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From: faisal@dvorak.amd.com (Faisal M. Bhamani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook 145 Question...
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:08:55 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

In article <1992Aug21.181042.229@dvorak.amd.com> faisal@dvorak.amd.com (Faisal M. Bhamani) writes:
>Hello all. I am a new owner of the PB 145 4/40.  I know that the only 
>difference between the 140 and the 145 is the faster processor (16->25MHz).
>But I noticed that when you look in the 'about this macintosh' item in the
>apple menu, it still says that it is a PB 140.  Why?? Besides noticing the
>extra speed, is there another way to make sure that the 145 does have the
>25MHz 030?? For all I know, apple could have left it the same as the 140
>and just put a 145 label on it.  By the way, I'd like to do this w/o
>taking the PB apart.
>

I found out that there is a bug in the system software that makes it see
a PB 140 instead of a 145.  It is supposed to be fixed in the new release
of the system software, sometime in october.  But, if anyone has more
information, please post or email.

Faisal
faisal@dvorak.amd.com


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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: NEW Macs and COLOR PowerBook?
Keywords: ecto
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:30:00 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

ttak@ellis.uchicago.edu (toki  takeuchi) writes:

>First of all, could someone make a list of all of the new Macs
>that are going to be released and their features?  Including
>X series, Z series, Persona Series, PowerBook series, etc.

    Well, first of all its Performa, not Persona. And the new macs
coming out are the Perfoma 600, IIvx, IIvi, Powerbook Duo 210, Duo 230,
160 and 180. The Performa is the mass market release (read: Sears
version) of the IIvx, and the IIvi and IIvx are the replacements for the
IIsi and the IIci respectively. The Powerbook Duos are the new Dockable
PowerBooks for people who use a PowerBook as their main computer. All of
the new PowerBooks will have color video output and a 4bit gray-scale
screen (the 180 gets an Active-matrix and the others get supertwist).
I'm not going to go into any more real detail here, but I will try to
answer the rest of your questions.

>Second, is a 8-bit color PowerBook going to be available any time
>soon?  

    No clue.

>And is the gray-scale PowerBook 8-bit?

    Nope, its 4bit like I said above.

>What I'm interested in doing is typing up papers not in my small,
>dark, quiet room but outside in the sun with squirrels running
>around and birds flying.  I'm currently using a Mac Plus.  So,
>I'm looking forward to using a FAST(er), color computer that
>is portable.  Color is fairly important to me because
>color icons are cool!

    Well, if you want color for your powerbook currently you will need
to spend about another $5000, but it is possible.

>I'm also a programmer, so I need decent speed for compiling
>programs.  I'm looking at the Quadra 950, but you can't take
>that out to the lawn and put it on your lap.

    Well, what do you mean by decent speed. The 180 is supposed to be a
33(32?) MHz '030 with an FPU. That's pretty damn fast.

>Also, is the Quadra 950 still going to be the fastest Mac after
>the new Macs are released?

    Yup. The 950 will be the fastest mac until the Cyclone is released
sometime next spring (according to Vaporware).

>One MINOR question:  Are the Persona series going to have "Macintosh"
>labeled on the case front, or "Persona"? Or "Macintosh Persona"?

    I would imagine they will say Macintosh Performa, as well as having
the Apple Logo on them somewhere.

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From: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Vendors for MacII LDC overhead projector panels ?? suggestions ?
Keywords: vendors, overheads
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:34:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: scott.1992Aug19.193410.26985
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY

I'm looking for vendors for monochrome overhead projector panels for a  
MacIIci.  Suggestions ?

Thanks

Anthony Holland
Skidmore College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dietler@cfruni51 (giovanni dietler)
Subject: How to read fast (9600baud) on the printer port	
Reply-To: dietler@cfruni51 (giovanni dietler)
Organization: University of Fribourg,Fribourg,Switzerland.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:25:11 GMT

We are trying to read on the printer port with LabView at a speed
of 9600 baud and we have problems since this port is mostly used
for writing fast to a printer only. Inside Macintosh tells that
the printer port is good to use at 300 baud in the reading mode, but
we would like to use it at faster rate. On a MacSE we can read up to 
9600 baud, but on the Mac LC this does not work. Does anybody know
how to get around this trouble on the Mac LC or is the printer port
on the LC really limited at 300 baud for read?

