HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: IO92668@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: My NEW IIvx... Love it....
Date: 22 Jan 93 06:24:10 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

Over the past year and a half I have become increasingly interested
in multimedia on the Mac.  I have taken classes instructing me in
many of the mainstream Mac multimedia applications. i.e., Director,
Magic, Action and several design enhancing apps like Swivel 3d pro,
Premier 2.0, Typestry, etc...

About four months ago I decided I needed something at home that would
be less frustrating than working on my LC.  Although my LC had 10megs
of RAM and 16 bit color, it was far from satifactory in the speed department.

Well I come back from break and my IIvx is waiting for me.  This was
quite a surprise, as I was told that it would not come in until
February.  I had spent a good month or so trying to decide
whether I should buy a IIci or a IIvx.  They are very close, overall,
in the speed department.  If I bought the IIci I would need the following
extras to do my media stuff.  A graphics card that would give me
at least 16 bit color, sound input of some type (like a MacRecorder),
and I really wanted one of the new multi-spin CD-ROM drives.

Once I put the package together I was over the price cost
of the IIvx CD -Academic Bundle that our campus reseller was selling.

So for the same price of my made up bundle IIci I got the following:

Mac IIvx
  1 meg vram for 16 bit color
  5 megs RAM/80 meg HD
  300i internal Multisping CD-ROM (Which runs Quicktime very well)

New Apple 14" Display

Extended Keyboard

Bundled Software
   Macromedia Action
   Aldus Persuassion
   DIVA Videoshop
   Inspiration

All this for the same cost of the IIci homemade bundle minus the software.

The CD-ROM drive is very fast (as far as CD ROM drives go).

Although I have had some problems that I probably should mention as well.
When I brought everything home and set it up I noticed something was
missing.  There were no installation disks, manuals, or promised CD ROM
bundle accessory kit that was to come with the IIvx CD model.

I did have a few CD-ROMS that I had gathered in anticipation of my new
machine but I couldn't use them because I had no caddy or system driver
software for the drive.  Well, I downloaded the system driver from
ftp.apple.com and bought an extra caddy at the Electronics Boutique
and everything worked fine.

The Apple reseller promised me that Apple had shipped the CD ROM
stuff and bundled software manuals/disks which should arrive sometime
next week.  All in all I am very satisfied with my new machine.

Anyone want to buy a used LC?

Mark Leaman
io92668@maine.maine.edu
From: seanmcd@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Street Fighter
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:14:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <aggie-240193030120@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu>, aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie) writes:
> In article <1993Jan23.225241.10505@ac.dal.ca>, seanmcd@ac.dal.ca wrote:
> 
>> 2. Lack of low-resolution graphics mode on macs. PCs have a 320 x 200 graphics
>> mode with 256 colours -- vga. This means that PCs have to move around about
>> 1/4 of the pixels that macs do, making for much faster speed in games. This
>> is why Ultima Underworld or Street Fighter will have to wait for the PowerPC...
>> it should be fast enough to do quick 640 x 480 animation.
> 
> Why? Have you looked at Prince of Persia? Maelstrom? Solarian II?
> All do excellent 8bit 640x480 animation even on a Mac II. So it
> CAN be done on CURRENT hardware configurations!
> 
> James

I didn't mean that you can't make good games that use both animation and the
full colour screen. However, you can't make a scrolling background a la Street
Fighter, or, say, streets of rage for genesis. It can't be done smooth enough
or fast enough to satisfy users from LC upwards. In PoP and Maelstrom, anyways,
there's not a lot of scrolling going on, just relatively small images moving
about. Not that these games are not an accomplishment, but they still aren't
anything like a game on a $99 games console.

I don't think that this is necessarily bad, since it forces Mac game programmers
to make games that are different than these Nintendo consoles. But I'd still 
like to have Ultima Underworld...

Sean
From: 93kwt@williams.edu (Wayne Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Stylewriter II TT fonts available via FTP?
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:07:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbird.cc.williams.edu

In article <1993Jan20.031244.6900@lclark.edu> hulsej@sun.lclark.edu (Jose Hulse) writes:

>
>I read with great interest the bit about the SWII coming with 30+ Truetype
>fonts...my question is, as the owner of a SW I, can we legally get hold
>of those fonts for free?  I mean, how come we only got 4 TT fonts?  Are
>the SW II fonts available at ftp.apple.com?
>
>Just interested in expanding my TT font library.  Email or post...
>Thanks!

I don't know about the 30+ fonts that come with the SWII; but there
are hundreds of TT fonts available via anonymous ftp to
archive.umich.edu or via the mirrors on wuarchive.wustl.edu, and most
of them (70%?) were actually useful to me.

WT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: oleary@staff.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: Re: Stylewriter I and envelopes
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:59:55 GMT

In article <1jupi9INN94q@dogwood.cis.ohio-state.edu> worman@cis.ohio-state.edu (robert worman) writes:

>[next part takes some practice at first]
>
>	First, turn off the 'ready' light.
>	With easy access to the back slot of the printer, insert the envelope
>	into the manual feed slot.  There is a second or two for you to get it
>	properly positioned, and then the printer will automatically pull it 
>	through.  It is easy to load the envelope crooked here; I just eyeball
>	the trailing edge of the envelope (still protruding from the slot) to 
>	see if it looks even.  If not, just form feed it through and try to 
>	insert it again.

For this part, I've gotten the best results by lining up the envelope first
and then turning "ready" off.  It's much easier to use the back of the roller
to square-up the envelope.  Just remember to keep a little pressure on the
envelope when you turn "ready" off so the envelope doesn't have a chance to
misalign.


+------------------->  Signature Block : Version 4.1  <---------------------+
|                                                                           |
|          "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."          |
|                                            --- Leo Tolstoy                |
|                                                                           |
+---------------->   Copyright (c) 1993 by Doc O'Leary   <------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: smargari@nmsu.edu (Susan Margarit)
Subject: Re: Am I the only one?
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<1993Jan23.045426.12226@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
	<louislam.727773364@vincent2.iastate.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:38:14 GMT

Re: networking macs with a printer cable instead of network
connectors...

I think I've read on the net before that if you are hooking up two
macs that are not plugged in on the same power circuit, you could get
power surges through the cable. Network adapters are transformer
isolated. I suspect that in most cases it wouldn't be a problem but at
$17 per node mail order, the adapters are pretty cheap insurance.

Jim Margarit (smargari@nmsu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: butler@quest.comm.mot.com (Jim Butler)
Subject: Re: Desoldering for Mac IIsi upgrade
Reply-To: butler@quest.comm.mot.com (Jim Butler)
Organization: Land Mobile Products Sector, Motorola, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:41:01 GMT

In article <4235@master.CNA.TEK.COM>, florianb@chip.tek.com (4516) writes:

>=>
>There have been several tips offered on desoldering the stock crystal
>in the IIsi. This may help others.


>I took over and used my old trusty soldering iron
>(which any self-respecting EE would guffaw at) and some desoldering
>wick. I had the crystal out in 5 minutes.
>
>Desoldering wick is a braided copper tape which you press against 
>existing solder with an iron. When the solder liquefies, it is
>immediately wicked up and away from the board. In my hands at least,
>it makes desoldering easy and I prefer it 100 X over anything else.
>I haven't checked, but you can probably get it in your favorite local
>electronics retail shop.
>
>I think the biggest challenge is to keep from slipping with the iron.
>It takes quite a lot of force to get the old xtal out.
>


	In my experience solder wick leaves a lot of residue behind.  I
personally do not want that on my board, nor do I want to have to
clean it off.

	If it took "quite a lot of force to get the old xtal out" then I 
would re-think my attack.  I've had problems ruining the solder pads on 
PC boards that I forced things out of, and I would suggest that force
not be used, if possible.

	I've seen some talk on the net about the irons available from 
Radio Shack with the built-in de-soldering bulbs.  These sound like the 
best approach to me.

I generally use a 'solder sucker' to de-solder; almost all of the solder
gets sucked out, which allows the part to be removed without much force
(note: if a small amount of solder remains in the hole, wiggle the
protruding lead and break the connection...the part will then easily pull out).

However, solder suckers have the downside that they impart a recoil to the
PC board when the are "triggered" (i.e., when they "suck").  Also, they
compete with the iron tip for space.  For these reasons, the Radio Shack
irons, with their bulbs, sound like a good idea to me.

	For what it's worth,

	Jim

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jim Butler                            | Internet: butler@comm.mot.com
Motorola, Inc.                        | 
Shared Systems Division               | Phone: 708-576-5962
Schaumburg, Illinois USA              | 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: yl44729@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Axl )
Subject: Re: Mac IIci questions
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:18:53 GMT

eauu018@orion.oac.uci.edu (Glenn Kaino) writes:

>The banks are unevenly accessed(I forgot which one was faster), however if
>you are moving to 8megs, there should be no difference which simms go where
>because if they are 1 x 8 x 80ns, they should all be the same(or very
>similar).  I would recommend getting an 8-bit graphics card, however,
>simply to free the processor to do more operations rather than having it
>handle the video also...  Dont expect a big difference with the graphics
>card, though, the only significant upgrade would have to be a CPU
>accelerator...

>Glenn Kaino
>eauu018@orion.oac.uci.edu


Wait. let me get this straight.  I have 80ns SIMMS in bank A right now and
70ns SIMMS in bank B.  Which one should they be in to get the maximal 
performance?  I thought it didn't make any difference at all on Macs.
So all you experts please help.  I'd especially appreciated if someone from
Apple can confirm this.
From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Am I the only one?
Date: 23 Jan 93 04:54:26 GMT
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <0fM1TXe00Vop9cbGQq@andrew.cmu.edu> gr1c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Greg Howard Rhodes) writes:

>I go to my friend's apartment with a
>serial cable, hook up the two Macs together, and have no problem with
>transferring files that way.

>THEN-- I read the article in the latest MacUser about Powerbooks and
>what to bring along when on the road. And they talk about how easy it
>is to make your own networking cable. ("For about $75, you can make
>your VERY OWN NETWORKING CABLE! Just buy two PhoneNet adaptors,
>
>Am I missing something? Am I the only one who knows this wonderful
>cheap method for hooking up two Macs with just a $10 serial cable?!?

True, you can run an AppleTalk connection with a printer cable between
TWO macs.  However, if the desktop mac is part of a larger network,
there could be some reason it's owner/administrator may not want you to
pull it off the net to hook up your Duo (what if it's an active
fileserver, for example).  I suspect that's what they had in mind
recommending the phone-net hardware.....

.............................................................................
....Boyd Ostroff / Technical Director / SUNY Oswego Department of Theatre....
...............Voice: (315) 341-2987 /  Fax: (315) 341-3394..................
..............ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu / ostroff@cboard.UUCP................
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: martinn@mksol.dseg.ti.com (niels r martin)
Subject: Re: Stylewriter II Driver on SW I with Classic
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:45:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.165730.1828@ultb.isc.rit.edu> smt1179@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.044116.1619@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, martinn@mksol.dseg.ti.com (niels r martin) writes:
>>My Dad purchased a SWII and while visiting here we tried the driver out on my
>>SW I (Classic) and it works fine, but I have not been able to get the greyscale
>>feature to work at all.  Is this a matter of lacking color QD or simply having
>>a one-bit color system, or have I just missed finding an application that will
>>send a greyscale file to the printer on the one-bit color machine?
>>
>>Any ideas?  Other than that the interface works fine and seems to be a bit  
>>faster than the old driver.  It is also a lot more friendly.
>>
>
>
>Related question: Is the SW II driver available at ftp.apple.com?
>If it works with the SW I and supports faster printing its worth having,
>even if greyscale is not enabled.
>

I have requested that the driver be added to ftp.apple.com, and the gentleman
said he would ask for permission to post it.

-- 
_____________________________________________________________________________
Niels Martin			   |                      
martinn@mksol.dseg.ti.com	   | Quos deus vult perdere prius dementat!
My opinions don't represent my employer's--but they're right!
From: palaio@ux1.lbl.gov (Nicholas P Palaio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: LaserWriter LS - Paper Curls
Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:15:24 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reply-To: palaio@ux1.lbl.gov (Nicholas P Palaio)
NNTP-Posting-Host: ux1.lbl.gov

Hello:

I have a rather mundane question about the LaserWriter LS.  I just purchased
one and am very disappointed by the quality of the output.  Although the 
print is fine, the paper comes out with gentle (as opposed to sharp) folds
or waves across the page at regular intervals.  The edges of the page also
curl badly.  I've tried 20 lb. paper from several different sources and also
24 lb - same results.  I also noticed my secretary had the same problem
(which she just puts up with).  She claims the curl prevents the paper from
autofeeding into copy machines.

Has anyone had this problem?  Does some page curling have to be tolerated?
Any satisfaction from Apple or a dealer in solving the problem?  I feel like
I just flushed $800 down the drain.

Thanks for any comments,

Nick Palaio
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Timothy.Parker <Timothy.Parker@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Re: Desoldering for Mac IIsi upgrade
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:07:13 GMT

>In article <4235@master.CNA.TEK.COM> florianb@chip.tek.com () writes:
>>=>
>>There have been several tips offered on desoldering the stock crystal
>>in the IIsi. This may help others.
>>
>> [good suggestions for using solder wick deleted]
>>
 [other suggestion deleted]

I agree with Gregory Silvus in a previous post that the Best way to remove
the crystal is to just cut the leads and remove the pins one by one.  It is
certainly worth the price of a new 40MHz oscillator as I am sure he can attest
to.  The part is probably too close to the board to get wire cutters in there
but maybe a dremel tool with a thin cutoff disk would work well.  In any case
inching the pins out a little bit with the soldering iron and then cutting
should certainly work.  You don't want to mess up the through plating and
what does a 40 MHz oscillator cost, $1.00 ??

Have fun, (always)
Tim
-- 
Tim Parker			"The life of a Repo man is always intense."	
Timothy.Parker@mixcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
Subject: Re: Quadra 800, How may internal bays?
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:22:00 GMT
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

Eric.G.Sack.1@nd.edu (Eric G. Sack) writes:

>Well, everyone I've talked to claims that the Q800 will be in a
>"mini-tower" style case. The Q950 will accept 4 internal 5-1/4" drives
>(with the floppy occupying one which leaves three free), but how many
>will be available in the Q800? 

    Well, the information from MacWeek makes it look like the Q800 has
space for a floppy drive, a removable media drive (3.5" I think) and
then 3 more 3.5" internal drives. 

>Basically this is a question of what was removed (or miniturized) from a
>Q950 to make it fit into a mini-tower?  Reducing the number of slots is
>obvious, but what else?

    The next logical guess would be the HUGE power supply that the Q950
has is replaces by a smaller one.

--
-Brian V. Hughes 
"December 1 - What begins as a friendly transitional get-together between
 the Bushes and the Clintons ends in tragedy when Millie ralphs up what
 is later identified as Socks the cat." Dave Barry 1992 Year in Review
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Ty Bower)
Subject: Re: Mac Plus, Mac II memory Q&A
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:04:11 GMT

>Question: which speed does a Mac II need for it simms to run efficiently ?

Answer: 120 ns.  RTFM.
From: kussacca@w252zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Christian Kuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Quadra 800 has only 1 MB VRam???
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:15:42 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: w252zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
Keywords: Quadra 800 VRam

Hi...
I heard that the new Quadra 800 will have only 1 MB VRam, which is also the
maximum for that machine. Could that be true??

Christian

kuss@elf.cs.tu-berlin.de
From: npl@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Fork Boy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Macs Supporting 16"ers...hmmm
Date: 27 Jan 93 12:57:07 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <1993Jan26.232643.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadsgvo@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
>In article <1k4t30INNkgj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:
>> 
>> Its interesting how most of Apple's new Macs have come out (and supposibly
>> will come out) with support for 16" monitors. Just a few months ago word
>> floated around here and in MacWEEK that Apple is trying to push 16"
>> monitors as the 'future' standard. Is it me or is this rapidly occuring?
>> -- 
>
>i think Apple is pushing but it will not really succeed until the price of 16
>inches drops to around 700 dollars.


Does anyone know if such a decrease in the price of monitors might accompany
the release of the new models in a couple of weeks. Because I agree, that the
16" monitor standard is still outside the budget of the average user. Somehow,
I doubt that prices will fall considering the price of the 16" Apple RGB 
was able to weather the introduction of the 14" Color Display. One other ????,
I have is why Apple is releasing the new Macs on a Wednesday? Don't they usu-
ally release new models on Mondays?


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   nicholas lamendola                |  "...he who controls the fork,        |
|                                     |   controls the meal of his choice..." |
|   npl@lingo.psych.rochester.edu     |                                       |
|   npl@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu      |          -- LARD (1991) --            |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: white@fraser.sfu.ca (Steve White)
Subject: Intellegent analog I/O board?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:36:34 GMT

We are looking for a sound board for the Mac with the capability to
upload digitized sounds and play back over external speakers
independent of the CPU.  Anybody heard of such a thing?
 
Steve White
CTF Systems, Inc.
Port Coquitlam, B.C. CANADA
V3C 1M9
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: nazedgi@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (nazedgi@yalevm)
Subject: Re: 2m vram = faster 16 bit display ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Public Macs, Yale University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:19:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.180116.8496@netcom.com>, ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
wrote:
> 
> a-kraus@uiuc.edu (Albert L. Kraus) writes ...
> >I have 1m vram and Iwould like to know if my diplay faster in 16 bit mode
> >if I upgrade to 2meg vram ?
> 
> I'll answer your question, but first you're going to get flamed.
> 
> Beleive it or not, damn few of us are psychics and are pretty poor at
> mind-reading.  That, combined with the fact that Apple has produced
> several dozens different models of Macs makes it more than a wee bit
> difficult to divine just which one you're talking about.  In the
> future, when you ask such question make sure to let people know what
> computer you're using, what monitor, and what version of the operating
> system.
> 
> As for the answer:  No.
> 
> And yes, it is the correct answer, and no I'm not going to explain.
> Assume I'm one of the few psychic ones.
Your sarcasm is neither funny nor constructive. Your assertions are true,
but the irreverence here is out of order and superfluous. If you want to
answer a question, fine.  Don't waste bandwidth ridiculing people if it's
unnecessary. You could have pointed out his mistakes in a different way.
--
This message was posted from a public Macintosh at Yale University.  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware