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From: cronnese@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Ronneseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SE Problems..
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 08:55:24 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

        My SE seems to have quit on me and I was wondering if anybody 
knows what is wrong, the specs are this:
 
1.  Error messges after about 10 minutes of inactivity, usually bad 
f-line instruction.
2.  Flashing disk with question mark at startup for 2 minutes then starts 
up off Hard Disk.
3.  At startup sometimes it will say a Sytem error has occured at 
startup, turn off extension holding down shiftkey, yet I have no 
extensions.
4.  Once in a while a Sad Mac at startup.
 
The System is:

1. 1987 Mac SE 2.5/90
2. The Hard Drive is a one year old fijitsu.
 
Help is greatly appreciated.

Chris Ronneseth              cronnese@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: Sproul@sproul.sproul.com (Mark Sproul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: DayStar Quadra Cache card
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:57:12 GMT
Reply-To: Sproul@sproul.sproul.com (Mark Sproul)
Organization: Sproul Consulting
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

I saw an add that DayStar has a 128K cach card for the quadra, it
is supposed to boost performance by 15-45%. The price I saw was just
under $400, not to bad. Does anyone have any experiance with it.

Please respond to "sproul@sproul.com"

-----------------------------------------------------
Mark Sproul - KB2ICI - New Jersey
sproul@sproul.com
From: silly123@milton.u.washington.edu (Celia Nilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Duo Express Modem
Date: 27 Dec 92 01:35:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec27.013529.12649
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


	Local bookstore salesman told me the modem will be on the market around
Feb or March.  Is it ture??  How much does it cost??

Thanks

Celia
From: jdsmc@chevron.com (David McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: IIsi accelerators and big video
Date: 23 Dec 92 01:35:33 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Chevron Petroleum Technology Co.

Dear Netters:

I am about to purchase a DayStar PowerCache 40MHz with FPU. My question
is how do people like them and if I decide to get a 16" or 19" monitor
later in the year, will there be enough room and power to run the monitor?

Thanks and happy holidays.

David McCormick
Chevron Petroleum Technology Co.
La Habra, CA
jdsmc@chevron.com
From: sls16@po.CWRU.Edu (Samuel L. Shank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: availibility of DuoDocks.
Date: 22 Dec 1992 23:41:06 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


I remember a lot of talk about the availability of the Docks.  Are people 
still looking for them?  I was in a store last night the had built a pyramid
of DuoDock boxes (I would guess that they had 40 or so) and another pyramid
of DUO230's (again, 30 or so.)  Are they hard to get, or they more readily
available now?  I did not see any PB180's at all, but they did have a boatload
of PB160's and IIVx or vi or whatever it is that they sell here in the USA.

-- 
Sam Shank
sls16@po.cwru.edu
From: Philip.Schuler@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Philip Schuler)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: FAX SOFTWARE
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 19:08:18 -0500

> I recieved a practical per. modem for christmas unfortunately it came with
> fax software that works only on the PC. If anyone knows where I can get a
> cheap comercial or a shareware package to send and recieve faxes please post
> or E-mail me.
 
David,
        FAXstf from STF Technologies works with a wide variety of modems (it
comes with most fax modems). I don't know if it will work with yours.  It sells
in the mail order catalogs for around $75 (FaxManager Plus) and $25 (FaxManager
LC).  Mine came with my modem so I don't know what the difference between "Plus"
and "LC" is.  They were supposed to come out with a version which could  also do
OCR on received faxes (reading the text of an incoming fax into a file for a
word processor); I don't know if "Plus" is this version.  
Good luck,
Phil Schuler


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson)
Subject: Re: no game port on Gateway 2k systems?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:21:13 GMT

hulsej@sun.lclark.edu (Jose Hulse) writes:

>Another question, though.  I notice that ads for most systems 
>say they have 2 serial ports, two parallel ports and one game port, right?

	Yup.

>Then why do Gateway system ads say that that they only have 1 parallel and
>2 serial ports?  Are Gateway systems "port poor" or something?

	Could be.  Game cards can be had for very little money though.

>  What's
>the story? (Serial ports are for printers and external modems, right?  Game
>ports are for joysticks, etc, and what are parallel ports for??)

	Parallel ports are usually used for printers.  Serial for
communications (modems).  Parallel ports are used for much more
nowadays though:  network connections, tape drives, DAT drives,
and even sound.  Most of these devices were made because of laptop and
notebook computers.  These computers don't have much in the way of
expansion slots.  Most of them have parallel ports, so they made them
do something more than talk one way to a printer.  

----
Jeffrey Gustafson                | A happy user of OS/2!
jeffgus@netcom.com               |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: eacj@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Julian Vrieslander)
Subject: Re: Fixing SuperMac DataFrame
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:38:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.195950.11396@netcom.com> lui@netcom.com (Stephen Lui) writes:
>
>To use any DataFrame drive with System 7, you  need  to  download
>Manager7, a DataFrame specific version of Drive7. 