thank you


giovanni dietler 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young)
Subject: Re: Comments on 3rd Party Keyboards - Mac 101E, etc.
Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:28:13 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.160205.27712@athena.mit.edu> awmin@athena.mit.edu (Art Min) writes:
>Hello, I'm thinking of getting an "extended" keyboard.
>
>I'm deciding between the Mac-101E and MacPro Plus
>
>If anybody has either, please give me a review. I'm leaning
>towards the 101E cause it gives you a discount on quickeys.
>
>But I'm concerned about the click noise it makes.
>
>Thanks for any info.
>
>
>Art 
>awmin@athena.mit.edu

Just a note here, I've been talking to Northgate, makers of *very*
well regarded keyboards for IBMs for years now. They once sold the
"Omnikey ULTRA/Mac" which they had to pull from the market because of
compatability problems. They are quite close to reintroducing it, just
a couple of weeks according to the most recent call back that I
received.
These are like extended keyboards but have an additional set of
function keys where the function keys had been located on old IBM 84
key keyboards. I believe that the extra keys are treated as SHIFT+
function keys by software so that they will work with QuickKeys etc.. 
Many people swear by Northgate's keyboards and they are a popular
aftermarket item over in DOS land.


Jonathan Young
Williams College
From: robg@wsinti03.info.win.tue.nl (Rob Gerth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: NewLife Accelerators?
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:57:11 GMT
Reply-To: robg@info.win.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

In article <1992Aug18.095005.42417@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> barnhill@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>NEWLIFE accelerators -- any opinions, good bad or indifferent?
>Inquiring minds...
>
>db

Yep. I am using a NewLife accelerated SE (25MHz) which screams along at
almost 7 times the speed of a Classic, thanks to the processor, its speed
and the 32bits wide data paths, while graphics is more than 4 times as fast
(as measured with Speedometer 3.5).

The NewLife software comes with a crash resilient RAM disk for whatever
is left on the motherboard (at least 512k; which can't be used for anything
else) and you can optionally copy the ROM code to RAM. If you don't do this,
the screen handling will suffer, becoming about twice as fast as a Classic.

The only software problem that I've experienced was with the System7 TuneUps
which were incompatible with the NewLife CDEV/INIT. When I told NewLife about
it, they immediately rushed off updated software (well, snailed off
because overseas customers are served by surface mail but hey it was free
so I won't complain).

Before you rush off to buy one, there are two gotcha's:

1. If you want to *write* DOS floppies or DOS format a floppy, you *have*
	to use the original M68000 (generate an interrupt at the start of 
	the system boot). If you don't, your floppies won't be readable
	on PCs. Reading DOS floppies is ok, though.
2. Disk throughput has *decreased*. An SE (or Classic) uses a 2:1 interleave
	on the hard disk. To get optimal performance out of my accelerated
	SE, I need a 4:1 interleave and my HD performs at about 60%. If I
	really want performance, I just copy the application and stuff to
	my RAM disk.

NewLife claims that these are generic problems that you're likely to encounter
with any accelerator card but I can't say that I understood their reasoning.
Anyway, if your applications tend to be IO-bound then you might want to
reconsider.

There is a guy who is using the 16MHz NewLife card on his SE and he does
not experience HD throughput decrease. Sorry, I don't remember his name or
email address. So, the problem might depend on the acceleration and on the
brand of HD (his is a Quantum, mine is a Sony).

Hope this is of any help.
Oh yes: I've got no ties with NewLife, just a happy customer.
Rob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: add@is.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham)
Subject: Re: Grounding your mac
Organization: Rice University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:11:37 GMT

"Kids, don't try this at home".  I too had an older apartment for 12
months. The only 3prongs were in the kitchen and the bathroom, and
testing revealed the kithens third prong was not really grounded.  The
cases for the electrical boxes were not grounded either.  So, I
explicitly and in violation of known laws of nature used a 3->2 prong
converter and left the ground disconnected.  In fact, this converter was
used on the end of my powerstrip containing my SE/30, IW II, and
electric pencil sharpener.  But, water never hit the computer, nothing
ever had reason to fry the case, so the ground was never an issue.  12
months later, everything still worked.  Your mileage may vary.

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:15653 comp.sys.mac.system:11176 comp.sys.mac.misc:15173
From: lesnyd@monsanto.com (Larry E. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Problem:  SE formats HD floppy as DD, but LC rejects it...why?
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:26:34 GMT
Organization: DSC

In article <4947@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, macman+@pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert) writes:

> This is a quirk of PS-2's.  We have them in one lab here at Pitt (they're
> moving to *my* lab within a few weeks...) and they frankly don't give
> a damn how they format any disk.  (720 as 1.44m & vice-versa).  This 

This really gave me fits when I put a file on a PS/2 floppy that was a DD
floppy that had been formatted to 1.44m. The PC didn't care a bit, but I was
going to transfer the file to my Macintosh using Apple File Exchange. The
Mac wouldn't read it, of course, since it sensed that it was a DD not a HD
disk (no hole). My solution? I got out the old Xacto knife and a few hacks
later - voila! - a HD disk. The hole was a little ragged, but the Mac knew
what I meant....

