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From: Chris_M._Hanson@fourd.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LaserWriter sucks up Cat
Date: 12 Dec 92 16:41:52 GMT
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS

To support the cat LAser Writer bond, I was over at a friends house the other
day and saw his cat sleeping on top of there Laser Writer Plus. I told him the
story of your kitten.  His cat is safe tho' the laser writer plus's tray is on
the side.
														-Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: pgray@dawg.sasktel.sk.ca
Subject: Colour LCD Projector System
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:50:28 GMT
Reply-To: pgray@dawg.sasktel.sk.ca
Organization: SaskTel R&D
Keywords: LCD, projector

I am in the process of looking for a colour LCD projector system to use with a
Mac and an overhead projector.  I want it to be able to handle everything which
can be displayed on a monitor (i.e. text, graphics, and video [QuickTime]).

I would appreciate any information, things to consider, personal experiences,
etc.  which anyone could provide.  If there is a FAQ out there, the location
would be appreciated.

Please e-mail your responses.

Thanks in advance,

Perry Gray
Research & Development
SaskTel
Internet: pgray@dawg.sasktel.sk.ca     Tel: (306) 777-5640 	 Fax: (306)359-7475
From: ktt3@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Koon Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: FPUs in Macs
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:29:38 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Brighton, UK

As a matter of interest...What's the best way to see if there's a FPU
installed in a Mac, without asking someone of opening it up!!!

I suppose one could run an application that requires a co-processor!
From: Mark.J..Sisson@p842.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Mark J. Sisson)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:38:22 -0500

 
  CC> 
  CC> But who needs trashcan or toilet for Wins? I don't even use File
  CC> Manager at all. I am a die-hard command-line lover. Deleting a tree of
  CC> directories? It's easily handled under 4DOS, or a bunch of free DOS
  CC> utilities can do it. I only wish I can find some decent command-line
  CC> interface like xterm working under Wins so that I can kick Program
  CC> Manager once for
  CC> all.
  CC> 
  CC> The least thing I'd like to see is PC becomes too Mac-like.
 WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS DISCUSSION AREA? GO TO THE WINDOW.....GO TO THE
WINDOW......GO TO THE WINDOW AND JUMP OUT OF IT! GO TO SOME ADVOCACY GROUP BUT
STAY OUT OF HERE! YOU ARE NOW ON THE LIST (TWIT FILTER) SO DO NOT REPLY!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Russ Emmons <pug@apple.com>
Subject: Re: Duo Printer?
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:35:39 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <42586@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Kaneda, mlobbia@sdcc13.ucsd.edu writes:
>How possible is it to design a printer that connects to the large expansion
>port on the back of a Duo?  Does anyone out there know enough technically to
>say if this is possible?

Is it technically possible?  Electrically, at least, sure it is.  Add a serial
chip and address decoding circuitry to your printer board, supply a 
configuration rom to tell the docking handler the address of your serial 
chip (in slot E space), and cram that all in front of your printer circuitry, 
and you could probably be up and swimming without too much trouble.

Or you might be able to create some sort of unit that simply plugs into
the existing serial port...

Russ
pug@apple.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Apgar@Apple.com (Gar)
Subject: Re: Questions about Apple formatted hard drives
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:45:30 GMT
Organization: Apple
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

In article <5750@gold.gvg.tek.com>, bryanh@stout.gvg.tek.com (Bryan
Hilterbrand) wrote:
> 
> I have a PowerBook 100 with a verrrrrry small 20MB hard drive.  The
> hard drive size reported by the Finder is 18.6MB.  I've read articles
> in this newsgroup that say Apple doesn't format hard drives to full
> capacity.  Does anyone know why they do that?  I'm thinking about
> backing up my hard drive and reformatting it to get the extra space
> (hey -- every megabyte counts on this small of a hard drive).  Before
> I do that, is the Apple supplied SCSI formatter on the 7.01 disks able
> to format the entire disk, or will I end up with the same capacity that
> I have now?  I'd appreciate any tips about reformatting the hard drive
> that you can supply to a (computer literate) Mac novice.


With Apple HD SC Setup you can see some information about the HD.
Click Partitions and then click Custom and then click Details. There is 
usually unused space on hard drives; you will see gray space in the bottom 
of your partition map with the size to the left if you click the Details 
button. You can use SilverLining to increase the partition size on an 
Apple HD SC formatted drive without either installing SilverLining or 
reinitializing (so I've heard...)  (I prefer to keep my Apple drives
Apple-formatted). If  you dont have SilverLining and are willing to 
reformat your hard drive 
you can use this unused space. Open Apple HD SC Setup, Click Partition, 
Select your main Macintosh volume and delete it, then click and drag 
from just below the top partition all the way to the bottom, select 
Macintosh volume in the resulting dialog and then you will not be 
wasting any space on your hard drive.

Apgar@Apple.com   |   Eric Apgar  alias  Gar   |   I said it, NOT Apple.
From: harpe@netnews.louisville.edu (Mike Harpe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: MiniDock status?
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:39:05 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

I am considering purchase of a PowerBook Duo 230.  I really don't think 
I need the full DuoDock.  The MiniDock looks like the answer.  

Question:  When is it scheduled to ship and what will the HEPP II price
	   probably be?

Thanks in advance for any replies.  Any other comments about my plans are
most welcome.

Mike Harpe
University of Louisville
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: lau@aerospace.aero.org (David Lau)
Subject: Before Dark incompatible w/ Duo(7.1)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:30:13 GMT

   Here is a message for those of you who have the new Duo's.  (I am not
sure if this applies to other Mac's running system 7.1).
  DO NOT install Before Dark on your machine.  For those who don't know,
Before Dark is a nifty shareware program that replaces the standard desktop
pattern with a variety of neat looking patterns.
  Here is the problem.  Somehow Before Dark modifies the system (I am not a
programmer) so that when you are forced to do a hard shutdown during a
system freeze the hard drive will not longer boot.  In fact, booting off
the Disk Tools floppy responds with the message "This Disk is damaged, do
you want to Initialize".  I ran MacTools 2.0 on it and it said that the
Volume Information Block was damaged.  Fortunately it can repair it but you
first have to somehow run MacTools DiskFix from another Hard drive. 
Putting it on a minimal 7.1 floppy will not fit.  I am not sure what other
desktop modifying programs do.
  Hopefully this will save someone from having many headaches.

David Lau
lau@aerospace.aero.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Subject: Re: PBs and screen savers
Reply-To: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:08:15 GMT

In article <rhaller-161292161030@rhaller.cc.uoregon.edu> rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller) writes:
>Is there any consensus on whether one needs a screen saver with the backlit
>supertwist screens in the new powerbooks (160, and duos)? The backlighting
>goes away automatically with inactivity.

Even if the backlight is off, the screen can burn in. If the screen has been
on for 24 hours or less, the problem is usually solved by putting the machine
to sleep for the same amount of time. For longer burn-ins, Apple reports that
the damage can be permanent.

A screen saver that does animation on the screen and touches every pixel
now and then seems to be the optimal solution, if you keep the machine
plugged in and running for long periods of time.

-- 
  Juri Munkki					       Windsurf: fast sailing
 jmunkki@hut.fi					      Macintosh: fast software
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: rob_bartel@mentorg.com (Rob Bartel)
Subject: APS Powerbook Modems?
Originator: robb@robb
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:57:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: engr

I recently got an advertisment from APS (a well respected outfit in
Missouri that deals mostly in disk drives) that announced a new line
of Powerbook internal modems at attractive prices. Has FaxSTF software.
I called and was told it was made by "a major manufacturer, but our
distribution agreement prevents me from telling you who it is".

Anyone know anything about these modems?
-- 
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    *** These thoughts are my own and should in no way be construed to be
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Robert_L._Branick@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:11:38 PST
Subject: Re: Bad Experience with MacCenter

I ordered a 50-mHz DayStar PowerCache from MacCenter, because they had a pretty
cheap price advertised in MacUser.  The ad stated that they wouldn't charge my
credit card until the order shipped, but the charge showed up before the PowerCache.
 When I enquired, they told me that it had been shipped UPS, and that they
would have to check with them.  This went on for a month.  Fortunately, I
immediately disputed the charge on my credit card.

To make an already long story longer, it turned out that they didn't have it
in stock, and couldn't tell me when they would have it in stock.  I cancelled
my order, although they were EXTREMELY reluctant to.   It was my first bad
experience with a mail order outfit.

**** From Planet BMUG, the FirstClass BBS of BMUG.  The message contained in
**** this posting does not in any way reflect BMUG's official views.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: hickman@cwis.unomaha.edu (Betty Hickman)
Subject: Apple Extended Keyboard Problem
Keywords: keyboard
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:22:35 GMT

When typing on my extended keyboard, I frequently get a semicolon when I
type a "t".  Has anyone else experienced similar problems?  If so, is there
a fix, other than buying a new keyboard?

Please respond by e-mail to hickman@unocss.unomaha.edu.

Thanks!
Betty Hickman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Subject: Re: PB 160/180 Heatsinks...
Reply-To: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:07:21 GMT

In article <meharg.724360068@sfu.ca> meharg@fraser.sfu.ca (Gersham William Meharg) writes:
>Just what do the PB 160 and 180 heatsinks look like anyway?

Soft grey rubber pieces that feel slightly sticky or wet to the touch.
Much softer than your regular erasers, but about the same size or smaller.

I think there were 5 or 6 of them scattered on the CPU daughterboard.

>(the ones that must be removed with some 3rd party memory modules)

I wouldn't remove them. Sell your memory module to someone who can use it
and buy a new one. That's what I did. There's no way that the Lifetime
Memory Systems card would have fit in my PB160. The heat sinks are there
for a good reason. Apple doesn't put them there just to waste money.

-- 
  Juri Munkki					       Windsurf: fast sailing
 jmunkki@hut.fi					      Macintosh: fast software
From: anadig@otago.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac+ and 2-chip SIMMs
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:29:06 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

I understand that 2-chip 1M SIMMs won't work in a Mac Plus. Or an SE, perhaps.
Well-known fact. You need 8-chip SIMMs.

What I can't figure out is why.

It doesn't make a lot of sense. The SIMMs (2-chip v 8-chip) are pin-compatible
and the 2-chip ones are certainly fast enough. The Mac *can't* ask for
individual bits on the SIMM: it asks for a byte and it gets a byte. How in the
world can it make a difference whether that byte came from two chips or from
eight? Its very strange...


Michael(tm) Hamel
Analog Digital Instruments, Dunedin, New Zealand.
From: bmarlowe@ka.reg.uci.edu (Brett Marlowe)
Subject: Help with HP laserjet
Summary: I've got to hook up an HP LaserJet IIP to a mac IIsi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Keywords: HP laserjet
Distribution: usa
Date: 17 Dec 92 03:22:13 GMT


Hi everyone, amongst the flurry of flames I'm bound to receive could
somebody point me to a driver for an HP LaserJet IIP, or to the mac
newgroup that I should ask (Jeez, there are a lot of 'em :-) if one
exists.

-Brett
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho)
Subject: Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:29:32 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.012444.2070@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:
>
[stuff deleted]
>
>The windows 3.1 file manager lets you delete an entire directory tree.
>Just select the directory, hit the 'delete' key, and hit the "yes to all"
>button in the dialog that pops up.  You can also move a directory and all
>of its subdirectories by dragging the directory name to another place in
>the tree.  If you just want to delete all the files in the directory,
>select the first one, hold down shift, and select the last one.  Then
>hit the 'delete' key and click "yes to all".  The 'delete' key is not 
>as cute as the trash can, but it is easy to use and obvious to anyone 
>who can read.
Is batch deletion handled better than in Windows 3.0? I couldn't 
believe how slow that was, just because the display was being updated
after each deletion; a silly feature, since my eyes could not 
detect which file had just gone anyway.
This is handled much better by the Trashcan.
>
>ncd vx
>rm *.gif
>
>That is really fast and easy.
>
>------------
>Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
>Intergraph Corporation                                  
>bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PBs and screen savers
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 20:00:23 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller) writes:

> Is there any consensus on whether one needs a screen saver with the backlit
> supertwist screens in the new powerbooks (160, and duos)? The backlighting
> goes away automatically with inactivity.

A quote from page 134 of The PowerBook Companion, by Richard Wolfson:

"There's no danger of burn-in on a PowerBook screen; this concern is
 limited to phosphor monitors. So, if your system's not running on battery
 power, you don't have to worry about putting it to sleep or using a
 screen saver."

