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From: PJ01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Flaky SE/30 video
Date: 8 Oct 92 08:39:25 GMT
Organization: University of Liverpool

Last night, my hitherto well behaved SE/30 started playing up.  Every so often
the screen image shimmys and funks to a beat of its own.  Over a period of 3hrs
the problem seemed to get noticeably worse.  Is this going to mean a new analog
board, or is there some other simpler possibility?

Thanks in Advance
Peter
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From: yuanj@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: TI microLaser printer
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:23:29 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

> In article <1992Oct13.211429.24430@tc.cornell.edu> eacj@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU
> (Julian Vrieslander) writes:
>>If any of you microLaser owners have any other advice or comments to share
>>about these machines, I would appreciate such info.  Right now, I am trying
>>to decide between the Apple PLW NTR and the microLaser Turbo.  The magazine
>>tests all report that the TI printer is about twice as fast, but some folks
>>have advised me that Apple's machine is built better, is a lot quieter, and
>>produces slightly cleaner images.  My best prices for the two printers are
>>just about the same. 

The consumables for TI printer cost more than PLW printers if you do not refill
the latter.  The difference is even bigger if you do refill them.  I have a PLW
and a friend of mine has a TI.  We order consumables from mail orders.  On a
per page base, his cost about 5 cents and mine cost about 3.5 cents without
refilling mine.  The refill does not apply to the TI since these parts are
replaced separately.  It is actually refilled avery time you change only the
toner without changing the OPC.

If you want a Canon engined printer other than the PLW, there are quite a
number of them in the market.  It does not have to be PLW.  I just think the
Sharp engine is inferior.

Cheers!
From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook Caps Lock
Date: 13 Oct 1992 13:22:44 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu


Mike Carlton> IMHO, this is very lame engineering on Apple's part.

	AMEN! (to what Mike says...)

	engineers at Apple think of themselves (result of the
	advertising hype?) as god's gift to computer engineering,
	hardware, software, interface...

	...but few are the ones that can take the heat generated
	by critical interest in their achievements (and reaction
	to the hype)
-- 
  werner@cs.utexas.edu |  ..!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner | werner@UTXVM.bitnet

              "Free Advice and Opinions -- Refunds Available"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jlehman@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J.T. Lehman)
Subject: Re: External Si Speaker:What's the Best for the $? (Fixing Si's Sound)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:54:44 GMT

Radio Shack has amplified external speakers that plug directly into the 
mac audio output that sell for $30, $40, and $60.  They run off batteries, 
but have adaptor plugs so you buy an adaptor for ~$10 and run it off wall
current.  

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wjb@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov (William J. Bene)
Subject: StyleWriter Info Requested
Reply-To: wjb@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov (William J. Bene)
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:06:29 GMT

I am thinking about buying a printer for my Mac, possibly a Stylewriter (SW).  
I have heard that the SW does not use Postscript, but uses Quickdraw like the 
Imagewriter.  Is this true?  If so, that should reduce the cost 
significantly.  What does a SW go for these days?   How well does it perform?  

Any other information on the SW or suggestions for other laser printers would 
be helpful.

Thanks,

Will

========================================================================
William J. Bene
Computer Sciences Corporation
wjb@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov
From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook Caps Lock
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:59:15 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

chogend1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Chris Hogendorn) writes:

>I'm forever hitting the caps lock key on my Powerbook 140. Does anyone know
>of a good way of disabling it? --> Chris

You can use one of several INITs, or you can add a keyboard map to your
system which disables the capslock key.  Both inits and the KMAP are
available from ftp.apple.com in /pub/powerbook.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"
From: WIS@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: More about tape drives
Date: 13 Oct 92 10:44:38 GMT
Organization: University of Liverpool

In the interest of finding out more about how various programs talk
to (and find out about) different tape drives, I want to get hold of the
output from the SCSI Inquiry command from a number of different drives.

So, what I've done is written a short program that performs an inquiry
on all the drives on a system and writes the information it gets back
out to a text file (in Hex and Ascii). So, all I need now, is some
peolpe to use it on their systems and Email me back the text file
produced (along with the name and SCSI address of their tape unit) so
I can and see what sort of information is produced.

Is anyone willing to help? Please Email me (wis@uxb.liv.ac.uk) and I'll
send you a BINHEXED version of the program. (If I get swamped with
requests, I'll just post the program on comp.binaries.mac - or someone
else can - it's just much easier for me to Email it out than to post
it as news) (One has to be optimistic about these things :->)

Thanks in advance

 Bill Sellers
From: farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Power book batteries
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:26:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania



Has anyone tried the second source batteries that promise
25 % more life (for the 170). Do they work?

