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From: sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjiv Sarwate)
Subject: Recommend a 9600 baud modem?
Keywords: modem, hardware, recommendations
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:20:23 GMT

Howdy!

I am thinking about purchasing a new 9600 baud modem for my MacII, and I was
wondering if anyone could give me any recommendations about which kinds have
given satisfaction, which ones to avoid, etc.  

Either email replies or followups will be appreciated.

Thank you!


-- 
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"The next day, the former Prime Minister accepts his first job since leaving
the Executive Mansion; cleaning out the inn's stables.  He notes that the two
occupations are not, essentially, dissimilar."  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
Subject: Re: HP Deskwriters, esp. C
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:55:48 GMT

long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
> I like having the color. In my opinion, the Deskwriter C is best suited to
> printing things like GIFs, because in color mode (different cartridge) the
> "black" is a composite of the three other colors (cyan, magenta, and yellow,
> I guess). Therefore, it is not "true" black, so it looks a little odd
> (compared with a page printed with the black cartridge) if you are printing a
> page that is mostly black text with some color highlights. It does a very
> nice job with color pictures, though. You should go to a computer store and
> try to get a demo, if possible. I'm very pleased with mine, and find the
> quality very high.

What do you do if you are going to be printing just plain black text?  Is it
merely a cartridge switch?  Then switch back to color cartridge when you want
to print color?

Thanks.


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From: chris@cfa.harvard.edu (Chris Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PowerBook 145?
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:35:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: cfa160.1992Jul30.223522.6640
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

From article <1992Jul27.195330.9774@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, by geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner):
> 
> MacWeek has an article on the 145 and future models of the PowerBook on
> page 1 this week (7/27/92).
> 
> -Geoff

For those of us without access to a MacWeek (I lost mine when I moved
down here to Chile), could someone post a quick summary of the new
PowerBook models?  I'm thinking about buying one soon, and have been
eagerly awaiting such info.

Muchas Gracias!!!
	Chris Smith
	csmith@noao.edu
From: btd43733@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (BTDonovan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: supra fax modem
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:28:53 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

wyattw@loowit.wr.tek.com (Wyatt Webb;6291592;92-835) writes:

>In article <WEIGERT.92Jul22170751@etlhit.etl.go.jp> weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert) writes:

>   Could anyone please report on first-hand experience with the
>   SupraFaxModem V.32? For example, do you experience failures
>   of class 3 fax machines connecting to your fax?

>   Also, what is the difference between the V.32bis and the V.32? 

>   Thanks, Thomas.


>I own the FAXmodem V.32bis.  I haven't been able to try the fax portion
>yet as I don't have the software yet.  However, I can answer the other
>question.  V.32 = 9600 bps.  V.32bis = 14,400 bps.  This is raw speed,
>no compression.  The V.42, V.42bis, and MNP5 are the compression
>standards.  I guess there are FAX machines out there which will talk at
>14.4Kbps, but I think most are 9600bps...

>Later,

>	-Wyatt 
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Greetings-

I also have the FAXmodem V.32bis and I do have the fax software.  Although I
haven't sent out too many faxes, it seems to work ok.  Z-modem file transfers
BTW, go at about 1500-1700 bytes per second, on already compressed, binhexed
files.  (Usually >1600, though)  I have, however, had lots of trouble
with long distance transfers- probably the greatest source of complaints for
this type/speed of modem.  (Good thing most of my transfers are local :)

btd
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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem in PB100 (Was: Re: PowerBook 100 Pricing: Here's Why)
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:31:35 GMT

In article <70635@apple.Apple.COM>, blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) writes:
> 
> nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:
> 
> >  Quick Question:  Can you put a modem in a PB 100?         
> 
> Yes.  Any of the PowerBook compatible modems should fit.  I'm
> successfully using an Apple Fax/Data Modem in mine (or as successfully
> as anyone uses it...)

Yup, all PowerBooks use the same internal modems.  In fact, to use a
modem with the PB100, you almost have to use an internal modem because
the PB100 doesn't have a modem serial port--there is a company that
makes a card for the modem slot that turns it into a serial port like
the ones on the other Macs.
From: hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: A reliable ~100mb HD??
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:39:46 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

You might also want to take a look at the Maxtor or MacinStor 120MB internal
drives. We've been using them here in our office and they've all performed
beautifully. Both of them retail for about $499 or so.

h.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: austinov@leland.stanford.edu (Andrey Ustinov)
Subject: Quadra 950 sound
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 01:00:35 GMT

Hello,
we just set up Quadra 950, and installed extra 16 MB to bank C.  When we
started it, it played a strange one chord sound, and then started up very
nicely.  It plays the same sound after every restart, but works properly,
and shows 24 MB of RAM, that are installed on it.  It's fine in general,
the only suspicious problem IMHO is the sound.  It's practically the same,
as when the memory is not installed properly, but it does not show sad mac
icon, like in other Macs.  So my question is - is Quadra 950 supposed to
play this sound on startup, or something is wrong with it?
Please, help us, it's really urgent.


Please, e-mail me 24 hrs a day
Andrey.
austinov@leland.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: PB100 Second Serial Port?
Organization: The University of Western Australia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:02:17 GMT

The PB100 has a standard SCC with two serial ports.  The only
reason you don't have access to the modem port is because there
is no connector on the back and no line drivers inside.  So has
anyone ever heard of a card that fits into the modem slot inside
the Mac and provides the missing components?

Quinn "The Eskimo!"   <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>  "Real Coke, Diet .sig"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
  -- Proud PB100 owner!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman)
Subject: Porta-Table HD
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 16:00:02 EDT

I have a Portable (read: Porta-Table) with a 40 MB internal HD. It has 
some _serious_ sticktion.

Did Apple ever have a fix for this? Am I SOL, and have to pay to have it 
fixed, or is there some way that Apple will pay for it?

I could, I guess, keep hitting it a couple times every time I start it up, 
but I would prefer not to. :)

Peter Bierman

 This is from
     zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have his (or her) own obnoxious signature yet
From: cavekr@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Kyle Cave)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LaCie hard drives
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:12:08 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Vanderbilt University

David Gutierrez says:
> 
> Don't buy it from LaCie. All that literature you've seen trades on their
> formerly excellent reputation, which they are assiduously destroying. Alliance
> Peripheral Systems seems to be the favored vendor around here - and they're a
> bit cheaper, too. See their ads in the back of any Mac mags for contact info.
> 

Add my name to the list of people who have had trouble with La Cie.  The
first drive they sent me died shortly after I dumped my files onto it. 
They replaced that with one that had a bad SCSI switch.  I sent that back,
thinking it would be an easy repair, but they replaced it with a drive in a
case that had been severely banged around.  Every step of the way there
have been delays, and I have had to make multiple phone calls each time to
get anything to happen.  In one case, they said that they would put in a
pick-up order with UPS, but the drive sat here for at least two months. 
After my other experiences, I wasn't willing to trust them that the drive
inside this banged-up case was new, and I asked for a refund.  They agreed,
and said it would be on its way, but instead I received another disk that I
didn't even order.  Over the past few months I've talked to a bunch of
different people there, and it's still not straightened out.  Are they
still running those ads talking about their great reputation?

I am also looking for recommendations for a good external Quantum-based
drive, around 120 meg.  I would gladly buy from APS (I have one of their
tape drives), but I want something small and rugged enough to carry home,
like a Cirrus or Tsunami, and APS doesn't have anything like that.  Anyone
have suggestions as to where to find such a drive at a good price?

Kyle Cave
Vanderbilt University
cavekr@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: maynard@ept.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: 3.5 inch Syquests- anyone seen them?
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:55:28 GMT

Sometime ago I read that Syquest was working on 3.5 inch versions of their
removable HDs. Has anyone seen anything about these? My survey of the
latest MacWeek turned up nothing promising.

If these things don't appear soon and I'm forced to buy the standard 5.25
inch 88MB Syquests, is this a good idea? Are these great value or so
fragile that they're not worth the time? I want a medium for backup, and an
auxiliary hard drive to which I can link uncommonly used stuff via aliases,
so I don't care about details like compatiblity with service bureas and
other macs.

Maynard Handley
From: rounsley@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Steve Rounsley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Apple CD150 Plus
Date: 23 Jul 92 23:49:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

This is an open question really.   Any impressions on the Apple
CD150 Plus drive?  I know nothing about these beasts, and my
boss has asked me to look into getting one for our lab
(molecular biology -  accessing large sequence databases on CD).
The most convenient is to order from the University Bookstore
which is an authorized Apple dealer.  So is there any strong
reason not to get the Apple Cd drive that they have.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me..

Steve


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: cmfb@cray.com (Chris Bone)
Subject: Re: Need LISA (Yes LISA) system disks
Organization: Cray Research Inc
Distribution: usa
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:25:19 CDT

In article <1992Jul27.234834.16559@doug.cae.wisc.edu> haight@hp-17.cae.wisc.EDU (Haight Robert) writes:
>
>
>In article <1992Jul28.034751.6419@intelhf.hf.intel.com>, george@hfglobe.intel.com (George Rachor) writes:
>|> Yes folks I found a LISA.  This one has a 3.5 in floppy drive so  I am hoping
>|> it might be more closly related to the Mac XL.
>|> 
>|> I'm looking for system software for this beast.  When I turn the machine
>|> on it gets as far as wanting a floppy disk to be inserted.  Here is what
>|> I a really worried about:  
>Look up a company called Sun Remarketing.  They specialize in Lisa/Mac XL
>products.  I personally have an Xl running 6.0.2, so I know that it can be
>done.  

Also try DAFAX 1-800-323-1751. They just sent me news of MacWorks Plus II. The
basic version will run up to 6.0.8 and is available now. The "Pro" version
will run up to 7.0.1.

Currently I am running the original MacWorks Plus - 6.0.3. I don.t often use
it now (In fact the wife uses it with pre-schoolers) as my employer supplied
me with a IIsi, but, compared with the Plus I used to use I much preffered the
XL. (Mainly because of the larger screen). Speed's were comparable.
Regards,

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From: temple@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: MODE32 built-in System 7.1???
Date: 31 Jul 92 20:47:47 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

In article <u_banzai.712532081@mcl>, u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu (Buckaroo Banzai) writes:
> 		Modular CPU extensions
> 		(Already mentioned: Font Folder)
> 		three new control panels
> 		double-byte TrueType
> 		Text Services Manager
> 		Dictionary Manager
> --
> =  Marc Tamsky    u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu    KB6JWE  =


Anybody know if MODE32 code was going to be integrated into 7.1?  
Apple promised to integrate this patch into a future version of 
system 7.x.x.

				Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dev@cs.brown.edu (Darren Erik Vengroff)
Subject: Looking for a mouse switch
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:01:01 GMT

I have an adb mouse whose button switch died recently. One of the
internal contacts cracked, rendering it useless.  It was easy enough
to desolder the switch and pull it out, but I haven't been able to
find a replacement.  Neither Radio Shack nor a larger local parts supplier 
had this type of switch, and the number stamped on the case, D2F-01L/G,
meant nothing to either of the sales clerks I talked to.

Any idea where I can get one of these switches?  Please e-mail.

Thanks,
Darren
[dev@cs.brown.edu]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: eric@golf (Eric Wiseblatt)
Subject: Re: Powerbook screen clean
Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA
	<1992Jul25.033411.9621@scott.skidmore.edu>
	<1992Jul27.161616.26369@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 08:53:15 EDT


in article <1992Jul27.161616.26369@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, Geoff  writes:
	In practice I use a damp cloth with windex on it for most Macs and a
	pre-moistened tape-head cleaning pad for the PowerBooks. Very lint free
	and the alcohol evaporates quickly.

Careful.  I am under the impression that most standard "glass cleaners" are
not healthy for computer screens.  The reason being the interaction between
whatever is in the glass cleaner and whatever makes a screen anti-glare.  This
is based on ancient knowledge and may not apply anymore (if ever).  You might
want to consult a knowledgable source with the particular "windex" you are
using on the particular screen.  

In your quote from Apple's manual, they say "mild glass cleaner".  I dont know
what makes a cleaner "mild".  You might try asking the appropriate Apple people
what to avoid.

Good luck

- eric
From: 2034bang@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Steve Bang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: educ. prices on IIsi (was Re: ? About Expanding the IIsi)
Date: 23 Jul 92 05:29:31 GMT

In article <14fl9dINN4vv@network.ucsd.edu> bsala@weber.ucsd.edu (Brian Sala) writes:

>In article <1992Jul18.183611.1@amherst.edu> chgarnett@amherst.edu writes:
>>In article <BrHF90.8nv@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ct54143@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes:
>>> 
>>>[stuff deleted]
>>Of course, the IIsi's a lot cheaper than the IIci. Educational pricing on
>>a IIsi 5/80 is somewhere less than $1400, the IIci still someplace near $3K.
>>
>>-Craig

>where oh where can you get a IIsi 5/80 for under $1400?  even on sale
>(and educ. pricing) our bookstore price for a IIsi is over $2000
>(bundled with keyboard and Apple RGB monitor, $2850 or so).  inquiring
>minds want to know.  is there still time for me to cancel my order to
>MacSource and get one of these miracle deals????

>--brian
>bsala@ucsd.edu

According to what I heard from an Apple Higher Ed rep, Apple will
be dropping prices again on Macs as of August 1st.  He said that
the IIsi will probably drop about $400.  Of course, he could be
wrong, but then again we'll know in a few days.  IBM just yesterday
dropped prices on many of their PS/2 models, so I suspect strongly
that what I heard about the Mac prices dropping is true.

Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Mac ROM -> RAM?
From: michael@otago.ac.nz
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:13:26 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

In article <1992Jul22.172219.8991@news.uni-stuttgart.de>, skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok) writes:
>>My Mac IIfx rom is bad and I want to put a copy of my good
>>Mac IIfx rom into the bad one's ram so I can at least work without
>>it crashing every other time I run a piece of software.
>>
> Wouldn't that also speed up the machine somewhat? It's a common strategy
> for speeding up MESSDoze-PeeCees. (fastbios.sys)
> Can someone knowledgeable elaborate on that?

Good question. When the Mac was first introduced, one of the big selling points
of the Toolbox in ROM was that it actually ran faster than code in RAM, because
it didn't have to fight with the video for access. This state of affairs is now
long gone by and must have reversed by now. I notice that the cost-sensitive
pared-to-the-bone LC's have a 32-bit path to ROM, but only a 16-bit path to
RAM, which gives some indication of the drastic effects a 16-bit path to slow
memory must have had on performance. What effect it has on IIsi/ci's one can
only guess, but the speedup you get from cache cards has to be partly due to
this.

Michael(tm) Hamel, Computing Services Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand

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wishes to be known.
From: newton@cs.utexas.edu (Peter Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re:  Why is the IIsi so slow?
Date: 30 Jul 1992 20:48:42 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: mohawk.cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: IIsi

Several people have said that the IIsi runs faster when its cache
is set to a large value.  I have been told that this has something to
do with the lack of video RAM in the IIsi-- the CPU and video compete
for memory access.  If this is true, how does changing the RAM cache
speed things up?  Is it not the case that all of the memory is on the
same bus?  Also, RAM devoted to the cache is still in use, right?
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jdb1@kepler.unh.edu (Jonathan D Baumgartner)
Subject: Fixing the Volume Information Block
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:42:26 GMT

Does anyone know how to do this?  We have a crashed internal hard
drive in one of our SEs, and both Norton and Mac Tools report a
problem with the VIB.  Neither of them can fix it, and we can't do
anything with the drive because we can't write to it (so initializing
doesn't work).  Any ideas?

fish on ..


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: johnsh@aix.rpi.edu (Hugh Witt Johnson)
Subject: LaCie hard drives
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:34:10 GMT

If anyone has had experience with LaCie external hard drives, your thoughts and
recommendations would be appreciated.  I am in the market to purchase a 100M-
class drive for my IIcx, and have read a lot of literature proclaiming LaCie 
drives as one of the best available.  I called LaCie, and their 100MB external
is selling for $469.  Does anyone know of any other reliable (Quantum based!)
external drives at this size that beat that price? Also, are LaCie products
only sold direct from the company, like it seems, or do any of the mail-order
houses carry them? Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions.

Hugh Johnson
Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

Internet: johnsh@rpi.edu
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          johnsonhw%phvax.dnet@smithkline.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Daniel Schwabe <schwabe@inf.puc-rio.br>
Subject: Leaving Monitor on
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, PUC-Rio
X-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:03:01 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d3
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:07:15 GMT
X-Posted-From: mac-dan.inf.puc-rio.br
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

There has been quite a bit of discussion as to whether it is ok (or
preferrable, or harmful, etc.) to leave your Mac "all the time". I don't
want to restart this here. However, I don't recall having seen any
discussion as to whether it is harmful (even if you have some sort of
screen saver program) to leave your monitor on all the time. Does someone
have any recomendations/experiences?
Any info would be appreciated!

Daniel Schwabe   	       	            Dept. de Informatica, PUC-Rio
Tel: +55-21-529 9544/274 4449   R. M. de S. Vicente, 225
Fax: +55-21-511 5645                 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22454-970, Brasil
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PS - I have a RasterOps 19" Trinitron Monitor, with an XLTV board.