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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: IIsi speedup kit!
From: seth@physc1.byu.edu
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:56:04 -0700
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University

>      AN 11 PAGE, FULLY ILLUSTRATED INSTRUCTION BOOKLET
>      A HEAVY DUTY COOLING FAN WITH MOUNTING HARDWARE
>      A LARGE HEAT SINK WITH HEAT CONDUCTING COMPOUND
>      ALL NECESSARY COMPONENTS AND SOCKETS
>      AND FULL CUSTOMER SUPPORT SERVICES
>      Some soldering required
       ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^

This should read "Some soldering required, and you can really screw up your
motherboard trying this, so only do this if you are very confident of your 
ability to muck about with a multi-layered board and all and pry the stupid
crystal off without putting yourself out $900 for a new motherboard..."


>  
> You really have nothing to lose, so act now!  If you are not satisfied
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yeah, right. Just you whole flippin' motherboard...

I have a IIsi, and I have the sockets and heat sinks ready, just waiting on
the crystal, but I don't think this should be sold to your average Joe Blow.
I mean, no real hacker is going to pay $115 for the stuff when he knows he
can get it for $5, with the exception of the fan, which may not even be
necessary... All the instructions are freely available on the net. But, I don't
think that this speed solution should marketed to the non-hacker, because there
is a VERY real danger of breaking your computer to the tune of HUNDREDS of $.
Doesn't everybody remember that guy that wrote on the net a couple of months
back when this was a hot topic, and he had TOASTED his IIsi trying this? 

> If anyone would like more information on this E-mail me with your Name,
> address, and a phone number where you can be reached to discuss your
> system's current configuration with the manufacturer.  I can take your
> name and other information, but I have to forward all your requests to my
> friend in CA.  Hope this helps!
>  
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Seth Leigh
BYU Physics Dept.
From: murphy@cs.unc.edu (Ransom Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mirror technologies
Date: 6 Jan 1993 16:55:55 -0500
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NNTP-Posting-Host: tsc.cs.unc.edu

I would like to hear opinions about products from 
Mirror technologies.  Specifically, I am interested in
thier 14" color monitor for the mac.

Thanks,
Ransom


-- 
Ransom Murphy 			                Internet: murphy@cs.unc.edu 
Department of Computer Science		        PH# 919-962-1708
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill     
Sitterson Hall/CB# 3175				Chapel Hill, NC  27599 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: meharg@fraser.sfu.ca (Gersham William Meharg)
Subject: Re: LCIII/Color Classic II
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: worldwide
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:45:20 GMT

blanchej@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Blanchette Jean-Francois) writes:

>	Does anyone have any tangible rumors (!) on which machine Apple will
>be introducing in the February rollout? Will it be a LCIII, or a color Classic?
>Are the two mutually exclusive? Anyone?...

No

From what I have heard both will be out on Feb 10th.
about 1450 bucks for a col classic and 1350 for an LC III.

Gersham Meharg
SFU, Canada
 
>Jean-Francois Blanchette
>Universite de Montreal
>blanchej@jsp.umontreal.ca
From: chh9@ellis.uchicago.edu (Conrad Halling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook 160
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:46:02 GMT
Reply-To: chh9@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago

In article <1993Jan4.203329.23766@news.nd.edu> 
  jocallag@artin.helios.nd.edu (john ocallaghan) writes:

>I am seriously considering buying a PB160.  Should I order now, or are there
>any rumors of price cuts in the next month or two?  Price increases?

Buy now.  The PowerBooks are so popular that they are in fairly short supply.
This means there is no pressure for price cuts.

-- 
Conrad Halling
c-halling@uchicago.edu
From: gleicher@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Gleicher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: monitor clues please! (using a CTX 1560 monitor)
Date: 5 Jan 93 04:48:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.C0D6ot.M42.1
Distribution: comp
Organization: CMU Graphics Group
Originator: gleicher@HOSTESS.GRAPHICS.CS.CMU.EDU


OK, so I got a CTX 1560 multisync monitor. They said it would work with the
Mac. The book (for what its worth) says it will work with the mac. THe monitor
works great with my PC.

So I plug it into the mac using the directions that specify. Turn the sync
switch to off like they say (telling the monitor to sync on green). Fire
everything up and . . .
it doesn't sync. 

it blinks, flashes, scrolls, crawls, ...
but doesn't sync.

setting it to sync on sync (which I used for the PC) is no better.

The monitor has frighteningly few controls, so there isn't too much to do
there.

I tried this both with Quadra built in video and with an 8/24 card.

I tried three additional experiments with to no avail:
1) fire the machine up with a 13" Apple monitor connected so that the Mac knew
	what kind of monitor (640x480) was connected, then switching video
	cables between monitors
2) use the apple cable, rather than the one supplied

3) fire the machine up with an apple 16" monitor (get the video board into
	832x624 mode) and switch cables.
	this works a little better than the 13" settings, which is encouraging
	(it'd be nice to run at this resolution!), but still has the v-sync
	problem

Any clues would be greatly appeciated. CTX technical support is useless (they
don't speak English very well, and when I finally thought I'd conveyed the
problem to him, his comment was "why would you want to use a macintosh
anyway"). I really would like to be able to use this monitor. Even if only at
640x480 resolution (which they insist should work). 

Mike




-- 
Michael Lee Gleicher				gleicher@cs.cmu.edu
		ski bum, graphics hacker, and SCS PhD student
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891	(412) 268-6243 (school)
From: pug@apple.com (Russ Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple Express Modem at 19.2 kbps?1?
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:41:57 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1993Jan9.112428.19262@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Gordon Mohr,
mohr@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>Also, on the minidocks they had there, in addition to the modem and
>printer serial ports, the internal-modem out jack was a mini-8 
>connector. Shouldn't it be an RJ-11? Is some additional adapter which
>looks like a PhoneNet StarConnector necessary?

If you came by Thursday morning when I was helping to staff the booth,
you would have heard all of us wonder what in the world that mini-8
connector was doing on that MiniDock.  It should be an RJ-11.  The
MiniDock I have here has an RJ-11.

And yes, the Express Modem only goes to 14.4kbps (v.32bis).

Russ
pug@apple.com
Portable Guy
From: ed@kronos.com (Ed Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: MAC IIvx and Performa 600
Date: 5 Jan 93 00:40:13 GMT
Organization: Kronos Inc. / Waltham, MA
Disclaimer: This posting is a personal opinion and not that of Kronos Inc.

According to performance tests I recently saw, the IIvx is much faster
than the Performa 600.  Yet, the hardware description of the two machines
is identical except for the IIvx has some cache memory.  Does this account
for the performance differences, or are there other factors?

I also seem to be reading a lot of negative things about the IIvx; it won't
run AUX, it only outputs one channel digitized stereo, etc.  I am ready to
buy my first Mac and am having trouble sorting everything out.  At first
the Performa 600 sounded great.  Then after some research, I decided I
could spend a little more and get the IIvx instead.  I will only be using
the system at home to run household finances and games.  I have three young
children who will also be running games.  I don't need AUX or digitized
stereo.  Is the IIvx just fine for me?  Also, is 80MB hard disk enough?

I'm buying this thing this week, so let me know if I'm buying the wrong
machine.  Waiting for future machines is not an option; I have to buy one
that is currently available.

-Ed
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jimy@cae.wisc.edu (Jim Yu)
Subject: Re: IIsi Oscillator Upgrades: Still Going???
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:54:02 CST

In article <1993Jan5.061458.24616@leland.Stanford.EDU> image@leland.Stanford.EDU (John B. Mooney) writes:
>Now the it has been a couple of months since many people upgraded
>their IIsi by replacing the oscillator, I'm curious if anyone has
>experienced any long-term problems.  Are your machines still working?
>
>
Yes. I was one of the first to jump on the band wagon.
It's still going, and going, and going...
(sometimes I let the computer on for several days without any problems)

Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: CISR@mindlink.bc.ca (CISR)
Subject: InterFax and Word 5.0a
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:34:45 GMT

I get a system crash whenever I try to fax directly from a Word 5.0a document
but only when I try to add a message to the cover page. The fax modem is an
Abaton InterFax running v1.30 of the InterFax software. Anyone encountered
the same problem? Abaton is now very hard to reach since they don't have tech
support in Canada anymore.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 1x2x80 SIMMs + SE/Plus = Bombs?!?
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Date: 8 Jan 93 09:45:05 -0600
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
Organization: Winona State University Academic Computing

 Okay,
  Will installing the 2 chip 1 Mb SIMMS into Mac Pluses and SE's cause the
machines to crash ramdomly?  If so, why?

- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
                                  |The opinions expressed are MINE (at
least
"A censor is a man who knows more |for today). Thus they are not the 
than he thinks you ought to."     |ponderous, well thought out P.C.
opinions
                - Granville Hicks |of Winona State University or anyone
else
                                  |who works, or studies here.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jchen@cs.cornell.edu (Jeffrey Chen)
Subject: 1.44MB FDHD Drive
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:50:03 GMT

Does anyone know of a supplier of 1.44MB FDHD INTERNAL drive mechanisms? I
would like to replace a defective FDHD internal drive which I
accidentally damaged.

While I haven't tried it yet, does anyone know from experience if it's
possible to buy such a mechanism from an ordinary Apple dealer? 

Thanks,
Jeff Chen
-- 
/* Jeffrey Chen                         105 N.Quarry Street Apt 2
 * jchen@cs.cornell.edu                 Ithaca NY 14850; (607) 272-4221
 *
 * Wisdom for Today:
From: Edward.Visse@wblab.lu.se (Edward Visse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Fan makes noise in Quadra 700!
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:06:55 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Wallenberg Lab. - University of LUND

In article <C0L4J1.5qz@lysator.liu.se>, mll@lysator.liu.se (Thomas
Danielson) wrote:
> 
> Anybody know if there is a way to make the fan in a Quadra 700 not
> so noisy?  My machine is turned on for 24h/day and I have no 
> accessory cards installed.  Is there a temperature regulated fan out
> there somewhere that I could use?
> 
> Thanks,
> /Thomas
> mll@lysator.liu.se

The Atari ST used to have the same problem. The solution was to put in a
resistor in the power line to the fan (I think it was 25 Ohm, but I'm not
sure). You can try some different resistors, but be sure the fan is able to
start up though. If you want A temperature regulated one, they exist for
the Atari, but I don't know if they can be used directly in a Quadra.
From: andreasm@cs.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Is there a new 19" Apple Minitor
Date: 11 Jan 1993 14:43:42 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: harry.cs.tu-berlin.de

Hi,

i saw the picture of an Apple Colormonitor, which I
did not know. It was to big for a 16" and to small for a 21".
Does anybody know about a new monitor, probably a 19".

andreasm@cs.tu-berlin.de

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
Subject: Pina's books
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:30:27 GMT

Here's Larry's books in a nutshell:

Mac repair & Upgrade Secrets - Mac 128K, 512K, Plus, and some SE
	-Indispensable for owners of the pre-SE's and useful to the SE owner

Macintosh Printer Secrets - Imagewriter I, II and LQ repairs. Good book, but
	not many people using these printers nowadays

Macintosh II repair secrets - A good guide for the Apple 13" monitor settings.
	Not as necessary as the plus book to users.

Dead Mac Scrolls - has one-page "tech notes" on all of the above computers
	and the Laserwriter.  Contains information that was not known
	at the time of the above book's writings.