Dave

David Farber; Prof. of CIS and EE, U of Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 Tele:
215-898-9508(off); 215-274-8292 (home); FAX: 215-274-8293;  Cellular:  302-740-
1198 "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the
sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- R. P. Feynman
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Let's talk Performas, Boys and Girls
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:46:37 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

eyoung@cisco.com (Eric Youngman) writes:

>OK, so maybe I should have started my statement about the P600 with the
>words, 'according to friends of mine who are in a position to know these
>things...' and made it more a hypothesis rather than an authoritative
>statement of fact.  Sorry.

    You might also try hitting the return key about every 80 characters,
or less. Makes people life easier when they try to respond to your
comments. 

>I got this information from two people, one currently employed by Apple
>and one who worked there until just recently.  The one who still works
>there told me authoritatively that the P600 has a 16 bit bus, and the
>one who used to work there (fairly high up in the hardware area) states
>that this hypothesis makes sense, given what he knows about the product
>area responsible for Apple's consumer-oriented stuff.

    You're right, it does make a bit of sense, since every other low
cost that apple has dropped an '030 into had only a 16bit bus (Classic
II, and LC II). I would have probably believed you too, if I hadn't seen
3 different overhead views of the P600's motherboard. All of them looked
identical and all of them had 1 bank of 4 SIMM slots, ie. a 32bit bus.

>So, no, I really have no hard facts to support this claim, only info
>from people I trust.  Should have made this clear earlier.

    Well, sometimes, infformation can be faulty or wrong. It isn't your
fault for reporting what you heard. Speculation is just that.

>If anyone out there has better ideas on why the P600 is slower than a
>IIci, 'I'm all ears.'  I'm thinking of buying a P600/IIvi/IIvx, and
>would like to know.

    Would you trust a benchmark test done using beta software? I
certainly wouldn't. Until someone does another test, with both a IIci
and a P600/IIvx running the same system software, we will only be able
to speculate.

    One interesting thing to note: this week MacWEEK released the retail
prices for the Apple lineup as it will be next Monday, and the IIvi is
not on the list. Apparantly those rumors about the IIvi being sold only
overseas was correct.


--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
  "I'm sorry, I didn't have my hearing aid on. Could you repeat that?"
			  -Admiral Stockdale-
From: brecher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jonathan Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 2-page monitor in PORTRAIT orientation?
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:50:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.BRECHER.92Oct15025031
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA

OK, so maybe I'm asking for the impossible, but does anyone know where I can
get what would be (essentially) a 2-page monitor, but in portrait mode?
This would be used for a newspaper that works on tabloid-size pages, that is,
11 inches wide by 17 inches tall.  Black-and-white is fine (and, in fact, 
preferred for cost reasons).

Email is fine, but so is posting.  I'll summarize on the off chance I get
any leads...
				jonathan brecher
				brecher@husc.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ekaftan@malloco.ing.puc.cl (ekaftan)
Subject: Re: System 7.0 eats up 14M of memory!
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:22:44 GMT

Andy Joe (aj@lew.rosemount.com) wrote:
: I don't know if this question was posted or answered before, but
: here goes...
: 
: I upgraded my IIci to 20 megs yesterday, and discovered that if I
: don't have 32 bit addressing turned on, the system uses about 14megs,
: and leaves only 6 megs of free memory.
: 
: 
: Does anybody have a reasonable answer to this?

	You gave yourself an answer, Sys7 needs 32 bit adressing to 
handle more than 8 megs of RAM. 2 exp 24 = 16 MB, that is theoretically
you could handle 16 Mgs of Ram with 24 bit addr, but the ROM starts at
somewhere over mega 8 so all you have is 8 RAM
	Turning 32 bit addresing on gives you 2 exp 32 = 4 GIGABYTES of'
addresable memory. Quite enough for most games, pictures, fonts or whatever
(at least for a couple of years, or until a giga of 0.00078 ns RAM cost
US$1,25 in your local dealer)
	To avoid conflicts (I think) Sys7 takes the nonadresable RAM to
itself, leaving you only 6 (8 free - 2 ocupied by SYstem)

: 
: thanxs in advance.

Never mind, enyoy your RAM.
: 

Eduardo Kaftanski Arancibia

ekaftan@ing.puc.cl
eakaftan@isluga.puc.cl
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Woz in apple ad?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 07:49:43 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


peterco@eff.org (Peter Cohen) writes:

> You sound like someone who's spent a great deal of time in an educational
> environment.

Hardly. I've worked in the computer industry for the last 15 years.
During that time I've been fortunate to be associated with a number
of very talented individuals, many of whom I'm sure are just as talented
as Mr. Wozniak. The reason why they are still laboring in obscurity
while he is relaxing on his multimillions has mostly to do with luck,
with being in the right place at the right time.

