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From: mancini@fysik.uu.se (Derrick C. Mancini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook + Ethernet = ?
Date: 31 Dec 92 14:12:26 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Fysikum, Uppsala Universitet
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In article <1hstgeINNcm1@life.ai.mit.edu>, bdugan@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bill
Dugan) wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have experience using a Powerbook on an Ethernet network?
   ...
> now).  Has anyone actually used a Powerbook on an Ethernet network?  What
> kind of hardware was required, and what was your performance like?  Any
> severe driver problems or incompatibility with anything?
   ...
> Bill Dugan
> bdugan@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Well, Bill, we have been using Chesapeake Systems GeoSCSI Link with the
GeoBook drivers.  Works fine with a PB180 and a PB100 on our Ethernet for
both AppleShare file and print services and TCP/IP services like telnet,
ftp, newsreader, etc.  This is the same SCSI box we used for a MacPlus, but
the drivers were not exactly the same.  Both drivers distributed with the
SCSI box.  I think the design of the GeoSCSI is similar to products from
other
manufacturers.  We purchased the device in Sweden via MacZone early this
fall.

Derrick C. Mancini
Fysiska Institutionen  -  Uppsala Universitet
Box 530  S751 21  Uppsala  Sverige
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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quadra 16" Monitor displaying as 13"
Date: 31 Dec 92 23:14:46 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Dec30.024523.13168@netcom.com> jared@netcom.com (Jared Slosberg) writes:
>I just bought a Quadra 700 and a Sony 17" Monitor.  However, the computer
>thinks I have a 13" monitor and displays everything really big, rather than
>with more pixels.
>
>What am I doing wrong?

Your cable has the sense pins connected wrong.  Get a proper cable.


If you made the cable yourself, or had someone make it for you, the
difference is that pin 4 should be connected to pin 10 rather than pin
11, on the Quadra end.

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From: yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: My IIci runs at 30MHz
Keywords: tuneup, soldering, MHz
Date: 29 Dec 92 01:48:30 GMT
Organization: UB

After reading a previous post about speeding up IIci to 30MHz, one
issue popped up to my mind.

I remember some time ago some company speeded their 25MHz 80486 to
50MHz, and, they installed a huge "cooler" on top of that poor
overdriven 80486.  The reason to do so is simple: driving a CPU
faster than its spec generates more heat than it can dissipate.
The cooler was meant to reduce the heat and keep that CPU from
illness.

I _believe_ this problem should be considered when people are doing the
same to their Mac.  OVer driving CPU will  generate excessive heat
and probably shorten its life. :-O
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From: flip@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Flip Phillips)
Subject: Re: StyleWriter a good buy?
Organization: OSU Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:42:28 GMT

In article <jgasaway-010193133250@mac20-152.ncsa.uiuc.edu> jgasaway@ncsa.uiuc.edu (James Gasaway) writes:

buy a deskwriter. really. no kidding.

-- flip



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From: Anand_Mani@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca
Organization: EdgeWays! InfoLink - A FirstClass GUI BBS - "The Edge of Communications and GateWays to the World." North Vancouver, BC Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:17:37 PST
Subject: Re: Quadra950 internal HD

Hi there,

The Quadra 950's SCSI bus is supposed to be terminated; I didn't use the
terminators that came with the Maxtor 340 drive I use. I did have to use them
in a Quadra 700 that I had before.  According to everything that Ive read, you
only have to terminate the last device in the chain. I hope this helps.
Anand
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From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Flopticals as start-up drives?
Date: 24 Dec 1992 03:56:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec24.002422.273@netcom.com> jhi@netcom.com (John Im) writes:
>OK, so it's slow compared to a hard drive, which is to be expected.  However,
>how's it compared to booting from a floppy?  In fact, how's the overall
>speed compared to a floppy drive?
>
>- John
Booting my full Sys7 setup with lots of INITs takes between 4 and
8 minutes with the standard PLI driver, and longer (~10) with the
FWB HD Toolkit driver I use as a standard.  Your mileage may
vary.  I just go and have a drink or a piss while it's happening.

So it's around 2-4 times as slow as my HD in booting, and I can't
boot the same system from a floppy.  As far as backups go, though,
it's pretty fast; I think they claim somewhere around 3x floppy
speed.  Sure beats feeding your Mac 75 floppies... :-)



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From: hulsej@sun.lclark.edu (Jose Hulse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Daystar accelerators, competition?
Summary: '040 model, competing company?
Date: 22 Dec 92 03:13:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Dec22.031340.7759
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

Hello, O Net-Wise Ones!

I was reading (in passing) some info the other day about another company
that was going to give Daystar Digital a run for its money--something
about making equivalent or better accelerators and pricing them, shall we
say, aggressively?  Anyone know more about this?  Particularly about a model
that would leave the SE/30's PDS free for a video card (like mine, for
instance)...

Also, when is Daystar set to come out with the '040 version of the
PowerCache?

Please reply via e-mail, because for some reason our newsfeed for the
comp.sys. groups appears to be down since Friday the 18th.  I don't even
know if this is getting out to the rest of the country...

Obeisances and Gratitude to any/all that reply!
-Jose'

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From: walsteyn@fys.ruu.nl (Fred Walsteijn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple monitor model #M1212 (Q)
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:42:49 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

In <C08Hs6.8qI@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End) writes:

>Can you substantiate your claim the the tube is "flatter" ? Is this your 
>impression or have you seen this info somewhere ?


I have taken a ruler and ``measured'' the curvature of the old 13"
and new 14" by pressing its ``sharp side'' against the tubes and using
my thumbs to measure the distance of the tube from the ruler, keeping my 
thumbs' position fixed while walking from the old -> new tube and vice versa.
OK, somebody should really do it in a more scientific way ...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger)
Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
Reply-To: jonathan@mecca.epri.com
Organization: Electric Power Research Institute
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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:59:24 GMT

John F. Woods (jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM) wrote:

> It occurs to me that another technical glitch the Alpha presents may have
> been more significant -- the Alpha is a 64 bit chip (I assume PowerPC is
> 32 bits), and there's a lot more code that stumbles over data-*size* problems
> than byte-order; the Berkeley networking code will again show lots of 

   I would hope that the PowerPC is a 64bit chip.  Otherwise it won't stand a 
chance in competition with workstation class machines; even the lower end 
ones.
 
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: (Q) The Slot Manager and Dual PDS Adapters
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:02:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.211932.16599@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> cpky@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>     I have a question about dual 030 PDS addapters for the Macintosh IIsi.
>According to Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh (3rd Ed),
>the IIsi can only map its PDS slot to NuBus Slot $9.  If this is so, how
>does the Slot Manager determine that there are two cards connected to
>one of these types of boards?

In the case of the IIsi, the Daystar "Dual-Port IIsi" provides a 
IIci-type cache slot (suitable for cache card or PowerCache 
accelerator) and one PDS slot.  No problem for the Slot Manager
because there is still only one PDS slot.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: amaag@chsun.chuug.ch (Andreas Maag)
Subject: Re: Finally got my IIsi to 25mhz!
Organization: CHUUG, Swiss UNIX Systems Users Group
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:52:08 GMT

In article <!ds2+_m@rpi.edu> simsh@crockett1a.its.rpi.edu (Big Guy) writes:
>Well, after waiting a month and a week for my crystal to arrive due to the
>campus electronics store's silliness, I finally got my 50mhz crystal for my
>IIsi. After removing the old one, jabbing myself in the thumb with the pins
>from the new one (ouch!), etc. I finally got my computer set up. It was truly
>amazing! I checked with Speedometer and also did some scrollbar tests in Micro-
>soft Word 4 and found my document's scroll time in 8-bit color went from 40
>seconds before to 27 seconds after. Not bad! And from 10 seconds in b&w to 6.5
>seconds! Not twice as fast 8-bit as before, but not bad! Also, I have 5megs of
>RAM on my si, all of it 80ns. I have a nubus/fpu board installed. I have a heat
>sink on BOTH the cpu AND the fpu, just because. I have experienced NO problems
>at all due to this upgrade. Also, I touched the crystal and cpu after the 
>computer was on for a couple of hours, and the crystal was cool to the touch,
>the cpu slightly warm as expected with the heat sink, the fpu was also cool to
>the touch (well not cool, but room temperature, you know what I mean...) Thanks
>to the original posters who convinced me to do this to my expensive piece of
>equipment! Tomorrow, I go to the store and order a 60mhz crystal, will let 
>everyone know how it works when I get it sometime next year!
>
I was also successful with 25 MHz but with 30 Mhz (60MHz crystall) my
IIsi had after 2 or 3 Minutes some strange error. I had to turn 
off the computer by hand, because the reboot (rb) of MacsBug didnt work
anymore.
Additionaly I`ve installed a cooler for the 68030, just to be sure.
With 30 MHz the Rams became rather hot too.

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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: HP Deskwriter vs Stylewriter. Durability
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 23:26:07 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Dec31.012756.5236@spdcc.com> klarer@spdcc.com (Steve Klarer) writes:
>In a discussion a few months ago someone said that the Deskwriter was
>designed to be able to print 60,000 pages but the Stylewriter was 
>designed for only 3,000.  Does anyone know if the figures are accurate?  
>I'd like to get the Stylewriter because of the small footprint. On the
>other hand, if those numbers are true it sounds as if it's almost a 
>disposable machine! What with drafts, copies, and other assorted junk
>it wouldn't take too long to go through 3K sheets and thus, I assume,
>wear out the printer.  The Deskwriter may be big and bulky but it seems
>as though I'll get some milage out of it.  Anyone have any observations?

My Stylewriter owners guide makes no mention of any 3K limit.  If
there is such a limit, it seems most likely that it applies only to
the print mechanism, which is built in to the ink cartridge and is
replaceable for about $25.

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Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:48:23 CST
From:         Gary Kronk <C09630GK@WUVMD>
To:           NETNEWS@WUVMD
Subject:      Laser IIg Problems?
Newsgroups:   comp.sys.mac.hardware

Our university PR department is operating a LaserWriter IIg on an
ethernet network and appleshare. The computers printing to it are
Macintosh IIcx's, IIsi's, and LCII's. We have noticed two glaring
problems.

First, both QuarkExpress and PageMaker 4.2 can not print correctly
to the IIg when large test is being manually kerned. The kerning
fails miserably, with some letters touching and others much further
apart than they should be.

Second, we have used PageMaker to access the Photogray capabilities
of the IIg. It works great except for a 10% photogray. It does not
print that at all.

We have tried several things. First, we took the files we were
having trouble with to another department with a IIg and had the
same kerning problems and 10% photogray problems with PageMaker.
Second, we tried the photogray problem out on a IIf as a test and
had no problem at all. Third, we have sent the manually kerned
text to a IINTX, and a Personal LaserWriter NT and it printed
perfectly.

What are our solutions to this problem? Both IIg have been on
ethernet networks. Are these ports defective? We are planning
to test this out during the holidays by connecting the IIg to
another computer using only localtalk. Could the drivers for
PageMaker and QuarkExpress not be properly written for the IIg
(including Apple's own driver)?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Sincerely,
Gary W. Kronk
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Daryl_Spitzer@mindlink.bc.ca (Daryl Spitzer)
Subject: Dead PowerBook Battery
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:55:50 GMT

Without warning, the battery on my PowerBook 170 has gone completely dead.
The PowerBook works fine while plugged in, but won't even turn on using the
battery.  I've tried for many hours to recharge it, but it's still dead.
(What's strange is that just before it died, I had managed to coax over three
hours of use out of it.)

Is a PowerBook battery covered under a warranty?  (The battery is the
original
that came with the PB...I've had both for about 6 months now.)  I don't think
I can call the 800 service number since I'm in Canada.

Any advice or suggestions?  Has this happened to anyone else?  I guess I
should
head over to the nearest computer store (that sells PowerBooks) and try out
a different battery in my PowerBook just to make sure it is the battery.

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From: akhiani@ricks.enet.dec.com (Homayoon Akhiani)
Subject: Re: IIsi accelerators and big video
Reply-To: akhiani@ricks.enet.dec.com (Homayoon Akhiani)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:28:19 GMT


|>>I am about to purchase a DayStar PowerCache 40MHz with FPU. My question
|>>is how do people like them and if I decide to get a 16" or 19" monitor
|>>later in the year, will there be enough room and power to run the monitor?
|>
|>I also want to buy an accelerator card (may be the newer & cheaper
|>LogicXXXX 50MHz030 w/ FPU) and a 24bit Color w/ digitizer (e.g. the
|>VideoSpigot Pro) in the future.  And I also concern about the power
|>consumption & heat problem in a Mac IIsi as the Technical Manual said
|>the max limited is 7W only and the VideoSpigot Pro is 15W?
|>
(from what I know)
1st: DayStar Dualport IIsi let you plug in a Powercache and still have another
PDS slot. How much power is avaliable there? I asked them at MacWorld, their
answer wasn't clear! When you buy a Powercache for IIsi the sell you a adapter 
which "looks" excatly like DualportIIsi.

2nd: From "Guide to design NUbus card" (or something like that) published by
Apple, the IIsi Nubus slot supplies 13.3W (I really don't know where you heard 
7W) 

3rd:Supermac has something called VideoSpigotProIIsi. Thats a 24bit display card
+ the normal Spigot.(they using a adapter called "0 Slot Adapter"!)

As far as I know, If you really need to have Powercache and 24bit display,
TODAY's solution is to get a NUbus expansion box (NB4) from SecondWave Inc.
(I saw it at MacWorld, has anyone ever used one of these?)
and your IIsi will have 4 Nubus slot * 13.3 Watt each.

TOMORROW, someone might come up with a 24display card to be used by Powercache 
in a IIsi.

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From: John.Hillman@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (John Hillman)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: HELP!!! IISI HANGS AFTER
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:13:00 -0500

Several months after I installed System 7.0 I had a problem similar to 
yours.  I too tried everything and found that the problem had something to 
do with file sharing and an AT&T mail program that started at startup.  
The AT&T E-mail wanted to mount all the volumes to itself and some how was 
always looking for a shared folder from another MAC on the network.  As 
long as that MAC was on line, had file sharing active with that shared 
folder available, my MAC started normally.  If it wasn't available my MAC 
went into a very long stall before it eventually started and ran normally. 
By starting the AT&T program manually I only delayed the system going into 
a stall at some other point.  If Apple Talk was not active at startup I 
could get around the problem, that is what gave me the clue that the 
problem was something to do with file sharing.  The problem disappeared 
finally.  I'm not sure if it was with 7.0.1 + tuneup or something else.  
Ever since I have been very careful not to have shared folders auto mount 
at startup.


 This copy of Freddie 1.2 is being evaluated.
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: IIsi switched outlet ?? Watts
Date: 21 Dec 92 09:56:18 GMT
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Tom Davies (tomd@horse.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Can someone tell me how many watts I can sink from the switched outlet on 
: a IIsi? I'd like to connect everything (monitor, modem, external drive, 
: printer, fish tank heater...) to it if poss.

My manual says (translated from swedish) "100-240 V alternating current.
RMS determined by the voltage, maximum 3 A"

/Mats
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: hr@spica.astro.uiuc.edu (Harold Ravlin)
Subject: Where should I buy a Wacom tablet?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:36:09 GMT

Where would be a good place to order a 12"x12" Wacom tablet from? I've
seen them advertised in a MAC Depot ad at what seem to be reasonable
prices. Are they considered reliable?  (I'm a MAC novice and am not
familiar with which mail order companies I should be avoiding).

Also, if you are familiar with the tablets, is the extra cost of
the electrostatic version worth it?

Thanks,
hr

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From: flip@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Flip Phillips)
Subject: Quadra clock upgrade
Organization: OSU Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:14:21 GMT


I have heard some rumblings of a 'kit' which one can use to up the speed of
their Quadra 700's. I'd assume it is a crystal replacement along with some
other supportave parts...

I've also heard that NewerTechnologies is selling it...

Anyone know anything about this? Has anyone tried one of these things?

-- flip
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From: pauls@ll.mit.edu (Richard Pauls)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Trouble with E-Machines T16-2 color monitors (BE CAREFUL !)
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:38:46 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Lab

Warning!  The E-Machines T16-2 color monitor is probably not a good investment.
We purchased 5 of them for our Mac's and within 2 months 3 have broken!!
One came back from repair, and allready it is starting to flicker and has
to be smacked on the side to stabilize the picture.  All 3 had horizontal
scan/HV related problems.  The T16 is supposed to be so good, but it seems
that the new T16-2 is junk.  It is no wonder the EMF emissions are so low.
It's because they don't emmit anything, not even a picture.  The monitors
were from two different dealers, and E-Machines says they have no other
reports of such problems.  This is hard to believe.  Does anyone else have
an E-Machines T16-2?  How does it work so far?  Good Luck...

--Rich
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