which memory for Mac Plus?
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:28:36 GMT

Bob Feldman (rfeldman@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU) wrote:
: We have a Mac Plus which we'd like to upgrade to 1 MB SIMMS.  We ordered
: SIMMS by mail, but were unable to get them working, either with 100 ns
: or 70 ns SIMMs.  Should either of these work?  Is there a switch that needs
: to be changed in the Mac Plus when going from 1/4 MB to 1MB SIMMs?
: 
: The 100 ns SIMMs caused the system not to boot.  The 70 ns SIMMs caused it
: to boot and hang.  The vendor claims both sets of SIMMS tested OK when
: we returned them.
  Did you cut the resistors r8 and r9 ?. One of them means "256 KB SIMMS ARE
  USED" so it should be cut. Both of them should be cut if you put 4 1MB SIMMS
  ( i don't remember the definition of the second one, but i'm absolutely sure
  you have to cut both of them, i've done that myself several times). The two
  resistors are on the upper left side relative to the SIMM sockets.
  Hope that helps.
: 
: Bob Feldman

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From: jeffb@scotty.hco.tek.com (Jeff Barry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Need some SE help/advice
Keywords: SE, bad floppy drives, more memory, help!
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:00:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tektronix, Inc.

> 	I have an old SE (the kind with the extra noisy fan) and
> i'm starting to have some trouble with it.  The two internal 
> floppy drives are old and don't sound so happy.  When I put in
> a disk, they just sort of 'whine'.  They still work (about 90% of
> the time) but are full of dust and sound like they need to be 
> oiled. (Does one 'oil' a drive?)  What I want to know is how to
> go about 'tuning them up' so that I can once again hear that
> snappy 'chomp' sound that they used to make when I would put in a 
> disk.  Does anyone out there have any suggestions?  What tools 
> would i need?  Is there a do-it-yerself book that covers this sort
> of thing?

I had the same problem, and since I was selling my SE I decided to take it to
a qualified repair shop.  Initially, they said it sounded like the heads 
needed to be realigned and cleaned (roughly $80).  After opening the drive, 
they said that the heads were bent!  This required replacing the internal 
800k drive.  Possible causes of bent heads per this repair shop:

       1) just lots of use of the old 800k drive
       2) really cheap diskettes (the little metal flaps, if bent, can cause 
          real problems)

I must admit to buying some very cheap, bulk diskettes for backup of 
not-so-important stuff.  I also remember one of the disks getting stuck in 
the drive (not the normal just won't eject, but really stuck).  So, in my 
case, it probably was the use of these very cheap diskettes.