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From: jvp@vlsi2.ee.iastate.edu (Jim Van Peursem)
Subject: Mobius CPU accelerators
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:20:55 GMT

  In my latest issue of MacUser I saw an advertisement for some NuBus 33 MHz
'040 CPU accelerators made by Mobius.  The price was impressive and they used
the motherboard's RAM which looked attractive to me.  Does anyone have any
experience with this company or this board?  Do you think that they will be
able to maintain the memory throughput necessary via NuBus to keep the CPU
from stalling?

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From: Mike_Pruett@maccomw.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: StyleWriter II
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:41:52 GMT

Does anyone have any specs, info, rumors, or anything else on the new
StyleWriter II (code-named Speed Racer)? My dad was going to get me a
StyleWriter for Christmas, but I had heard about the StyleWriter II and wanted
to wait and see about it. Any info will be appreciated.
	->mjp

	fleet!Mike_Pruett@maccomw.org

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From: wmurphy@cs.umb.edu (William E. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: ?Simulating chord keyboard?
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:32:48 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


Anyone know of a (Shareware?) app or cdev that allows you to choose a few
keys on a standard keyboard or keypad and use them as a chord keyboard?

thanks in advance...

Bill
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cab6944@usl.edu (Brasseaux Carl A)
Subject: Pink Operating System
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:51:18 GMT


Does anyone out there know if the Pink operating system will run on the
Intel platform as well as the Power PC and Mac line?  Thanks.
Carl

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com (Denton Meredith)
Subject: Re: Checks for Quicken
Reply-To: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:32:47 GMT

In article 92Dec28131252@hobbes.xerox.com, jmvogtle@hobbes.xerox.com (John M. Vogtle) writes:
>Greetings all,
>
>I think that this has been asked before but I misplaced the summaries.  I have
>a Mac LC and a Stylewriter.  I'm running Quicken 3.0.  I love using quicken and
>would like to print checks out on the stylewriter.  I DON'T want to pay the
>exhorbandant prices Intuit is charging for their checks.
>
>Does anyone know of another supplier or can anyone relay good/bad luck in
>printing to standard checks.  Thanks much.  If you want to respond to me
>directly, please use the email address listed below.
>--
>
>   John M. Vogtle               Internet:  vogtle.wbst147@xerox.com
>   Unix Systems Programmer      AT&T:      (716) 422-6475
>   Xerox Corporation            US Mail:   800 Phillips Rd.
>                                           Bldg 147-59c
>   "One planet is all you get."            Webster, New York 14580




I've ordered checks for Quicken from my local printing shop (a Kwik-Kopy) with great success.  They're cheaper (albeit by only 10-20%) and appear to be quicker.  They order them from a national supplier and they're high quality, good-looking checks.  No problems noted.

Meredith Denton
Amoco Production Company
Houston, Texas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu (Dave Manning)
Subject: Re: Will ants do harm to the computer?
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:54:50 GMT

siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel) writes:

>I don't think they ever did any damage to the computer; on the other
>hand, it can be distasteful to pop open your machine and encounter
>a bunch of dead (or living) ants...

Ah! So that's what MacsBug is for!

*wince*

Dave :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: troubles grabbing Mac binaries
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:55:23 GMT

Steven J. (aragorn@convex.csd.uwm.edu) wrote:
    ...
: rtin run the uudecode process I received an error which said that there were
: no begin or end statements in any of the files, so rtin doesn't know how to
: process the thingy.  I know that the application was archived using BinHex
: 4.0.  Is there a step missing here or will I just have to edit the 18 files
: down into one file and then x-fer the archive to a Mac?

BinHex is different from uuencode -- to undo it you must use mcvert,
not uudecode.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dmc@cc.gatech.edu (David M. Carlson)
Subject: Re: BINHEX encoder/decoder for Unix?
Reply-To: dmc@cc.gatech.edu (David M. Carlson)
Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:01:03 GMT

In article <1h9c8nINNbco@agate.berkeley.edu> jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel) writes:
>In article <5026@equinox.unr.edu> malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) writes:
>>Does anyone know of a BINHEX decoder (and, hopefully, encoder) that
>>will run on Unix?
>>
>>I've checked archie, and been unable to find anything with "binhex"
>>in the name.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any info.
>The program is called mcvert; it's archived at
>sumex-aim.stanford.edu under /info-mac/unix/mcvert-188.shar.  I
>*think* it will encode as well as decode, but I haven't used that.
>Check the man page.  (You have to use unshar to get it out of the
>.shar format, and may need to use make to get an executable.)
>
Take a look at macutil.  I can't remember where I got it, but archie has that
info.  After you unshar macutil, you have to compile everything, and that
includes an executable called hexbin which does binhex in reverse 
(for BinHex 4.0).  Also included is an executable called macunpack which
handles (decompresses) things like .sit and BinHex 5.0 on Unix machines (could
be very useful if you do not have zmodem).

There is a man page that explains all the command line options.

I don't really have a use for binhexing things in Unix, but I think that
mcvert works ok for that??

David
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From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Stuffit extentions and ".z"
Date: 22 Dec 1992 11:07:23 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

>	Well, can't say much about launch speed, but we made a VERY 
>conscious decision to NOT replace the original like MacCompress does.  The 
>deleting of a user's data is not nice ;).  
>

That's true; however, MacCompress *does* act the same way the Unix
compress utility does, since "compress" and "uncompress" do what
their names say they do, append or delete the .Z extension as
appropriate, and hence in effect (and probably in actuality)
delete the old files in the process of (un)compressing them.
It seems very stable; I haven't lost a file yet (though it 
only takes one, I s'pose....)

$0.02

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Simon_Kok@mindlink.bc.ca (Simon Kok)
Subject: Re: Sharing a Personal LaserWriter LS
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:01:25 GMT

Seasons Greetings!  There is a software package called 'ShadowWriter' by
GizmoTechnologies which allows you to share your non-AppleTalk Apple printer
over a local-ether talk network.

You would connect your Personal LaserWriter LS to the modem port of the
'host' Macintosh and use the host software to share the printer.  Other
'client' Macintosh systems would have the 'client' driver...and BAM!  You're
printing!

The other solution is to wait quietly until Apple releases some new printer
drivers in January (perhaps at MacWorld?).


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: szikopou@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos)
Subject: Re: Care and feeding of Desktop file
Keywords: system 7.0.1 desktop file
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:57:20 GMT

In <C02xqq.AuL@rice.edu> owhadi@gale.rice.edu (Eric Owhadi) writes:

>Hi, 

>If you want to clean up the desktop file of any volume (HardDisk or Floppy) you will fust have to hold down command and option keys before the volume mount (when you restart your mac for HardDisk, or when you insert Floppies fot floppies).

>Then a window should appear, asking you if you want to rebuild the desktop.

>Say yes, and the ressources of deleted file will be deleted by the system.

>Eric

>owhadi@geophysics.rice.edu



That's good advice...especially if you've been doing a lot of
deleting, copying compressing, etc.  Like flossing your teeth, its
good hygiene (although you don't have to redbuild daily).

Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole)
Subject: Re: brainstorm accelerator for the plus $230 = Mac II speed!?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:54:05 GMT


The Brainstorm is probably the only remaining cost-efficient upgrade for the 
Plus. But don't imagine you are getting a Mac II. It gives you a significant 
speed increase (about 50%, but it is highly variable depending on whatyou do 
most) but it gives you just a faster Plus, NOT a Mac II, or a Classic II, or an
LC. If speed, not features, is what you feel lacking in your Plus then maybe 
the Brainstorm is what you need. As Brian said in his response, you will have 
to forever be concerned about system upgrades. Apple may continue to support 
the Plus, but you can bet they won't make much effort to insure Brainstorm 
compatibility. The only people who will ever care at all about keeping your 
Mac compatible are the Brainstorm folks, and they won't care very much, since 
their sale is done. 

I don't want to sound too negative: it IS still a decent deal. It works well, 
has less compatibility problems than the more expensive and more complex '020 
and '030 upgrades, and gives you about as uch speed as you can reasonably get 
out of the Mac Plus architecture. But it won't be as fast as a Classic II, or 
have the same range of compatibility. The CII costs a lot more, even allowing 
the resale price of the Plus in. (maybe not a LOT more tho, de4pending on 
whether you can get educational pricing) If you can lay out $250 now, maybe you
can consider laying out a net $600 or so and get a CII or Performa 200. ( and 
deal with trying to sell a Plus) 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: memco@cns.nyu.edu 
Subject: Help Deleting Cards
Reply-To: memco@cns.nyu.edu
Organization: New York University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:35:02 GMT

I have a corrupted stack, where two specific cards are the
problem. I want to just delete and then rebuild them, but I
can't get rid of them. How do I do this? I desperately need 
help.

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memco@wotan.cns.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: Peter_B._Linde@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:48:44 PST
Subject: SYQUEST 88 FOR SALE

i have a syquest 88 meg cartridge drive for sale.  i would like to sell the 6 
88 meg cartridges that i have with it.  i have no idea what it's worth, so if
you want to make an offer i promise to respond.  if i like your offer, the drive
et al is yours.  if i think it is absurdly low, i will make fun of you.

the drive has seen little use (used once a day to back up a 20 meg file for
about 6 months).

i'm in the bay area in case that's a consideration. (you pay shipping unless i
really like your price.)

please respond to me directly, as i may not check this conference daily. 
thanks.

peter b. linde

internet:  peter_b._linde@bmug.org

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bruce@space.mit.edu (Bruce A. Grossan)
Subject: Escher print backdrops (desktop pattern) and screensavers
Originator: bruce@xnmusc
Keywords: Escher backdrops desktop pattern screensavers
Reply-To: bruce@space.mit.edu (Bruce A. Grossan)
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:01:51 GMT


	I am looking for software that will make the desktop pattern an escher print.  I need this for a holiday present.  The software must be system 7 compatible: it's for a notebook.  I remember a program called backdrop for SEs, but it wouldn't work with anything else.  Does anyone know of a new version?  Where/how can I get it? 

	At the very least, can anyone suggest a screen saver for a power book that has escher prints available?  

	thanks, 

	Bruce

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: UC512052@mizzou1.missouri.edu (David K. Drum)
Subject: How good is SoftPC?
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 04:18:09 GMT
X-Posted-From: mizzou1.missouri.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hi everyone,
 
I am wondering how completely compatible SoftPC is.  Are there special
considerations to make when selecting software to use?  Any comments
appreciated; email preferred.
 
Regards,
 
David K. Drum
uc512052@mizzou1.missouri.edu
From: tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: In search of 'clock daemon' (CRON) for MacOS
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:43:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Does anyone know of a product (public domain/commercial) that 
executes commands at specified dates and times?

Something along the likes of UNIX's CRON would be ideal.

Thanks in advance.

--tony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: starsabre@ultramac.uucp (JT August)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 10:53:37 CDT
Subject: Re: Apple to have trouble ahead

As to upgradable CPUs and CD Roms in machines:

Look at the IIvx and forth coming Centris series.
From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: .hqx files
Date: 23 Dec 1992 09:29:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

Re: Decoding BinHex files, esp. if they are binhex decoders
themselves and the resultant Catch-22:

If you're not downloading directly to your Mac but to a Unix site
first (like a campus mainframe) you can/probably should do the
decoding there.  (1) It eliminates the catch-22 of needing to find
a non-hqx'ed file to decode your first hqx'ed file.. etc.etc.
(2) hqx'ed files are bigger than their decoded counterparts (which
are usually in one of a variety of compressed formats).  Thus, if
you're downloading to Mac via modem, you save a good chunk of
time.

So how do you do it?  There's a Unix program called mcvert that
does the trick nicely; it converts a .hqx file into its decoded
format and appends the suffix .bin.  You can then download it to
your Mac using MacBinary.

Check around and see if it's on your site.  I don't know where/if
it's archived, though Archie probably would.  Or ask your
sysadmin, or email me and I'll see how it's distributed.  


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: Lester_Weiss@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:31:12 PST
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 hd desktop mounting

In response to your query, I have mounted my PB 100 on my IIcx without
problems.  I am not sure what Mac Connection is talking about, but I was able
to make it work with the HDI-30 to 25 pin SCSI.  Correct me if I am wrong out
there, but when you connect to another SCSI periph. as part of the daisy
chain, you may need a terminator (the PB 100 has it built in, but Apple says
it is weak(?)). The real problem is connecting other SCSI periph. to the PB.
The cable that I bought doesn't function; the PB screen act as if it is hooked
up to a desktop Mac.  Someone told me that there is a third cable to do this,
and that my cable, although looking similiar, is actually used to connect the
PB at the end of the fore-mentioned daisy chain.  Overkill, I know, but I hope
this helps...


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From: mondays@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (I Give Up!!!!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: I am buying a Mac, sometime soon
Keywords: help
Date: 26 Dec 92 16:20:04 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana



Ok, I plan to be buying a Mac within the newxt month or so.
What I am asking for is peoples ideas on a couple of 
macs. I am tossed between SI,CI,Quadra 700, or I am trying 
 to find someplace in town with one of the new VX or VI's (vi, anything
 named after that god-awful editor you know you are in trouble...;)so
 I can see what is up with those.
So, if anyone who owns any of the above wants to drop me
  a line with any suggestions, regrets or anything that could
  help me out I will be forever grateful.


thanks in advance....
F..
From: carroll@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Carroll Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: BBEdit bug report address is:
Date: 29 Dec 92 17:39:17 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Originator: carroll@client62.comlab

siegel@world.std.com .

Thank you.

Carroll Morgan
From: jw@mitre.org (Joe Whalley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: MacDraw II wont run on quadra 950
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:52:27 GMT
Organization: MITRE Corporation
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7647E684C010954@jwmac.mitre.org>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 28 Dec 92 17:50:32 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12

My copy of MacDraw II that used to work on my Mac IIx
gives a "Not enough memory to open" error when I try to
open a new or exisiting document.  Is there a know problem
with system 7 or the 950 with this version?
From: temple@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Hard disk spin-down software for desktop macs??
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:16:14 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

I have need for a program that will treat the hard disk of a desktop 
mac the same way as the hard disk of a powerbook. That is, I want the 
desktop hard disk to fall asleep when not in use (after some 
predesignated time period) and then start back up again as soon as it 
is needed.
	I have inherited a very large but very noisy external hard 
disk, and would like it to stop spinning when not in use, just like the 
hard disks on the powerbooks do.


				Is this possible??

				Jon Temple
				Dept. of Psychology
				University of Cincinnati
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bms7y@ggsun.ee.Virginia.EDU (Brian Marshall Sadler)
Subject: IIci or not IIci? That is the (FA)Question?
Summary: IIci vs. IIvx, what to buy?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:21:11 GMT

Your thoughts are appreciated on the issue of whether to
buy a IIci now (on sale at our academic store), or, to go
for the IIvx.  I'd like to stay in the $2000 - 3000 range,
preferably closer to $2000.  I currently have a 5/40 IIcx,
with 4-bit color.  I don't know much about the Macs due
out soon, but assume that they will be out of my price 
range (for a while at least).

Thanks!  -brian sadler

bms7y@virginia.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jared@netcom.com (Jared Slosberg)
Subject: Switching Quadra Monitor resolution on the fly
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:15:38 GMT

I just bought a Quadra 700 with a multi-sync monitor and would like to be
able to switch resolutions on the fly.  Is there any way of doing so?

Thanks.

Jared
jared@netcom.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 02:42:08 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <Bzn25u.33z@optimla.aimla.com> lex@optimla.aimla.com (Lex van Sonderen) writes:
>In article <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
>>
>>But who's laughing now?  IBM is on the skids and scrambling to stay
>
>Microsoft.
>
>Does anyone think the downgoing of IBM is to be contributed to Apple in
>any way?  The only one with real power in the personal computing world 
>is Microsoft.
>Apple is lucky (and smart enough) to be changing into a software company.

IBMs problems are due to the decline of its bread and butter--
mainframes.  Not due at all to Apple.


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: szikopou@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos)
Subject: Full hard disk--best way to compress?
Summary: disk is full, want to compress app's not used frequently
Keywords: compression
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:00:29 GMT

I have a 4meg Mac Plus with an GCC Ultradrive 45 and it's full!  I'm
kind of a software 'packrat' and wanted to know if anyone has run into
the same problem and if anyone has any suggestions.  I thought of
compressing the stuff I rarely use and keeping the rest 'normal'

Any ideas?

Steven Zikopoulos
Carleton University
email: szikopou@ccs.carleton.ca
From: marglin@stein.u.washington.edu (Stephen Marglin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Battery or Board
Date: 4 Jan 93 02:13:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1i86g7INN4k7
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu


My aged SE has developed Alzheimer's disease. Put another way, it has
begun to forget the basics...e.g., settings for double-clicking, etc. Does
the SE have a battery to retain these settings, as was the case for the Plus?

Do the symptoms sound like a battery problem or a board going bad?

As always, any help that you can provide will be appreciated!
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