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From: hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Quickeys 2.1
Keywords: Macros
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:05:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

In article <l9kknlINNobu@aludra.usc.edu> jenks@usc.edu (Stephen Jenks) writes:
>
>I'm sort of interested in buying Quickeys 2.1 (or whatever the latest version
>is), because I occasionally need to do repetitive tasks on my Mac, and
>it sounds like Quickeys would help. But in order to justify spending
>$90 on such a utility program, I'd like to hear what people think of
>Quickeys and its uses.
>
>So I'm asking:
>	Do you like Quickeys?
>and	What do you use it for that makes it indispensible in your life?

QuicKeys?  I LOVE IT.  And I don't even use it for that many things, I think.

(1) Empty Trash, Restart, Shutdown from keyboard (big deal, could do that with
ResEdit).  Also can change monitor depth and choose printers.

(2) In PageMaker, I have a sequence to do fractions, to make drop caps, and
any other boring, repetitive tasks that need to be done.  I also mapped keys
to close the document and do a Save As...  

(3) In Word, I use it to change fonts and do other things not normally 
accessible from the keyboard, like the thesaurus.

QuicKeys will make your Mac usage much easier.  I myself am probably not using
it to its fullest extent, but I still love it.

h.
From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: PB100 deals - thanks everyone (& info if you want it)
Date: 3 Sep 92 07:40:49 GMT
Reply-To: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Organization: Organization?  We don't need no steenking organization!
Discliamer: Upon my being captured or killed, my professors will
            disavow any knowledge of me, my statements, and/or
            my mission.


In article <NICK.92Sep1155353@vaila.ed.ac.uk>,
Citizen nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes :
>Thanks to all the folks who mailed me information on PB100 sightings. I've
>now done a rather complicated deal (taking a 6/20 from a contact in Chicago
>(hi William) as he takes a 4/40 from someone at U.Penn (hi Josh)) and
>we should all be receiving our respective machines soon.

  Has it occured to anyone else that Powerbook sightings are becoming the
Elvis sightings of the computer world?
  If someone sees a PowerBook 100 at a Price Club in San Deigo, will a whole
bunch of groupies all race to Cali?

  I just hope that people don't start to see them in Burger Kings!  :)

|--------------------------------|    "If you were happy all of your life,
|      J. Taggart Gorman Jr.     |     you wouldn't be human - you'd be a
| jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu |     game show host."
|--------------------------------|             Winona Ryder, in _Heathers_
From: hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Stylewriter printing problems
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:08:53 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

In article <Btt94E.605@news.udel.edu> kdobbs@brahms.udel.edu (Kerwin D Dobbs) writes:
>my parents live in Virginia). The problem they are encountering
>is that printing is ocurring as if there is a carriage return
>in the middle of the page. In other words, they would create
>a Word 4.0 document of say 12 lines and it would print out in
>about 24 lines because it would print out only to the middle

The problem is that the version of Word you have is incompatible with the
Stylewriter driver.  You need to have at least version 4.0e.  I don't think
that you'll be able to get it from Microsoft--they'll just force you to buy
5.0.

h.
From: nick@pixel.rm.fccc.edu (Nick Kokkos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: QuickTime Recording Applications
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:18:16 GMT
Organization: The Fox Chase Cancer Center

Hello everyone! I was wondering if you can help us out with a small problem
we have with QuickTime. We have all the appropriate hardware for capturing
live video and the softare for editing a movie but I don't have a QuickTime
recording program! Actually, we have : a video board for capturing images from
a video source (we got the QuickTime digitizing component for that card few
days ago) and we also have MacroMind Director 3.1 which can be used for editing,
saving e.t.c quicktime movies. Now, we would like to purchase a program that
can capture and save quicktime movies. Do have anything good to recommend?
We have heard about JimTV(Apple), MovieRecorder(Apple), and VideoShop. Are these
any good? Actually we do not need something very expensive. We just need something
that can do a good job.
I would appreciate if someone could help us out. Thanks in advance!!
From: Kip.Kippley@macnet.omahug.org (Kip Kippley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: RE: Performa Computers
Date: 30 Aug 92 06:39:07 CST
Reply-To: kip.kippley@macnet.omahug.org
Organization: Macnet Omaha
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

JWK> Does anyone know what the price ranges for the new Performa computers
JWK> will be?


The MacLeak article on the Performa series stated: "$1000-$3000" and "within
10-15% of the PC compatible hardware market."

             ** Kip **
From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Where to get floppies cheap?
Date: 26 Aug 1992 00:35:47 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu

 v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne) writes:
>>What are everybody's favorite sources for inexpensive floppies

>The best that I have found is MEI/Micro, which lists 3.5"HD disks at 0.59
>each, 5.25" DD at 0.21, 5.25 HD at 0.33.  Great prices on all other
>sorts of supplies as well!  1-800-634-3478


	well, yes.  but do they ever have any?  not hardly, best that
	I can tell... or when did you last ask them and order and receive
	some from them?
-- 
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From: janolov@cdg.chalmers.se (Jan-Olov Lantto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: IIsi RAM
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:43:33 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology


I looked into several sources of information and this is what I found about RAM
in a Mac IIsi:

  -The hardware limits the RAM to 1 Gb (not 4 Gb).

  -The ROMs are 32-bit clean (no MODE32 needed).

  -Mac IIsi can use 256k, 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M and 16M SIMMs. I cant find out about
   bigger SIMMs (32M and 64M doesnt exist yet?)

  -Mac IIsi has four SIMM-slots.

  -Mac IIsi has 1 Mb soldered onto the motherboard.

The result of this is that Mac IIsi can be congfigured as follows:

  -1 Mb, 2 Mb, 5 Mb, 9 Mb, 17 Mb, 33 Mb and 65 Mb.
From: brecher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jonathan Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple menu items limited to 52?
Date: 23 Aug 92 21:54:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.BRECHER.92Aug23145446
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de's message of 23 Aug 92 16:37:46 GMT

mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Mario Klebsch DG1AM) writes:
>Try 'magic apple' found in nic.funet.fi. A nice INIT to create hierarchical
>apple menues from the folder hierarchie in the apple menue items folder.

Magic Apple is an unauthorized beta release of COMMERCIAL software.  It has 
some nasty bugs, too.  You are free to use it, just as the publisher is
free to sue you for doing so.

A friendly warning...
				jonathan brecher
				brecher@husc.harvard.edu
From: frechett@DMI.USherb.CA (Bruno Frechette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Syquest & sharing
Summary: How to eject a 45 megs when filesharing is on
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:48:14 GMT
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- departement de Mathematiques et d'Informatique

Hi there!

I know this topic has been adressed before, but I just can't remember what the
solution was. How do you eject a removable media when filesharing is on, other
than stopping filesharing?

Also, when I boot a Quadra with a syquest drive attached, the Quadra simply
doesn't boot if there is a cartridge in the drive.. Any ideas?

Please reply to me personnally and I will summarize, if needed.

Thanks to all!
-- 
| Bruno Frechette        | "You know why dogs rub their ass on the grass?" |
| frechett@dmi.usherb.ca |   "Because it FEELS great!"  - The Fisher King  |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: grw@cartan.tmc.edu (George R. Wilkens)
Subject: PowerBook 170 <--> Ethernet <--> Sun ..... HELP
Organization: University of Hawaii Mathematics Department
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:24:39 GMT

Hey gang,

	We have a new faculty member in our department who is a Mac person.
I am very happy about this, because I love Macs, too. Our department is
very heavily Sun oriented, so when our new faculty member requested a Mac
PowerBook 170 for his office instead of a Sun SPARCstation, my life became
more complicated.

	Our new faculty member wants to be able to hook his PB 170 to our
Sun ethernet network. He mainly wants to use the Sun network for e-mail,
and would like a friendly mail tool like the Sun OpenWindows mailtool program.

	I am appealing to the collective (Borg) net wisdom for help.
Here are a couple of questions.

1. Does anyone make an ethernet card for a PB 170? I doubt that anyone does,
   but you never know.

2. If I can not put an ethernet card in the PB 170, can I use an
   Apple Talk <---> Ethernet bridge?

	As you can probably tell, I am really just asking for suggestions.
Solutions in many price ranges will be considered. In terms of a mail
tool, can someone suggest one that works well with UNIX mail systems?
Thanks a lot gang. 

Mahalo & Aloha Nui Loa,

--George


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
From: rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf)
Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just emulate it.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:16:00 GMT


I agree with you wholeheartedly, Derek.  Geez, I'm one of the guys who jumped 
ship with you and dumped all my Atari stuff....I remember your QuickST as being
one of the coolest things I had in that pile of stuff.  I opted for Macintosh, 
though...any chance you will develop other emulators (Mac in a PC, Atari in a 
Mac....nah, forget that one, how about Amiga in a Mac?).

Bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf)
Subject: Re: Where to get floppies cheap?
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 06:42:25 GMT

In article <15131@umd5.umd.edu> bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams) writes:
>What are everybody's favorite sources for inexpensive (but good, of course)
>floppies, both DS and HD?  Mail-order places that'll take a college purchase
>order are particularly interesting.  If there's sufficient interest, I'll
>summarize.

Well, I'm going to say something that I might get flamed for, but what
the hell...

Avoid purchasing the cheapest floppies you can unless you can afford to
a) pay the postage on the ones that format out with bad sectors or other
defects (to take advantage of the "lifetime warranty") or
(WORSE) b) LOSE DATA.

I've used a variety of diskettes from a variety of sources and the media
produced by 3M, Sony, BASF, and Verbatim have yet to format with bad
sectors for me.  In contrast the DSDD 3.5" diskettes I bought from
MEI in 1990 (my last experience with the company) had about 1 disk in
10 refuse to format correctly (no bad sectors) or "go bad" after a month
of use.  That 1 in 10 figure is unscientific, but I had a stack of about 6
bad diskettes out of a 50 diskette order.

It has been my experience that you get what you pay for when it comes to
floppy diskettes.  I figure that if the seller is not able (or contractually
bound not to) to give out the name of the manufacturer of the diskette,
it's probably not worth it.

Personally, I usually pay about $10 - $11 per box of *good* 3.5" HD
diskettes (3M, BASF).  That price is at Best Buy, an electronics 
discount chain. For my time and trouble, $1 per disk isn't all that
much.

Daryl
-- 
Daryl Biberdorf  N5GJM    dlb5404@rigel.tamu.edu  or  dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu
        "You're not messy.  You're organizationally impaired."
                _Real_Life_Adventures_, July 3, 1992 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford)
Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Organization: UNLV
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 21:00:21 GMT

At first you complained that apple charged 99 dollars for system 7.
Then someone pointed out that system 7 was free, you just didnt
get the nice printed manuals and disks. Now you are saying
that that isnt enough. You want apple to give you the manuals
and everything for free? G'zs it would also be nice if apple
gave away everything for free, but there comes appoint were you
have to charge for stuff, its called capitalism. If you
must have directions for system 7 go to the book store and pick
up a book on system 7, there are dozens of them. The only
time i needed to use the system 7 manual, (over the system 6 
manual, (i was one of the lucky ones who got sys6 and sys7 for
free with my machine) i only needed to look up keyboard
short cuts, everything else was covered in the system 6 manual.
What about alias and such you might ask? I found them to be
very straight forward and didnt ever need to read about them. 
Same with file sharing, virtual memory, etc.
From: jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young)
Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... SIX MONTHS to Falcon emulator! 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 11:24:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.051808.7697@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> alexr@capella.EETECH.McGill.CA (Alex Rousseau) writes:
>
>Some of us remember that the author of the above comments was the same person
>advocating the Atari a few years ago. Yes, Atari's woes are Atari's fault
>(although IBMonitis plays a key role in this situation; just ask Amiga and
>Mac owners) and yes, the Tramiels are probably the worst thing that could 
>have happened to Atari (at least the sons) and yes, I see very little 
>future in the Atari as a platform. Too little, too late, too bad.
>

You are speaking for OVER 50000 people who went to Atari show last
week?  You are speaking for Nobel Prize winners and many music people?
You are speaking for many students mailing me and wanting to use
Falcon just for learning DSP programming because $799 LIST is 
great price even for DSP board?

People are FREE to choose any computer to use for ANY purpose
and if Falcon is only computer fitting someone with $799 to
spend then they will let money speak for them.




Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:16:56 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <92240.131648ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:

>But gigabytes of RAM ??? Let me quote from my IIsi manual:
>"Speicher: 3MB RAM, erweiterbar auf 17MB" which means the maximum is 0.017GB.
>That sure _is_ gigabytes but not very many of them :-)

See, that's what you get for reading documentation!  The IIsi has
1M of RAM soldered to the motherboard and 4 SIMM slots.  That allows
it to have 5M of RAM using 1M SIMMs or 17M of RAM using 4M SIMMs.  
But using 16M SIMMs, it can have 65M of RAM.  If that is not enough, 
you can add additional RAM on a nubus card, and *all* of that memory 
is directly addressable -- no expanded/extended/upper memory nonsense.
The operating system's memory limit is something like 4 gigabytes --
not a number I keep in my head, since I am unlikely to be able to
afford that much memory anytime soon.  I have 17M of physical RAM
in my IIsi, and usually run with 34M of virtual memory.  17M is not
the memory limit.  (And even if it was, that would still sound good
compared to the PC's 640K barrier.)
From: peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter D. Merholz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mac 512k Printing Problems
Date: 30 Aug 1992 22:29:40 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: earthquake.berkeley.edu

A friend of mine recently bought a Mac 512k for word processing and playing 
Tetris. She also bought an AEG Olympia NP30 printer (an Imagewriter clone).
We can't get the damn thing to print her MacWrite files. What I see as the  
problem is that the AEG Manual asks for an 8-pin circular connector to the  
Macintosh (which is available on the plus) while the 512k has the 9 pin  
rectangular connector. The printer seems to be working fine (i.e. the self- 
test went smoothly), and there are no error messages during printing (the  
computer acts as if the printing has taken place, when it HASN'T!).   
 
Help!   
 
Thanks a bunch.   

--Peter M.   
peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu
From: nimtz.1@nd.edu (Rick Nimtz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: January Macworld-when?
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:50:34 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Educational Media, Univ of Notre Dame

When and where is the January Macword show?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf)
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 11:57:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.202129.12780@CS.ORST.EDU> pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne) writes:
>[stuff deleted]
>>Not all computers are created equal.  If a Macintosh (or any other
>>machine) is more powerful than a cheap fly-by-night PC clone, there
>>is no reason why it *should* cost the same.  If all you want is a
>>stripped-down CPU, yes, you can pay less by getting a PC clone. But
>>if you start to add in the cost of the hardware and software features
>...
>Now, let's get into the cost thing.  To buy a 486/50 with a fast 200MB 
>SCSI drive (yes, most high end PC do use SCSI for performance), 16MB of
>ram (70ns), SVGA monitor (1024x768 w/256 colors max resolution), 14" monitor
> OS and a mouse would cost me $2500 (from a local store, this is not even
>going to the mail order places where I could shave off around $500 If I 
>felt like doing some work to put it together).

I realize you can probably get a machine for the price you mention, 
but I doubt seriously that it would be of very high quality.  The memory
alone would set you back about $600 (USD), which leaves
about $1900 for the remainder of your configuration.  A *good* monitor
runs a good $500, so you're down to $1400.  Subtract another $600 for the
200 MB drive, $800 left over.  And for $800, you're going to get a good
quality 486/50 *with* a SCSI card and a good video card.  Yeah, right.

Oh, yeah, will this machine be FCC Class B certified (or its foreign
radio frequency emissions standard equivalent)?   Oh, so you don't mind
trashing up your neighbor's TV?  (Side note: testing a machine for
certification isn't cheap.)  And will it come with built-in networking?
Plug-and-play video (I have yet to see this)?

Basically, you're comparing (literally) Apples to oranges.  For a PC
made with the quality of the Mac, you're going to have to go with one
of the major vendors, Compaq, Dell, and Gateway (the cheaper ones; IBM
*will* get blown out).  These guys know that good quality cases, materials,
and components are bought at a price.  THey're relatively inexpensive,
but not to the level you cite for your hypothetical machine.  Personally,
I think *way* too many people are ignoring the radio emissions of the
cheapo clones.  They *will* mess with your neighbor's television.

-- 
Daryl Biberdorf  N5GJM    dlb5404@rigel.tamu.edu  or  dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu
        "You're not messy.  You're organizationally impaired."
                _Real_Life_Adventures_, July 3, 1992
From: krazykid@csa.bu.edu (Ernest Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Help needed in retrieving a file.
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:29:21 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department

Hello all.  I was wondering if anyone could help me out or if this has
occured to anyone else.  A friend of mine was making back-up on System
7 by just duplicating the file.  In the middle of duplicating the
file it stopped.  After it stopped, the icon disappeared and we can't
seem to recover the original file.  Unfortunately my friend had
deleted the old back-up file before making a new one.  I was wondering
if this has happend to anyone else, and the different possible
solutions to this problem.  I think the pointer to the location of the
file on the hard drive was some how erased.  We are hoping the file is
still on the hard drive, it's just a matter of finding the location of
it.  If anyone has any ideas, comments (useful please), or suggestions
please e-mail me.  Thanks!!

Ernie
krazykid@csa.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
From: darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka)
Subject: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just emulate it.
Date: 02 Sep 92 18:41:09 GMT
Organization: BraSoft

The $799 Falcon, who cares! Atari has a long history of announcing vaporware
and then either never releasing the product, releasing it in extremely
small quantities (to be able to claim that they shipped it), or they ship
it either severly crippled or at a much higher price.

Their most recent blunders include the Atari TT (the crippled 68030 machine
that barely outperforms a 16 Mhz 68000), the ST Book (the notebook that never
was), and the "under $1000 68030 machine" Falcon. Notice that the $799 price
is for a 1 meg machine with no hard disk. Gee, that's a throwback to the
1986 days of the 1040ST! If you want a useful computer with 4 meg, a hard disk
and a nice monitor, well, Atari says you'll have to fork over much MORE than
the $1000. You can't even use Atari's laser printer with 1 meg machines.

So, once again Atari has shot themselves in the foot by releasing an overpriced
piece of technology that's already obsolete because they took so long to
release it.

All this vapor and failing to ship a product gave me a nice idea for a program.
In a few days I'll be release a shareware program called Gemulator. It's
a 68000 emulator that runs on MS-DOS, and with the appropriate Atari ROM
chips plugged into your PC, it emulates an Atari ST. Give me a few months to
add 68030 emulation and you'll have yourself a Falcon emulator. Don't waste
your money on the real thing and hell, why even lose sleep over it. Chances are
slim that you'll see Falcons flooding dealer shelves any time soon.

Check Compuserve and GEnie in a few days for the Gemulator file.

- Darek



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