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


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: anderj2@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Jason Anderson)
Subject: Power light on IIsi not working
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:59:00 GMT


Hello,

I have had a IIsi for almost a year now.  Just recently I noticed that the 
power light on the computer went out.  Later, while the computer was still on,
it came back on.  Finaly, it went out and stayed out until I turned it off.
The next time I powered up the computer the light came on.  Is this a known
problem with the IIsi?  I realize that the power light serves no real function,
but I get nervous when things like this happen.

Jason
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jmacphai@cue.bc.ca (James MacPhail)
Subject: Re: IIsi Upgrade
Organization: Softwords Research International Ltd., Victoria, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 09:54:23 GMT

In article <Byy7r6.9FJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btd43733@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (BTDonovan) writes:
>
>Knowing several people who own SI's, I read Matthew Friedman's 25MHz FAQ
>with great interest and thank him for his undertaking...
>
>...[del-stuff]...  I wonder, if one were to replace the CPU with
>the crystal, despite the added expense, would it help eliminate the flakiness
>of the machine?  It seems that with this additional procedure and using SIMM's
>of 80ns or more, the upgrade would be more reliable.

Many people have pointed out that removing the oscillator was difficult.
It is 4 pins that go through the board, and is a $4 part.

The 68030 however is over 100 pins, is surface mounted, and costs a great
deal more (and will likely be destroyed in the removal process). Replacing
the 68030 with a faster one really requires some rather expensive equipment,
so it really isn't a practical option.

Good idea in theory though, simply too difficult in this case.

James MacPhail  jmacphai@cue.bc.ca  james@mirg2.phy.queensu.ca  (604) 743-2416
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf)
Subject: Re: MiniDock status?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:33:24 GMT

I've seen the E-Machines minidock advertised somewhere (one of the big 
mail-order catalog places), and for under $500 you get all the ports the Apple 
minidock has, PLUS ethernet.  Don't know if these guys are available in 
quantity, but I would hope they wouldn't be advertised unless they were 
available now or really REALLY soon.

Bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: 881045m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Richard Muise)
Subject: Re: Crash-Happy Mac II (possible hardware ?)
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:58:53 GMT

Thanks for all the help. It seems as thou it was a RAM problem. I moved all the
SIMM's around so that the first bank was moved to the second 'bank' in the
MacII RAM BANK A. This seemed to clear up the problem. I can only assume
that before it was trying to load the system into the low part of RAM that
included a bad RAm chip. However i'm still a bit confused in that it used to
crash during the initial RAM hardware test. Now it doesn't crash meaning it
passes the RAM test. It will however crash when i start really using up the
RAM (ie a number of large applications). Why would it now pass the RAM test,
but still crash when the higher parts of RAM are used for applications?

again thanks to all who responded.
richard

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: SCSI questions
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 16:29:49 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
Keywords: SCSI, Nubus

In article <1992Dec19.063142.1271@netcom.com> sjk@netcom.com (Shel Kaphan) writes:
>
>So, if there's no driver installed on some random SCSI device, the
>system won't barf during boot?  But it will still leave things in a
>state where the SCSI manager can talk to it?  (I hope so...)

Yes, provided you haven't put things on physical block 0 which make
the SCSI manager think there is a valid driver installed there.  (one
of Apple's Developer CDs had a problem similar to this)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: u1733@cs.uiuc.edu (Ching Tai)
Subject: is $2600 for a ii/ci a good price?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:06:16 GMT

Hi,	I'm thinking about buying a mac!  My university offers a 
II/ci 8/230 w/ color monitor, keyboard, mouse for about $2800.  Supposedly
the price will only last from now until Jan. 20 (or so).  Is this a 
good price for a II/ci?  TShould I buy a II/ci ? I.e. is it being
discontinued? Thanks.
From: sprattli@azores.crd.ge.com (Rod Sprattling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Anyone Have a NEC FD1139?
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:25:13 GMT
Reply-To: sprattli@azores.crd.ge.com (Rod Sprattling)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center

Several months ago I spied an ad for a tiny little 1.44M drive from NEC.
Dubbed the FD1139, its depth and width are barely larger than that of
a 3.5" diskette, it's 5 or 6 stacked-diskettes in height, and its case is
colored PowerBook Grey.  Perfect for a Duo.  Question is, how is its
reliability and performance?  And is a Mac version available?

Any leads or tales appreciated,

Rod
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