Also, Larry has a few sections in the book "Dead Mac Scrolls"

I've been trying to convince Larry that he write a quarterly newsletter so
that a) he has editorial control (often publishers want to genericize his
book so much that they insist he lop out technical information) b) he can
get more timely information to the readers and c) he can write about the
subjects which are important at the moment, rather than focusing his
energies on a book's subject.

-Owen
.

Owen Hartnett				omh@cs.brown.edu
"FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks
		without knowledge, of things without parallel."
			-Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
From: rhode@ee.rochester.edu (Robert Rhode)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple 14" monitor emissions?
Date: 5 Jan 93 05:37:34 GMT
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

To quote from the official Apple one-page blurb sheet:

"Meets strict SWEDAC MPR-2 requirements for low-frequency
(ELF and VLF) magnetic and electric emissions"

This is the Macintosh (14") Color Display.

Other points of note:  Apple claims that it is 50%
brighter than the old 13" Apple High Resolution Display,
yet "uses 32% less power".  I have one, and I will attest
that it is noticably brighter than the old model, at least
as bright as my old Seiko 14" Trinitron, and the screen is
physically flatter than either of those (older) models.

- Bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: mstov@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (michael.p.stovsky)
Subject: Looking for Replacement Battery Advice for Powerbook
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:29:39 GMT

Hi!

I own a Powerbook 170 and am looking for a new battery for it.  I have
seen several ads for batteries that promise longer life than Apple's 
battery.  If you have any experience with replacement batteries for 170s,
please let me know what you think.

Please respond to me via e-mail and I will summarize to the net.

Note my e-mail address differs from the return address of this posting.

Thanks in advance for your help!

	Michael Stovsky
	mps@cbvox.att.com


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein)
Subject: Re: Problem with Pinnacle Micro flopticals-WARNING!
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:41:09 GMT

In article <C0qC3s.24p@andy.bgsu.edu>, sevans@andy.bgsu.edu (Stephen W.
Evans) wrote:
> 
> MOST merely stands for Magneto Optical STorage.  They are pretty much all
> called that.  I suggest you get FWB or FWB Lite and reformat everything.

MOST is the company name of an OEM of optical drives.  There are other
companies that OEM optical drives (Sony, Epson, etc.).

Larry Rosenstein
Taligent, Inc.

lsr@taligent.com
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From: vv1@eng.cam.ac.uk (V. Valtchev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: HELP: Connecting SUN 4 (IPX) monitor to a Mac
Date: 9 Jan 93 15:41:48 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK

Hi everybody,

I was wondering whether it is possible to use a 16" colour monitor from
Sparc Station 2/IPX on a Mac with 8-bit video card. Is it a matter of 
just getting the right cable or is it more complicated (I can see the
Mac/Sun connectors are quite different). Any help with technical details 
will be greatly greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Valtcho

--
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Trumpington Street                          Tel:   (0223) 332801
Cambridge, CB2 1PZ                          Fax:   (0223) 332662
England                                     Telex: 81239
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kenw@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Ken Wieschhoff 253-1973)
Subject: Inexpensive 2-Page Monitors??
Organization: Eastman Kodak
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 16:20:31 GMT


I'm in the market for a good quality two-page mono monitor for my
IIvx.

Has anyone had experiences (good or bad) with any particular vendor?

Thanks In Advance(tm)

->Ken
--
Ken Wieschhoff (Bro' Wiesch)      | STOP,
Color Systems ISPD. 5/6/HE        |   EAT HERE,
Eastman Kodak Co.                 |     GET GAS!!
Rochester, NY 14650 (716)253-1973 |
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From: Sproul@sproul.sproul.com (Mark Sproul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Mac II Zero foot print disk cabinet
Date: 11 Jan 93 08:26:17 GMT
Reply-To: Sproul@sproul.sproul.com (Mark Sproul)
Organization: Sproul Consulting
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

A few years ago, one or more companies was selling a disk drive case
that was the exact foot print of a Mac II.  These held 2 drives and
I think there were versions for half height and full height drives.
Does anyone know anyone that makes these cases or does anyone have
one they would like to sell.

-----------------------------------------------------
Mark Sproul - KB2ICI - New Jersey
sproul@sproul.com
From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: need help making external drive bootable
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:45:51 GMT
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory

OK, I just got my Mac Plus upgraded to 4 megs of RAM (thanks to the
help of many netters), and now I have a more tricky problem trying to
get the Plus to boot off of my external SCSI drive.

The drive is a newly-purchased used DEC RZ22 (manufactured by Connor)
with 52 megs of storage.  Working from an LC, I used a HD utility to
format the drive and copy over System 7.0 to it.

When I went to boot from my Plus, it was no dice: the Plus would not
boot with the drive.  I booted the Plus with a System 6.0.2 floppy,
and used a desk accessory called "Mounter" to try to mount the drive
(all this was no trouble working from the LC; the drive mounted itself
just fine).  Mounter would not mount the drive, returning the
following error message "Drive does not have the current DM Mac
driver."

What is this mysterious driver?  and how to I install it.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

	- Fred Martin

-- 
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Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Lab     | Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Subject: Re: More memory = lousy performance in IIci. Help.
Reply-To: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA 
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:35:38 GMT

In article <726249086@juliet.cs.duke.edu>  writes:
> I have recently replaced the memory in my IIci with 8 meg (4 x 2) 80 ns in
> Bank A and performance has gone to pot.  Screen rewrite, window operations
> and even entering text is much slower.  Performance on AfterDark screen
> savers is noticeably slower:  zooming through the universe is now 
> accomplished in a series of jerks.
> Do you know what I can do to resolve the situat.?  The built-in video card
> may be somewhat shot (power-surges) since B&W mode is lousy, with lots of
> flicker, although 16 and 256-color is OK (but not perfect).  I am thinking of
> putting in a new video card.  Would that speed up my machine.  A cache card?
> Better memory?  My monitor is a Sony multi-scan HG 14 in.

The problem is this.  The Mac IIc1 uses the first bank of memory for video, so  
there is a constant conflict between the internal video and the processor over  
use of the ram in your system.  You have two choices to fix this.  

1) Put the 256k simms that were in Bank A back and put the 2meg simms in bank  
B. Under this configuration, the first bank is reserved for the internal video  
and the processor uses the second bank.  This is only true if the first bank  
has ONLY 4 x 256k simms installed.

2)  Get a nubus video card.  Then the first and second bank will be usable by  
the processor.

Christian Smith
From: mikew@apple.com (Mike Wiese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: "Special introductory offer" on LaserWriter Pro 600
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:35:55 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1993Jan10.033342.24102@tc.cornell.edu> Julian Vrieslander,
eacj@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU writes:
>In Apple's 1/6/92 press release on the new workgroup printers, there is
the
>following statement:
> 
>>>>>>
>As a special introductory offer, Apple will ship the LaserWriter Pro 600
>with 8MB of RAM, enabling users to take advantage of 600 dpi resolution
and the
>superior grayscale printing capabilities of PhotoGrade.
><<<<<
> 
>I just visited two Apple dealers who were completely unaware of this
offer.
>Both of them thought that the LW Pro 600's that they had in stock were
shipped
>with 4MB, and they had no paperwork describing how to obtain the
additional
>RAM.  Does anyone know what is going on here?

At the Apple booth at MacWorld, the Apple employee at the LW Pro station
said the marketing sheets on the 600 were incorrect, the only difference
between the 600 and the 630 is ethernet and SCSI. This is in conflict
with press releases and other info available on AppleLink, so I'm not
suprised dealers don't know about it. She said it was a last minute
decision.

According to the 1/6/93 price list, available on AppleLink, the LW Pro
600 & 4MB PhotoGrade Kit is $2099. The printer is not available w/o the
PhotoGrade Kit.

mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware