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From: gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Old Sun 3/50 monitors on a Mac IIsi.
Date: 11 Dec 1992 21:49:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
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Hi there. 

  We've got a lab full of Sun 3/50's with 19" monochrome monitors.
Has anyone figured out a way to use one of these monitors on a Mac
IIsi?  It would make using the Mac with MacX a much more enjoyable
experience.  Thanks for any suggestions...
                    --Dan
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From: pschwab@spanky.ece.uc.edu (Paul Schwab)
Subject: Monitor power supply cuts out
Organization: Unversity of Cincinnati, ECE Dept
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:33:29 GMT

Hi,

I've got a sort of strange problem.  Two of our 13" color monitors model #m0401
the department are suffering from the same intermittent failure.

Basically when the user comes in in the morning and powers up the 
machine (Mac IIci) the monitor comes up partially, and then dies.

Toggling the power switch in the rear of the monitor give the 
appearance of a totally dead monitor.  

If I power the Mac down, and wait a few minutes to reboot, the
monitor again starts to come on, but then dies.

If I let the monitor sit for about half an hour, it comes up ok.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Paul
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From: s31759m@taltta.hut.fi (Harri Ilmari Huuskonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: .mac.hardware FAQs...?
Date: 18 Dec 1992 09:20:12 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: taltta.hut.fi

Haven't seen any FAQ postings here recently. Is there one? I do not
know whether I could connect to any remote FTP site so if someone
could f.e. mail the most recent one to me...  if available, that is.

Thank's,



*  Harri Huuskonen   Email:  hhuuskon@otax.tky.hut.fi                  *
*  A member of POKA (Finnish Univ. of Technology Angling Association)  *
*     ...111 days of fishing during 1992 and still counting...         *
From: beh@acs.bu.edu (Bruce Howells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Where can I get a power supply for a Mac SE?
Date: 11 Dec 92 02:27:56 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Dec07.161315.67226@fourd.com> Darren_E._Tong@fourd.com writes:

>try calling pre-owned electronics in Boston-or find they're ad in the back of
>MacWeek!

Pre-Owned Electronics
205 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA  01730

617/275-4600.


Good folks -- bought a couple keyboards from them a while ago, no muss, no
fuss.  Just be careful about the price they quote; while looking for a
small HD, got quoted a price for a "used, short warranty" drive that was
only $10 less than new...


Bruce Howells,  beh@bu.edu | beh@gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac SE/30.
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:49:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec16.164928.21973
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <824@blue.cis.pitt.edu> nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:
>In article <Bz9Er2.Btv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End) writes:
>>The only problem is that the main line is also suffering from the complex
>>web of marketing schemes (eg. IIvx vs. IIcx, IIci).
>  I disagree, the IIvx doesn't seem to be such a bad machine, the LC's
>are being made reasonable, and the si's are being buried. 

	I think what's being missed here is that we've had what the pundits
like to call a "paradigm shift" in computer usage. They've moved from the
speciality, one-shot type of purchase to a more commodity-like type of
purchasing behavior, similar to, though not the same as, the purchase of
consumer electronics.

	On the one hand, you are NOT adding a whole passle of features every
six months, either in software or hardware; the industry is too mature for
that. On the other hand, there ARE significant advances in speed and what not
that make individual computing power more and more affordable.

	The result of this is that incremental, not quantum-leap, improvements
become more important and consumers are taking a more relaxed view of
the marketplace and wanting something to fir their particular needs (which
is why Mac vs. PC arguements are so ridiculous and braindead).

	Whether nor not Apple is taking the right strategy to this, I dunno...


-- 
Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu
Producer Emeritus, Asian Theatre at the UW
	"The definition of balls is for a non-singer to go karaoke singing
with the cast of a musical revue."
From: jnowak@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Joe Nowak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PB 160/180 and PowerPort
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:22:54 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

Now the question is whether to with Apple's cheaper Express modem or one
of the PowerPorts.
From: george@mech.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: auto-power-up  for an SE
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:23:07 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Mechanical Engineering

:
:PowerKey allows the SE,Classic,LC,plus,etc,etc, to be powered up via the
                                   ^^^^
:power key on the keyboard, as well as all the peripherals you may have -
:hard drives, etc,etc,.
:


oops, not the plus.  Powerkey only works with adb macs.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Jim Stockdale <jws@ apple.com>
Subject: Re: MAC IIvx video???
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:19:49 GMT
X-Xxdate: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:19:44 GMT
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A754C1501801005E@jims-q700.apple.com>
Organization: Apple Computer

Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:43:32 GMT

There appears to be a bunch of mis-information about IIvx display
capabilities.
I hope I can clear a few up.

With 512K of VRAM installed, the following monitors and pixel depths 
are supported:

12" RGB, 512 x 384 pixels @ up to 16 bpp
12" monochrome, 640 x 480 pixels @ up to 8 bpp
13" RGB, 640 x 480 pixels @ up to 8 bpp
14" RGB, 640 x 480 pixels @ up to 8 bpp
VGA timing, 640 x 480 pixels @ up to 8 bpp

With 1 MB of VRAM installed, the following monitors and pixel depths
are supported:

12" RGB, 512 x 384 pixels @ up to 16 bpp
12" monochrome, 640 x 480 pixels @ up to 16 bpp
13" RGB, 640 x 480 pixels @ up to 16 bpp
14" RGB, 640 x 480 pixels @ up to 16 bpp
VGA timing, 640 x 480 pixels @ up to 16 bpp


VGA timing uses a 25.175 MHz pixel rate and generates sync pulses so most
standard VGA displays can be connected. Note that if you buy a multi-sync
display with the connector adapter to plug into the Mac, the monitor ID
bits
on the adapter identify the display as a 13" RGB with Mac timing. This is
not 
the same as VGA timing.

The on board video of the IIvx will not support the APPLE 16" video
display.
Third party 16" displays that imitate the 13" display may work, but you
are 
still limited to 640 x 480 pixels maximum.

If you want to use the Apple 16" display, you will need to purchase the
8-24
display card or a third party video card that supports the 16" display.

Jim Stockdale
Apple Computer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PC is faster than Mac? Myth or Truth?
From: kanala@sc2a.unige.ch
Date: 20 Dec 92 12:40:13 +0200
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

In article <18DEC199221474055@rosie.uh.edu>, mece1us@rosie.uh.edu writes:
> As a Macintosh user, I feel uncomfortable when I hear somebody says:" IBM PC
> is faster than Macintosh in calculation.  Mac is an excellent word processor
> and is good for graphic application.  It is not fast enough for serious 
> mathematical calculation or modeling."  I hear this kind of word many times,
> even a Electrical Engineer Professor said that.  I would like to know whether
> PC is really faster than a Mac for the same clock speed and similar model CPU.

Yes and no. PC is not faster than a Mac for the same speed and similar model
CPU when running similar user interface, like Macintosh system software and
MS-Windows applications launcher. However, PC _is_ faster than Mac when running
bare MS-DOS, especially in calculations, because of lack of the overhead for
the slow screen redraw, system code overhead (SANE, Stardand Apple Num.
Environment), etc. PC is a lower technology, so it is easy to do things fast
when there is a hardware standard with addressing directly to the coprocessor
or writing directly to screen pixels. But, if one has to write a driver for
_every_ possible screen his program to run under bare MS-DOS, and the same
for the keyboard, it is not pleasant. That's the reason why I moved to Mac.

The other story is that actually, the PC is really faster than a Mac you buy
for the same price. No Mac can compete with a 66 MHz 486. I bought a Quadra,
anyway, but there are people to whom raw performance is more important than
System 7. If one has to justify the hardware expense by amount of heavy 
calculus, it would be difficult to buy a Mac.

> If Mac is really faster or similar in performance compared with PC, how can
> Apple or Mac lover express the truth?
> Thank You

I think facts are there, and no love can change them.
I believe Apple is aware of this. Let's hope Motorola is not indifferent, 
Intel is moving very fast now. Cheap powerful Macs would be fine, I will 
buy one as soon as they  appear.

Happy Holidays to Mac lovers.


Roman Kanala, nuclear physicist
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Subject: Re: HP LJ series II on a Mac
Reply-To: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:41:30 GMT

In article <louislam.724210738@vincent1.iastate.edu> louislam@iastate.edu (Louis C Lam) writes:
>>>
>>>3) Turn the printer into a postscript printer.  You'll need: Postscript
>
>>Aw, come on, there are more. GDT Softworks makes a driver, and how
>>about checking out the grappler from Orange Micro. In general, you need to
>>upgrade to at least 1 Meg of RAM on the printer.
>
>If you want AppleTalk, you also need an interface upgrade from HP.

Oops, I meant before going the PostScript route, there are a few more
possibilities. After all, PostScript upgrades represent the costliest ones.

>But I heard the the PP cartridge is only a emulator, not a true PostScript.
>
>Louis

Right you are, Louis. PacificPage uses the PhoenixPage PostScript
emulator, and is very well behaved 99% of the time. Actually, I seldom
have any problems with it if I am not downloading direct PostScript code
to it.



-rich
Richard Sucgang  : Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology Columbia University
(sucgang@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu | rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Michael_J._Bell@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:05:54 EST
Subject: Re: Apple 13" rgb monitor switches off after use for about 15-20 mins

I got a dealer to replace my monitor for free a month ago....excuse me fix, not
replacer
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From: eapu174@orion.oac.uci.edu (Hsiao-Wun Chen)
Subject: Re: Avoid ClubMac -- Not.           
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: ClubMac Problems Quantum
Date: 12 Dec 92 10:22:21 GMT

In article <dmanning.723399471@cwis> dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu (David Manning) writes:
>hcs+@cs.cmu.edu (Henry C Schmitt) writes:
>
>>In article <pmontan-301192181909@paulmac.nswc.navy.mil> pmontan@nswc-wo.navy.mil (Paul Montanaro) writes:

>>I have had recent problems with ClubMac and recommend you avoid them;
>>however, your mileage may vary.
>
>>Two years ago I bought a Quantum 210 External Drive from ClubMac.  It
>>worked fine for a year until a minor power flicker fried the power
>>supply.  Yes, I have a surge supressor; nothing except the ClubMac was
>>affected, the Mac didn't even crash!  I returned it under warranty and
>>they fixed it for me.
>
>>Last month I turned off the drive (I was adding more memory to the
>>Mac) and when I tried to turn it on, nothing happened.  A call to
>>technical support resulted in "It's out of warranty (by 5 days),
>>there's nothing we can do."  I tried replacing the power supply
>>myself, but that didn't work.  I wrote a strong letter to Customer
>>Service which resulted in a reply from the President.
>
>>This resulted in my getting an RMA, and my returning the drive.  They
>>replaced the case and power supply and returned the drive to me.
>>However, the power is intermittant and shuts off the drive every few
>>minutes or if I press on the top of the drive.
>

You know, until I read your post I thought it was only me.  I've also 
bought a case from Club Mac, and the power supply just went out for
no reason after about 10 month (and yes I do have a very good surge
protector).  So I brought it back to Club Mac (good thing they are 
w/in driving distance from me), and they were nice enough to fix it.
But about 1 month later the power went out again, and this time the
warranty was out.  I was hoping that they would have a warranty on
their replacement parts, but that ended up to be not the case.
Finally I remembered that I have purchased the case with my credit
card which offers extended warranty, so I told them about that, 
and they finally gave in and replace my Power Supply at their cost
(very unwillingly).

So does that tell you something about Club Mac's pwer supply?  Maybe,
but it also tells you that they are quite concern about their customer's
satisfaction (at least w/in the warranty period.  Oh and they also tend 
to have the lowest price around.  Anyway, that was just my experience
with the company.  To avoid it or not, it's your own choice.  No flames
please. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh FTP???
Organization: Netcom, San Jose, California
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:17:48 GMT

louislam@iastate.edu (Louis C Lam) writes ...
> patlin_s@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
>>Someone posted earlier that IM is available on hypercard stack at
>>ftp.apple.com.
>
>Look at dts/mac/docs/stacks/tnstack.
>There're 7 files.

Uh, no, this is wrong.  You want the files in /dts/mac/docs/stacks/spinside.
The tnstack files are the technical notes stack.  The Spinside Mac stacks 
are different.  7 files, total of about 7MB (hope you have a fast modem).

-- 
Ray Fischer                   "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
ray@netcom.com                 than lies."  -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:04:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.gf_L=Z200Vp=8UNwxz
Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


wagner@grace.math.uh.edu (David Wagner) writes:
> This is just my two bits, and it is said in hindsight, but if Apple were
> to make this kind of arrangement today, I would say that they ought
> to use the Alpha chip.  From what I know of it, (which ain't all that
> much) it seems ideal for emulations.  If it can run OSF and VMS, then
> (IMHO) it ought to be able to do `Mac' and MC680XX pretty well.  Of
> course then we'd all have to be 64-bit clean, I guess.

The Alpha doesn't have to emulate anything to run OSF or VMS because
unix is hardware independent, while VMS only runs on the VAX
instruction set, which the Alpha implements a superset of.


-- faisal jawdat                  | "Certainly the game is rigged.
email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu       | Don't let that stop you;
if mail handler barfs             | if you don't bet, you can't win." 
fj05@andrew.cmu.edu               |        -Lazarus Long
Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:20:26 -0500 
From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Crippled IIvx ?? Not really.
	<1992Dec14.153628.19581@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>

ucess2j@ucl.ac.uk (Dr Jaroslav Stark) writes:
> True, but on a IIvx the 32k external cache presumably runs at the 'doubled'
> speed i.e. 32MHz, whilst on the 'clock-doubled' 486 systems that I was
> referring to I beleive that the external cache runs at the bus speed.

True, but the internal cache on the 486 is what most of the speed
advantage comes from in this case, and the internal cache is running
at the doubled speed, and accessing faster than an external at the
same speed anyway.



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email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu       | Don't let that stop you;
if mail handler barfs             | if you don't bet, you can't win." 
fj05@andrew.cmu.edu               |        -Lazarus Long
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: marek@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marek Lugowski)
Subject: Co-processor not installed error on IIcx - how test?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:00:06 GMT

Greets.  Of late my 1989 vintage Mac IIcx sometimes crashed twice with a
"Co-processor not installed" error.  It never occured to me to actually
test for the presence of the said chip. :)  I wouldn't know where to look.
I bought the thing mail-order and never had a need to use the math co-proc.

Question1:  Is there a piece of software that I could run to find out if I
have it installed and if it is functioning properly.  I'd rather not open
the machine, but I could handle that much hacking. :)

Question2: what else could cause this to happen?  In one instance I was
copying to file and in another running a communication package.

I'll sumarize and post as warranted.

				-- Marek
				m-lugowski@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: jimh@laison.w8hd.org (Jim Hebert)
Organization: L'AISON - Local Area Information Server Open Network
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:47:21 EDT
Subject: CD drive for Mac & Suns?

Does anyone know of a CD-ROM drive that would be useable on both a Macintosh
and a Sun SPARC-IPC machine? A further requirement is that the Sun SPARC-IPC 
be able to be booted from the CD-ROM drive.  
 
Any information is appreciated.
 
Thanks,

jim

_____________________________________________________________________________
Jim Hebert                L'AISON = Local Area Information Server Open Network    
jimh@laison.w8hd.org                Tel: 313/647-2634  Beverly Hills, Michigan
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From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 16" monitor and DoubleColor Card
Date: 17 Dec 1992 21:24:02 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <17DEC199214071211@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu> merolajs@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (JOSEPH
S. MEROLA DEPT OF CHEMISTRY VPI&SU) writes:
>Through the university, there is a promotional bundle of a Mac 16" color
>display with a DoubleColor(TM) SX graphics card for $1249.  I would
>appreciate any comments about the monitor and about the card.

A user here just got hers a couple of days ago. She likes it.

You just plug in the parts, install the E-Machines cdev, reboot and turn off
most of the E-Machines options. I turned off hardware pan and zoom and
automatic fade.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell)
Subject: Re: MacPlus - No Video!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: ICS Department, U.C.I.
Date: 17 Dec 92 04:59:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

> I have a MacPlus that exhibits the following symptoms:
>
> 	* intermittent flashing on screen
>
> 	* sometimes no video upon powerup
>
> 	* flashing, then total loss of video

Either you have a loose connector or, much more likely, your analog board
is dead or dying. In any event, unless you can open the case, discharge the
CRT, and optain spares cheaply, it needs a tripp to an authorized Apple
tech. If it's the board, it's going to cost at least $100.

  --scott
From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell)
Subject: Re: PB160 slows
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: ICS Department, U.C.I.
Date: 17 Dec 92 03:55:56 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

In article <1992Dec09.020046.68842@uu0570.foggybottom.com>,
Phil_L._Kim@uu0570.foggybottom.com wrote:
>
>
>   > I know that the processor slows to 1MHz or
>   > something like that after x seconds of no
>   > input, cursor changing, etc.  But, how can I
>   > turn this off?
>
> Bring up the Portable Control Panel, Hold down Option Key, and Click on the
> "Minutes to Automatic Sleep" message.  Select "Don't Rest" and you are at full
> throttle.

NOT!
Wrong operating system.

Under 7.1 there is processor 'cycling' which is in addition to Sleep and
screen dimming. Processor Cycling kicks in after only a few seconds. A very
graphic example of Processor Cycling is to play TETRIS and just let a block
drop all the way from the top. Before it gets more than 1/3 down the CPU
will slow to a crawl but still continue working. To toggle Processor
Cycling, use the 'PowerBook' control panel and click the 'Options...'
button. Balloon Help can offer some insight.

  --scott
From: bell-peter@yale.edu (Peter Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Classic II memory upgrade question
Date: 20 Dec 1992 19:07:17 -0500
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu

Hello, all--

I am ready to buy more memory for my classic II;  I am using Rotate This for
*large* PICT files in PM4.2, and it now wants 8.5M of RAM to do its job!
(the picts are 300dpi scans of data traces, and my , they are large).

Now, here is my question:  I have read that the classic II has 2, 4, 6 or 10M
of ram possible, on the basis of it having 2M on the motherboard and 2 slots
that can accomodate 1, 2, or 4M simms in pairs, giving the above totals.

I have just heard it suggested that in fact the classic II needs an adapter
to handle extra RAM, analogous to the LC machines.  Which is truth?

also, I have been playing with VM.  I notice that I can set VM as high
as I like, well over 10M if I choose and have the disc space available.  
So, my questions are also

--do simms come as 8M units, or is the next size up 16M?

--what would happen if I attempted to install a pair of 8 or 16M simms in 
the machine, and turned 32 bit on?  Would I still only see 10M, or would 
the full amount of memory be addressable (as it appears to be with xs VM)?

Thanks for any help!

Peter
bell@minerva.cis.yale.edu

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