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From: teb@dendron.forestry.umn.edu (Thomas E. Burk)
Subject: ScanJet IIc cabling
Reply-To: teb@dendron.forestry.umn.edu (Thomas E. Burk)
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:00:58 GMT

Has anyone used this scanner with a NeXT? Good results? Where does one get the  
proper SCSI cable for connection?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re:   Upgrade to NextTurbo
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:54:38 GMT

In article <dillon.0l89@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US  
(Matthew Dillon) writes:
> In article <1992Aug10.214349.25483@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu  
(Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> >In article <1992Aug10.153139.12949@fnbc.com> lemson@fnbc.com (David
> >Lemson) writes:
> >
> >> > I never understood this, if the dram bus is  setup to work
> >> > with 80ns SIMMS, why would putting in 70ns SIMMs give you
> >> > better performance? The ram's might be faster but I
> >> > seriously doubt the NeXT will access them any faster.
> >
> >> The Turbo machines' dram bus is set up to use 70ns SIMMs.  If
> >> you use 80ns   or slower, they will insert a wait state for
> >>..
> >
> >Of course, all this is in the FAQ, not that anyone would
> >bother to read it before bathering...
> 
>     *where* in the FAQ?  I missed that part or I wouldn't have asked!
> 

NeXTcube Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Turbo
(68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Color Turbo
(68040-33MHz), newer NeXTstations (68040-25MHz), and
newer NeXTstation Color (68040-25MHz):  

These systems have only 4 SIMM slots, but they can take
double-sided SIMMs.  SIMMs must be installed in groups of
two in these machines.

Use 72-pin 4, 8, 16, or 32 MB SIMMs with 100 ns minimum
access time. For maximum performance use 70 ns SIMMs. 

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: sanity check
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:55:17 GMT
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA

In article <1992Aug9.173325.11381@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.Stanford.EDU (M Carling) writes:

>Simply changing the CPU  
>for a faster one will assuredly not work. But something vaguely  
>similar might.
>
Like changing the system clock crystal too?  I did that on a SWTP box
years ago and it worked fine.  I doubt the NeXT CPU board is so simple
however.  Then again, it may be.
-- 
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venetia@investor.pgh.pa.us [NeXT Mail]  !uunet.uu.net!pitt!investor!rbp [UUCP]
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From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Subject: Re: CDROM Delay Update
Reply-To: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:50:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.005550.824@ee.gatech.edu> lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu  
(John B. Lockhart) writes:
=>I ordered my CDROM drive around the 6th of June, and received the cable that
=>goes with it three weeks ago, as I previously posted to this group.
=>
=>After checking with our bookstore, I was told that I'd not receive the CDROM
=>until sometime in September.
=>
=>This caused me to ask myself a question:  Why do I own a NeXT?  I've taken
=>a good look at PeeCee systems, and find that I could have a pretty nice,  
faster
=>setup for less money than what I could sell my 'station for.  Unfortunately
=>for me, I'm pretty attached to UNIX.  But not so attached that I'm willing
=>to wait three months for a CDROM drive to come in.
=>

This might not be a problem with NeXT.  It might be a problem with your  
retailer.  We ordered out CD-Rom and received it within a week.  That was at  
the end of May.  We had two monitors fail that were under NeXT's warrenty.   
They shipped two replacement one in _two_ days.  We may be an exception, but I  
seriously doubt it.  Most other people I have talked with have noted that they  
have received there orders in a timely fashion.

=>Does NeXT even realize that getting its 3.0 release out on time means
=>absolutely nothing to those people who don't have the CDROM drives they
=>ordered to read the release with?  Am I going to get the release *before*
=>the drive?  *Should* I sell my NeXT in favor of a market where I can go
=>buy off-the-shelf things down the street for cheaper than mail-order NeXT
=>equipment??

Pressure your retailer.  Contact the NeXT sales rep in your area (your  
retailer can provide you with the number) and explain the situation.  

=>
=>Annoyed,
=>
=>--John
=>
=>PS:  If someone has an email address at NeXT to which I can pipe my sob
=>     story to let them try and convince me that I'll continue using the
=>     computer for the 90's *in* the 90's, let me know.
=>-- 
=>::::::::  John B. Lockhart  ::::::::::::::  lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu   
::::::::

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"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: rouand@cetia.fr (J-Michel Rouand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Problem with SCSI Streamer
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:22:03 GMT
Reply-To: rouand@cetia.fr (J-Michel Rouand)
Organization: CETIA, France

I am trying to read and write data cartridge on my Next.

I use a SCSI streamer and it seems to be correctly recognized by the
system.

Here is the boot info:

Aug 14 11:11:13 next mach: ARCHIVE VIPER 150  21247 as st0 at sc0 target 6 lun 0
Aug 14 11:11:13 next mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7

But, when I try :
    tar tvf /dev/rst0
or  tar cvf /dev/rst0 .

there is an error: Tape read error (or tape write error).

The tape and the streamer are correct as they work well on other systems(SUN..)

Has anyone already connected a SCSI streamer to a Next ?

Thanks
Jean-Michel ROUAND
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From: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd)
Subject: Re: HP Pen plotter
Keywords: plotter printing
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:32:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.000852.9592@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> giddings@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) writes:
>Does anyone know of a driver for HP pen plotters for the NeXT?  We have an  
>HP7550A, and would like to connect it to either the cube or the station  
>here.  We have the correct RS232 cable, but no driver for the thing.  Does  
>anyone have any leads?

define driver.

if you just want to hook it up and be able to spew raw HP-GL at it from
crufty command line proggies that belch HP-GL into a file, your best bet
is to man printcap, man lpr, man lpd and create a printcap entry in
the netinfo database using NetInfoMangler.  The NeXT printer config
stuff is all geared towards PS printers, not very helpful for vanilla
line printers or plotters.  You basically want to configure it as
a raw line printer with no filters. Something like so:

# br=9600 baud, mx=unlimited file size, lp=on ttya (serial port a),
# ff=no form feed char
# sd=spool directory in /usr/spool/lpd/hp7550a (create this)
# pc= 10 cents a foot :)

hp7550a:br#9600:mx#0:lp=/dev/ttya:ff=:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/hp7550a:pc=1000


if you want to print PostScript on it, you'd probably be better off
selling it and buying a cheap dot matrix and using something like Dots.

Printing bitmaps on a plotter would be quite an impressive thing to watch
the plotter do, but the results would be a bit spotty.

Converting PostScript to HP-GL (expecially the level the 7550A is running)
would be quite a task, at best you might be able to get lines and text
and maybe patterned fills to work if you were to write a full
postscript interpetor that could do some sort of blasphemous PS->HP-GL
transformation.

If you want to use it with NeXT Apps and PostScript, my words are "sell it".

la la la,
-- 
:: Christopher Lloyd :: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu :: Yrrid, Inc. ::
From: monty%roscom@think.com (Monty Solomon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Advice wanted: Hard disks
Date: 16 Aug 92 12:46:00 GMT
Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
Distribution: na
Organization: Proponent

In article <J+Y-fx+@engin.umich.edu> wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M.  
Jabi) writes:
> So, I called a few places and Quick Electronics
> 1-800-800-5500 had the lowest price on the Fujitsu M2624SA (520MB)
> The problem is that they sell only the bare drive and have no idea
> what a NeXT is. I'm planning on having this drive external. Plus,

You can buy drives for the NeXT (including the Fujitsu M2624SA), enclosures,  
cables, and terminators from Tecor.  See their ad in NeXTWORLD.

They format the drive for the NeXT and ship it with approx. 10MB of software  
installed.

-- 
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# monty%roscom@think.com
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From: marcu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Marc Albert Ullman)
Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 18:37:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.161155.6930@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
>If your ROM version is 3.0 or higher (generally Turbo or later hardware),  
>you can boot directly from CD-ROM. If your ROM version is earlier than  
>3.0, you can boot indirectly from CD-ROM by means of a "kick-start"  
>floppy.

Thus I repeat my question:  Will NeXT make revised boot ROMs available to
people with earlier (pre ROM ver 3.0) boot ROMs?

--Marc
From: bkr@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: A/D question (not the usual one)
Summary: Does Moto std config work with NeXT ?
Keywords: a/d, dsp, sound, serial format
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:17:40 GMT
Organization: Digital Island

I want to make a A/D card for the DSP port.
I have the docs for the Motorola DSP56ADC16
converter and I'd like to use the multiplexed 
circuit shown there (interfaced to SCK,SRC,SC2).

Does anyone know if this configuration will fit
the '32bit network mode' talked about in MonsterScopes
help ?

Are there other A/D converters that do better for this
purpose ?

Please respond via mail because I have NO time to read 
news these days.

Any hint appreciated, thank you !

Bjoern

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From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: CD-ROM - 3 Month wait??
Keywords: next, cd-rom, delays, delays, delays
Date: 15 Aug 92 03:38:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: parsec.1992Aug15.033831.753
Organization: Is the act or process of organizing or of being organized.


If memory serves, everyone I know has had to wait when ordering
from NeXT. - This is one area where <GASP> Apple does it better.
All Apple deliveries in my company, have always been received in
3 weeks or less from ordering time.

