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From: bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Tyson Bower)
Subject: Re: 128K WHAT TO DO?
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 00:47:29 GMT

The best thing you can do with your dead Mac 128k is upgrade it to
a MacQuarium.  You can find the instructions for performing the
upgrade yourself on sumex-aim.stanford.edu via anonymous ftp.  One
of the major advantages of performing this upgrade is that your
old 128k will now support color.  What's more, when running certain
screen savers (well, ok, only one: Fish, in AfterDark) it will put
ANY Mac to shame.

Look for the file that has "macquarium" in the name.  I think it might
be in the misc directory.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: daver@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Ruby)
Subject: Re: Let's talk Performas, Boys and Girls
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 17:32:54 GMT

hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:

>    There is no sound-out port on either the Plus or the SE.
>    Well, the SE/30, IIcx and IIci do not have sound-out ports. But for
>the others, there is a sound out port. 

I'm sitting next to a SE/30, and actually using a IIci that have what
look like headphone jacks on the back with a little sound icon above
it.  I'm pretty sure my SE at home has this too.  
Are these not sound-out ports?  If not, what are they for?  I've
never used them, but felt warm inside knowing I could hook up stereo
speakers to them at a later date if I wanted.

>    All macs introduced since the IIsi and the LC have the same sound
>capabilites, mono input and stereo output.

I've never used either, so I'm curious.  Does this mean there are two
speakers and games or other cleverly written software will do real
stereo sound (cool echoes, etc)?  

David Ruby                                 daver@uiuc.edu   
Lincoln Hall Network Administrator         University of Illinois
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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Inexpensive TV on monitor?
Date: 4 Oct 92 17:54:32 GMT
Organization: The Polyhedron Group

In article <prnzz6m@rpi.edu>, jamesm@sage.cs.rpi.edu (Michael James)
writes:
> 
> I saw a blurb in the most recent issue of Byte magazine which described
> a board for IBM PC's that would allow the user to toggle between watching
> TV on the computer screen and the normal view of the desktop.  It
> retailed for somewhere around $300 (to the best of my recollection).
> 
> I have been looking for something that will let me do the same thing
> on my Mac, but have not found anything comparable.  It looks like some
> of the new video digitizing boards that are coming out might do what I
> want but they are too expensive for my budget.
> 
> Does anyone know of a board for the Mac that is comparable to the
> above in functionality and price?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike
> 

The board you want -does- exist for the Mac. Check with "Computer Friends"
in Portland, Oregon, USA. They may have what you are looking
for.
From: gt8798a@prism.gatech.EDU (Anthony S. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: NEC MultiSync 3D at $459
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:44:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

For those of you interested,  USA Flex has brand news NEC 3D's at $459.
Quantities limited they say.  I know it is an old monitor, but the price
seemed very attractive.  I will be using it on my new LC II.  Oh, and the
guy will include the right cables also.

go REDS
From: ficara@remus.rutgers.edu (ken ficara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: HELP: 512K SIMMs in SE???
Keywords: memory simm mac se
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:08:19 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Is it possible to install four 512K SIMMs in a Mac SE and bring it up
to 2MB RAM, or will it only accept 256s and 1 MB chips? The four chips
came out of a IIsi that we just upgraded to 5MB. Thanks all.

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From: dwsmith@bilbo.encore.com (Dwight Smith)
Subject: Macportable External Disk ?
Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:37:04 GMT

Dudes,
	Is there any magic in making a macportable
talk to a set of SCSI disks that talk to a mac SE?
On the SE the drives come right up on the desktop,
while the portable locks up. What am I doing wrong???

thanks!

Dwight
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From: tsirbasc@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Tsirbas Christos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Wanted: Daystar Power Cache INIT
Date: 28 Sep 92 01:40:16 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Tom Johnson writes:

I need to get a copy of the latest version of the Daystar Power Cache
INIT software for the 40MHz accelerator on a Mac IIci (PDS adapter).
___________________________

I believe I have seen it either on the sumex or wuarchive ftp sites


Both of these sites are available through anonymous ftp.  Try both

Chris Tsirbas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: UBMBMNG$@ibm.gwdg.de
Subject: Problems with new 1 MB SIMMs in a Mac plus
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 18:51:44 MEZ

We would like to upgrade an old Mac plus to 4 MB. After installing the SIMMs
we notice a problem in formating new DD-disks. After formating all tracks and
checking the disk the computer crashes. No bomb message appears, while the Aler
t-window flickers. The have checked the RAM and we try formating with 2,5 Meg
s of RAM (replacing two Megs by old 256K-SIMMs). No change! But we have no
problems in formating disks by using the original four 256K-SIMMs again.
Maybe there is a problem with the SIMMs cause they are not the familiar 1x8 or
1x9. There are 4x3 RAM on a SIMM. We have tested the Mac with the old System
4.1. Also we have disconnected the Hard Drive. But the problem still remains.
 
Any solutions?
 
Jochen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: metlay@netcom.com (metlay)
Subject: Re: New PB100 2/20 external floppy won't read HD disks properly
Summary: The squeaky wheel....
Organization: Atomic City
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:42:27 GMT

In article <TJFS.92Oct6185150@coffee.tadtec.uucp> tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) writes:
>Well, I tried another PB100 and drive and it was just as (un)reliable
>as mine.  Basically, you can't always count on it reading a (LD or HD)
>disk first time.  If you eject and reinsert, you'll probably manage
>to read it OK.
>
>Doesn't exactly inspire confidence does it?

I have to take issue with this. I'm not Apple's biggest fan, but I should
point out that people generally only mention a piece of gear on the Net
if they want to gritch about it. My wife and I own two PB100s, each with 
its own external drive. We haven't been using them for a LONG time, but
so far we've had no trouble at all with either of them. When and if they
do go crufty, I'll post a note here after I send them to Apple to be fixed.
It'll be interesting to see how long that takes....



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From: tsirbasc@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Tsirbas Christos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE to SE/30: Worth It?
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:33:58 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


 Mark Wang writes:

For SE/30 owners wanting color, they should get a video card and color
monitor.  I doubt that anyone would suggest selling their machine and
spending a couple hundred more to buy a slower and less portable IIsi.
Or spending many hundreds more on gizmos to make the jump from 16mhz to
20mhz when a Daystar 33mhz PowerCache (that doesn't use the PDS/video
slot) is available for about the same cost.
 
Mark
_________________________

Well, mark, an SE/30 with an external monitor does not seem to be that portable.Secondly, an fpu card for the IIsi runs about 120 dollars and the video-problem can be addressed by increasing the size of the Ram-cache to counteract the VRAM
-application RAM conflict.  As for the IIsi being slower, I tend to disagree with you on that one.  Try adding a Micron Video card to an SE/30, you'll see that the difference is negligible. On the other hand, by setting one's ram-cache to about
 320k and changing the monitor-memory default to 1-bit, then the IIsi runs faster than an SE/30, and if I were to add a video-card to my IIsi, it would run faster than a comparable SE/30.  Of course, if I wanted 32-bit cleanliness, I would
either have to add a few software patches or get a rather pricey ROM upgrade.
(Last I heard, Apple was charging at least 500-600 dollars for 32-bit clean
ROMs.

'Nuff said.

Chris Tsirbas 
tsirbasc@brise.ere.umontreal.ca
From: mdiehr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Michael Diehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Quadra, 16" color, and Pivot LE
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:27:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


I'm trying to choose monitor configurations for a quadra 7000. I
have several ideas:
1. 13" color on internal video @ 24 bit, a one page b&w with Nubus
    card @ 1bit
2. 16" color on internal video @ 24 bit.
3. Radius Pivot LE w/Nubus card @ 8 bit
4. Radius Pivot LE on internal video

Does anyone know
--can the pivot run @ 24 bit with it's card, or on internal video?

Prices Seem to be:
1. 13" $450, 1 pg b&w $450
2. 16" $950
3. Pivot $800

Any suggestions?  I'm leaning towards the 16", for portability
and reduce footprint.  The Pivot would be nice if it could do
24 bit.

please respond directly via e-mail to: mdiehr@ucsd.edu
(or mdiehr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz)
Subject: Re: New Mac Price Cuts
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 23:48:34 GMT

In article <6495@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:
>In article <1a7t3nINNhn6@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> shu@uicadh.csl.uiuc.edu (Tzi-Hsiung Shu) writes:
>>This surely is a good news for a student like me in the
>>market for a MAC. :)
>>
>>Anyone care to comment how long it will take for the price cut
>>to be reflected in the asking prices of Apple dealers?
>>
>
>   If you're asking about academic prices, I think it already happened.
>Our school cut the cost on the Quad's and ci's by $700 a few weeks ago.
>

With the new SRP for the IIci (5MB/SD) of $2539 and our current academic price
of $2059, wouldn't you think that this margin would be increased? 