I'm currently running a DataFrame XP150i under System 7.1 with SuperMac's
driver (Manager 4.2E).  What's going to happen to me if I don't switch to
the Manager7 driver?   Or what benefits are there to be had by switching over?
-- 
Julian Vrieslander 
Neurobiology & Behavior, Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853    
INTERNET: eacj@theory.tc.cornell.edu     BITNET: eacj@crnlthry
UUCP: ..cornell!batcomputer!eacj
From: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: FTC Finds Microsoft Monopolizing Software Industry
Date: 21 Dec 1992 17:24:29 -0700
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: anthrax-fddi.solbourne.com

While reading article <1992Dec20.163715.28824@eng.umd.edu>, I noticed that
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) said the following:
 >Ohhh, brother.  If there's anything worse than Microsoft monopolizing
 >the software industry, it's the government regulating it.  How long
 >before computer programming is no longer an unlicensed profession?

Don't live in New Jersey, do you?  (Neither do I, but wasn't it NJ that passed
legislation that would require programmers to be licensed?)
-- 
| William Kucharski, Solbourne Computer, Inc.     | Opinions expressed above
| Internet: kucharsk@solbourne.com   Ham: N0OKQ   | are MINE alone, not those
| Snail Mail: 1900 Pike Road, Longmont, CO  80501 | of Solbourne Computer, Inc.
| President, "Just the Ten of Us" Fan Club        | "Dittos from Longmont, CO"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: pyke@cbnews.cb.att.com (james.m.pyke)
Subject: Re: FTC Finds Microsoft Monopolizing Software Industry
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:20:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.164850.28054@serval.net.wsu.edu> Leonard Hermens <lhermens@eecs.wsu.edu> writes:
>In article <lamont.724946093@catfish16> Bradley Lamont,
>lamont@rtsg.mot.com writes:
>> >Well ladies and gentlemen, it seems Billy Gates and his Gestapo at
>> >Microsoft are going the way AT&T did in the early 1980s- a breakup.
>> >Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission found Microsoft to be
>monopolizing
>> >the computer software industry and to be practicing unfair business
>> >practices. The FTC wants to know how Microsoft garnered 95% of the
>overall
>> >operating system and major software markets before it cotinues further
>> >actions which will entail one of or more than one thing:
>> >
>> >1) Breaking up of Microsoft into smaller subdivisions
>> >2) Enacting "Barriers" around the company as to what its pricing,
>sales,
>> >   business practices may be. 
>
>> Source for this tidbit of info?
>> 
>> (Not that I don't consider you reliable, but might want to cut it out
>of the
>> paper :-)
>
>    Associated Press. I saw it in the Business section of the Spokane,
>Washington,
>"Spokesman-Review" -- Saturday's edition.
>
>-----
>Leonard Hermens
>Washington State University
>lhermens@eecs.wsu.edu


Don't count Microsoft out just because they may get broken up.  It turns out
that some stock people are looking for a new company to be the "stock to look
to" now that IBM is on such hard times.  two of the major contenders are 
Microsoft and AT&T.  The breakup has made just made AT&T much sleaker, not
weaker (Sorry, it just kind of came out that way).

Microsoft could become stronger a couple of years after they are broken up 
(if of course they are broken up).

Jim Pyke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Power switch on IIx
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:36:37 -0600
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing

In article <DAN.92Dec19133214@dynasty.dyndata.uucp>, dan@dyndata.uucp (Dan
Everhart) wrote:
> 
> In article <16804@pak.UUCP> kvj@triple-i.com (Karl vonJena) writes:
> 
> > Wow! This is a new one on me. But I might suspect that the power outage caused a surge that either tripped a breaker (if you have one), blew the power supply, or (gad!) fried your motherboard. Since you don't get any power at all, it's probably the first two.
> 
> Nope.  A day or so later I hit the button and it started up.  The room
> temperature was much higher then, which gives credibility to the
> following: 
> 
> > From: rajiv@athena.mit.edu (Rajiv A Manglani)
> > I believe that the battery needs to be replaced. On newer Macs (the IIcx and
> > up) the mac draws power from the outlet to turn it on. The IIx requires power
> > from the batter. See your Authorized Apple Dealer.
> 
> Do I *really* need to see the dealer about replacing a battery...?
> 

  Yep, the little bugger is soldered onto the motherboard!  Thanks Apple.

- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
                                  |The opinions expressed above are my own,
"A censor is a man who knows more |and do not necessarily reflect the
than he thinks you ought to."     |opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona
                - Granville Hicks |State University, its faculty, staff or
                                  |students.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Re: Apple monitor model #M1212 (Q)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:00:06 GMT

In <ibhan.725925628@husc.harvard.edu> ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) writes:

>jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End) writes:

>>It is my understanding that both monitors have the exact same SONY picture
>>tube and the new 14" has better magnetic sheilding and a built-in tilt-swivel
>>base. It is marginally more expensive via the academic channels ($500 vs $435).

>>Could you substantiate your claim that the new 14' uses a flatter tube ?

>The 14" does seem to have a flatter tube, but it's hard to tell.  There is
>definately a difference in the image quality (14" is better).


Again, the only difference between the two monitors, technically speaking,
is the electronics used to generate the beam, making the appearence brighter 
with less power consumption and reducing the ELF genreated, and of course
the swivel stand attached.

Can you substantiate your claim the the tube is "flatter" ? Is this your 
impression or have you seen this info somewhere ?

Thanks,

Jim











>-- 
>               -  Ishir Bhan -  ibhan@husc.harvard.edu  - 
>                                     - - - 
>           "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac Portable - Any opinions ?
From: harry@hjwmac.DIALix.oz.au
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:01:43 
X-Mailer: rnMac Buggy, I mean Beta, Test Version


I have the opportunity to acquire a Mac Portable very cheaply (next to 
nothing) and I
was wondering whether users have been happy with the unit ie. reliability, 
performance
etc.
BTW what version of System 6 is recommended and has anyone used System 7 
with the
Portable ?

Regards,
Harry WERKMAN
harry@hjwmac.DIALix.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
Subject: Re: Sticky Mouse Revisited
Keywords: mouse problem
Organization: TRW Systems Division, Fairfax VA
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:39:22 GMT

Apparently this sticky mouse problem is a global bug in Macs running
System 7.

Cheers,
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com
From: khump@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Ken Humphrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Connecting a color monitor to a SE30: need help
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:34:07 GMT
Organization: University Of Texas - ARL
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
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X-XXDate: Sat, 2 Jan 93 11:38:05 GMT

In article <0E062001.mif11n@dream11.ibmpcug.co.uk> Eric L. Tompkins,
tompkins@dream11.ibmpcug.co.uk writes:
>> Could anyone help me to make up my mind between an Micron XCEED COLOR30
>> or a LAPIS COLORSERVER PDS30 serie card.

I run a Lapis ColorServer card in my SE/30 and am totally pleased with it.
The only problem/complaint is lack of 24 bit color but I hear they have
since come out with one. The Xceed was the first card I looked into. I
quickly decided against iot due to lack of support for anything bigger than
13-14" monitors. Lapis covers all the monitors up to 2-page. I run a
E-Machines T16II with the ability to switch resoloutions at any restart.
That's my 2 nd complaint, the fact that it does not allow switch on the fly.
These are two very minor complaints and actually the first no longer exists
if I 'd pry my wallet open a little further. This cards a little more
expensive, but a lot more versatile with support for a LOT more monitors.
From: cansorge@unlinfo.unl.edu (charles ansorge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Help: Installing simms in a Q700
Date: 25 Dec 1992 23:50:23 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu

	My friend just bought a new Quadra 700 with 4MB RAM and wants to 
install 4 more MB.  The problem is the power supply is in the way and we
don't know if it snaps out or is screwed in.  How do we get to the simm
slots??  Thanks in advance for any help...
				
--

Charles J. Ansorge                   Voice: (402) 472-1702
University of Nebraska-Lincoln       Fax:   (402) 472-8317
Lincoln, NE  68588-0229              Internet: cansorge@mabl.unl.edu
From: kishon-amir@cs.yale.edu (Amir Kishon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Any New Printers in February?
Date: 22 Dec 92 15:49:12 GMT
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
NNTP-Posting-Host: systemsz-gw.cs.yale.edu

Does Apple plan to ship new printers in February? -Amir
-- 
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              				            kishon-amir@yale.arpa
					    BITNET: kishon-amir@yalecs.bitnet
                   			    UUCP:   decvax!yale!kishon-amir
From: eric.larson@f620.n2605.z1.ieee.org (eric larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
Date: 20 Dec 92 14:52:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2605/620 - Shockwave Rid, Freehold NJ


 ##                     calc.(sec)       scroll(min:sec)
 ##Mac II                    35.3            2:16.2
 ##Mac IIci                  15.3            1:31.2
 ##Mac IIci/cache off        19.2            1:44.7
 ##386dx                     22.5            2:25.3

 # Hmmmm.

 # Most 386 motherboards above 25 MHz have a built-in SRAM cache
 # these days. Even the bargain basement jobs.

Need I point out that the 25 MHz IIci/cache off still beats the 386/33?