I placed an order for my CD drive 3-1/2 weeks ago. Yesterday, I received
a call from NeXT, telling me about an error on my pricing for the
SCSI cabling. - It took them about 21 days to process the order.
Sure hope they were mailing the drive then. Time will tell.....

(BTW) that drive should be sold with some neat CD till 3.0 is
delivered.

Later,



-- 
Manuel Alberto Ricart
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: HP Pen plotter
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:59:11 PDT
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University

In article <1992Aug14.023210.1295@nic.umass.edu>
	a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd) writes:
>if you want to print PostScript on it, you'd probably be better off
>selling it and buying a cheap dot matrix and using something like Dots.

Don't the more "modern" HP plotters include support for stuff
like area fills and the like?  Can you say pathforall?  Hee hee
hee.

>Printing bitmaps on a plotter would be quite an impressive thing to watch
>the plotter do, but the results would be a bit spotty.

Try run-length encoding.  (a/k/a how to turn a vector device into
a raster device)  :-) :-) :-)

A long time ago I wrote something that autotraced bitmaps and
made "color by numbers" pictures by drawing the contours.  The
results were...  amusing.

					-=EPS=-
From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Receive fax AND modem
Date: 22 Aug 92 10:47:06 GMT
Reply-To: karthy@dannug.dk
Organization: Danish NeXT-Users group

Hi

My computer is working as a main UUCP site in our user group, and I got a  
UUCP connection to the InterNet.
  

         InterNet
            |     (UUCP)
          My NeXT
         /  |  \   (UUCP perhaps slip)
   o t h e r  s i t e s (members)


My requirements is therefor to be able to answer modem-phone calls from my  
subsystems and to call my HUB. Anyway - the modem has the ability to send  
and receive fax, and I would like to use that - can I do that while I has  
to let the modem be able to both send and receive data?

I tried to configure it using the Fax tools in NeXT-Step 3.0PRE2, but  
without success. Is there a hack I don't know about, or is it not possible  
to let the modem work as both fax and modem concurrent? I know there must  
be some race-condition between gettty and the fax-daemon, but???

Regards,
Karsten.
-- 
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Danish NeXT Users Group
Phone: +45 98 12 42 59
Aalborg, Denmark.
From: trevor@jingles.ucsd.edu (Trevor Henthorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the best buy for a 1.2 GB hard drive?
Keywords: SCSI disk
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:10:11 GMT

I have been paying $1895 for external DEC drives. I am happy
with them.

Trevor Henthorn
Systems Administrator
UCSD ECE Dept

In article <1992Aug10.213427.19067@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.Stanford.EDU (M  
Carling) writes:
> In article <14913@umd5.umd.edu> rgc@wam.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler)  
> writes:
> > Hello,
> > 	We're getting another NeXTstation for work and I'd like to find  
> out
> > what the best buy is for a 1.2 GB HD.  The best deal I can find is $1705
> > for a Fuj. from Fast Access.  But can you get any of the new 3.5" drives
> > (e.g. the IBM or Micropolis) for less $$$?  Thanks, Ross.
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From: hlam@bnr.ca (Hayward Lam)
Subject: NeXT and Everex 24E modem
Reply-To: hlam@bnr.ca (Hayward Lam)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 04:19:14 GMT


Hi everyone,

I need help to connect my old modem to my NeXT.

I have an Everex 2400 modem that I used with my PC. It came with
Bitcom communication software for PC. Is there anyway I can connect
it with my NeXT. I already had the cable made. I tried couple different
settings on the modem and had no luck. Any comments and suggestions
will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Hayward
email to hlam@bnr.ca
From: pat@expovision.ogi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Spherical Solutions????
Date: 13 Aug 92 11:10:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: expovisi.1992Aug13.111021.1428
Reply-To: pat%expovision@cam.org
Organization: Edition Electronique Expovision inc.


Bonjour,

Can anybody out there please post the address, phone number, fax number  
and e-mail adress for Spherical Solutions.

Thanks in advance.
Pat
--
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From: wolpert@mars (Florian Wolpert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: video flicker
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:34:00 GMT
Organization: PPG Hellige, Freiburg, GERMANY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes:
: I wrote a short program to send image files to the
: screen in real time for animation purposes.  It works great except
: there is some flickering of the image.  Perhaps not being synched with
: the natural refresh rate of the screen is causing the flickering.
: Is there a register I should poll for the event of screen refresh?

Yes, this would be of interest for me too. Is there something like
a vsync-call (or is this a general problem of no-realtime-
no-singletask-unix) ?

Flo.
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From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling)
Subject: Re: Can you use any CDROM drive?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 22:47:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.184219.9454@cco.caltech.edu> stuart@cco.caltech.edu  
(Stuart Wagner) writes:
> 
> I have seen that the NeXT CD-ROM drive can be used on other systems,  
does this
> mean that I can use a non-NeXT CD-ROM drive with my cube?  

If it is a SCSI CD-ROM drive, it *should* work. However, some don't. The  
first generation of Apple CD-ROM drives (the CD-ROM SC) had the internal  
cable wrong. Apples don't care. NeXTs do. Some drives report a block size  
of zero instead of 2048 bytes. Some computers don't care. The NeXT does.

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
--
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From: lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org (Larry Fahnoe)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM - 3 Month wait??
Organization: The Kegworks, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:29:21 GMT

In article <56777@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asd@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>Just recently heard that the NeXT CD-ROM drives are backed up about
>8-9 weeks.  I'm curious how fast folks out there are getting there
>drives.  If I've got to wait 3 months for the drive, I wonder how long
>it's going to be before I would get the 3.0 CD, and if I'd be getting
>the CD before the CD drive.  What good would that be?

Hmm, I ordered drive + 3.0 upgrade package in late March and had the drive
about a week later.  Sure I knew that 3.0 would not come with it, but what
the heck, why not have another toy to play with.  I was a little
surprized when I found that there was no certificate to send in or other
paperwork to get my copy of 3.0 when it came out, but my dealer assures me
that there will not be a problem.

--Larry

-- 
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From: mcanji@fractal.phys.unt.edu (Mirko Canji)
Subject: Re: NeXT laser printer 400 dpi & envelopes
Reply-To: mcanji@fractal.phys.unt.edu
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:16:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.212448.15659@cerberus.ulaval.ca>  
GautierA@vm1.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier) writes:
> >  is it possible to run a standard business size envelope through the  
NeXT  
> laser  
> >  printer?  anybody tried it?  any suggestions?
> 
>  I did, it works. Dunno if it is good for the printer, though.

Yes it is quiet possible! The quality of the print (how well the ink will  
stick to the paper) and the amount of wrinkling of the envelope will  
greatly depend on the quality of the envelope itself. You may need to test  
out some before you find one you are happy with.

A company by the name Salt Spring Technical (15180 S.W. 133rd Ave.,  
Tigard, OR 97224) has developed a product called MindOverMail. Demo  
version of this program is available on the archives or directly from the  
developer. The flexibility of the program is excellent and the output is  
gorgeous! The app automatically generates FIM and POSTNET codes which cuts  
down on delivery time. If you intend to print envelopes often check out  
this application!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: jscherer@novell.com
Subject: Pioneer 6 pack CD-ROM drive
Reply-To: jscherer@novell.com
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 06:12:24 GMT

Can anyone tell me if there is a NeXT driver available for
Pioneer's 6 pack cd-rom drive...


--
John Scherer
778 Shetland Ct. 
San Jose, CA  95127

internet: jscherer@novell.com
From: rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: video flicker
Summary: how do you avoid image flicker while animating?
Keywords: refresh synchronization
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:19:46 GMT
Organization: sio
NNTP-Posting-Host: lutherlab.ucsd.edu

I wrote a short program to send image files to the
screen in real time for animation purposes.  It works great except
there is some flickering of the image.  Perhaps not being synched with
the natural refresh rate of the screen is causing the flickering.
Is there a register I should poll for the event of screen refresh?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Subject: Re: looking for a serial port laser disk  control box
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Organization: Metrosoft
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 09:02:28 GMT

In article <3350@ra.nrl.navy.mil> pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard  
Pitre) writes:
> I'm looking for one of those little boxes that plugs into the serial  
port  
> and the control port on a laser disk player. Software would be nice too.
> 

Didn't Xanthus just announce something like this?
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From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Subject: Re: NeXT laser printer 400 dpi & envelopes
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:50:16 EDT
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reply-To: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Aug12.212448.15659@cerberus.ulaval.ca>  
GautierA@vm1.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier) writes:
>>  is it possible to run a standard business size envelope through the  
NeXT  
>laser  
>>  printer?  anybody tried it?  any suggestions?
>
> I did, it works. Dunno if it is good for the printer, though.

I tried it several times. It does not harm the printer.
(The sheet feeder has the adjustable guides especially
for that purpose). As for the problem of wrinkling
put a piece of paper inside the envelope. It helps, but
if you are printing on the edge (return address) the toner
might not fully adhere because of the thickness. Plus
tuck the lip inside the envelope to avoid jamming, but
make sure to separate it immediately after printing
because the heated glue on the lip tends to stick to the
other side. Hope that helps.
--
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