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From: molla@paone.uucp (Levent Mollamustafaoglu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Accellerating The LC II
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:15:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Apr9.201544.4788
Distribution: usa
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

In article <22609@dog.ee.lbl.gov> srinivas@csa3.lbl.gov writes:
> I'm planning to buy an LC II which has a 68030, 16MHz chip. Since I'd like to
>be able to do some number-crunching on it, I'm thinking of adding a 68882
>FPU @25MHz. Will this work, or must I also add an accelerator to boost the
>main processor to 25MHz?
>
> Any idea what the cost would be? Obviously, it should work out to be cheaper
>than just buying a IIci, for this option to be viable. (I have quotes of 
>$1400 for the LC II with 4/80, and $2950 for the IIci with 5/80 or $2450 with
>no hard disk. These are university discount prices.)
>
> All comments and suggestions are welcome; positively solicited.
>
>-- Srinivas Krishnagopal (srinivas@lbl.gov)
>
>
>

According to MacWorld (May 92), the LC II has no pre-installed
math chip *and no socket for a chip*. The only way you can add
a co-processor is via an expansion board. MacWorld gives a list
of boards that are compatible, but no prices. But I think the
difference between LC II and IIci ($1550) is larger than the
possible cost of such an expansion board.


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Dr. Levent Mollamustafaoglu       Harvard University    
molla@paone.harvard.edu    molla@metatron.harvard.edu
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From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple loses MS lawsuit?
Date: 15 Apr 1992 22:18:47 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu


|>>>I just saw on CNN that Microsloth stock is up 9 points after the judge
|>>>dismissed "most" charges yesterday in the look and feel suit.
>>>        At 1:45 the rise had reached 12 points.
|
>>Curiously, Apple was also up $1 today.  These things usually
>>behave like a zero-sum game.
|
>That would be violate some law of thermodynamics, I'm sure.
>Somewhere there has to be a law firm whose stock dropped ... ;-)


	Apple's stock would have gone up 30+ points if they had
	won $4+ billions.  As it is, there stock isn't going to
	suffer due to not getting "extra gravy"; let's watch if
	Apple will get slapped for sueing MS and HP in the first
	place...
-- 
  --(werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu)--*OR*--(...!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner)--
Definition of Foreign Aid:
	"The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries
	to rich people in poor countries"  ---Unknown, probably dead...
Xref: sparky alt.binaries.pictures.misc:4180 comp.sys.mac.misc:8741
From: graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham)
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: JPEG viewer for Mac Plus? anywhere? does one exist?
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:34:35 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

The subject says it all I guess. I need a program which will convert JPEGs
on a Plus (ugggg)  or if that isn't possible - an si.

any pointers would be appreciated.

-- 
Michael Graham                   |    My father lives in Arabia
graham@ug.cs.dal.ca              |    And I live right here at my school.
mgraham@ac.dal.ca                |    I took his plane to Columbia
graham@iris1.ucis.dal.ca         |    So I could sell at my school.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Bryan J. Blumberg <b_blumberg@macsch.com>
Subject: Re: Installing over the network
Organization: Systems Integration Branch
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.0
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 03:03:20 GMT

>I found the old copy-the-floppies-to-folders trick worked OK for the
>System 7.0 upgrade, but *not* for the System 7.0.1 upgrade kit.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>
>Tim
>-- 
>Tim Steele
>Product Support Manager
>Tadpole Technology plc

That's really funny, because I found that copy the floppies to
folders trick did not work with the 7.0 upgrade (you had to get
the network install version), but the 7.0.1 upgrade worked when
copied to folders.

I just created new folders and then copy/pasted the disk names onto
the names of the new folders.  Then I dragged each disk onto their
respective folders.

