HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: So, what do we think of the Performa 600?
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:35:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.1992Oct12.203522.10447
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins) writes:

>Check out the current MacWorld.  It's got an article on the new
>Performas and speed comparisons between the 600 and the IIci.  It is
>slower due to lack of caching and FPU, but it's got 3 expansions slots
>as well as an accelerator slot.  If you find later you need more speed,
>you can always put in an accelerator or something.

    The test they did in MacWorld is basically the same test they ran in
MacUser. The problem that I have with both of them is the fact that the
P600 is running System 7.1b10 and the IIci is running a Tuned (1.1.1)
7.01. This is not a fair test. Not only are they using different system
versions, but the system on the P600 is a beta version. How can anyone
be expected to take the results from a beta test seriously?
    The lack of caching was accounted for in the MacUser write-up as
well as the lack of an FPU. But even when compared to a IIci without the
cache card the P600 still came up slower, and that really doesn't make
any sense, since the P600 has a clock rate of 32MHz while the IIci has
slower a clock rate of 25MHz. In fact the P600 was shown to have been
slower than a IIsi that it should have run into the ground.


--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
   "You know Television has gone to hell when, with every commercial,
	 you find yourself hoping to see the Energizer Bunny."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jedubins@unix.amherst.edu (Just a fellow traveler...)
Subject: Re: Woz in apple ad?
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:24:24 GMT

Louis C Lam (louislam@iastate.edu) wrote:
: In <17990014@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> stevewi@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes:
: 
: >>	I was just looking through some issues of MacWorld magazine and
: >>I ran across an interesting Powerbook ad.  If you have access to the
: >>July 92 issue (the one with the Quadra 950 on the cover) look at the
: >>apple ad on page 88.  Is that Steve Wozniak (sp?) holding a powerbook? -
: >>it sure looks like him!
: >>
: 
: >Yes, and that is his real son sitting next to him.  Around the South
: >Bay, we were treated to billboard-size renditions...
: 
: Sorry for my ignorance, but who's this Steve Wozniak?
: 

Don't tell me.  This post is the beginning of another Usenet informl
Psychological experiment, right? :)

If you really don't know, Steve Wozniak, along with Steve Jobs were the two
guys who originally made the first Apple computers in their garage(I think
it was Woz's garage but I'm not sure...)- and then after the company started
to get bigger they were put out to pasture, still retaining an extremely 
sizable amount of Apple stock.  One of those over-night success stories that
helps you believe in the Great American Dream-- makes you wanna cry, huh?
*sniffle*

					Jim













Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dan@BofA.COM (Dan Brockman)
Subject: Mac Unix
Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 92 00:38:36 GMT

Apple 1991 Annual Report to Shareholders announced
Apple would put Unix on Mac in 1992 as corp objective.
Anybody know how well this is working out?

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 San Francisco 94104 USA    email uunet!odinba!dan dan@BofA.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Subject: Upgrading my Mac 512, fixing its power supply
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:46:46
Distribution: na


I've got a Mac 512 (400K internal, 400K external, big ComputerCraft
(?) sticker on the front).  I've decided to bring it back from the
dead in an effort to... Well... prove how much free time I have.. :-)

The power supply is dead, and I'd like to fix it myself (as opposed to
paying somebody $150 to install a new apple ps).  I heard mention on
the net that there's some sort of repair/upgrade that someone
competent with a soldering iron can do quite easily.

Questions:

0.  Where do I go about finding these instructions or a kit?

1.  Is there any discussion group/ftp site for *old* Macs?  I'd like
to use mine as an X10 controller and dumb terminal for use by my
housemate.

2.  What about upgrade kits to a Plus?  Or do these cost almost as
much as a bottom-end new Mac (that would run system 7, etc etc).

Thanks for any help...
--
             J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311
                              '92 R100R, DoD# 0378
"I love the iPSC/860.
The iPSC/860 is my friend." (repeat until your code runs...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bartosz@milton.u.washington.edu (Bartosz Kijanka)
Subject: Printer sharing
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:10:03 GMT

It would be great if I could get the IBM and the Mac to both share the 
laser printer.  Could I get a few suggestions on the appropriate hardware
to buy, and the ballpark cost figure.  Any additional information would be
greatly appreciated.   Thanks in advance!


bartosz@u.washington.edu
From: ddaly@draper.com (Daniel Cameron Daly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: PB 100 as SCSI drive
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:29:41 GMT
Reply-To: ddaly@draper.com (Daniel Cameron Daly)
Organization: CS Draper Lab

My thanks to everyone who helped out with the problems I had with the SCSI
id for the PB as external hard drive problem.  I am still unable to transfer
files from the SE's Rodime external hard drive to the Book, however, and
I was wondering if any others had had difficulties in transfering data
from an external SCSI drive to a powerbook connceted onto the chain.  I
suspect it may be a problem of incorrect terminator placement, so if anyone
has used the PB 100 as an external SCSI drive with other SCSI devices hooked
up with success, I would appreciate information on the configuration of your 
system.  Thanks.