Jonathan Katz
jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
From: gggj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Help - Broken DataFrame 20 drive 
Date: 26 Sep 92 12:22:11 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Help!
I have a DataFrame 20 (SuperMac) harddrive that spins up but nothing recognizes
it as a SCSI device.  IT's pretty old, so I dunno what the problem is.  The
power supply is fine (ran another drive) so I guess its the control board. 
Anyway, if anyone knows how to fix it, tell me!  Otherwise, I'd liek to sell it
... it's a great metal stand-up case with 60W power supply and room for 5.25"
drive (it has the drive in it too!  so if you can get a coontroller board,
theres a 20 meg hard drive in tehre.)  Make offers!
scott

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: pdel@ADS.COM (Peter Delevoryas)
Subject: Latest version of MacTCP
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mtn. View, CA (415)960-7300
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:32:38 GMT


We can't seem to get MacTCP 1.1 going on a Quadra 900. Is there a
later version?

thanks, PD
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Subject: Help me with Q900 boot problem
Reply-To: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA 
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:03:36 GMT

This evening, after returning to the office, my Quuadra 900 refused to  
boot up, either from hard drive or from floppy.

What happens is this.  After pressing the power switch, I get the standard  
sartup sound, then about 13 seconds later, I get a series of four   
accending notes, followed by four decending notes.  I do not get any video  
at all, either from internal video on a 13in monitor, or from the 24bit  
card.  Pressing the reboot key after this series does nothing I can see,  
but pressing the programmers key and then the reboot key reboots the  
system.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

email to csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu

Thanks.

Christian Smith
From: ns111310@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Nathaniel Sammons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Macintosh 21" greyscale monitor ****SOLD****
Summary: monitor has sold
Date: 6 Oct 92 03:39:24 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

the 21" greyscale monitor has been sold.
From: burglin@amber.mgh.harvard.edu (Thomas Burglin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The fastest possible Mac <speed speed speed>
Date: 1 Oct 92 07:12:00 GMT
Organization: Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep29.171533.25419@pica.army.mil>, tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>) writes...
>Greg@sys.uea.ac.uk (Greg Newton-Ingham) writes:
>>Well, I'm looking to put together the fastest Mac I can.
> 
>Well, I've had my PowerBook 170 up to nearly 100mph. (In the tankbag on my
>BMW:-})
> 
>Sorry.
>-- 
> 
>                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil

Well, I've had my Powerbook 140 at  over 1000 km/h (or is it mph?)
on the last transatlantic flight.

Sorry, couldn't resist either...
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From: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,misc.forsale.wanted
Subject: Re: Plug VGA monitor into a MAC...
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:19:39 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University


tried last nite,   both an IBM VGA and a Gateway2000 Crystal Scan

neiher one worked with an Apple 8-bit card.. The card puts out
composite sync, while the IBM crudheaps expect seperate syncs.

I'll try it with LC,si,ci,& Quadra video sometime this week..
and let y'all know.
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From: tsirbasc@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Tsirbas Christos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Let's talk Performas, Boys and Girls
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:43:59 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Eddie Crawford writes:

______________________
While I dont think apple has intentionally crippled the performa,
they intentionally left out features to drive down its cost.
I mean why stick support for 80 inch monitors and ethernet if
your trying to sell it to people who are shopping for a dish
washer at sears and happen to have a mac catch their eye? if they
need all of that they can just get a video card.
 
Eddie
______________________

Eddie, some points to consider

Having to buy an extra video card to drive a page monitor kind of
defeats the purpose and intent of 'a low-cost Mac'.  If I wanted to
get all the functionality I currently have with my IIsi (multiple monitor
support, cache card, etc.) it would cost more with a Performa.  I just
don't think that the Performa is a low-cost alternative for serious Mac
Users.  As you are well aware, the biggest Mac market is Desktop publishing,
by not adding plug-in compatibility for a page-monitor, Apple is cutting off
a large chunk of the traditional Mac market, but then they are not going
for the traditional Mac Market.

THE PERFORMA IS A GREAT FAMILY COMPUTER, BUT IT IS NOT THE COMPUTER
FOR THOSE WHO USE THEIR CURRENT MAC FOR MORE ADVANCED FEATURES AND
HEAVY DUTY GRAPHICS OR DESK TOP PUBLISHING.

That is all that I am trying to make clear, that current Mac owners should
evaluate their needs before rushing out and upgrading to a Performa.  Sure,
Performas cost less now, but without the extra-monitor support and a single
RAM Bank, they'll end up costing an advanced user more in the future.

All that I am saying is that, while it is commendable that Apple is introducing
a low-cost line of family computers, individuals who use their Macs for advanced
uses should be made aware that it is quite an expensive proposition to upgrade a
Performa 600 to get it up to full functionality.  Let's face it, with a
$250 dollar investment for a cache card with FPU for my IIsi, I would still have
of Performa 600% speed.  If I were to add a full page monitor to the Performa,
I would only be one-slot up from the IIsi, and have paid an extra $400 bucks fora single slot, in my opinion, this is not worth it.

Chris Tsirbas
tsirbasc@brise.ere.umontreal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: sdtrent@eos.ncsu.edu (SHANE DUDLY TRENT)
Subject: Re: Flaky Seiko CM1445 Monitor... HELP!!
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 18:00:36 GMT




I had a very similar problem on a CM1445. My problem was magnetic interference
I noticed that the problem came and went when I used the High powered lights in
my living room. My fixe was to move my computer to another position against a
differnt wall. I tried an Apple monitor that did the same thing but not as 
much as my CM1445.

Shane Trent, MTE

Dk
D
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From: Steve_Goyette@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Goyette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 128K WHAT TO DO?
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:19:51 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Hi,

        I have a MAC 512k, and don't know what to do with it.  Would like to
find out if there is a way to put a scsi drive on it and increase the memory.
Does anybody know how this can be done???

BTW:  I don't have access to FTP.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

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From: Ladd.Morse@p804.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ladd Morse)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SCSI-2 Hard drive
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 23:42:14 -0500

Please post any information you receive on this.  The powers-that-be will be
ordering a Quadra 700 for me in the next week and we'll be getting the drive
separately.  Looks like they're leaning toward the Quantum 425, but there and
several other drives in that price range.
From: death@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Gregory A. Mulhollan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Rogue Mac Plusses Take Lab Hostage!
Keywords: Mac Plus, LaserWriterII
Date: 6 Oct 92 00:24:46 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In our small LocalTalk network, there reside two MacPlusses. Since
upgrading them to System 7.0 & TuneUp 1.1.1, both have refused to 
print correctly(we get the "there is a printing problem" dialog box) from
either Word 4.0 or BBEdit, or just about anything(filesharing enabled). 
The second try a printing does always work. Both have updated
hard disk drivers. The only extensions(besides apple's) are Gatekeeper,
Gatekeeper Aid and SuperClock(the latest version of all). The printers
in question are a LaserWriter Plus and a LaserWriter IINT. Will we just
have to live with this, or is this a quirk of System 7?
From: ns111310@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (The BLaCKSMiTHE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Apple and NeXT move off of 680x0 base (was Re: 68050)
Date: 27 Sep 92 22:38:36 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College


In article <1992Sep25.222309.8471@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> Stephen E. Halpin,
halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com writes:
>Apple and IBM needing millions of PowerPC chips, and Apple
>and NeXT moving off the 680x0 base, its in Motorolas best
>interest to put the research dollars in the PowerPC area.

First of all, NeXT is **NOT** moving off of the 680x0 base, except for 
abandoning the obsolete 68030/68882 combination.

NeXT has, however, **PORTED** it's operating system to the 80486 and the
compatable P5... called "NeXTSTEP '486" which is due out in early 1993
(it is actually finished, and has been seen running, so it won't be a
year and a half late.... like, oh, say, SYSTEM 7??)

There are CONFIRMED reports of a NeXTSTEP port to the DataGeneral system,
and UNCONFIRMED reports of a **working** port (that is, working in a
small,
locked room in the middle of NeXT-central in Redwood City) of NeXTSTEP
running
on the HP PA-RISC chipset (series 700 HP's I believe), tthe SPARC,
IBM RS/6000, Silicon Graphics stations (under the R3000, I believe)...

NeXT is expected to be releasing a dual 88110 computer called the "brick"
in 1993, and it will do over 100MIPS easy, and be multi-processing... all
for
less than $10,000 (try getting a P5 equipped machine for less in 1993, and
then add in the NeXTSTEP interface.....

What NeXT is doing is broadening it's base...  recently, a Miscrosoft guy 
was facing off against Steve Jobs and the "Object oriented" OS from
Microsoft
crashed, and they had to reboot under DOS... good luck guys.  Apple has 
pretty-much abandoned "pink" which was about the only good thing that
Apple
thought of....  since system 7 is a patch on a patch on a patch on a
patch...

the PowerPC thing is a joke... the first chips won't be out 'till 1994,
and I'd bet on 1995 AT LEAST before anything comes about as a result of
it,
besides, Apple is targeting the really-low end of the market (which is
fine)
but they think they can replace UNIX with a version of MacOS.... I don't
think so guys...  not in a million years if it is like A/UX...

Miscrosof wants to replace UNIX on lots-o-platforms with Windows NT...
this is a farse if I ever saw one...  windows is a joke, and the idea
of a REAL computer running Windows is something I have had many a chuckle
over...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jmilhoan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (JT)
Subject: >>> Need info on head controlled mice <<<
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:58:37 GMT

A while back I saw an advertisement or product review article about a mouse alternative device.  What it was was a unit a person would strap on their head, and depending on where/how they turned their head, it would control the mouse cursor.

ANY information on this, such as manufacturer, magazine references, phone numbers, etc. is GREATLY appreciated.

I would prefer email, but public responses are superb as well. :)

Thank you,
JT Milhoan


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