========================================
Bryan  J. Blumberg, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation
815 Colorado Boulevard, Los Angeles, California  90041-1777
(213) 259-4914, B_BLUMBERG@MACSCH.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Bryan J. Blumberg <b_blumberg@macsch.com>
Subject: Re: Dissapearing Files/Folders problem??
Organization: Systems Integration Branch
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.0
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 16:43:18 GMT

>With the release of the new sys 7 tune up I have heard a lot oabout the 
>dissapearing file/folder problem.  I'm not sure if I have this or not. 
I 
>havn't noticed any missing files or folders, but every time I run Norton 
>Utilites I get the same problem: Invalid free nodes in the B-Tree.  Is
this
>the cause of the dissapearing file problem?  Am I in danger or does
using 
>Norton regularly stop the problem?  Is there any solution other than
formating?
>Why can't I just reinstall the system?  When will the new disk first aid
be
>released, that can fix the problem?  Any help would be appreciated. 
Please
>reply via E-mail, even if you post it here also.  Thanks.
>
>
>                                    Darren

(1)  Is this the cause of the dissappearing file problem?  Yes.

(2)  Am I in danger or does using Norton regularly stop the problem?  You
     are in danger.  If Disk First Aid or Norton offer to repair your hard
     disk and claim that they were successful, then it's not too late.  If
     either of these products claim they can't fix it, then you should
     back up, reformat, restore, and install system 7 tune up.  Rather
than
     running Norton or Disk First Aid regularly--in which case you may one
     day be too late to repair your hard disk--why don't you install the
     tune-up?

(3)  Is there any solution other than formatting?  If Disk First Aid
cannot
     repair your hard disk, then no, there isn't any other solution at
this
     time.

(4)  Why can't I just reinstall the system?  Because there is nothing
wrong
     with your system (other than this bug, and a lot of other unpublished
     problems).  The problem is that your system corrupted the catalog
file
     on your disk.  Installing a new system will not repair your hard
disk's
     catalog.

(5)  When will the new disk first aid be released, that can fix the
problem?
     System 7 Tune Up fixes the problem.  The new disk first aid will
repair
     your hard disk.  It will come out when Apple or a third party
figures out
     a way to fix it.  Since it is very difficult to figure out what kind
of
     mess was made to the catalog file, it will be very difficult to back
out
     the mess in it.  Don't expect a miracle.

========================================
Bryan  J. Blumberg, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation
815 Colorado Boulevard, Los Angeles, California  90041-1777
(213) 259-4914, B_BLUMBERG@MACSCH.COM
From: metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu (metlay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: PowerBooks (Best Bang for the Buck)
Summary: roots?
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:50:37 GMT
Organization: Atomic City

In article <35127@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> eirikur@ranger.enet.dec.com (Eirikur Hallgrimsson) writes:
>People our age aren't allowed to throw T8's for frivolous, self-serving,
>reasons.  Cuts down on the gene pool of electronic artists with roots. :-)

You have roots? I could have SWORN you were a natural blonde. The Missus
will be SO disappointed....

Horf horf horf, 

--
metlay    | "Muppapa gninng vun gddang K2000 wer "Harris-burp" gergrunt.
@minerva. | Muppapa de wonna donga vor Alesis S5 wer "Hrrrrr-moble-eeeble" 
phyast.   | gergrunt."                                     -- Nick Rothwell
pitt.edu  | "Harg!  Glub Blug dip woot-boof wammie!"    -- Patrick Robinson
From: rikard@dc.luth.se (Rikard Stenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Need info on American universities
Date: 8 Apr 92 07:07:40 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden

Hello!

Me and a colleague of mine is considering a visit to Mac World
in Boston this august. At the same time we would like to visit
two or three different American universities to get a picture
of their staff-support and training in computing, to get new
ideas and inspiration on how to enhance our activity. We work
full-time with user-support and training for a couple of hundred
Macintosh users at the University of Lule}, Sweden.

Does anyone have any suggestions which places to visit?
Stanford?
Carniege Mellon?
MIT?
Other???

Suggestions that would help us make this trip memorable and useful
are very much appreciated! Addresses and names of contact persons                        
would be great! Answers by e-mail would be even greater! :-)

Many thanks in advance!

Rikard
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Rikard Stenberg
Macintosh Expert - Consultancy & Training
Lule} University, Lule}
rikard@dc.luth.se
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From: tblackma@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tom Blackman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: internal speaker in a IIsi problem...
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:36:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: gn.1992Apr13.043613.6851
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <29E8D4C3.11504@noiro.acs.uci.edu> eauu011@orion.oac.uci.edu (Gizmo) writes:
>I have had the same problem, and I solve it with the same method you mentioned.> I do not believe that this is a hardware problem, but maybe due to system
>6.0.7 which I also run on my Si.

No, its is not a software problem.  I happend to me in both system 6 and 7.  
It does seem to be a hardware problem but of what type I don't know.  I have
have been told that it is an impedance problem in the speaker itself, and that
it is a dust problem.  The dust seems to be the problem because I recently cleaned it and have not had a problem yet.
-- 
tblackma@gn.ecn.purdue.edu--------------------------Thomas Blackman
Paint em all, let the judges sort em out.          Go team Tippmann
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: DiskDoubler/AutoDoubler...do they work?
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:55:21 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

Has anyone else had any problem with SAM Virus Clinic not working
when compressed?

I thought it would be possible to move the Program Preferences out of
the System Folder and just put an alias there (with the same name).
However, I tried 2-3 programs and none of the worked (hanged the machine)
so I quickly retracted that move. Why doesn't it work?

Anything else you know of that doesn't work (apart from what the
documentation states)?

-- 
=============================================================================
 Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:8818 comp.sys.mac.hardware:8855
From: sharris@bach.udel.edu (Scott A Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Any information on X-10 powerhouse stuff for mac
Keywords: mac x-10 powerhouse
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:17:46 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Delaware


Does anyone in net land have any information on where I can get 
(or better yet the pinout so I can make) a cable to control the
x-10 powerhouse stuff.  I have the control modules all I need is
the cable to connect it to my mac and the software.

Thanks in advance.

Scott


-- 
+============================================================================+
| Scott Harris      sharris@chopin.udel.edu     sharris@freezer.cns.udel.edu |
+============================================================================+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Peter A. Cohen <peterco@eff.org>
Subject: re: is TuneUp 1.1 available for FTPing?
Organization: ON Technology, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:35:37 GMT

Tune-Up 1.1.1 is available for anony ftp from ftp.apple.com.

- Peter
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:8955 comp.sys.mac.apps:7792 comp.apps.spreadsheets:230
From: phicks@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Phillip Hicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Help withe Excel and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDS).
Keywords: Excel, DDE
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:06:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM


	Please help me. I am trying to send commands from Excel to another
application. The process is called Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). There are
some 6 or so pages on the subject in the Excel Reference book. I have
copied the book's example and it fails with the message: "Cannot access
data source". A #REF is returned to the cell. If DDE is not supported in
the other application, the manual says a #N/A will be returned.
	I have tried moving all the applications to the same folder and
still no luck. Can some who has successfully used DDE send me an example of
their macro and the locations of all the applications and documents. Also,
please tell me some applications that DO work with DDE.
	Thanks in advance for the help!

Phillip Hicks - phicks@nrao.edu - macphil@vla.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: thom@access.digex.com (Thom Watson)
Subject: Re: Background Printing, HP
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:23:08 GMT

Jim.Kauffman@f20.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Kauffman) writes:

>On 04-10-92, George Wilkens - Fields I wrote:
>Yes, I had the same problem (or something like it) installing on a IIcx 
>under System 7.0/tuneup 1.1. It ejected the install disk and asked for it 
>back but then refused to recognize it as the right disk. By the way, I got 
>my update disk directly from HP in the mail. Then I tried booting a system 
>6.07 floppy instead of my System 7 hard disk. With that setup, the install 
>(to the hard disk) worked without a hitch.