> While "Publish or Perish" may be necessary for college
> professors, it's hardly necessary for people who have made their money,
> are happy to let others continue breaking ground where they've pioneered. 
> I admit, this attitude can be construed as slightly mercenary, and is
> probably totally inaccurate of what Mr. Wozniak's actual intentions are,
> but who are you to question his goals, anyway?

I never questioned his goals at all. He can do whatever he wants, as
far as I'm concerned. I was questioning the statement of the previous
article, that Woz "still is one of the best engineers of all time".
What are the facts to support that statement?

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: a-kevinp@microsoft.com (Kevin Purcell)
Subject: Re: HELP: Quantum LPS240 hdu problems ?!?!?!
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:07:01 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

In article <56410@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> marcoc@strobe.ATC.Olivetti.Com wrote:
>   
> 2) From time to time (each 2 minutes) the hard dosk does a couple of seconds
>   of frantic activity, also with the mac completely idle; apparently there 
>   are no problems for this fact.

These drives (and the Mac system software?) cache writes to the disk. The
disk is just clearing its caches. Most (all) cached Quantum drives do it.

> 
> | Marco Calamari - Elea O.I.S. | Internet     marcoc@strobe.olivetti.com |
> | Via di S.Domenico         70 | Uucp iconet.olivetti.com!bb1elea!marcoc |
> | Florence               ITALY | AppleLink                       ITA0820 |
> | Disc.: my opinions are mine! | tel. +39-55-5000465   fax +30-55-579337 |

Kevin Purcell
a-kevinp@microsoft.com
My views are often orthogonal to those of Microsoft Corp
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Woz in apple ad?
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:30:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

In article <1992Oct13.194831.17179@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) wrote:
> 
> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
> 
> >Don't forget that Jobs designed the case for the Apple II.
> 
> You sure about this??? I thought Jobs&Woz hire a guy to design the case...
> 
> can anyone verify this?? (does anyone have Accidental Millionair handy?)

I'm fairly sure that I read it in _Accidental Millionaire_.  He was so
impressed with himself for doing so, that he designed the case for the
Apple /// way before the electronics were ready, and to make them fit, the
engineers had to design a daughter board for some of the components.

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|Now that I have a reader that can do .sigs, I can't think of a witty |
|one to put here, so I won't.  All normal disclaimers apply.          |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Upgrade a MacII ?
From: clhaynes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:43:34 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

This summer I bought a used mac II.  I was wondering what the possible upgrades
or additions I could add to make it faster ect. I appreciate any help.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:19119 comp.sys.mac.system:12825
From: pentangl@spdcc.com (Scott Moir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: PB 100 as SCSI drive
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:44:14 GMT
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

Here is what you need:

    |~~~|                                /
    |   |                           ___/ 
    |___|=--------=#=-------------=[___]
     Mac  Sys/SCSI ^  SCSI/HDI30   PB100
                   |
                   |_Double ended terminator

You also have to change the SCSI ID in the PB100 to something between
1 and 6.

Hope this helps.

Scott


-- 
Scott Moir / Pentangle / Satyr ______ # "There's really only one requirement 
pentangl@Ursa-Major.spdcc.com  \ \/ / #  for a Prophet, and you've got it."
B4 f t+ w g k+(+) s+ m r p+     \/\/  # "What's that?"
These are my opinions, not SPDCC's    # "A mouth." - 'God' to J.R.'BoB' Dobbs
From: liebgold@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Dan M. Liebgold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: WANTED: Old macs...
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:47:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles


Does anyone have an original (or close to) Macintosh they'd like to
get rid of? I'll take it for the right price....

email me info/offers...

dl
-- 
------------------------------------------------
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310 DeNeve Dr.		"Bear with my ignorance"				
LA, CA 90024		          (310) 794-4370
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:18611 comp.sys.mac:368 comp.sys.mac.misc:17546
From: ee154fbk@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Marcel Carlsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: New Apple monitors in the Performa line????
Date: 8 Oct 92 06:12:57 GMT
Followup-To: poster

I saw an ad in the paper for Apple's new monitor that comes with the
Performa line.  The monitor was $350.00 and 14", is this for real???
Will this monitor work with MacII and Apple's old videocard?? Is
this new monitor as sharp as the good old 13" rgb??

Thanks,

ee154fbk@sdcc15.ucsd.edu
From: seanmcd@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook Caps Lock; easy fix
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:43:16 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

An easy way to disable the caps lock key without adding a new KMAP resource
is to: (1) Open ResEdit
	(2) open a copy of your system file (or original if you're brave)
	(3) open the KCHR resource
	(4) press caps lock down. click on table 0. click okay in the dialog
		box asking if you want to do this.
That's it. Your caps lock key is now dead.
From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Anybody got an FWB "Jackhammer" SCSI accelerator?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 20:48:40 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: charon.think.com


I'm looking into using FWB's Jackhammer board as a proto board for
software that will eventually run on some of our own hardware.  So,
I'll need to know the address of the 53C720 chip on the board, but FWB
isn't talking. Anybody got one? Can you help me figure out the address
(or decide that this won't work) before we waste our money? 

-- 
Ephraim Vishniac    ephraim@think.com   ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com
 Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142
        One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was
        the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: GAYNOR@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor)
Subject: Apple CD300 announced
Organization: The Ohio State University - OCES
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:17:25 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Well, you just gotta love having a bad rumor proved wrong.

According to Newsbytes, Clarinet's set of computer-related newsgroups,
Apple has just announced the Apple CD300 and Apple CD300i.

The CD300i is the internal CD-ROM drive from the Performa 600CD - the
double-speed drive that also supports the Kodak PhotoCD format, among
others.  The CD300, of course, is the external version.

Newsbytes quoted a list of $599, with about 10 CD titles packages with
the CD-ROM drive itself.

Cool.


---
   Jim Gaynor    | "Man-of-Many-Beeping-Sounds-and-Flashing-Lights" - KAJ
OSU/ACS/FMS/OCES | <gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu> or <gaynor.4@osu.edu>
Disclaimer:  Everything stated here and above is -my- opinion.  Mine mine mine!
"We're here as the official representatives of the Y chromosome" - M Silverberg
From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PDA's are flop
Date: 10 Oct 92 05:11:44 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

tom@dtint.uucp (Thomas R. Kimpton) writes:

>Have you been in an office where someone had speech input?  There's
>a guy here who has a Next with speech input.  Whenever he uses it,
>it's really distracting.  Speech input might be nice when you're
>alone, but in the company of others it can be annoying.

It's bad enough when every mac in the area has it's one favorite set of
sounds. One SoundMaster freak can make an entire department crazy, although
my favorite person to kill is the one who leaves his idiot After Dark
Aquarium on bloop-bloop, so it only makes noise when they're not there. And
password protects it. One night in a previous location, we simply started
unplugging cables until the noise stopped. It got the point across.

Speech input would be worse, since it'd be more constant (have you ever
worked in the cube next to someone who lived on a telephone?). Not only
that, potentially embarassing: "Caspar, please load up Tetris. Please call
my girlfriend and schedule lunch. Please call my wife and tell her I'm
working late again."

What you'd need to make it work is either a throat or an ear mike that works
via subvocalizations up through the bone. The military uses this for some
stuff, but right now, the technology is a bit expensive, and people look at
you funny because you get in the habit of murmuring to yourself.


-- 
Chuq "IMHO" Von Rospach, ESD Support & Training (DAL/AUX) =+= Member, SFWA
  chuq@apple.com | GEnie: MAC.BIGOT | ALink:CHUQ =+= Editor, OtherRealms


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 vs 14
Organization: Netcom San Jose
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:37:51 GMT

ar017@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Nolan Whitaker) writes ...
>I have a question concerning differences between Apple's
>Powerbook 100 and 140.
>
>Does either difference interfere with multitasking? or
>pose software problems making some applications incompatible
>with the 100?  or is this simply a question of speed and RAM?
>
>Are there any apps that will run on the PB 140 that wont run on
>the PB 100?

Yes.  The PB140 has color quickdraw in ROM, the PB100 does not.  Some
programs that deal with color will not work without color quickdraw.
Note that while neither computer can display color, the Mac's ROM is
designed so that programs generally don't need to be concerned with
whether the computer can actually display the colors requested.  But
if the ROM routines aren't available, some programs will complain.

Otherwise, speed and memory pretty much sums it up.

-- 
Ray Fischer                   "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady
ray@netcom.com                 of the ignorant."  -- A. B. Alcott
From: mwarren@rws1.ma30.bull.com (Mark Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Problems initializing 20 Mbyte internal HD
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:04:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.

I have an old Mac SE, originally purchased with two floppies.  I
recently acquired, for free, a 20 MB hard drive that had been removed
from another old Mac.  I removed one of the floppies from my SE, and
put the used HD in.

It booted OK, but encountered a number of errors.  Since I did not
care about loosing the data on the drive, I booted the System 6.0
utilities disk, started the HD Setup utility, and poked "Initialize".
The initialization hung after about 3 minutes, with an empty error
dialogue box on the screen.  I rebooted and tried the "Test" option
from the HD Setup, with roughly the same results.

Since this drive was very old (almost continuous power on since 1989)
I went out to a local PC dealer and bought an identical 20 Mbyte
Miniscribe drive.  Plugging this drive in, and running the HD Setup
stuff gave the same results.


I am sure I do not have two bad drives, especially since the first one
booted before I tried the ill-fated initialize.

HELP ?????


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