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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: -- Mac Portable 4/40/FAXmodem % disease %
From: jcollias@src.dec.com (Jim Collias)
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:12:04 +1000

	For Sale:
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:25:39 GMT
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center


	**PROTOTYPE** Macintosh Portable with curable ventilation problem	

		- 4 MB RAM on two internal boards
		- 40 MB internal hard drive							
		- 3.25" 1.44M internal floppy drive 
		- PSI ComPort internal FAX/modem card 
		- Trackball-type mouse (internal)
		- Original carrying case w/ User's Manual
		- AC charging adapter and battery

		Asking $900 or good offer for everything

		The aforementioned computer was purchased from a former 
	employee of Apple Computer. The machine has a ventilation problem.  
	I assume that the folks at Apple fixed the problem with the 
	production  models, but this one overheats itself into system 
	errors after about 60 mins of uptime with the HD spinning, etc.
	Besides that, the machine works great, is fairly fast, and fits 
	under your desk when you're done with it.    
	If you operate the machine with the covers off (they pop right off) 
	while periodically blowing on the internals every 10 mins or so, 
	it works fine. *OR* get a small muffin fan and stick it where you 
	please.  *OR* part it out for 5 times what it's worth, I don't care, 
	but I don't have the time to seek out buyers for every part, so I'd 
	like to sell it as a whole unit. 

		This computer is in EXCELLENT condition. The screen 			
	is not backlit, however, but is has perfect viewability in normal, 			ambient light, like a big LCD calculater display. There is one tiny 
	line of pixels on the matrix screen that is disabled (this is not as 
	annoying as it sounds, and not very noticable). Nonetheless, this 
	is a good working computer (at a good price) looking for another
	good home....
	
	e-mail replies to:

		jcollias@src.dec.com
From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: stylewriter & grayscale
Date: 5 Oct 92 11:11:07 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Oct3.231815.1055@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, mirsky@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Joshua Mirsky) writes:
> 
> Is it possible to printimages in grayscale with a stylewriter. What additional
> software or hardware is needed?
>  
> Thanks
> David Mirsky

You need Postscript rasterizer software (Freedom of the Press, T-Script,
etc.), a *lot* of disk space, incredible patience and relatively
low standards.  I've done a few gray-scale images using T-Script Basic
($60 or so from the mail-order places) that used nearly 30Mb of disk,
took about an hour, and produced output that was pretty good *except*
for some serious banding where the Stylewriter swaths intersect.  Too
bad about that, since 360dpi rasterization is otherwise noticably
better than 300dpi laser output.  (Oh, spitting all that ink on
the paper makes it a little rippled.)

Christopher Gunn	Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN	Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
913-864-4428 or -4495	University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS  66045
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: naber_michael@tandem.com (Michael H. Naber)
Subject: Re: NEC 3FGx monitor
Organization: Tandem Computers
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:05:42 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.133831.28354@waggen.twuug.com>, dconk@waggen.twuug.com (Don Conklin) writes:
> 
> I'm interested in buying an NEC 3FGx color monitor for my IIci. The
> magazines gave it a pretty good write up. One possible concern is "losing "
> the WYSIWYG that the 72 dpi 13" hi-res apple monitor offers. The built in
> video on my mac will display 640 x 480 on the 3FGx's 15" screen. Also, the
> only video card I'm aware of that offers multiple resolutions is the NEC
> (read Radius) FGx 8/24 boards. Thanx.
> 
> -- 
> Don Conklin            |      Home of
> dconk@waggen.twuug.com | future clever comment 
> 
> 
> 
Actually, there is another vendor who makes a card capable of various resolutions,
Lapis.  I have an SE/30 with their PDS-30/21 card and it is capable of more than 
the three resolutions I use (640x480, 832x624, 1024x768 - if I remember the
numbers correctly - if not, you get the idea).

I know that Lapis makes a full line of cards for the various machines - check
them out.

I have no relationship with Lapis other than being a *very* satisfied customer.

Michael (Naber_Michael@Tandem.com)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Nazedgi@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Ivan)
Subject: PDA's are flop
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Public Macs, Academic Computing, Yale University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:26:52 GMT


Pda's are the wave of the future and Apple is going to sell trillions of
them.  Yeah, right.  I wonder how a computer is going to be able to
recognize handwriting when people sometimes can't even recognize their own.
 And even if the software would be so great that it could recognize all
types of handwriting, why in the world would anyone want to buy a $900
notepad.  I don't know what John Sculley thinks, but this new Apple product
sound like a Lemon to me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: louis@well.sf.ca.us (Louis Jaffe)
Subject: Re: Monitor flicker
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:41:16 GMT

In <1992Oct6.040734.10395@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:

>I've got a Sony Trinitron 19" monitor.  When i got it back in 1987, I remember
>thinking how rock-solid and flicker-free the image was.  However, looking at
>it now, it hardly looks flicker-free.

>Can monitors degrade and flicker?  Can this be corrected easily?  Or is
>it just a degeneration of the tube/

Flicker is much more noticeable if the contrast and brightness are turned up.
Two possibilities that come to mind are: The phosphor in your monitor has
dimmed with age, and you're running it harder to compensate.  Or: The ambient
light in your work area has increased, and you're running the monitor harder.
Also, working under flourescent lighting can exacerbate monitor flicker. 

LJ

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kakazu@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Gary Kakazu)
Subject: SE/30 won't boot
Keywords: SE/30
Reply-To: kakazu@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Network Resources
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:25:05 GMT


My SE/30 (which was recently converted from an SE) is having troubles booting. 
After powering it on, it sometimes will not boot.  Instead, after about 10
seconds, it plays a set of three tones, and just sits there with a grey screen.
I have to keep hitting the reset button (usually it takes about 1 to 4 tries)
before it will boot.

Before I converted it to an SE/30, the SE would sometimes come up with a sad Mac
code which indicated it had memory problems.  What I would like to know if there
is some utility I could use to try to pinpoint which SIMM(s) is/are bad?  Can
anyone help?

Thanks,
Gary
-- 

Cub fan, Homebrew man

Gary Kakazu                           kakazu@cornell.edu (607) 255-1679 
Network Specialist
Network Support Services
Cornell Information Technologies
Cornell University


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: nagel@Cigna.COM (Mark Nagel)
Subject: using a Sun QIC-150 SCSI tape drive
Organization: CIGNA FIRST, Irvine, CA
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 18:24:59 GMT

Has anyone out there used a standard QIC-150 unit on a Mac IIci?  I
am testing a box that has one in it and SCSI Probe can see it and
determine what it is and such, but the backup program in MacTools
Deluxe (not the newest version) doesn't see it.  When I looked in
the MTD manual, it said it only recognizes Apple tape drives.  Are
there any programs out there that can backup to a QIC-150?  I would
think there would be, but I don't remember reading about any.

Mark
-- 
Mark Nagel <nagel@cigna.com>	| DISCLAIMER: Any resemblence of these
Network Administrator		| opinions to those of CIGNA are purely
CIGNA/FIRST			| coincidental.
          (Don't start vast projects with half-vast ideas)
From: johng@informix.com (John Galloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ISDN for the Macintosh
Date: 28 Sep 92 04:33:33 GMT
Organization: Galloway Research

In article <kelUXfS00io=E1TV0z@andrew.cmu.edu> sl3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Phillip Lerman) writes:
>
>Yes, ISDN cards are available for the macintosh.  We have two of them
>hooked up at the Information Networking Institute (INI) at
>Carnegie-Mellon Univ.  Unfortunately, I don't know who manufactures
>them.  I recently read that Apple would be releasing theirs in the very
>near future, but I doubt that the cards that we are using are Apple's
>since we have been using them for at least a year and a half.  I will
>post on Monday after I speak to our system administrators.
>
>Steve

Note that Apple used to offer an ISDN card (initially about 2 years
ago?  maybe less), but that it was withdrawn from the price list a
few months ago.  I would hope that a newer one will be announced, but
I have not heard anything along those lines.
	-jrg

-- 
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applelink   D3413                  CEO...receptionist    San Jose, CA   95133
                                   Galloway Research     (408) 259-2490
From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: ? past postings on Duos?
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:42:30 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I went to compile the postings on the Duos and the various docking stations
that flowed here last week, and of course our newsreader has purged messages
this weekend--the relevant ones have all been dropped.

Can someone post me a summary of the various docking stations rumored for the
Duos, and a brief description of the 2 or 3 duos themselves.

All rumors, pointers, etc. gratefully accepted.

rick_mccormack@mindlink.bc.ca
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From: todd@crayola (Todd Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: memory & hd upgrade for pb100
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:36:20 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

I'm planning to upgrade my new PB100 to 6 meg. and an 80 or 
120 meg. HD. I'd appreciate a reposting of any suggestions
about the safest and most effective way to go about the
operation. What tools are needed, any gotcha's to watch out
for, etc.

Also, will the battery life be greatly affected by having
to support 8 meg. instead of 2 meg.?



Thanks very much in advance.
From: u2005681@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: RE: 68050 and P5
Date: 28 Sep 92 03:11:46 GMT
Organization: The University of Melbourne


Who cares about the P5. From what I've heard, its not as crash hot as
people say it is. If Intel wants to make a bastard processor that is
backwardly compatible to the 286 (yetch) and the 8086 then let them.

As for the '050, I think Byte said earlier this year that Motorola had
abandoned it and moved on to designing a faster but less compatible 060.
But why wait for vapour-ware processors? The R4000 is here today. A true
64bit processor with none of the backward compatibility headaches (except
to the R3000 which is a good processor anyway).

Unless software companies (including Apple) offer portability and multiple
hardware platforms for their OS then I don't think they will survive the 90s.
I hate to say this (and you may heap abuse on me if you like) but Microsoft
is moving in the right direction by offering NT on Intel 386, 486, R4000 and
Alpha platforms. No end users want to be tied to any specific hardware
platform. Apple should get its act together and start porting its OS to
several platforms not just the so-called PowerPC platform. By the time they
release it, it will be out of date. When they joined up with IBM (yeeetch)
they really joined forces with the experts when it comes to being on the
platform when the train has left. Just look at IBM products!
Apple would have done better to join forces with SiliconGraphics or
any other progressive company.

Just my $0.02 worth. ($0.0201 seasonally adjusted with inflation)
C.Hofflin
From: dl1@ukc.ac.uk (Duncan Langford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Sticky SE/30 HD - help!
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:08:01 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

A colleague has an SE/30 with a hard disk problem - it sometimes
fails to show up when the machine's turned on. Slapping the side
seems to work...

I can remember reading - I think here - of a problem with lubrication
on some Apple HDs, and that there was an 'offical' fix. If this is
so, news of it hasn't reached our local dealer, who wants to replace
the drive and charge large sums for doing so.

Is there a known problem, and, if so, is there a Tech Note number
we can quote? Once the drive is spinning, there's no difficulty;
it's just getting it to go round...

- duncan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford)
Subject: Re: Let's talk Performas, Boys and Girls
Organization: UNLV
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 20:39:08 GMT

You said that the SI is cheaper than a performa 600 for power users.
And then you brought up needing a page monitor card for a 600. Well
if you went out and bought the page monitor card for the 600 you would
then be able to power 2 monitors simultanously thus giving the 600
an advantage of the SI.... You also brought up if you got a cache
card/math coprocessor for the SI it would blow away the performa 600.
Well the 600 can also have those additions... in fact the 600 has
a math coprocessor socket in it, and the "accelerator slot" on the
performa is simply a glorified cache slot i would guess... Plus
in any case the performa isnt ment for you.. Apple would rather sell
you a Mac IIvx  :)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu (David Manning)
Subject: Re: Macdirect, APS, and Club Mac
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:12:17 GMT

upsiu@mcs.drexel.edu (Paul Siu) writes:

>I am thinking of buying hard drives from one of these vendors.  Does anyone
>recommend any one of them?  Club Mac seem to have the lowest price, but are
>they any good?

Yes! Club Mac is one of the *best* outfits I've ever done business with -- 
I've done business with all three you've mentioned. They are very good, have
some of the lowest prices, and, if you work with them on a semi-regular basis,
treat you more like a pal than a customer. They've helped me out w/ more than
fix I've gotten myself into. :-)

If you call them, ask for Neil -- and tell him Dave at Orent sent you.

Dave

ps. No, I don't own stock in Quantum -- I'm just a satisfied Club Mac fan.

--
[ Dave Manning * Part-Time Instructor * dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu * Testing...]
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Let's talk Performas, Boys and Girls
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:54:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.1992Oct5.155404.6088
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

tsirbasc@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Tsirbas Christos) writes:

>Brian, to address the points you made about my Performa600/IIsi comparison

>1): Ever heard of a dual slot adapter which allows one to use a cache or 
>accelerator card and still add a second PDS card.

    Yup, I have, and even contemplated getting such a set-up when I was
using a IIsi in my office. But there are a couple of things that need to
be addressed here, the first is that if you get a dual slot adapter for
a IIsi you are probably going to be putting a lot of stress on its lower
rated power supply. The second is the fact that the P600 still has 2
NuBus slots free, where the IIsi is still "expansionless".

>2) The Performa 600's direct slot can only support a card with a CPU on
it, not a standard cache card, that is why it is called an "accelerator
slot"

    I know that, I have been calling it an accelerator slot the entire
time.

>3) The Performa can only support a 14" monitor in 16-bit mode, that does not
>constitute built-in support of different monitors.  It constitutes support of
>different colour depths.

    Not true, the P600 can support up to a 14" monitor, which does
constitute multiple monitor support. Pretty poor multiple monitor
support, but it does count.

>4) According to Byte benchmarks of a couple of years ago, the IIsi with
>its 20mhz 68030 and no FPU runs at approximately 70% of the speed of a
>IIsi, the Performa 600 hundred with its 31.33mhz 68030 (which is faster
>than the IIci's 25mhz) runs at 50-80%, doesn't that tell you something.

    Actually this is one of the things that still doesn't make any sense
to me. I have a feeling that the tests haven't been properly normalized
with repect to both macines running identical system software, and the
like. I really can't see how a chip that has a faster clock speed would
run the same applications slower (not counting the FPU of the IIci).

5) The IIsi has multiple monitor support two, so there is no difference
>there with the 600 (by multiple monitor support here, I mean the ability
>to run 2 or more monitors simultaneously).  The IIsi, however can run a
>full page monitor out of the box without the need of an additional
>video-card, so chalk one up for the IIsi.

    I still don't see what kind of advantage this is to anyone who
doesn't already own a full-page monitor. And the fact remains that the
P600 uses dedicated VRAM and not system RAM like the IIci and IIsi both
use.


--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
   "You know Television has gone to hell when, with every commercial,
	 you find yourself hoping to see the Energizer Bunny."
From: mancini@fysik.uu.se (Derrick C. Mancini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: DSP boards with aquisition
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: 1 Oct 1992 10:48:07 GMT
Organization: Fysikum, Uppsala Universitet
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: usx215.fysik.uu.se

I am looking into purchasing DSP coprocessor boards for use in a Mac IIci
for realtime data aquisition and massaging.  The aquisition is simplistic,
a strobed 16bit TTL input with a maximum rate of 100KHz, and average rates
to about 25KHz.  I am aware of boards from National Instruments and
Spectral
Innovations, but my latest info is outdated, and I would like peoples
advise,
experiences, and comments on either these companies' products and/or any
suggestions for other boards or sources.  I would think there might be some
very competitive solutions out there, since our requirements are very
similar to the needs of people doing realtime digital sound aquisition and
analysis.  Please e-mail replies to mancini@fysik.uu.se, although I do
read posts periodically.  If I receive enough information to warrant it, I
will be happy to post a summary later on.

Derrick Mancini

PS - info from the companies themselves would be most appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dbl@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (David Louie)
Subject: Mirror 14 " Monitors
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:58:39 GMT

Has anyone out there had any experience with the
new Mirror 14" color monitor? It has a pretty good
price and I was wondering if anyone had comments on
its performance. Please email me at dbl@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
-Dave
From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Dealer's Costs for New Macs
Date: 27 Sep 92 15:12:00 GMT
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

Do you *really* think these prices are accurate?  Wow, if they are then
they'd better sell LOTS of performas!  Looks like the prices you quote
are about 20% less than what I saw them selling for at Office Max.  Seems
like it would be hard for a dealer to cover their own expenses and make
any kind of profit on a 20% margin....

.............................................................................
....Boyd Ostroff / Technical Director / SUNY Oswego Department of Theatre....
...............Voice: (315) 341-2987 /  Fax: (315) 341-3394..................
..............ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu / ostroff@cboard.UUCP................
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: EDIAS@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (EMILIANO A DIAS)
Subject: Deskwriter Driver
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:25:53 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

Is there anyway to modify the Deskwriter (serial) driver to work
with the DeskJet 500 printer?  I think that the only differences between
the two printers are the speeds at which the communicate (Deskwriter at 
57.6 kbps and DeskJet, maximum, at 1.92 kbps)  and they have different
built in fonts. 

Is there a way to modify the speed of the Deskwriter driver?

     Thanks in advance...		Tony Dias

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:18349 comp.sys.mac.comm:9681 comp.sys.mac.misc:17412
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Let's talk Performas, Boys and Girls
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:41:01 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

tsirbasc@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Tsirbas Christos) writes:

>As for the two monitor thingie.  I could hook up a page monitor to my IIsi and
>another monitor through with a PDS board attatched to a dual-slot adapter with
>a cache card.                                      

    And end up taxing the hell out of the smaller power supply that the
IIsi has, relative to the Performa 600.

--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
   "You know Television has gone to hell when, with every commercial,
	 you find yourself hoping to see the Energizer Bunny."
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:18101 alt.cd-rom:3414
From: jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,alt.cd-rom
Subject: I wouldn't buy a NEC CDROM (was Re: NEC CDR-73 CD-ROM reader. ...)
Followup-To: alt.cd-rom
Date: 30 Sep 1992 10:41:54 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: NEC CDR73, CD-ROM

In article <Buxprz.1vE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
> miguel@ldgo.columbia.edu (miguel maccio) writes:
> >I'd appreciate information about the NEC CDR-73 CD-ROM reader.
> >I'd like to use it with my Mac II Si and I've found that Tigersoftware
> >offers it for about $ 349.00. Seems to me a good price.
[lots deleted]
> >Any negative comments about it?
> *----
> Yes.  It doesn't respond properly to sync transfer requests initiated
> by the host.  That's a problem with a lot of the drives on the market.
> 
[lots deleted]

   NEC CDROM drives will not load A/UX and they don't work with
Kodak's Photo CD Access Software.  It may just be a matter of waiting
for upgraded software drivers but if this is the way they are going
to handle upgrades (A/UX 3.0 has been out for 6 months and they were
made aware of the Photo CD problem months ago), then I wouldn't waste
my time. Too bad I already have....

     ---jason   jason@cs.utexas.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.m68k