Another datapoint here for the same problem on a set-up like yours
IIcx, 7.0/1.1)

> GW-FI> The second problem is with background printing. When I start up 
> GW-FI> my Quadra, the HP icon has a slash through it, which means that 
> GW-FI> some startup extension isn't working. When I try to print using 
> GW-FI> the background printing, I get a message saying that the 
> GW-FI> background printing program isn't in the system folder. Well, it 
> GW-FI> is -- so I don't really understand why the background printing 
> GW-FI> doesn't work. Has anybody gotten background printing to work on a 
> GW-FI> Quadra? 

>Background printing now works for me. I'm using the AppleTalk version of 
>the driver. You might want to check to make sure that if you are using 
>some kind of extension manager that it has not been inadvertently set to 
>disable it. Also you could try the usual game of turning off all other 
>extensions to see if there is a conflict. You do have background printing 
>turned on in the chooser, don't you? However, I would not expect that 
>having it turned off would give you a line though the HP startup icon?? 
>Good luck on getting it to work.

I've discovered that the way to get background printing is to put *all* of
the three extensions in the Extension folder. If you just drag them into
the System folder, it puts two of them into the Extension folder but
leaves HP Background at the root level. Also, I get the slash through the
startup icon, too, so that particular extension (I can't remember the name of
it off-hand) doesn't even seem to be necessary for background printing.

And, I'm running the serial version rather than the AppleTalk version.

Thom

--
From: graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Disinfectant 2.7.1 probs on a Plus
Keywords: crash, disinfectant, help!
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:55:47 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

I ran 2.7.1 on my Plus and everything went fine until it finished the scan.
It then quit and restarted the finder.

Disinfectant has been ROCK solid from 1.0. 

2.6 worked perfectly - what could be wrong - it isn't init conflicts.

I am using System 6.02 though.

mike
-- 
Michael Graham                   |    My father lives in Arabia
graham@ug.cs.dal.ca              |    And I live right here at my school.
mgraham@ac.dal.ca                |    I took his plane to Columbia
graham@iris1.ucis.dal.ca         |    So I could sell at my school.
From: nick@sw.stratus.com (Nicolas Tamburri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Request for info on QuickTime
Keywords: Quicktime
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:38:10 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

Apologies in advance if this is a FAQ, but:

Does anybody know what QuickTime is?  I gather it has something to do with
generating grapics and possibly converting between graphics formats, but
that's about all I've been able to gather from reading between the lines
of various posts.

If anyone can send me info on what it is, who makes it, where it can be
gotten and if it's a product, shareware or public domain, it would be
appreciated.  I can post (or send,) a summary if anyone else is interested.

Thanks.

						/nt

nick@sw.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: howard@locus.com (Howard Moskovitz)
Subject: Need Binhex Encoder for UNIX
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 20:06:36 GMT

Could anyone point to where I could find a binhex encoder that I can run
on UNIX? Either tell me an archive that has it (& where) or if you have
the source, would you be so kind as to mail them to me. Please E-mail
responses.

Thanks,
Howard
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/  |---| \/ | ====>  Locus Computing Corp. =                       \
\  |   |    |        Inglewood, CA         =  (213) 337-5920       /
 \________________________________________________________________/
From: fsullivn@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: INIT/cdev Memory Usage:  Help
Date: 11 Apr 92 16:54:42 GMT
Organization: Trinity College Dublin

I need a utility to track system heap memory usage of my INITs/cdevs.  I've
tried INIT Tracker 1.0 by Andrew Welsh, but it certainly isn't System 7
compatible.  (My Mac turned into a breakfast when I tried to run it--Snap,
Crackle, Pop.)

I know that when I boot with EXTENSIONS OFF the system software needs 936K. 
When I use my usual lot:  AD, Apollo, TypeIt4Me, etc, it's nearer to 2Mb.  This
will not do, and I want to track down the source.

I'm running a 4Mb Plus under system 7, tuned up.

Please e-mail responses and shareware solutions.  I don't have access to FTP.