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From: zz1bb@impending.ucsd.edu (Barry Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Longer cable for Mac+ Keyboard
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:34:22 GMT

In <Bzq8Cw.D2D@eis.calstate.edu> tnakada@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Nakada) writes:

>jdh@kebmlor (Jeff Holmbeck) writes:
>> We have a Mac Plus and we would like to have a longer cable connecting the
>> CPU to the keyboard.  Does anyone know where we might find such a thing.
>> We have tried some local computer stores and Maya and MacSale mail order
>> places, but to no avail.
>> 

>Just get a handset (not the cable that attaches to your phone but to the
>handset) cable from your local store that carries phone cables... Much
>cheaper.

>Or make your own, just make sure to get the smaller connector(s) for the
>handset and not the RJ-11 connectors...

When the Mac first came out, there was a book with hints and tips about
using the Mac (don't remember the name, but I doubt it was the Mac Bible).
One of the tips was how to use a phone handset cord as a keyboard cable.

In short, using one straight out of the package is a Bad Idea(tm).  You see,
Apple, in all their wisdom to keep people from using phone cord for a
keyboard cable, moved some of the wires around.  Using a regular handset
cord could result in damage to the Mac.

The solution is easy: just get a coninuity checker and determine the wire
configuration of the keyboard cable.  Then buy a handset cable and a new
modular connector.  Snip off one of the old connectors, rearrange the wires, 
and put the new one on.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jsolof@athena.mit.edu (Jeffrey R. Solof)
Subject: Re: Dead PowerBook Battery
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:26:12 GMT

In article <19141@mindlink.bc.ca> Daryl_Spitzer@mindlink.bc.ca (Daryl
Spitzer) writes:

>Without warning, the battery on my PowerBook 170 has gone completely dead.
>The PowerBook works fine while plugged in, but won't even turn on using the
>battery.  I've tried for many hours to recharge it, but it's still dead.
>(What's strange is that just before it died, I had managed to coax over three
>hours of use out of it.)
>
>Is a PowerBook battery covered under a warranty?  (The battery is the
>original that came with the PB...I've had both for about 6 months now.)
>I don't think I can call the 800 service number since I'm in Canada.
>
>Any advice or suggestions?  Has this happened to anyone else?  I guess I
>should head over to the nearest computer store (that sells PowerBooks) and try
>out a different battery in my PowerBook just to make sure it is the battery.


1) The battery _is_ covered under warranty.  We've seen a (small) number
   of bad ones that, after a few months, will no longer take a charge.
   Your local authorized service center should be able to test and give you
   a replacement -- they may need to see your PB at the same time.

2) It is also possible that you have a logic board failure; in some
   small number of cases, you can run the PB 170 off the AC power adapter,
   but NOT off a battery.  Best way to check is to find another battery
   (one which you know to be good).  Unfortunately, if it _is_ the logic
   board, you'll need a new one (get it while your warranty is in effect!!)
   and I _believe_ Apple is currently backordered on them.

I'm not a service tech, so I'm not good for many more details -- but
this is what I recall hearing from our techs.

Jeff Solof

___________________________________________________________________

Jeff Solof, Manager of Computer Sales   voice:         617-253-7686
MIT Computer Connection                 fax:           617-253-0681 
Room W20-021                            internet:    jsolof@mit.edu
84 Massachusetts Avenue                 applelink:            A0271
Cambridge MA  02139

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: David_Schwartz@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:33:17 PST
Subject: Re: Duo/SCSI details

The Duo's long awaited ability to go to sleep when the lid is closed is a
blessing to all Duo Travelers. And of course with the Duo Dock, the cpu is
active when the lid is closed. 

My question is with the Mini Dock; will the magical ROMs allow me to use my
Duo with the lid closed, when connected to my (someday) Mini Dock?

I can see many times when I'll be connected to a external monitor and
keyboard, and would prefer to have a black box (grey box) closed, neat and
tidy, as my cpu.

Thanks, and come by the BMUG booth at Expo!

David Schwartz
Planet BMUG



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From: tompkins@dream11.UUCP (Eric L. Tompkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: cheap VGA monitors and macs
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 18:59:12 GMT
Organization: Dream Engineering
Reply-To: tompkins@dream11.UUCP (Eric L. Tompkins)
Distribution: comp
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <BzrsC4.E3M.1@cs.cmu.edu> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), gleicher@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Gleicher) writes:
> 
> I need to buy a monitor fo my PC notebook, and would like to use it as a
> second monitor for my Mac. So, I was wondering:
> 
> which monitors would work?

If the monitor can either be manually set or can autoscan @ 31.5KHz, it should work.

> can I just buy a generic one and buy a cable seperately?
> 	(if so - who will sell me the cable?)

Yes.  Mac - VGA cables are widely available now at supplies shops and via mail order
(I know Black Box and JPG sell them.)

Eric

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