Larry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
Subject: Re: powerbook100 by mail - missed the article
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:23:17 GMT

In article <15004@claris.com> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.194635.13380@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, mzajac@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Stephen Zajac) writes:
>> 
>> A colleague of mine just decided he would definately buy a 
>> Powerbook 100 for the Price Club price, but that darned article
>> has expired on our news server.
>> 
>> Can anyone please send the telephone # of the Price Club that
>> will sell them through the mail?
>
>The Price Club does not do mail order.

I read an earlier post that the Price Club in Dallas, Texas will ship
a unit COD. I believe you need to talk to their shipping department.
Of course, they would charge you the $25 membership fee.

The number of the Dallas Price Club is (214)265-2881.

Regards,
Tom Karches
karches@utdallas.edu
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From: lkingsley@crd.ge.com (Lorne J. Kingsley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Macintosh Games Magazine- READ ME!
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:36:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: General Electric R&D

In article <1992Aug14.004500.20608@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi folks, just here to let you know that if your interested in games on
> the Macintosh and are tired of every publication snubbing Macintosh games
> (including our 'friendly' Macuser and Macworld), there's a new publication
> in the works for YOU. As yet officially named, the new Macintosh games
> Magazine is being headed up by Dean Douglas Davis (Jock@abcd.Houghton.MI.US)
> . 
>  Send mail to either he or I for more information, but here's ordering
> info. if you're interested:
> 
> $12.00 per year, $20.00 two years (AMERICAN FUNDS ONLY)
> Please send inquiries or SUBSCRIPTIONS TO:
> 
> Dee Cubed Productions
> C/O Games Newsletter
> 860 E. Norton Ave.
> Muskegon, MI 49444


I don't necessarily have an opinion one way or the other on this, but, is
it considered bad form to advertise on the Net? Is anyone going to take
Christmas away if you do?

Just curious,

- Lorne

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: mchupa@brahms.udel.edu (Michael A Chupa)
Subject: NTSC video out from IIci
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:06:15 GMT

What video boards and/or external hardware support simultaneous use of
a Mac monitor and an NTSC (TV or video) port? Sorry if this is a FAQ.
Mike
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From: judson@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Michael Judson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PB HD Warning
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:04:13 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Aug13.015723.8181@talon.ucs.orst.edu> hinr@hobo.ECE.ORST.EDU  
(Robert Hinz) writes:
> In article <892@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labccc@emory.edu (Chris Chung) writes:
> >
> >When carrying around your PB's, your should shut down, NOT sleep.
> >The sleep mode doesn't park the R/W head of the HD.
> >Chris Chung
> 
> This is not what I have heard from several sources. As I understand it
> the PB _does_ park the HD heads when it sleeps.

Just to put in my $.02 worth, I heard that it was not a good idea to
transport the Powerbook if it is in sleep mode.  And this I heard
many months ago.  I don't know if this is actually true though and
would like to hear the truth.  I have a Powerbook and have constantly
transported it while it was in sleep mode and so far (knock on wood),
nothing has happened to my hard disk.  However, this may just be luck.
Does anyone know for certain if the hard disk does park in
sleep or not?

--
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judson@watserv.ucr.edu
From: darylb@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Daryl Biberdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Best place to buy SIMMs for Mac SE?
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:52:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.

I'm wanting to upgrade the memory in a recently acquired Mac SE to
a full 4 MB.  Does anyone have the names and phone numbers of
places that offer 1 MB SIMMs (both 120 ns and 80 ns -- I'm considering
upgrading this box to an SE/30) that are both reliable and fairly
inexpensive?

Thanks in advance.

Daryl
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.laptops
From: tjones@triton.unm.edu (Tom Jones)
Subject: Re: How much should I offer for a Mac Portable?
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 14:56:58 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Aug23.070009.20606@bradley.bradley.edu> dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell) writes:
>The 100 uses a 16MHz
>68000 CPU, roughly on a par with the Mac Classic. 

The Mac Classic uses a 8MHz 68000 and for most operations the PB 100 is 
about twice as fast. (This relative speed difference is according to the 
December 1991 issue of _MacUser_, pages 106 & 107, Table 1)

>The Powerbook 100
>features System 7, a 9 inch LCD backlit display, weighs about 6.5 pounds,
>and measures 8.5"x11"x1.75".