Daniel Cameron Daly
ddaly@draper.com
"He who fights and runs away, lives to nuke the site from orbit"
From: es1o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Mitchell Snider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Modems?
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:51:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.oeoanMa00WDNQhN29b
Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hi... Hopefully this is the place to post about modems. Yup. I'm
planning on buying a new modem but I don't know what to get. I'd like
an inexpensive 9600 or 14400 baud modem with v32, and v42bis (is that
right?) but I have no idea what company to order from or what modem to
buy... I'd appreciate any advice. Hey, is there a modem faq or
somethin' like that?

Thanks,

Eric Snider
es1o@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: c60a-bh@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Ben Cottrell)
Subject: Help QUICK please with internal HD & Plus!!!!!!!
Summary: Need desperately to connect internal 20 meg Miniscribe to Plus! Help!
Keywords: help
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 22:51:46 GMT


Help!  I need to hook up an internal 20 megabyte Miniscribe hard disk
to my Mac Plus!  BMUG says there's no room in the Plus for an internal
drive but mentioned that if you really know what you're doing then it's
possible to jerry-rig it.  As it happens, I don't know what I'm doing
and is there anybody out there who does?

Thanks a whole lot in advance!

  ***************************
 //       Ben Cottrell       \
||c60a-bh@danube.berkeley.edu||
||   benco@ocf.berkeley.edu  ||
||    tel.  (510)845-2500    ||
||                           ||
||         Proud User        ||
||       of System 7.1!      ||
||                           ||
| \_________________________/ |
|-----------------------------|
| *Macintosh Plus   ======    |
|                             |
|                             |
|                             |
 \***************************/
From: de19@umail.umd.edu (Dana S Emery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Price Corrections are dumb (was : QUADRA 700 FOR SALE)
Date: 6 Oct 92 05:32:56 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Personal

In article <4OCT199211422332@vax2.concordia.ca>, dohle@vax2.concordia.ca
(Gordon Dohle) wrote:
> 
> In article <BvF4KM.79C@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, chris1@uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes...
> >I am really sick of this. Whenever someone on the net advertises his/her
> >computer for sale, someone in the .edu domain has to come in and say how
> >the educational discount is much lower, blah blah blah. Face it : people
> >are always going to pay more than the educational price. So let's cut it
> 
> People will pay MORE than the .edu price??
> Really!

not everyone who reads this forum has access to .edu prices, some of them
have to purchase in other marketplaces.


> I would expect that reasonable prices for used
> equipment is at least 20% below the .edu price
> and that 'street'prices for new equiipment are
> very close to the .edu.

dream on, the marketplace will do whatever it does, we can influence it a
little, but not define it.


> And people who post comparative prices when they
> notice large differences are to be congratulated
> in my opinion. They do us all a service and keep
> the net market a good place to shop.

Yes, but as with any other form of meddling, it is best to stick to facts,
and only facts.  It would probably be best to mail a polite advisory to the
original poster, and post the facts without diatribe to the  rest of us.
--

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                                  |     de novo, de no-o-o-o-o---, 
                                  | Novemba come an' dey gonna go home."
From: cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (chang hsu liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Transceiver on Quadra ethernet
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:25:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.BvtqB0.4K2
Organization: Indiana University



It's strange that Apple provides ethernet connection but requires a special
transceiver that cost around $90. What's the logic behind this? What's the
use of transceiver? Is there a cheaper way to bypass the transceiver? The
university provides us with a transceiver with 15-pin male connector on
one side that doesn't fit Q700's AUI-15 eithernet connector. The transceiver
is ACCTON Model No: EN2008. I usually see it being used on HP IIIsi printers.
Is there an adaptor available that I could connect it to Q700 and make the
ethernet work? If everything fails, what's the best and cheapest source
for Q700 transceivers?

To sum up, I'd like to know:
1) the function of transceiver
2) a place to buy adaptor to connect ACCTON EN2008 transceiver to Q700 if
   they're compatible
3) source to buy a cheap transceiver for Q700 ethernet.

Thank you very much.

Peter Liu
cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Subject: What is this 19" monitor (VY1000) ?
Summary: Data sheet for MONITERM CORP. monitor model VY1000 request
Keywords: VY1000 MONITERM
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:52:26 GMT

Hello Mac Users !

I found a monitor which was connected to one of our Macs.
Unfortunately, the graphic board has died and no repair is possible.
Now, the 19" monitor is left.
The only information I have is:
	Manufacturer:
		MONITERM CORP.
		MINNETONKA, MN 55343
		Model VY1000
"1987" is written on the monitor back, as well.
Can somebody tell me more about this monitor ?
Can it be used for other MAC graphic boards or for the newer Macs
or even PCs ?
I guess it's a monochrome one.

Thank you very much for your help in advance,

Norbert Bladt.
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Phone: +41 31 999 65 52			FAX: +41 31 999 65 44
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks)
Subject: PowerBook 100
Organization: Automata Design, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:25:04 GMT


If anyone has been successful running a modem at 2400
baud from the printer port of a Powerbook 100 would they
please contact me, either by telephone at (703) 742-9400,
or by email at adimail!tel.

If anyone has been unsuccessful at this, would they also
contact me.

My Powerbook 100 (2/20) has been back to Apple twice for
motherboard swaps in attempts to fix this problem, to no
avail, and I have heard form two other people about
similar problems. On the other hand, the service was
very fast.

Please do not respond with advice to turn off AppleTalk,
MIDI, change modems, change cables, or change software.
All this has been tried ad nauseam.
-- 
Terry Monks        Automata Design Inc    (703) 742-9400

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kevinh@apple.com
Subject: Re: Powerbook Caps Lock; easy fix
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:23:57 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Oct14.004316.8139@ac.dal.ca> seanmcd@ac.dal.ca writes:
>An easy way to disable the caps lock key without adding a new KMAP resource
>is to: (1) Open ResEdit
>	(2) open a copy of your system file (or original if you're brave)
>	(3) open the KCHR resource
>	(4) press caps lock down. click on table 0. click okay in the dialog
>		box asking if you want to do this.
>That's it. Your caps lock key is now dead.
>

Not quite.

Some programs (ie: Hypercard) don't use the KCHR to do their keyboard mapping. 
To get a complete CapsLock deactivation, you have to intercept the keys on the
way to the event manager.

A couple of INITs do this.  I know that CapsControl does it (I wrote it)... 
CapsControl has a bug which sometimes lets the capslock 'slip through' - I'll
fix it someday.

Kevin

-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
S. Kevin Hester        | Disclaimer: Nothing I say has anything to do    |
kevinh@apple.com       | with Apple Computer.  I speak only for Kevin.   |
Portable Beer Brewer   | Please don't ask me about unreleased CPUs.		 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: Re: Let's talk Performas, Boys and Girls
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:27:40 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.133253.13342@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@Dartmouth.Edu writes:
>mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Oct14.194637.314@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
>>hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) wrote:
>
>>> I would have probably believed you too, if I hadn't seen
>>> 3 different overhead views of the P600's motherboard. All of them looked
>>> identical and all of them had 1 bank of 4 SIMM slots, ie. a 32bit bus.
>
>>How about two banks of two--as in the Plus and SE?  I don't know which it
>>has, but four slots together do not necessarily mean one bank of four.
>
>    Well, this is certainly a possibilty, but based on the way it
>looked, it appeared to be to be one bank. It also appeared to be one
>bank to MacUser, MacWorld, and MacWEEK.


This is just a repeat of what I posted earlier, but I hate
unsubstantiated rumors getting propagated.  A press release from Apple
on America Online goes into great detail regarding the memory
configurations of the Performa 600, and it's very specific about SIMMs
being installed in groups of 4.  Also, other than the Quadra 900/950,
when was the last time Apple released a machine with more than one bank
of SIMM slots?  Apple's cutting as many corners as they can get away
with, and an extra bank of SIMM slots isn't exactly a big selling point
to the Sears crowd.  Also, what machines have you seen with a 16-bit
data path and NuBus?  I'm sure Apple would have to redesign some of
their NuBus hardware to work with a 16-bit data path. Finally, many 32-bit 
accelerator cards for the IIci work as-is in the Performa 600.  DayStar went 
way out of their way to make an adaptor that would let the PowerCache work 
with the LC's 16-bit data path, but you can just plug a IIci PowerCache into 
the P600 with no adaptor at all.  There aren't even the same number of pins 
on a 16-bit PDS vs a 32-bit PDS.

I suppose it's possible, if Apple really wanted to, to make the 16-bit
data path transparent to everything.  It would almost certainly cost
more to do this than to actually use a 32-bit data path, however.

--
Steve Kanefsky
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Woz in apple ad?
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 21:50:53 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:

>  Yes, Woz is the man who co-founded Apple...if it weren't for him, there
> would be no Apple. At the time (and I tihnk he still is), he was one of
> the best computer engineers of all time.

I think of him as a guy who was in the right place at the right time,
with a modicum of talent and a good idea that made him multi-millions
of dollars. If he "still is" one of the best computer engineers of "all
time", what has he engineered lately?

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dtomack@adobe.com (Darin Tomack)
Subject: ci -> 700 Upgrade
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Distribution: ca
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:27:46 GMT

I've had my ci for the last 6 months and have found that it is slightly
lacking in the cpu department for my work with photoshop and premier.  Does
anyone out there know what the current cost is for the the ci to quadra 700
upgrade?

Thanks,

darin
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                                                  ...!{sun,decwrl}!adobe!dtomack
From: Bruce.Giuriceo@p4.f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Bruce Giuriceo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: PB100 memory installation directions
Date: 14 Oct 92 05:45:25 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/204.4 - Not Even Odd, Forest Hills NY

Regarding "PB100 memory installation directions", peirce@outpost.sf-bay.org
wrote to All on 10/8/92:  
  pg> All the same, I installed some memory in a PB100 last week and it was
  pg> very easy.
  pg> 
  pg> Good luck!
 
When will the hard drive instructions be posted? ;-}
--Bruce--

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From: choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu (Dongseok Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 25 mhz IIsi followups...
Date: 14 Oct 92 05:05:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Oct14.050535.9200
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

lamont@dcl-nxt15 (Brad Lamont) writes:

In the original post, Fry's Elec(?) took mail order.
I ordered from them last Sunday. They said it would arrive
on Friday. The cost was around $13 (50mhz + a socket).

Phone no. was 415-496-6000.

I have another question. Where can I buy 'heat sink' for MacIIsi?
Can I use one which is made for i486?
Fry's has heat sink for i486 but not for Mac.


Choi
choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu

>cfejm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (John Miller) writes:


>>The idea, of course, was intriguing.  Not of a daring soul, however, I'm
>>waiting for successful reports (or horror stories). 

>>Have others done the modification?  Was it successful?

>>Thanks,

>>John

>I would do the modification if I could find a supplier of 50 MHz crystals
>in the Chicago area.  Radio Shack doesn't carry them :-(

>Anybody heave any ideas where to order ?

>Brad
>--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: edwards@andy.bgsu.edu (Bruce Edwards)
Subject: Laser Printer for envelopes?? Which one?
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:47:02 GMT

I am starting a fairly modest mail order direct mail business and
will be using a program called MacEnvelope Professional to prepare
mailings.  This program will presort, format and print with the
postal bar codes, all the envelopes.  My question is this.  I need
a reasonable heavy duty cycle printer capable of feeding envelopes
reliably. I would guess maybe 100,000/year. Any suggestions or
comments on printing envelopes in quantity on a laser printer would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks you.

Please email response
edwards@andy.bgsu.edu

-- 

edwards@andy.bgsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Performas, LCII's and questions!
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 02:01:45 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

daver@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (David Ray) writes:

DR> I think he's referring to discontinued models. Apple generally 
DR> stops providing support for discontinued models regardless 
DR> of when they were purchased. This is an important issue because 
DR> they drop their products so fast sometimes -- less than a 
DR> year for the Powerbook 100 -- they could stop providing support 
DR> even when you are still figuring out how the thing works. 

umm....what in the world are you talking about?

Since when did Apple stop providing support for my 1985 technology, 1988 model
Mac Plus?  Answer:  they haven't.  They still support it.  I can get it fixed
at any dealer.   System 7 works on my Plus, and does so fairly well--at least,
that's what I hear (say THAT about Win3.1 on an 8088 machine).

chill.  This is the computer industry, where models and technology have half
lives of about 3 minutes.  Apple wouldn't be doing their job--making money for
their stockholders--if new and better machines weren't coming out fairly
frequently.  That doesn't mean your LCII ceases to function just because Apple
brings out an LC box with Quadra innards at used SE prices.

--Adam--
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: 640 x 480 on a 16" monitor
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 09:23:34 GMT

sloderb@iris1.sb.fsu.edu (Mike Sloderbeck) writes:
: For a friend who doesn't see very well:
: 
: On his FX with 8-24 GC card and Apple 16" color monitor,
: Is there a way we can force it to display 640 x 480 resolution
: on the 16" monitor?
: 
: Thanks

I think I read somewhere that the new QuickDraw GX is capable of doing things
to help your friend. You can get larger characters and pictures on the screen,
almost like zooming in a smaller screen. The QuickDraw GX will probably be
released in the beginning of the next year.

/Mats
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Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
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