HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:03:59 EST
Subject: Re: MAC WIZARDS UNITE!!!

    With the amount of money you are going to spend on upgrades (especially the
FDHD, the are drive and the accellerator) I would seriously consider buying a
Classic ][ (or a Performa 200) if you feel that a 16MHz 68030 (with 16bit data
path not 32) would do the job for you.  You can get a Brainstorm accellerator
for the SE installed for about $250.  That will bring you up to the speed of a
Classic ][ (give or take under different circumstances).  The FDHD upgrades
are expensive ($387 from an authorized Apple dealer in NH... I'm sure you can
find these for less).  Max RAM on the SE is 4 megabytes, if you need it you
can go to 10 megabytes on the Classic ][.  If you upgrade your SE to 4 megabytes
of RAM that will cost about $90..  You will need a tool kit to open the SE,
less than $20.  A 40 megabyte internal hard drive is going to cost about $200.
give or take.  Expect to pay from $75 to $135 more for an external hard drive.
 Total cost is going to be at the very least $850.00.  System 7.1 is not that
great unless you need the new world script features or you need to manage
large amounts of fonts, use system 7.0.1 with the tuneup... it's free.  A Mac
Classic ][ 4/40 (4megs of RAM, 40 megabyte hard drive, 1.44 meg floppy drive,
16MHz 68030, built in sound capabilities, comes with sytem 7.0.1) can be had
from an authorized Apple dealer for $997.  I think the $147 difference would
be well worth the money in your situation.  Hope that helps, Joe
********************************************************************
System: fourd.com                                Phone: 617-494-0565
Cute quote:  Being a computer means never having to say you're sorry
********************************************************************

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: martin@DMI.USherb.CA (Jean-francois Martin)
Subject: Re: Apple's product line: ideas for the future
Reply-To: martin@DMI.USherb.CA
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. De Mathematiques et D'Informatique
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:14:09 GMT

The idea sounds good but as far as I know, this king of organization in a product
line at Apple doesn't stay like that for long time. The "system" get desorganized
very quickly. That is why there is so much different model in different form factor
in the product line.

---
================================================================================
= Jean-Francois Martin                                     martin@dmi.usherb.ca=
= Graduate student of Universite de Sherbrooke (je parle francais)             =
= "In complete darkness we are all the same" Janet Jackson                     =
================================================================================
From: cd248@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: New color Classic II?
Date: 12 Dec 1992 09:17:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cd248@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Sherman)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



I read that one of the new computers Apple will be releasing in Feb.
will
be a color classic II.  Does anyone know more about this??


-- 
================================================================
| R. Stacy Sherman     cd248@cleveland.freenet.edu or          |
| GEnie: R.SHERMAN2    stacy@uhhacb.uhh.hawaii.edu             |
================================================================
From: gmyers@hamilton.edu (George Myers)
Subject: Shrinking screen on SE/30
Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:54:30 GMT

Recently I've noticed that there's less usable screen and more black
around the edges on my SE/30. A couple of questions:

1. I believe there are height and width controls in the machine. Where
are they, and are they easy to adjust? (I won't mind if the edges of the
screen are less than perfectly sharp)

2. Is what's happening indicative of some more serious (expensive?)
problem?

3. If I do nothing, will the screen continue to shrink?

Thanks in advance for any help.
D
Thanks in advance.
From: bk146@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd Sternisha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Duo Printer?
Date: 15 Dec 1992 21:49:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bk146@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd Sternisha)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, mlobbia@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Kaneda) says:

>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?  I posted this on a FirstClass gateway and got no
>responses at all.
>
>Marcus
>-- 
>///  Marcus Lobbia            ///
>|||  mlobbia@sdcc13.ucsd.edu  |||
>///  comtec!marcus@ucsd.edu   ///
>

	Uhhhh... The Duos have a standard serial port; why would you
want to connect one to the PDS? If you want to use a printer and either
LocalTalk or a modem, I suggest you either get an internal modem or a
Duo MiniDock...

-- 
	-Todd Sternisha
   bk146@cwru.freenet.edu              Wolf's Den (216) 528-0321 
"I am not impressed by your ability to hurt people." -Ian McKaye of
Fugazi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: allievi@sissa.it
Subject: *help* Accelerating the LC
Organization: Intnl School for Adv Studies
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:13:46 GMT


Could someone please help me in gathering information about accelerating a 

Mac LC (10/40HD)? Any experience ?

Thank you in advance

Andrea

Email: ALLIEVI@TSMI19.SISSA.IT  -   ALLIEVI@ITSSISSA.BITNET
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Duo Dock video
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:22:15 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) writes:

>bk146@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd Sternisha) writes:

>>1) Is the 512K VRAM SIMM needed for 16-bit color the very same SIMM used
>>in the LC and IIvx? Or is it unique?

>Wish I knew!

    Actually, I think that you need 2 256k VRAM SIMMs, the kind that are
used in the Quadra's.

--
-Brian V. Hughes
	     "If you could care less, then why don't you?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: PowerBook Track Ball Rubies??
Reply-To: motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:34:07 GMT

My trackball got a little sticky so I 
openned it up to clean it out.  The problem
was some gummy stuff on the small blue soft
cylinders that the ball rubs against and 
translates the x-y motion.

Anyway, I noticed three small white blocks
with red dots on them in the track ball 
housing.  It appears that the track ball
rests on these small red points.  The question
is what are they made of so that they are 
slick enought to allow the ball to rotate
and yet not so hard that they scratch the 
ball and yet hard enought that they don't
wear away in a few months of use?

Thanks, John 
-- 
=  Enjoy!          John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, ESMR Development  =
=  thanks          derosa@ssd.comm.mot.com                       =
=  a 10^6          N1111@applelink.apple.com                     =
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP!!
Date: 13 Dec 92 23:17:33 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

In article <1g444hINNaqp@agate.berkeley.edu>, hsiacc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Andy Chuan-Chih Hsia) writes:
> 
> Help!  My friend has a Mac SE running under System 6.0.4.  When she turned
> on the computer today, there was a grinding noise and vertical bars showed
> up on the screen.  The bars are thin-thick-thin, thin-thick-thin..etc.
> We tried boot off a floppy, but the system doesn't even search for a floppy.
> Basically, we're stuck with a computer with vertical bars.  She mentioned
> that the hard drive had crashed a year ago and that she had rebuilt the HD
> a month ago.  Any immediate suggestions?  We think a trip down to the dealer
> is unavoidable, but anything might help.  Thanks.

    You're the first other person I've ever seen with this problem but it 
happened to me twice.  By any chance does she have the programmer's switch 
installed?  It's like a big plastic paper clip that fits on the back of the 
left-hand side of my SE/30 and somewhere similar on the SE.  If it gets jammed 
in exactly the wrong position, you can see the problem you're describing.  
Take it out and all should be well again.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07102
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: LEUSKI@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU (ANTON LEUSKI)
Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh FTP???
Organization: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:37:05 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24


> Someone posted earlier that IM is available on hypercard stack at
> ftp.apple.com.
> 
> Where?
> 

		/dts/mac/docs/stacks/spinside

Anton.

> I just looked, and couldn't find 'em.
> 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dhina@dxcern.cern.ch (Mourad Dhina)
Subject: powerbook 160 + scanner
Summary: dest scanner on powerbook 160
Keywords: scanner, powerbook 160
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:27:56 GMT

Hello,
i have a powerbook 160 (4/80) to which i hooked upi a dest personal
scanner. this scanner is connected to the mac via a printer cable
that goes either to the mac's printer port or modem port.it used
to work find with an LC. i can not get to work with the powerbook,
as my scanning software complains that he couldn't find the
scanner! any clue to solving this problem??? thanks....
From: jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LaserWriter sucks up Cat
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:51:02 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1gd0piINNdis@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> bell-peter@yale.edu (Peter Bell) writes:
>In article <1992Dec12.065032.4870@news.acns.nwu.edu> eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman) writes:
>>Wait a minute. This guy is having problems writing bug free code that works as
>>intended the first time? And he works for the GUIDED WEAPONS division!?!?!
>
>Oh, don't worry.  The stuff is beta tested.  Anyone read the article in Sciece
>about the guidance computers for the Patriots we lent Israel and used in Saudi
>Arabia? (would have been out a year or so ago)...
>...  The problem was, there was some bug in the clock the 
>clock they were using, such that they had a tendency to not recognize incoming
>ordnance 'cuz it was in the wrong place on a subsequent check, according to 
>their clock....  the solution?  Reboot the computers about once every eight
>hours while the folks at the pentagon wrote the patch....

It wasn't the programmers' fault, though.  They designed a program meant
to be used on a Patriot that was not on for long periods of time.  The
clock, due to round-off errors, would cause the computer to think that
the missile was a couple of millimeters off from where it really was. 
No big deal for short periods, but after running the computer for eight
hours the cumulative error was off by enough to mean that the Patriot
would miss the incoming missile by > ~10 meters -- enough that it would
be ineffective.  It was an error not of programming but of the
anti-missile system being used outside its specifications, and of old
technology that meant that the clock error became significant after a
relatively short period of time.

If anyone wants to continue this thread, let's move it to 
comp.sys.mac.missles.

-- 
 ________________________________________________________________________
|   John      jfw@neuro.duke.edu          Duke University Medical Center |
| Whitehead   jfw@well.sf.ca.us           Department of Neurobiology     |
|________________________________________ Durham, North Carolina ________|
From: upsiu@mcs.drexel.edu (Paul Siu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Finicky floppy drive
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:23:35 GMT
Organization: Drexel University, Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sci.

Recently, a large number of floppies have failed on my Mac's FDHD drive.
The strange thing is that some of those bad floppies can be reformatted on
other macs.  I thought may be it was because my FDHD is out of alignment,
but some floppies can still be formatted in the drive.  It seems to reject
some floppies that other Mac deemed to be okay.  Does anyone know what is
going on?

Thanks

Paul
upsiu@mcs.drexel.edu
-- 
 Paul Siu, Drexel University, upsiu@mcs.drexel.edu               
 * We are actors, the opposite of people - Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:23908 comp.sys.mac.misc:20541 comp.sys.mac.programmer:19722 comp.sys.mac.system:15116 comp.sys.mac.wanted:11666
From: michel@mmourg.fdn.org (Michel MOURGUES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: PowerBook tuner?
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 16:50:37 CET
Organization: Individual
Reply-To: michel@mmourg.fdn.org
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <BywnyD.79F@acsu.buffalo.edu> (comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted), feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (John A. Feinberg) writes:
> I recently downloaded system 6.0.8L to try on my PB140 (I knew it was only
> supposed to work on the PB 100, but I wanted to see for myself), and noticed a
> file in the same directory called 'Powerbook Tuner.'  Does anybody have any
> idea what this file is supposed to do?  It's released by Apple.  It has the
> generic extension icon, with a picture of a powerbook in the middle.  
> 
> John Feinberg
> SUNY Buffalo
> 
It's intended to fix bugs of the serial port at high speed.
As far as I know, it was asked by Global Village (makers of high speed modems 
for Powerports) and realized by Apple.

There no need any more with 7.1.

Michel Mourgues - Paris, France
michel@mmourg.fdn.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson)
Subject: Re: The LC II et LC III rumors...
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:59:40 GMT

Jean-francois Martin (martin@DMI.USherb.CA) wrote:
} 
} My Question: will LC owner be able to upgrade to an LC III? I hope so, if not
} I must by a IIvx (with a cd-rom that I don't want). Trust me, the price for
} the upgrade if there is one should be much less than sell my LC and by a IIvx.
The IIvx is available without the CD-ROM. Also, you might condider a IIci.

--
Harris Wulfson
hjwulfson@amherst.edu
From: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quadra 700/Retrospect/Tape Backup Query
Date: 15 Dec 1992 02:51:32 -0700
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
NNTP-Posting-Host: anthrax-fddi.solbourne.com

While reading article <8121@lib.tmc.edu>, I noticed that
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) said the following:
 >If you have the Retro.SCSI INIT installed, throw it away. It's not compatible
 >with the SCSI Manager on the Quadra.

Uh... News to me (and probably to Dantz for that matter).

I have Retro.SCSI installed and Retrospect (v1.3) works like a charm for me.
I'm even running 7.1.

The system:
	    Quadra 700, 20Mb Ram, 80Mb internal, System 7.1
	    Suitcase 2.1.2, ATM 3.0, Pyro! 4.2 and a handful of other INITs
	    Two external Quantum 105Mb drives
	    External QIC-150 tape drive
-- 
| William Kucharski, Solbourne Computer, Inc.     | Opinions expressed above
| Internet: kucharsk@solbourne.com   Ham: N0OKQ   | are MINE alone, not those
| Snail Mail: 1900 Pike Road, Longmont, CO  80501 | of Solbourne Computer, Inc.
| President, "Just the Ten of Us" Fan Club        | "Dittos from Longmont, CO"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: mo@gizmo.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell)
Subject: Source for PB100 batteries?????
Keywords: 
 
Reply-To: mo@bellcore.com
Organization: Center for Chaotic Repeatabilty
Distribution: world 
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 14:16:09 GMT

I have found lots of folks with PB100 *chargers*, but no spare batteries.
Is this just a local anomoly???  Pointers to PB100 BATTERIES much
appreciated.
	-Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:23:13 EST
Subject: Re: Mac Plus Keyboard

It's not the keyboard, and it's not the cable.  I took the keyboard and the
cable and plugged it into another Mac plus and it worked fine.  I'm convinced
that the problem lies inside the Mac plus itself.  The RJ11 jacks do not appear
to be bent.  Joe
********************************************************************
System: fourd.com                                Phone: 617-494-0565
Cute quote:  Being a computer means never having to say you're sorry
********************************************************************
From: nohl@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (LYONS, NOHL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: video out from a mac
Keywords: video
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:22:00 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hi my friend needs help!
He wants to record an animation on his mac
to vhs video tape.  I want to help him but
I don't know much about this subject.

He has a Quadra (no kidding :D) and a Video Spigot
card.  He says that the Video Spigot has port for
audio in and out and video in, but no video out.

He says that he wants at least vhs quality output.

Does anyone know which products offer this feature?
Or of related articles in MacUser?

Thanks in advance for any help,
Nohl Lyons
University of Arizona

Please send responses to:
Nohl@ccit.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bertsche@ravel.udel.edu (Steven Bertsche)
Subject: DoubleColor card?
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:54:20 GMT

Does anyone have contact information for the maker of DoublColor
graphics cards?  I believe that the card is called the DoubleColor GX.

Any help appreciated.
-- 
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Steven Bertsche             Instructional Technology Center |
| bertsche@brahms.udel.edu             University of Delaware |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
From: hgs@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Harry Salvini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: video grabber recommendations for Mac II / PowerBook 180
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:46:09 GMT
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75778589301D602@260-3l-mac2a.wdl.loral.com>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 12:45:12 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9

Mornin' people!

I've just been tasked with finding what's on the market for the Mac II
or the PowerBook 180 for video grabbing.  The source ranges from NTSC,
to RGB, to you name it.

What's out there?  If there is a FAQ with this already , or if this is the
wrong group, would you mind pointing me in the right direction?

Thanks!!!!

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| -+-  hgs@wdl1.wdl.loral.com -- Kathy's Hubby & Jonathan's Daddy  O O |
|  |    BTW: LORAL doesn't have anything to do with my opinions.    v  |
|  |               I came up with them all on my own.              \_/ |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield)
Subject: Mac vs. PC (hardware comparison)
Keywords: Macintosh, PC, hardware
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:37:07 GMT

In response to some comments about the "inferior hardware" of the Macintosh:
Anyone seen the Motorola adds about an Ingram Laboratory performance study?
Look on page 22 & 23 of the July 92 issue of Byte, for example.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

        "Recent Studies Reveal 25MHz Is Now Faster Than 50MHz"

"Ingram Benchmark Results, March 1992 - 25 and 33 MHz 040 Macintosh Quadra
Outruns the 486 at 33 and 50 MHz."

"This revelation is brought to you by the Apple Macintosh and the Motorola
68040."  The add goes on to say that Ingram Labs (an independent PC testing
firm) compared the newest 040 Macs (Quadra 950 and 700) to several of the
quickest 486 Windows PCs running the most popular applications for both
Macintosh and Windows 3.0 (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Wingz, PageMaker,
Persuasion and Illustrator) and measured the performance of "real world
functions" (such as opening a file, scrolling, running a macro, performing
calculations, etc.).

The results are shown below...

* Performance Index
0------1------2------3------4------5------6------7------8------9------10

33MHz 040
Mac Quadra 950 ----------------------------------------------------9.7

25MHz 040
Mac Quadra 700 ---------------------------------------------------9.3

ALR Business Veisa
486/50 -------------------------------------------------8.1

Compaq Deskpro
486/33 -------------------------------------6.5

IBM PS/2 95 XP
486/33 ------------------------------------6.2

DELL 433P
486/33 ---------------------------------5.9

* "Performance Index is the measured result relative to the slowest machine
  tested (a 286-based IBM PS/1 running Windows). For example, Mac Quadra 950
  is 9.7 times faster than the Performance Index; the Dell 433P is 5.9 times
  faster."

"No surprise, really.  Macintosh and its graphical user interface were designed
from the start around the 68000's true 32-bit architecture.  Naturally, it
outperforms computers powered by an extended 8-bit architecture running a
character-based operating system with a tacked-on GUI."

This is not another "closed minded" Mac user's attempt to save the world
from the wages of PC use.  Certainly IBM/clones have a niche in the world of
personal computing. My intent is to point out that if you want a high
performance graphical computer, I think the Macintosh is the way to go.

    **********************************************************
    * Michael Merrifield     merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu  *
    * Purdue  University     C A D L A B -- (317) 49 -45944  *
    **********************************************************
From: kvj@triple-i.com (Karl vonJena)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Power switch on IIx
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:55:58 GMT
Reply-To: kvj@triple-i.com
Organization: Information International, Inc.

In article 92Dec15093951@dynasty.dyndata.uucp, dan@dyndata.uucp (Dan Everhart) writes:
>I remember reading that there was something funny about the power
>switch on the Mac IIx, but I didn't pay close attention because I
>never had problems with mine ... until today.  
>
>There was a power outage and now neither the keyboard switch nor the
>button on the back of the case will turn the power on.  Please tell me
>what the nature of this problem is and how to get around it.  I think
>I remember reading that it was a design problem and that there was a
>fix available from Apple, but this computer is so old that I'd be
>content with an explanation of how to fix it myself.  Emailed
>responses preferred.  Thanks.
>

Wow! This is a new one on me. But I might suspect that the power outage caused a surge that either tripped a breaker (if you have one), blew the power supply, or (gad!) fried your motherboard. Since you don't get any power at all, it's probably the first two.

I've never heard anything different about the IIx power supplies. Anybody else?

karl

__________________________________________________________
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that 
is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes 
one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing 
about toilet paper.
		-- R. Serling

kvj@triple-i.com
__________________________________________________________