Thanks,

Fergus Sullivan,
Trinity College, Dublin.
From: greenidd@CS.ColoState.EDU (danielle greenidge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: QIC 40/80 Tape Drives
Keywords: SCSI, quarter-inch, tape
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:24:56 GMT
Organization: Organization?  Why start now?


Just a note to all interested SCSI users:

I'm doing a little recon for my company regarding potential market interest
in affordable (~$550 to $650) QIC 40/80 tape drives (i.e. 120Mb to 250Mb). If
this sounds like a viable alternative to your current (or near-future) tape
solutions, drop me a little e-mail note with your machine type(s), operating
system version and phone number (optional).

Thanx,

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mark Spence (in exile at):  greenidd@mozart.cs.colostate.edu

A man asked God how much a million dollars was to Him. "About a penny."
The man asked how long a million years was to Him. "About a second."
The man asked if God could give him a penny. "Yeah...just a second..."

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:8762 comp.sys.atari.st:7013 rec.music.synth:7567
From: marcus@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Marcus Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Best Bang for the Buck
Date: 7 Apr 92 11:07:33 GMT
Organization: Polytechnic of Central London

In article <1992Apr2.074419.14711@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dcurtis@isis.cs.du.edu (Dave Curtis) writes:
>mathew@mantis.co.uk (From A to B) writes:
>>>nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>>> I'll count QuickTime as innovative, but MIDI and CD-ROM?  Those have been
>>> available on other platforms for a long time.  There's nothing that makes
>>> Macs more suitable for MIDI than say, Atari or NeXT, it just so happens
>>> Macs have the best MIDI software.
>
>>I'd dispute that.  The Atari ST has much more MIDI software than the Mac, 
>>much of it is very high quality.  Big packages like M, Cubeat, and Pro-24. 
>>The ST is really the primary platform for MIDI, although many packages have
>>subsequently been ported to the Mac.
>
>To add further credence, Dr. Kittel from Commodore makes a good witness
>at how the ST/TT are starting to dominate the MIDI European market (Atari 
>and Apple currently have about the same market share in Europe).  Since
>Europe in the 90's will become an economic giant, their choice of the 
>well-engineered and valued computers will increasingly influence our
>choices. 

Starting to dominate? I can only speak for the UK, but here Atari dominate
the music industry right now. Mac's are just too expensive for UK musicians
and the Atari's built in MIDI port made it number one choice from launch.

Successful acts like New Order who have pots of money use Macs now, but for
your average struggling muso/engineer/mixer whatever the ST is king.

Mac's have the best HIGH END music software however (SoundTools) and the
developers of CuBase (?) have stopped working on the ST in favor of the Mac.

I think LC's will have to become significantly cheaper to penetrate the music
business here. The PowerBook could have done very well (again with those
with big money) but apparently MIDI is screwed up on it... shame.

Marcus Harvey, Polytechnic of Central London IRS
marcus@uk.ac.pcl.sun - JANET  marcus%sun.pcl.ac.uk@ukacrl - BITNET/EARN

                                                          ...Bubble Up!
From: C09615NL@wuvmd.wustl.edu (Nick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Running OLD GAMES on a NEW MAC
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:53:44 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
To:           NETNEWS@WUVMD


 I've heard of something which sounds similar to this problem, and I've
also heard of the solution to that problem which might carry over into
this problem. Okay, the original problem....
 There is a game called Spectre which requires a 68020, or at least the
version that I've seen here on campus does for some reason. (This is what
someone told me, mind you.) The newer machines are all coming out with
68030 processors, no? That creates a problem. I saw some sort of init/cdev
something or other that made a 68030 machine emulate a 68020 machine,
and the description of the file specifically stated that the reasoning
behind this was so that people with higher end machines could play games
like Spectre. The only problem to this is that when I went to look for
the file, it was nowhere to be found.
 That's about all I know. I hope that this helps. And, if anyone knows
of or even possibly has this program (although I don't know why anyone
would), could you please let me know about it, because I would like to
play Spectre on my new Mac. Thanks.


--Nick Laneman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc