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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quadra 950 + what fast ext. HD? = :)
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:50:12 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

geoff.peters@p99.f828.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Geoff Peters) writes:

>I'm not so sure on the Micropolis chambers, but the Fujitsu's are worth
>every damn penny, no matter what the price. Not only do they come with a 5
>year warranty (if it dies, Fujitsu want to borrow your system to find out
>what killed their chamber :-) but it's fully SCSI-2 capable, something that
>you can use to great advantage on the Quadra.

    Just out of curiosity, how does the drive being SCSI-2 copable make
it any greater advantage for a Quadra owner/user, since the Quadra isn't
a SCSI-2 machine?

--
-Brian V. Hughes
	"You're built too low! The fast ones go right over your head."
					   --Foghorn Leghorn
From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ***Powerbook 180: SCREEN QUESTION (help??)***
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:58:11 GMT
Organization: USC-ISI
In-reply-to: rhrs_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu's message of 16 Nov 92 07:52:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.075254.19977@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> rhrs_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Rob Harris) writes:

>I seem to be having a little problem with my active matrix display.  Any
>time I have a window on the screen, there is a dim image of lines which
>look like extensions of the scroll-bars, but they go all the way down
>to the bottom of the screen.

You may want to play around with your contrast and brightness settings
to see if you can make the "ghosting" go away.  (I'm assuming that
you're talking about ghosting of the title bar images her5e.)

jas
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From: laug@fraser.sfu.ca (Christopher Lau)
Subject: PC SIMMs in a mac?
Summary: PC SIMMs work in a Mac?
Keywords: PC SIMMs in Mac?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:42:02 GMT

   I was told that there is no difference between the SIMM modules in a PC and
the ones in Mac. Does this mean that all SIMMs will work on any computer that
can take them? I am assuming that the density of the SIMM chips do not play
a major role in this matter(even though they do).


So if the situation above is true then that means I can put any SIMM module
in my Mac LC provided they are less than 4 megs?



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ng@ics.uci.edu (Cheng Ng)
Subject: Re: Quadra video output to NTSC Color
Reply-To: ng@ics.uci.edu (Cheng Ng)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Distribution:  usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:58:56 GMT

A few days ago I asked the following question in comp.sys.mac.misc
and received no answer.  I am posting to this group hoping there is a 
better response this time.

Does anybody have any experience with a product by the name of
'TV Encoder' sold by a company called Computer Video in Massachusetts?
They claim that it will input Quadra video and output flicker-free
NTSC video that can be displayed on a TV monitor.

I am interested in using this for classroom demonstration.  I am wondering
if this device will display text at a quality that is readable by students
in class.

Any comments on this equipment (favorable or otherwise) are welcome.
Please email if possible because I am trying to get answers quickly
to make my purchasing decision.


-- 
"Cheng Ng"
Dept. Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: Re: Need copmany to convert PowerBook internal 80M to external.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:02:40 GMT

I think MicroTech might be already selling an external kit that fits
the PowerBook drives. 

Can anyone confirm the manufacturer(s) of kits?

I checked quickly through the Dec. issue of MacWorld and could not find
any mention of compatible kits...


Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:26:16 -0500 
From: Butch_Anton@transarc.com
Subject: Re: 25MHz IIsi and my engineering friend
	<Bxs3BK.Gsr@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM>

jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods) writes:
> In <1992Nov15.121708.24693@news.acns.nwu.edu> eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mat\
> thew Friedman) writes:
> 
> >3. He told me it is a common practice in ibm's to upgrade to a higher
> >clockspeed simply by swapping to a new microprocessor (apparently theirs
> >include their own timing crystals.)
> 
> No.  Intel microprocessors do *not* include timing crystals.  Intel has
> *recently* begun shipping "clock doubler" parts that internally generate
> a microprocessor clock at twice the supplied clock frequency to enable
> calculations to go faster, but this is a recent innovation.  For some time,
> it has been possible to buy (if I remember correctly) 286 pin-compatible
> 386 processors that speed up a 286 system by taking fewer (slow) clock cycles
> to perform instructions; similarly, there are not 386 pin-compatible 486
> processors that speed up 386 systems similarly.  

Uhhhhh, what if he was talking about IMB's other than PC's?  I believe
that they make some larger computers, like maybe something around a
3090 or some such thing . . . :-)

In the case of IBM-proprietary chips, I believe that the EE is correct.

Butch Anton     | Psycho Racing (Novice Sprints)    | butch@transarc.com
Transarc Corp.  | '87 EX-500 WERA #623 AMA/CCS #811 | DoD #0124   AMA#485814
707 Grant ST    | M&N Racing (WERA Natl. Endurance) | '83 Seca 650 Turbo
Pgh, PA  15219  | '89 CBR-600 WERA #83 Novice       | '89 FZR 600
+1 412 338 4442 | "You have to be crazy to race this piece of shit!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Mel Walker <mwalker@novell.com>
Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (became a flame)
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A732CDA961011E08@mwalker.npd.provo.novell.com>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:15:21 GMT
Organization: Novell
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:15:24 GMT

In article <trimble.722112979@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu> Chris Trimble,
trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu writes:
>  Furthermore, Apple does to the Mac owners what they've done to
>  Apple // owners about 5 times as often. Every 6 months Apple outdates
>  the models of 6 months ago. Just look at the line right now! Why should
>  anyone buy a Quadra 700 with the 800 coming out in January? Why should
>  anyone buy a IIvx with the Centris (whatever) coming out in January?
>  This kind of anticipation game is what has kept me from buying a Mac
for
>  so long.

Why should someone buy an Quadra 800 in January when the 850 comes out in
May and the 875 comes out in September and the Quinta 700 comes out next
year, and the Daystrom Duotronic Starship-Compatible computers come out
in the early 23rd century? If this kind of anticipation keeps you from
buying a mac, I guess you'll never buy a mac. Maybe if Apple goes out of
business, you'd buy a mac a year or two later, when the accelerator card
market settles down.

Never buy a computer because it's powerful. Buy a computer because it's
powerful enough. Get your power from Cool Sports Cars.
From: scott68@.cs.pitt.edu.cs.pitt.edu (Scott Ball)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: DeskWriter Questions
Date: 19 Nov 92 06:53:36 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

I'm considering buying a HP DeskWriter for my Quadra 700, but I have a
few questions and would appreciate any help in answering them.

1- Can the DeskWriter only print its internal fonts or that of a
cartridge?  In other words can it print fonts that I have on my mac
(bitmapped, TrueType, and PostScript)?

2- How is the print quality in comparison to a laser printer?

3- What type of paper should I use?

4- How long does the ink cartridges actually last?

Thanks,

Scott Ball
University of Pittsburgh
scott68@speedy.cs.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: 256K SIMMs-worthless crap or goldmine?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:31:32 GMT

00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:

>Hello, all
>We have a large number of 256k SIMMs after upgrading out 2.5meg SEs to 4meg
>each, and we want to know if there's actually a market for them anymore.  What
>are the worth, if anything?  With whom would we need to get in contact to sell? 
*----
A lot of the clone PC 80286 boards can use 8 bit wide simms, so I just
give them away to people in need.  A few mac owners have generously
donated some to me (a couple of people even paid shipping!).  It
looks to me like they have v-e-r-y small resale value.
--
	Mike Berger
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound-Input NuBus Boards
Keywords: Sound input, NuBus, cheap
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:35:29 GMT

pfam@amstel.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Peter F. A. Middelhoek) writes:

>I was wondering whether anyone could give me some pointers about
>NuBus sound input boards, for my IIcx.  I want to be able to use
>all the standard voice annotation stuff.  I can't use something
>like MacRecorder (which I'm told uses the serial port) because I'm 
>clean out of serial ports left to use.

>	Obviously I'm looking for something that'll give me sound
>input capability, that is compatible with the standard Apple System
>Software and works like the built-in sound input, like on the Mac
>Classic II.  Of course it would be nice if it isn't too expensive.

>	Does anyone know of such a thing?!  Any help would be
>greatly appreciated.

NuBus sound boards tend to be high end, but you might want to get
MacRecorder and one of those serial port adapters that give you more
serial ports.
-- 
             --      Ishir Bhan (ibhan@husc.harvard.edu)      --
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From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Performa Plus Monitor vs. Sony Trinitron
Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:29:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, rock@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Bill Petro) says:

>
>There has been much discussion that for the Performa line, the 14"
>Sony Trinitron monitor is superior to the Performa Plus monitor. The
>Performa Plus runs about $400, and the Sony CPD-1304 can be obtained
>from a mail-order house for about $600.
>
>Is it worth the 50% premium for the Sony?  Has anyone actually seen one
>side by side?  Most of what I've read on the net has been recitation of
>reviews from Macworld or Macuser.  And there has been some confusion as
>well... some have said that the CPD-1320 is the monitor for the Performa,
>when it seems that it is for the LC and LC II only.
>
 Well, the Trinitron is brighter, has a better dot pitch, and is much
better in overall quality. Personally, I'd screw the Sony and get the new
Macintosh 14" Color Display which replaces the old AppleColor 13" RGB
display. (FOr $525 at that!) The Apple is much better- its got a
tilt/swivel, its Trinitron, better dot pitch, better color saturation and
convergence, as well as being much brighter. Its all a matter of what you
want to pay. If you've got the money, get the Apple you'll be much happier
but bif you can only aford the Display Plus, or can live without Trinitron,
get the Performa monitor. I've used Trinis's for so long I'll never go back
to matrix screens.
>So what's the scoop?
>
>Bill Petro
>     Bill Petro      bill.petro@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM
>"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven"  Matthew 19:12
>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: c-nims@nwu.edu (Christopher D. Nims)
Subject: Video boards to do NTSC?
Originator: nims@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Keywords: video ntsc
Reply-To: c-nims@nwu.edu (Christopher D. Nims)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:42:33 GMT

I'm looking for information on video boards that support VTSC video output.
Can anyone recommend any boards?

I'm most interested in a board rather than a box to convert the signal from
a regular video board, but I'd be interested in hearing about any such
boxes also.

Please mail replys.

Thanks,
Chris Nims
From: cchung@sneezy.phy.duke.edu (Charles Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: MiniDock with SRAM Cache?
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:20:50 GMT

It occurred to me that since the Duo's have PDS's, a minidock could  
have a SRAM cache in addition to all the other things that people  
have wished for.

This is probably a good thing to include.  I would argue a better  
thing to have than a FPU for most people.

A cache would give you about a 25% increase in performance.  This  
*very roughly* corresponds to a 33 -> 40 MHz processor change.   
FlameNote: I said *very roughly*.  

So, include this with the millions of other things on people's  
minidock wishlists.

-Chuck
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Mag Innovision a better 13"-15" ?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:20:29 GMT

My friend tells me that the PC monitors from "Mag Innovision" may have an 
edge on the Apple trinitrons in the ability to use the entire 14 or 15"
screen area by "overscanning". Apparently their 14" is a sony trinitron
tube. Does the software "Max Apple Zoom" provide the same functionality
for the Apple trinitrons ?

Does anyone have a monitor from Mag on their Macintosh ? Could you
please send me your impressions on the hardware and the company in general ?

Thanks much
E-mail me: jgraham@bio.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: martinn@mksol.dseg.ti.com (niels r martin)
Subject: Re: Grayscale ghosts on my new PB160 screen???
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:50:55 GMT

In article <41048@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> stine@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Blaine Stine) writes:
>Has anyone else noticed that when you have the monitor on a new
>PowerBook set to 16 colors or gray that there is a dramatic
>ghost of the title bar that extends up to the top of the screen
>and down to about the middle forming a gray box. It also seems
>that the border lines of any window where the scroll boxes are
>also seem to form ghosts. One other thing is if you put the
>mouse cursor in the title bar a vertical line appears in the 
>ghost. It is such a pain that I'm not using the gray scale
>setting. I've tried to adjust the brightness/contrast to get
>rid of it but no way.This occurs on both of the PB160's I've 
>used. Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Blaine Stine
>UCSD Biology

I have experienced the same thing--of course you can minimize it with contrast
and brightness controls.  I am sure that it is a by-product of the LCD screen
and the way that it "addresses" pixels.  If I recall, this is done by giving
a voltage to both horizontal and vertical references which will intersect at
the prescribed spot on the screen.  I imagine that this would allow for some
feedback or whatever in neighboring areas, especially where you have some
high contrasts (title block).  Any EEs out there that can elicidate?


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Distribution: world
From: Douglas_J._Kiang@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:05:07 EST
Subject: Re: Plugging in floppy on PB100 while asleep. Will it do damage?

<<NO, NO, NO, NO, NOOOOOO!!!!!

You WILL fry your logic board.  Sleep is not off.  ADB devices won't matter
except that they probably won't be recognized until you shutdown and restart.
>>

On the PowerBook 100, putting it to sleep is functionally the same as shutting
it down. Power to the internal components is identical. Unlike the 140/170,
the CPU is shut OFF when the PB100 is in Sleep mode.  In both the Sleep and
Shutdown states, the only components that remain on are the Power Control
Circuit, the Power Manager, the RAM/VRAM, and the Keyboard & Controller. The
real-time clock and PRAM are powered by the backup batteries and are never
shut down; this is why the PowerBook 100 is capable of performing a "hot swap"
while the 140 and 170 are not.  

With that out of the way, I would recommend shutting down the PowerBook 100
before plugging or unplugging the floppy drive, for the simple reason that the
floppy won't be recognized until you restart anyway, so why not just shut it
down, plug the floppy in, and restart.

This is also discussed at greater length in "The PowerBook Book" by Richard
Wolfson.
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From: dlukas@cns.bu.edu (David Lukas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Connecting Sony monitor to Mac II
Summary: can I buy a cable?
Keywords: monitor sony rgb trinitron cable
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:57:48 GMT
Organization: Center for Adaptive Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: dlukas@radar.bu.edu

I have a Sony RGB monitor that can accept Red, Green, Blue, and Sync
on 4 separate coax connectors.  Can I connect this to my Macintosh IIsi?
If so, where do I obtain the cable or info on how to construct one?