According to the the same issue of _MacUser_, the PB 100 weighs 5.1 pounds.
(page 113, Table 2)

>Get one while you can.  It's well worth the price, and the price is awfully
>good.

I whole heartedly agree!

>=========*davE*.....making the world safe for intelligent dance music.=========
>     I love to read a murder mystery.  I like to know the killer isn't me.
>--(David Vessell)--(Bradley University Computing Services)-(dave@bradley.edu)--


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Prices on new macs? (was Re: New Macs Announced (IIvx/vi, Performas 200/400/600))
In-reply-to: gee@iastate.edu's message of Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:41:25 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
	<gee.713767285@vincent1.iastate.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 18:33:53 EDT

Is the rumor mill saying anything about pricing on the new Macs --
particularly the IIvi, IIvx, and the PBs?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: laserwriter&appletalk
From: taylor4@husc8.harvard.edu (Edwin Taylor)
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:41:26 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

hi
i have an apple laserwriter plus which i have recently
brought into my office.  our building has a large
appletalk network -- many zones, many users, many connections
to the outside world etc.  when the laserwriter is connected
JUST to my mac the chooser (and namer etc) can find the
printer without any problem.  However, when my mac
is connected to the building's appletalk network
as well as the printer (via appletalk) the printer is
doesnt exist (according to the chooser and other programs).
our computer center says they dont do anything which should
interfear with my printer.

Does anyone know why or what to do about my "missing" printer?
please drop me a line -- im desperate to use this thing from
other machines in my area.

THANKS
jamie
taylor4@husc.harvard.edu
From: king@acpub.duke.edu (King Rhoton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Why does this IIsi take so long to start?
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:42:09 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.


From king Wed Aug 12 12:42:00 1992
To: /afs/acpub/users5/king/.article

If this long delay happens after a system crash and power off, then this
behavior is normal.  Your Mac is checking around the hard drive to make sure
that everything is OK.
King
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kmorton@panix.com (Ken Morton)
Subject: PB 100 Screen Woes...
Summary: damn it, the screen, is bugged.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:46:26 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

		My friend just bought a PB 100 from Price Club.  It now (second 
day after purchase) seems to be having a screen problem.  The screen
fluctuates in brightness and the Battery app indicator was also fluctuating.
This happened while the pb 100 was powered by the battery alone and also
while plugged into the wall.  Also, the problem seemed to have occured after he used the external floppy for the first time.
 
		Any ideas?
 
			Thanks

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf)
Subject: Re: Problem:  SE formats HD floppy as DD, but LC rejects it...why?
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 04:43:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.210234.26897@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.200351.2274@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> darylb@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
>>I know that the behavior described is indeed the way the Mac
>>does things, but it seems kind of silly.  DOS machines routinely
>>"adapt" to the format of the floppy inserted into the drive,
>>provided the drive is capable of writing the format the disk is
>>using.  My 1.4 MB drive has no problem at all recognizing and properly
>>using 720K diskettes without being told which it is.
>
>Yes, but does it properly recognize 1.4M disks that have been formatted 720K?

Yes.  I personally tried it this afternoon.  The test machine was
a Compaq 486/33L running DOS 5.0, using the B: drive (3.5" HD).
I formatted a HD diskette using that drive to 720K (FORMAT B: /F:720),
and was able to read and write to it just fine.  I've never had problems
doing this on any machine I've tried.

>Apple HD drives have no problems reading (and writing) DD disks.  As has been
>stated earlier, the problem arises when 1) an HD disk is formatted as DD, in
>an DD-only drive, and 2) said disk is then inserted into an HD-capable drive.
>This doesn't work, nor should it.

Why *shouldn't* it work?  How many naive users have lost data because they
thought their disk was bad when the HD drive didn't recognize the DD
format on the HD disk?  As I've mentioned before, I know that formatting
HD disks to DD capacity is dangerous due to media differences.
But I also know that I've done this on rare occasions on DOS machines
and have never had a single bit of lost data.

Macs are supposed to *empower* users and allow the power to remain
in the users' hands.  This particular design deficiency hinders
that goal.

Daryl
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From: umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: New Macintosh Hardware
Keywords: i
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:31:35 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Does anyone have any info on the rumored new color inkjet printer
Apple is planning? Resolution, 4-color, price??

(I'm planning on getting a DW C very soon, and want to know if
I should hold off)

CKC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware