HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
Subject: Re: Some fit, some don't
Organization: Starfleet Headquarters: San Francisco
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:49:46 GMT

ktiedtke@jarthur.claremont.edu (Kurt Tiedtke) writes:
>There was a thread a while back on whether an extended keyboard fits under
>the overhang on the front of a IIvx case.  I got a close look yesterday and
>noticed that the back side of currently shipping keyboards is a little lower
>than some of the older keyboards.  The new ones flatten out above the function
>keys, while the older ones continue to slope up.  I guess there's enough of
>a difference to cause problems.

Just exactly half a centimeter more, that's all they needed... :(

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From: andrew@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu (CHIHUAHUA CHARLIE)
Subject: Re: IIvx with stereo
Originator: usenet@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:53:00 GMT
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Oklahoma - University Computing Services

In article <1992Nov12.212202.29350@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) writes...
> 
>Apple ran a 2 page add in MacWeek this week (11/9/92) that states among other
>things:
> 
>....To take full advantage of its stero-out sound capabilities, plug in your own
>pair of self-powered speakers -- and get the most out of this great
>multimedia Macintosh.
> 
>Sounds like it has stereo out capabilities!
> 

True, if you are only listening to CD sound.  I do not
believe the IIvx can output stereo sound from programs
though... only off musical/multimedia CDs.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: simsh@crockett1c.its.rpi.edu (Chewbacca)
Subject: Re: Print area of Laserwriter LS
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:41:28 GMT

halff@unixg.ubc.ca (Lar Halff) writes:

>Hi! Sorry to wast bandwidth with what is probably a very obvious
>question, but...

>I'm printing to legal sized paper on a Laserwriter LS and I want 
>to print as cose to the as possible. My manual says this is .25".
>However, even when I select Extend Print Area, the smallest margin
>I can get along the length of the page is .75". Does any one know
>is Apple's manual is just plain wrong, or what I can do to get
>those last .5"?

>Thanks for any help!

>Lar Halff
>halff@unixg.ubc.ca

>BTW I'm also, using Pagemaker 4.2 to do this work.

When printing on legal size paper, the LS can only print up to about 3/4inch
(I only got 1 inch) margins. Supposedly the new software 7.2, will eliminate
that loss. Unfortunately, the nice, sweet, kindly, generous, and all-around
marvelous folks at Apple haven't deemed it necessary to put it on ftp.apple.com
yet, so it's not available via FTP (or if it is, I wish I knew where). Try and
see if you can get it from a local computer store, that's probably your best
bet.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: williabv@cs.aston.ac.uk (Bryn Williams)
Subject: Help!  Networking Amiga as a Mac fileserver
Reply-To: williabv@cs.aston.ac.uk
Organization: Aston University (Comp Sci)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:08:39 GMT


I have recently come by a basic Mac, and I'd like to network it to my Amiga,
so that the Mac could mount the Amiga's hard drive as a file server via 
Appleshare.  Is this possible, and has anyone done it?

Cheers,

Bryn

williabv@cs.aston.ac.uk


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ishalev@unity.ncsu.edu (Itzhak Shalev)
Subject: Frozen Powerbook 140
Organization: North Carolina State University Project Unity
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:39:55 GMT

Any ideas why a PB 140 8/80 freezes up every time the area above the battery or
the left side of the keyboard is pressed down? Sometimes, instead of booting
the PB plays a series of up and down chords and dies. I've recently had a 6MB
simm installed and the trouble seems to have started since. Removal and reinstallation of same has no effect. Otherwise all operations are normal and "about this macintosh" reports 8MB.

Please HELP!


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ishalev@ncsu.edu

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From: mike@rice.edu (Michael L. Quillin)
Subject: LC III release date?
Organization: Rice University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:03:41 GMT

Does anyone know the exact release date for the LC III?  Also, is
anyone willing to speculate about prices at this point?

Thanks,
Mike


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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New LC III
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:24:27 GMT
Organization: USC-ISI
In-reply-to: emstadth@IASTATE.EDU's message of 5 Nov 92 21:09:40 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.150940@IASTATE.EDU> emstadth@IASTATE.EDU (Eric M Stadtherr) writes:

>Does anyone have any information about the forthcoming Mac LCIII, besides the
>fact it is running a 25-MHz 68030 and will replace the LCII?  I was looking to
>purchase an LCII at a discounted price, but if there is sufficient incentive, I
>might wait until February to check out the new machines...
>
>Please answer by mail if you can!

A word to the wise... if you wait until Feb to see the LCIII, be
prepared to wait until April to actuallg get a machine.

jas
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From: yuanj@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LS vs. NTR
Date: 6 Nov 92 11:24:37 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

In article <1992Nov4.150009.7842@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, jimy@cae.wisc.edu (Jim Yu) writes:
> Think about it. If what you're saying is correct, there would be no difference
> between a PS printer and a bitmapper (Quickdraw if you insist).
> I assume when you said "look identical on both printers" you meant
> both printers prints a staircase rather than a smooth line.
> That's probably because the application you used is not sending PS to the
> printer. Try MacDraw (or any draw program rather than a paint program)

I have tried Claris CAD, which is a "draw program", on LS.  The 45 degree lines
are as smooth as I print on a Apple LW II-NTX.  I can obtain thinner hatch
lines on LS than on the II-NTX.  All in all, not all "draw programs" are
the same.  (The Claris CAD is probably a "QuickDraw" "draw program", not a PS
one.)

> and you should see enormous difference. Also try a circle instead of a line.

I tried circle, too.  Identical, too.

> The text output is also not identical. Try printing text with a font size
> not installed in your system. The LS will scale to an ugly bitmap of the font
> while the NTR will print a smooth font, at any size.

You probably have the scaleable font in your system or your NTR.  I don't see
how you can print smooth font if you have ONLY the bitmap and you do not have
the scaleable font in your NTR. 

For the LS, if you have TrueType fonts, they will be smooth at any size.  Why
not?  TrueType is scaleable.  Correct me if I am wrong.
From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 16-bit vs. 24-bit color
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:16:21 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1992Nov4.142920.3855@pcnntp.apple.com> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), Dale_Adams@gateway.qm.apple.com (Dale Adams) writes:
> In article <Bx6LHq.L05@rice.edu> add@is.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham) 
> writes:
> > 1).  When a IIvx is in 8 bit mode can it do 256 greys? (yes?)
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > 2).  When a IIvx in in 16 bit mode can it do 256 greys?
> 
> No.  Since you have only 5 bits per color (R, G, & B) you can only have 32 
> gray levels.   

This is a BIG reason that 16-bit color if far inferior to 24-bit color.
Anything with lots of grey levels in it will look bad.

Unfortunately QuickDraw does not support dithering from 24-bit color
to 16-bit color.  If they had supported that, 16-bit color would have
been much more workable.

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From: sheckler@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steven Heckler)
Subject: Disk Drive Troubles!
Followup-To: sheckler@leland.stanford.edu
Keywords: disk, drive, SuperDrive, 7.1, SE/30, format
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 05:08:53 GMT

HELP!  Here's a problem for you technical whizzes out there:

     A friend of mine just purchased and installed System 7.1 on his SE/30
5/40.  Since this time, he has not been able to format either 800K or 1.4 MB
diskettes.  He gets the normal "formatting disk" and "verifying format"
messages, but then a "re-verifying format" message comes up, followed by an
"initialization failed message" and the disk being spit out of the drive.

     I'm pretty sure this is not an extension problem.  The machine will not
format diskettes even with the extensions turned off.  By the way, I have
updated the SCSI driver.

     I'm certain it's not the diskettes' fault--I've had no trouble formatting
them on my SE/30 (which, incidentally, is also running 7.1)

     I've cleaned his drive with a head cleaning diskette and will be blowing
it out with compressed air sometime during the next few days.

Questions:

1.  What other steps should I take to get the drive up and running?
2.  Should I try re-installing System 7.1?

     I'm certain it's not the diskettes' fault--I've had no trouble formatting
them on my SE/30 (which, incidentally, is also running 7.1)

     I've cleaned his drive with a head cleaning diskette and will be blowing
it out with compressed air sometime during the next few days.

Questions:

1.  What other steps should I take to get the drive up and running?
2.  Should I try re-installing System 7.1?
3.  If this doesn't work, can anyone recommend a company in the south San
Francisco Bay area (or anywhere in that part of California for that matter)
that will repair the drive at a reasonable cost?

     Thanks for your help!  Please e-mail me directly at
sheckler@leland.stanford.edu and I will post a summary.

                                         Steve Heckler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
From: bed3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Benjamin E Delfin)
Subject: Need data on Fujitsu drive for friend
Organization: not bloody much
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:04:17 GMT
X-Posted-From: cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


How would one go about *low-level* formatting a Fujitsu SCSI drive
on a Macintosh?
Please send answers to Kevin Furguson at kfurg@vpnet.chi.il.us, no earlier
than 12:00 AM Monday (his link is temporarily down, but he *needs* the
answer soon).  Thanks a lot.

Ben
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: mjkobb@media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Subject: 256-MB optical drives?!!?
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:33:41 GMT

Greetings!

  Well, this figures.  Just when I was about ready to plunk down the
money on a 128Mb 3.5" optical drive, what do I see looking through
MacWorld?  A 256Mb drive, that uses similar cartridges, and can
still read and write the old format!  Obviously, more is better in
at least one way of looking at things, and this drive also claims to
have double the transfer rate.

  So:  anybody got one?  How are they, compatibility-wise?  What's
the best vendor/price?  The only ones I've seen are based on a MOST
mechanism, which didn't fare well in MacUser's tests (on their 128Mb
version).  Does Sony or Ricoh make a 256Mb version?  Is there
actually a standard?  What're the possibilities of upgrading a 128?
Is it just a new controller board, or a whole new mechanism?

  Comments?

Thanks,
--Mike

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: 25 mHz IIsi--another success story
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:12:48 GMT

jason@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Jason Rosenberg) writes:
>If my cpu happens to be one of those that will only work with a heat sink,
>will it be permanently fried if I first try it without a heat sink to see if
>it is needed?  If this is so, might it not be a good idea to put the heat
>sink on as a matter of precaution in general?
*----
The heat sink can't hurt, either way.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kolding@cs.washington.edu (Eric Koldinger)
Subject: PB100 won't autosleep....
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 23:30:43 GMT

My PB100 seems to have lost its will to go to sleep on it's own.  It won't do
it either when it's running on battery power, or from the wall socket.  I've
tried all the standard things that I can think of, including playing with the
Portable control panel, toggling Appletalk on and off, rebooting, you name it.
No matter what I do though, the only way it wants to go to sleep is if I tell
it so myself.  Any ideas?  Enquiring minds want to know...

Thanks...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: Re: Troubles with a MacSE
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:39:09 GMT

(Clarify the point)

If your drive works with someone else's Mac SE then suspect your Mac.
If someone else's drive works with your Mac SE then suspect your drive.

Hope you can find someone for the above...
From: genzuk@mizar.usc.edu (Michael Genzuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PB 180 When will they ever come?
Date: 9 Nov 1992 16:00:08 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu

I had ordered the PB 170 and received a call from Apple that they were going to
replace my order with a 180. This was the day after the announcement of the
new Powerbook line.   The delivery date is listed as December 12th. I hope
that it will be delivered by then.

I will post upon delivery.

Has anyone received their PB 180 yet?

Michael from USC
From: Dave Clark <dclark@ucsd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New HP laserjet 4M......
Date: 10 Nov 1992 19:22:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego - IGPP
Distribution: world
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X-XXDate: Tue, 10 Nov 92 19:29:57 GMT

In article <6g41Hgsesa@atlantis.psu.edu> Aravind Melligeri,
ASM@snowyt.me.psu.edu writes:
>Did you guys see new HP printer. 
>It's fantastic. The price dirt cheap. The educational price is $1785
>postscript, pcl4,  6 meg ram, 10PPM, 600dpi. appletalk, serial, parallel
>interface. 

Our department's ordering two full blown (32MB w/ethertalk).  I'll let
the group know how it turns out.

Dave Clark
IGPP Network Operations
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
(619) 534 1753
internet: dclark@ucsd.edu
From: Mitch.Alland@p956.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Mitch Alland)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Japan: PowerBook 170 sale--price reduction!
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 14:32:23 -0500

I'd now like to take up your offer in message no. 36277 of November1  of
placing my post in fj.sys.mac.  Here's the message:

Begin message
PowerBook 170 with 8 MB RAM, 80 MB hard disk and internal Apple 24/96 faxmodem
for sale for Y410,000.  I've had the machine since August but used it no more
than ten hours, so it's as good as new.  I'll be in Tokyo November 26-30
staying at Teikoku Hoteru.  As I'll be flying to Tokyo direct from Washington,
DC I could bring you other hardware or software which of course is much
cheaper here than in Japan, so this good be avery good deal for you.

Here is my contact information:
CompuServe:  Mitch Alland 72011, 10
Internet:        72011.10@compuserve.com
Fax number:  202-363-9831
Home tel:       202-363-3884
Office tel:       202-473-0383

You can also contact my ex-secretary from when I worked in Tokyo, Shigaki Kei,
who now works at the Danish Embassy.  Her office number is 03-3780-8740 and
home number is 03-3623-4409.

Communicating when we meet wont be a problem as I still speak some Japanese. 
Nihongo o benkyo  shimashita kedo.

--Mitch
End message

I've also placed this message on comp.sys.mac.wanted under the title "Japan
PowerBook for sale-price reduction."
From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Large Capacity Hard Drive and A/UX (for PowerBooks)
Date: 5 Nov 92 08:05:27 GMT
Reply-To: rseymour@reed.edu
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR


	I'm interested in getting a PowerBook 180 or PowerBook Duo 230, and  
wanted to find out about large hard drives. Specifically, I'd like to be able  
to use the new Maxtor 252MB 2.5" hard drive in one (model number 25252). Does  
anyone know if the power draw on this drive is too great for the PowerBooks? If  
not, can the DEC 210MB 2.5" hard drive be used (model number unknown)? Also,  
how about the 160 and 180MB drive used in many clone (I think they are Maxtors  
also)?
	On another note, are the PowerBooks able to run A/UX 3.0? If anyone has  
it running, I'd like to hear opinions on how it works. I do a lot of UNIX  
programming in addition to my Macintosh work, so I'd like to have a UNIX  
environment available to me without having to go to X-terminal emulator via  
network. Power/speed isn't too important, but I need to be able to use a wide  
array of UNIX programs.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: michthom@bnr.ca (Michael Thomson)
Subject: Tools to open a Classic II???
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 14:16:51 GMT

 **************************************************************************
 * Help Wanted!      Macintosh Classic II Access Tools?      Help Wanted! *
 **************************************************************************

 Does anyone know what tools are required to open up a Mac Classic II?

 Apple appear to have moved away from the hexagonal Torq (?) screwdriver
 they used to use, in favour of a hexagonal Allen key type thing. But since
 this needs to be about 8" long, I don't know what to use!!

 Any help would be very welcome, as my machine is desperate to try out its
 new maths coprocessor and I don't want to pay an Applecentre for a 10
 minute job that I could do with the right tools.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele)
Subject: Re: PB100 and external hard drive?
Organization: Tadpole Technology plc
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:16:53 GMT

In article <mfausett.721436308@kirin> mfausett@bbn.com (Mark Fausett) writes:

   Is it possible to connect (and use!) an external hard drive to a PB100;
   The machine seems to insist on pretending to be a disk drive whenever I put
   the HD30 adapter into it.

You're using the wrong cable.  There are two types; one grounds pin 1
(telling the PB100 to go into disk mode) and one doesn't.

Tim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bgood@sundagger.lerc.nasa.gov ()
Subject: Re: 68050
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:10:57 GMT

In article <D2150056.hqj7q5@erics.infoserv.com> erics@infoserv.com writes:
>
>Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com writes:

>> Apple is working with IBM because IBM is good at making fast hardware
>
>Yeah, like, the PC was really fast, man.

Go home.   Turn on the TV.  Sit down and watch.  Wait for an "Intel Inside"
commercial.  Try to figure out who designed the microprocessor in the
IBM PC.

The technology Joe is referring to is the based on IBM's RS/6000 line.
A number of large government labs are replacing or supplementing  Crays 
with farms of RS/6Ks.  They are indeed  "like, really fast, man."  Trust me.
--
brian good                     
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ctchoi@iastate.edu (Chi Tsung Choi)
Subject: Buy a New Mac (vx or ci)?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:50:40 GMT

I was planning to buy a Mac IIvx (5MB/CD/80MB HD). But after reading this
newsgroup for a week or so, it seems like Mac IIci is a better investment
than a Mac IIvx. Since I just have a limited *student* budget, I can't
afford anything in the Quadra series.  However, I will try to upgrade my
Mac and add other peripherals to it, as soon as I have more $$$$$$ :(.
So, is IIci really a better investment than IIvx? I need some input from
other people.  
-- 
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