The monitor is model PVM-1271Q and also has a jack I don't recognize
labelled VTR and a DB-25 male connector labelled COMPUTER...

Thanks for any info.  (Sorry if this is a FAQ - I scanned the list
and didn't see anything.)

David
From: geoff.peters@p99.f828.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Geoff Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: So which new machine?
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:48:49 GMT
Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au

Original to: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
  Jason Braddy wrote:
  jb> I'm getting a might bit frustrated, as I am trying to decide what my
  jb> first computer should be.  I was thinking of the IIvx CD, but now I'm
  jb> wondering. Before the vx came out, I was going to get an LCII 4/160.

  David Gutierrez replied:
  dg> If you're willing to wait until January or February, you might want an
  dg> LC III. I believe it's essentially a IIci in an LC case. That's a
  dg> 25MHz 68030 with a 25 MHz 32-bit bus. I don't know if it includes an
  dg> FPU or not. Expandability should be limited in a case that size, but
  dg> it should be very cheap.

Oh yes, the LC Lite (or the Performa 250). Sad little machine that's going
to be.

The processor will be a (possibly customised) 25MHz '030 in a pizzabox, but
its going to suffer the same slow board clock speed problems the IIvx has,
even if it does have a 32-bit wide data bus.

Not only that, the machine will be using a 40Mb IDE hard drive (no SCSI
port) and there will not be any LocalTalk either.

About the only benefit will be that Apple plans to market the LC Lite, with
a display, for under US$1,000.


Geoff

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From: dtrindle@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (D. J. Trindle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: HP Deskwriter data overflow--suggestions?
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:58:27 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department

I have a Deskwriter C which, on occasion, seizes up in the middle of a
page and loses the rest of the text.  The error given on the screen is
Error -90:  the printer gives me a page with the single line "Datacomm
buffer overrun - no DTR handshaking".  Of what is this symptomatic?  The
FM seems to imply it might be the cable's fault, but doesn't give any
instructions or suggestions _in re:_ fixing the damn thing.  

So:  has this happened to you?  How did you fix it?  Thanks for your help.

                                                -D.J.T.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: seanrunn@sdf.lonestar.org (Sean Lee Damkroger)
Subject: IIsi to 25mhz, anybody done it yet?
Organization: Best lil' ol' Pubnix in Texas
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:59:52 GMT

I was wondering if anyone had done this IIsi 25mhz upgrade yet?  I really want
to do it but I am scared.  I have a IIsi, with a Daystar ComboCache with the
20 mhz math chip.  Is there any reason why this would hurt the ComboCache, or
screw things up?  I got the file on exactly how to do the upgrade off a private
BBS, I came here and only go a few files referencing it. 
    Are there any hardware heads out there that can put my fears to rest?
Anxiously waiting to mess with the electronics of my Mac...
Sean Damkroger
Seanrunn@sdf.lonestar.org

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: barnas@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Review of MicroMac SE accelerator
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:38:40 CDT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

I have installed a MicroMac 68030-25MHz accelerator into my Mac SE (FDHD        
model) and am very pleased with the results. The installation only took         
about 10 minutes and consists of opening the Mac, removing the logic board,     
pressing the accelerator card into the PDS socket and anchoring the other       
end with two screws, then reassembling the Mac. The board works immediately     
and does not delay the boot time. An init is also included as a control         
panel device that improves performance and tries to correct sound               
distortion due to the increased processing speed. No FPU is included but        
there is a socket to install one if you wish. The unit requires 4MB of 60ns     
SIMMS to prevent wait-states. Up to 16MB can be installed with Compact          
Virtual 3.0 software. The board is manufactured by NewLife. Speedometer 3.1     
ratings are as follows:(1.0=Classic) CPU=7.0 GRAPHICS=4.0 DISK=2.1 MATH=5.3     
OVERALL=4.94 which is similar to the IIci. The speed-up is very obvious         
with a very short boot-up time and init icons flash so fast across the          
bottom of the screen they are barely readable. The only problem noted so        
far was that some musical sounds are distorted in speed but others are normal.  
The cost of this accelerator was $299 plus $128 for the 4 -1MB SIMMS and        
$6 shipping (TOTAL=$433) from MacUpgrade Specialists at 800-266-3622.           
----------------------                                                          
Gary P. Barnas                                                                  
Barnas@mis.mcw.edu                                                              
Medical College of Wisconsin                                                    

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From: yuppie@bradley.bradley.edu (Daniel Funderburk)
Subject: >Mouse
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 19:35:37 GMT


The NEW mouse is supposed to replace ALL mice, but not until early to mid-93.
They are also supposed to replace the Extended Keyboards, I believe with
some sort of modular one.  Any info on the keyboards?

Dan Fundebrurk
PC Resale
Bradley University