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From: alex@fff.chem.utah.edu (Alex Dommasch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Best place to buy toner cartridge for NeXT printer?
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:11:27 GMT
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center

Can you get toner cartridges by mail order?  And if so, who knows of a place to  
get them cheap?  Also, do most places take a spent cartridge for recycling?

Thanks.

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From: jon@afs.com (Jonathan Hendry)
Subject: DSP compatible A/D chips
Distribution: USA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:05:42 GMT


Could anyone point me to a source for a 16bit A/D chip from which I could pipe  
the output into the DSP port? A few years back I put together an 8-bit A/D  
device for my Mac and would like to homebrew a Digital Ears-y thing for my  
Cube.

Also, will any of the existing sound apps work with such a thing? I understand  
that sndrecord will grab 16bit data off the dsp, but will LipService or the  
other standard apps?
 
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From: sphere@netcom.com (Sam Goldberger)
Subject: Uses for Multi-board Cube???
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:18:49 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

As keen net readers know, Spherical recently
announced the EPB (enhanced processing board) for
the cube that supports distributed processing and 
servers as an optical driver board following Turbo
upgrade. The boards are NeXT CPU boards (030,
'040 or even '040 Turbo.                     .

It turns out that one can mount up to four boards
in a cube. We are brainstorming on various uses for
a multi-boarded cube, and would like to solicit
the collective wisdom and creativity of the net in
this process.

Among the uses already suggested are as a departmental
server, with different boards configured and dedicated
to different network functions (fax/print/modem service,
file service, network gateway, etc). Also it has been
suggested that we gang together the four DSP's and 
sync them over the external clock line to produce a cheap
array processor. Another fellow suggested that each board
could be used, in conjunction with a software Raster Image
Processor (RIP) to process one of the four colors (planes) 
in a postscript image in parallel, prior to sending the
image to an imagesetter.

We are soliciting other possible uses for this configuration.
Bear in mind that each board has a full complement of ports
(serial, monitor, DSP, printer) and is fully operational.
It can be configured as a diskless client, or can have
its own hard drive (assuming proper licensure).

Rather than consuming net bandwith on this, I would
request that you send in your ideas by mail. All
such suggestions will be logged and acknowledged. If we
use your idea, we'll work out a royalty schedule that
reflects your contribution.

Final note:

This may be a dumb idea. If you think so, please flame
me unmercifully via email, and I will post a tearful
apology to the net.


Sam Goldberger
Spherical Solutions    sphere@netcom.com (NeXTMail Welcome)
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From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Two monitors on one NeXTstation?
Date: 30 Aug 92 23:41:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: parsec.1992Aug30.234133.1101
Organization: Is the act or process of organizing or of being organized.

In article <16393@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kerchen@fuji.cs.ucdavis.edu (pall kerchen) writes:
>Is it possible to connect two monitors to a single NeXTstation?
>That is, I'd like to be able to connect another megapixel display,
>keyboard & mouse to my NeXTstation, thereby allowing two different
>users to run NeXTstep at the same time on the same machine.  I seem
>to recall reading something in the docs about such a feature but now
>I can't seem to find it.  If this capability is not currently
>available, does anyone know if it ever will be?  [Given NeXT's
>philosophy of "one machine per user", I'm not 


As far as I can recall you cannot do this. What you are able to
do is hook up another "terminal" type thing to the serial port.
Then you could have someone else work at the same time. Caveat
emptor: that will be an ascii terminal much in the spirit of 
the console. (Hey, Emacs ain't that bad!)



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From: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com>
Subject: Re: Cable Questions
Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
Organization: Proponent
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 07:13:27 GMT

In article <183glbINNj81@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> don@b62178.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu  
(Donald J. Siegel) writes:
> Here's a simple one:  what kind of cable will I need to connect a NeXT CD  
> ROM drive to my NeXTstation?

The part number for NeXT's SCSI 2 to SCSI 1 cable with terminator is N7007.

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From: sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: DSP and modem
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:03:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Aeb4MBC00Voz5Bo2I1
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I'd like to know if something has already been done concerning using
the DSP chip as a high-speed modem (with the AD/DA converters) !

It would be fun, wouldn't it ?

	Stefan Monnier


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From: Chriistain.Andretzky@MB3.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Christian Andretzky)
Subject: How to connect a Sun CD-ROM drive (Sony CDU-8012) to a NeXT cube
Keywords: NeXT,CD-ROM
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:23:06 GMT

Hi, everybody
The subject says it all. I can connect the sun CD-drive with no problem to my  
Next. it is identified correctly with SCSI-ID 6, but if I insert a CD, then  
workspace says  external disk is unreadable and ejects the disk.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Christian
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From: tssnext!rick (Richard Jacoby)
Subject: NeXT to Lino cable?
Organization: Total System Software
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:29:53 GMT

Can anyone tell what the cable from a NeXT to a Lino 100 should be like?
Im looking for the pinouts..

Rick
rick@TotSysSoft.com
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From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Subject: NeXT <-> SCSI <-> HSD Scanner <-> SCSI -|
Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:48:04 PDT


I would  like  to hook   my   HSD  scanner---which only has  one  SCSI
port---into the middle of a SCSI chain. That is, I need the scanner to
be physically located in between two other SCSI peripherals.

Presumably,   this would  require  a cable  with three SCSI centronics
connectors.  I was  told by someone  at HSD that  they used to  ship a
SCSI-1 cable that allowed one to chain the scanner as the first device
after the NeXT

Is this possible/my problem solvable?  I believe the  HSD Scanner SCSI
terminator is external (a little SCSI cable) that sits between the HSD
and the SCSI centronics cable, but I always thought termination had to
come physically after, not before a device.

Finally, note  that I have never soldered,  nor do  I plan on learning
it. I'd much rather purchase a cable that solves my problem. Are there
any sources?

/ivo welch

** PS: Also, are there any (cheap) vendors selling 1' or  2' SCSI cables.
** I have run into the 21' SCSI cable length constraint.
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From: pjr@splash.Princeton.EDU (Peter Rayner)
Subject: NeXTStation and Exabyte 8500 problems
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:19:41 GMT

Ok folks, this would seem to be a FAQ but I couldn't find it.  I am
trying to get a repackaged Exabyte 8500 to work with my station.
Hardware configuration: NeXTStation mono, 200MB internal disk, 700MB
external disk and (troublesome) Exabyte 8500 sold by Falcon Systems.  

Software:  Vanilla 2.1

Symptoms: A restore fails from a tape with I/O errors as does a tar
to a different tape.  dd using the tape as input file also fails.
This is using /dev/nrst0 by the way, /dev/nrst1 fails with no such
device or address.  

Notes:  The SCSI id is correct since the tape tries to do something as
each operation starts.  The drive works flawlessly on our SGI Iris4D.
 Upgrading to release 3.0 isn't really an option for me at the moment.
I could, with some difficulty get hold of an Exabyte 8200 if it would
improve things.  

So, folks, does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks in advance and all that
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From: isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc)
Subject: Need help with IBM 120 Meg drive (7910A12)
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:13:18 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa


  Since I'm constantly out of disk space, I thought I'd try and hook up
this IBM drive I've got.  The disk identifies itself as "7910A12" on
an inquire but I'm unable to format it on the NeXT (tried Workspace
and formatter).
  The drive will format on my Mac with Silverlining, but still isn't 
very happy - it refuses to boot.
  Anyway, I've seen posts in the past on how to change parameters on the
1 gig IBM drives, and I suppose that this one has a similar weirdness.
Anyone know what I need to change or how to get documentation on it?

  Thanks!
    - dave
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From: ciardo@cs.tu-berlin.de (Gianfranco Ciardo)
Subject: Re: soft carrying cases for mono stations...
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:03:16 GMT

In article <6076@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (Gregory Lampshire) writes:
> 
> 
> Does anybody have a contact for soft carrying cases for NeXTstation monos?   
> I have seen ads for hard cases but they are more protection than I need...
> 

If you mean just the NeXTstation slab without the Megapixel, I saw
a really nice cordura padded carrying case (black or dark grey) at
the Micro Center close to where I used to live (Fairfax, Virginia).

They come in various sizes, and one of them (not even the largest they
carry) would fit it nicely.  I think the keyboard, mouse, and a few
floppies and misc stuff would fit well.

Price was somewhere around $60.

Many computer stores should carry similar ones.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
Subject: NeXT Monitors [was Re: next power supply]
Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 21:21:48 GMT

Shelley L. Shostak writes
> 
> We have a next station, one with a 
> small 17" black and white monitor...
************

Boy, NeXT users sure get spoiled fast.  Have you seen most PC or mac  
screens?

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From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Dan Shelton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Configurating NeXT for 2 monitors
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:32:15 GMT
Reply-To: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Dan Shelton)
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Sep3.142743.7535@raven.uucp>  
brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (Brad Nelson) writes:
> In article <1840t9INNep8@agate.berkeley.edu> sim@soda.berkeley.edu
> (Peng-Toh Sim) writes:
> >Hi. Does anyone know how to configure a NeXT cube with a 
> >dimension board to recognize the 2 monitors ie. the 
> >monochrome and the color megapixel. What changes must I do 
> >using the NetInfo Manager? 
> 
>    This is definitely an RTFM.
> 
>    As root, run the Preferences App, find the item with two monitors
> and click it.  The rest is pretty obvious, except that on dimension
> systems, the color monitor REALLY likes to be the primary one.
> 
>    Read the manual that came with the dimension board.
> 
> -Brad        brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca

If you don't make the color monitor the primary one, any color application  
that you drag over to the color screen to run will run EXTREMELY SLOW.  So  
take Brad's advice and make the color monitor your login screen.

Dan
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From: chris (Chris Larson)
Subject: Re: soft carrying cases for mono stations...
Reply-To: chris@oceania.com
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:48:28 GMT

Larry Blische writes
> 
> I've transported my color slab to work twice and was wondering about how  
> wise this was.  Damage to the internal hard drive is what worries me. I also  
> wonder what NeXT's policy about this is, that is, is the drive able to take  
> the shocks and impacts that one would expect with this sort of handling?
> 
> My assumption is that the slabs are desktops NOT portables (make that  
> lugables!) and that I'm on my own when I transport it without the shipping  
> carton.
> 
> Any comments?

I carry my slab back and forth from home to the office (via Delta) every week.  So far,  
no problems.  The machine seems extremely robust.  I just use a generic soft case, and  
xray the thing every time (too much hassle to try to prove the thing's not a bomb, and I  
usually have about 60 seconds to make my flight).  

The one caveat with a soft case is the ethernet connection.  It's attached to the  
motherboard, and sticks out.  If you bounce it off of a something hard, you could really  
screw up the motherboard  :-)

Hard disk drives have come a long way in robustness in the last few years.  As long as  
it's turned off, the should be well parked over a non-used space (this is conjecture,  
could be wrong, I use the concept to support my abuse).

Chris

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From: jim@ptnext.claremont.edu (Jim Kieley)
Subject: DEC DE3105 hard drive
Keywords: DEC, hard drive, heat
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:38:58 GMT

Has anyone attempted to put a DEC DE3105 1.05 GB 3.5" drive internally in a  
NeXTstation?  For those that don't know, DEC is attempting to aggressively  
market these drives so they will be sopped up by the workstation market (e.g.  
SUN people).  These are fast SCSI-2 drives operating at 5400 rpm that can be  
purchased for under $1800 with a 5 year warranty.  I am assuming getting these  
to work in a NeXT will involve little more than disabling the SCSI-2 features  
via a jumper.  My concern is with the heat potentially generated by a 5400 rpm  
drive (presumably this is much greater than that generated by the 3600 rpm  
drives typically found in NeXTstations).  There have been reported problems  
with putting these drives in certain VAXstations without fans.  Since the  
NeXTstations have fans I am assuming the potential problems will be negligible,  
but you never know.  The CPUs in NeXTs have heatsinks so heat sensitivity must  
be a fairly serious consideration in the overall design.  Any experiences or  
comments are welcome.

jim kieley
jim@ptnext.claremont.edu
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From: george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow)
Subject: Re: Max Serial Port Speed stuck at 9600
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:46:25 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.114709.12495@utstat.uucp>, philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
|> In article <Btvv97.2sB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
|> >alexander dahl writes
|> >> I can't seem to get the mac of off my serial port
|> >> to run at faster than 9600.
|> >
|> >Your Mac is limited to 9600 baud.  The NeXT can go up to 38.4k.
|> 
|> This appears to not be true for both my ci and my GS.

The Mac's serial port goes up to 57.6K. What does jeffo@uiuc.edu mean when he 
say he can't get the Mac to go higher? Is he using kermit between the two?
Is he using his Mac as a dumb terminal to his NeXT?

|> Philip McDunnough
|> philip@utstat.toronto.edu

George
From: rcbaab@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Max Serial Port Speed stuck at 9600
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:46:52 GMT
Reply-To: rcbaab@urc.tue.nl

jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:

>Upon asking another Mac person, I was told that it depends on the Mac  
>involved because not all Macs can go over 9600.  I was told that due to  
>the relatively low number of old Macs that fit in this "slow" category, it  
>might be that getting hardware flow control to work could be a problem,  
>but I didn't get into any conversation with him on that issue.

Well, it is possible to use 57kbaud on ALL Macs, but use the communications
port. So, given a proper baud setting for the tty you are working on, the mac
should have no problem at all with the 38kbaud which is the maximum for the
NeXT. There is only one "little" snag: some older Mac software is too slow...
and you might use hardware flow control if possible.

Good luck!
Annard 

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From: 946753@arniew.llnl.gov (Arnie Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Ethertalk, LocalTalk, PC's
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:29:11 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Our MAC are on a local talk network others uses ethernet both have access to the
same printers and other nodes on the network.  How is this possible you ask?  If
you can afford a fastpath or gator box on your local talk to make the bridge to
ethernet.  
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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Subject: Re: IBM PC to NeXTstation via Ethernet?
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance Company
Distribution: comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:41:38 GMT

In article <ESCHWART.92Aug25224727@netcom.Netcom.COM> eschwart@netcom.Netcom.COM (Eric Schwartz) writes:
   Has anyone successfully hooked up a PC with an Ethernet board of some kind
   to a NeXTstation?

Yep, I have a mini-network of the NeXTstation and my PC at home.  NCSA
telnet and ftp is free.  All you need is the card, cables and terminators.

PS. No, I mean the small plug-like resistors at the end of your cables
to prevent echos messing things up, not the T-800's.
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From: bmehlman@trirex.com(Ben Mehlman)
Subject: Re: Lots 'o Questions
Keywords: serial, bbs
Reply-To: bmehlman@trirex.com
Organization: Trirex Systems Inc.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:18:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.221622.474@seas.smu.edu> dleon@seas.smu.edu (David  
Leon) writes:
> In article <1992Aug27.070612.15004@unixg.ubc.ca> besler@geop.ubc.ca  
(Steve Besler) writes:
> >	4) Can I hook up some sort of "multiport" serial device to a slab  
to 
> >	   allow me to hook up some terminals, or modems?  I mean more
> >	   than the 2 RS432 that comes standard.  I am interested in 
> >	   setting up a public-access unix system or something.
> >
> 
> You can use a SCSI based product called SLAT by UUNET (I think).  

The company that makes SLAT is Uninet Peripherals Inc.  It's in the NeXT  
product catalog.

A free unix citadel type bbs, Citadel/UX, is available for downloading  
from Uncensored BBS: (914) 761-6877  2400, N81, the home system.

You can probably email the author as: ajc@uncnsrd.UUCP
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From: lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu (John B. Lockhart)
Subject: Sun "Archive Python" Tape Drive
Organization: Computer Engineering Group, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:30:35 GMT

My boss had a few dozen Sun 150 meg tape drives lying about gathering dust,
so I thought I'd snarf one and use it to backup my 'station with.  Wrong.

I connected it on it's lonesome (as SCSI id 4) to the NeXT, with a terminator,
and get I/O errors on all read/writes with gnutar.

The NeXT recognizes the device by name, /dev/rst0 does cause the drive to
whirr/rewind the tape on close, mt will write an eof to the tape, and I'm
sure I've got the blocking factor right (126).  I've also tried it without
the terminator, and with a different terminator.

Any ideas on how to get rid o' the I/O errors?

--John


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From: phayes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Patrick W Hayes)
Subject: Re: MODERATOR: Questionaire #1, event postings
Keywords: Moderator Bonehead
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:16:17 GMT

Hey Todd, I thought you wrote me that you would include a question about
how NeXT related event postings should be handled. In fact, I believe I asked
you to do this on a previous questionaire you sent out, but you didn't.
(Though it might have been because you mail was not working right.) I asked
you to ask whether people thought they should be posted as individual messages,
and if a comp.sys.next.events newsgroup was a good idea.

Anyways, did you forget, or do you just think I am a nut, and wish I would
go away?

Patrick Hayes
pwhayes+@osu.edu
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