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From: weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert)
Subject: accellerators for IIci
Reply-To: weigert@mcs.anl.gov
Organization: Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba-shi, Japan
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:58:58 GMT


I have finally received some grant money to up my Mac IIci.
Now I am struggling with the many options available, and I
would appreciate if I could get some advice on this (since
this is a reasonably large investment).

First my objectives:

(1) I want to improve the speed of the processor; most of my
    work is running lisp applications.
(2) My highest compatability priority is in being able to
    run A/UX. Any option excluding A/UX is not viable.
(3) Sounds funny, but the price is not that crucial
    (everything here in Japan is phantastically expensive anyways).

As far as I can tell from the local market (and believe me,
that is not easy to find out), my options basically are:

(a) Get an apple logic board upgrade to a Quadra 700.
(b) Radius Rocket 25, 25i, 33
(c) Daystar Power Cache 50Mhz

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to the
comparative merits of these choices (here even Apple dealers
cannot tell you what you really get in the IIci->Quadra
upgrade). 

Further, I have also seen something called Quadra Overdrive,
by Newer Technology. Does that make any sense in connection
with a Quadra upgrade?

Cheers, Thomas.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: daspit_j@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: Ethernet card pinouts?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:21:59 GMT

Hi,
	Does anyone have the pinouts for the connector on the back of the
Mac ethernet card? Thanks. JD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: mikey@nrc.com (Mike Goodglick)
Subject: Powerbk 40meg HD--> normal SCSI
Organization: Network Research Corp
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:02:08 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a way to convert the cable on the back of the
internal 40meg HD on the Powerbook to a normal SCSI connector?  I want to put
this HD in my Amiga...I just pulled this 40meg out in favor of the Go120meg
HD!.

Any help is great!...Thanks!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: poorman@convex.com (Peter Poorman)
Subject: Re: PhotoCD capable drives? (Was: Apple CD150 Plus)
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:15:21 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <52jma1+.stever@netcom.com> stever@netcom.com (Steve Riggins) writes:

> I really like the Apple CD 150.  it is faitly inexpensive, fast, and so far,
> extremely reliable. I don't think it reads multisession PhotoCDs, but not many
> drives do.

Are there ANY that do?

--Pete Poorman
  poorman@convex.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: thor@vivaldi.psu.edu (Thomas Moertel)
Subject: Radius Rocket Serial and SCSI
Organization: Pennylvania State University
Distribution: comp
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:32:50

Has anybody else experienced serial I/O problems when using a Radius
Rocket?  Here's the background: I have a high-speed modem, so I
usually keep my serial (modem) port at 38.4 kbps.  I have no problems
when my Rocket is off.  However, when my Rocket is on, I have frequent
transmission errors.  (Notes: I have a Mac II and use a hardware
handshaking for flow control.)
 
I guessed that the Rocket software is having problems processing
interrupts before the serial buffer is overwritten (i.e., it's too
slow).  So, I reduced the modem port's speed to 9600 bps, and I the
problems went away.  Unfortunately, that means I'm stuck at 9600 bps.
Has anybody else had this problem? and are their fixes/workarounds?
Has anybody tried NuBus serial cards with the Rocket?
 
Also, has anybody used a PLI QuickSCSI card with their Rocket?  I'm in
need of SCSI speed, so I'd appreciate any info on that combo.  Thanks!
 
--Tom
--

Tom Moertel                 Pennsylvania State University
thor@vivaldi.psu.edu        "Them bats is smart. They use radar!"  ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Ben E. Colley <tpmaint@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Re: HP Deskwriters, esp. C
Originator: news@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Univ of Missouri-Columbia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
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     <BrwK8E.5oH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:13:02 GMT

In article <Brv3L3.4E4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Erik A. Johnson,
johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>What do you do if you are going to be printing just plain black text? 
Is it
>merely a cartridge switch?  Then switch back to color cartridge when you
want
>to print color?
 
Well, I may work in a richer environment than some, certainly poorer than
others..... but--
 
If my output is just black and white I print to a laserwriter.  My color
output is generally in the form of a full page graph or diagram and as
such I don't have to worry about switching cartridges. In fact, our
department recommends the color printer for "final copy" output only.

We have been very pleased with the quality -- especially on the
recommended paper.  Do be sure to use HP transparencies,  if you don't,
the ink won't dry ( it will smudge *days* later on standard tranparency
material!!).  
 
I regularly produce color network layouts and usage charts  (via
Deltagraph Pro and others) on the HP-C for management and they frequently
are more involved with the quality of the chart than they are with what
I'm trying to convey!!  (Is that *really* good?? ;-) )
 
Ben
From: hp48sx@wupost.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Sampling from music CD digital output
Date: 28 Jul 1992 18:38:40 -0500
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu

Is there anybody out there who can help me getting a circuit done that
will allow me to take music from my music CD, and feed it into my Mac ?

I need some circuit that will send a 44kHz clock signal to the Mac,
which I think I can then use as a handshake signal. Gues it needs to be
a 0 to 5 volts square wave. Any suggestions ? Or do I need a higher
sampling rate ? Do I really need 16 bits x 44kHz = 704kHz sampling
rate ? In this case I need  to use the external clock signal on the Mac.
Anybody with some hardware knowledge is very welcome to help me here.
I will try to get the software done by myself.
-- 
Povl H. Pedersen             hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu
HP48sx archive maintainer

All Opinions (C) Copyright the Integalactic Thought Association
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From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Mac Magazine Info (Summary)
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:56:21 GMT
  <61736@cup.portal.com> <1992Jul21.121650.8778@sunfs3.Camex.COM>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I write:

>Don't forget that MacWeek is a weekly with substantially shorter lead-times
>than a monthly; our average lead-time for reviews is 4ish months. Lab report
>lead-times are 6ish months.

kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg) writes:

>Why? 

>Is there any God-Ordained reason why the lead-time for a monthly must be so
>much longer? Yes, things can always conspire to be a week old in even the
>most tightly run weekly and things can always conspire to be a month old in
>the most tightly run monthly, and yes articles take time to write and
>magazines take time to print and mail, but the better part of a year??? This
>is the computer industry!

Well, since this is the computer industry, you should be able to understand
product development cycles. We are, much to my great displeasure, unable to
simply conjure up Lab Reports. They take a rather long time to do.

We have to decide on a product category, figure out which subset of products
in this category we will test, design the tests, test the tests, redesign the
tests, test the tests again, then test the products, retest the products that
croaked the first time around, collate and analyze the data, retest the
products whose test data was anomalous, perform the final data analysis, turn
the data into something comprehensible for the author to work from, have the
author write the lab report, have art/edit meetings, chart the data, draw the
illustrations, go through several revisions of the main bar & sidebars & art,
(the last 5 things run partially in parallel), copy edit the story and
captions, have everyone involved in the story sign off on the bits that
they're resposible and accountable for, put all the pieces together, and make
an article out of it.

Then it goes to production, which has another few steps to perform before the
magazine is printed and mailed and subsequently appears in readers' mailboxes
and on the newsstands.

Btw, this description is fairly streamlined.

Product reviews are somewhat simpler to do, but generally suffer from the
same inability to be created from thin air.

_________________________________________________________________________
Stephan Somogyi                  parking vulture                  MacUser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
Subject: Re: Powerbook cards
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:35:43 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.204322.24649@amd.com> ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching) writes:
>
>I'd really like to have an Ethernet 10BaseT card in the space supplied
>for a modem in my Powerbook. Anybody know if there's anything available
>or coming soon?
>
>Thanks,
>Mike Ching

I was just thinking about the same thing. I think I'll call Asante
tommorrow and put a bug in their ear :-)

Tom Karches
karches@utdallas.edu
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Karches          |"If rap music had been around when I was a kid,
karches@holonet.net  | I would have become a musician instead of a politician."
---------------------'----------------------------------- Richard Nixon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lam@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: Anyone found a PS printer which has appletalk & a parallel port?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:35:19 GMT

Has anyone found a Postscript printer which has an appletalk connection and
a parallel port and will automatically switch between the ports?  Or a cheap
piece of hardware to do this?

The printer has to be fairly cheap<$2500.

Thanks..Ken

-- 
Ken Lam                                                      klam@uiucvmd.bitnet
Network Administrator                                    klam@uiuc.edu(internet)
Manager of System Services                           uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!klam(uucp)
Social Science Quantitative Laboratory          University of Illinois at Urbana
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ken@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Ken Taylor)
Subject: Re: MacSE screen wavers during disk access
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:11:42 GMT

ner@banana.ithaca.ny.us (Steven Lee) writes:
: gt4586c@prism.gatech.EDU (WILLETT,THOMAS CARTER) writes:
: 
: > I have been having some trouble with my SE screen occassionally having mild
: > fits of waviness in the display.  I recently put in a new, bigger hard drive
: > and now it appears that the waviness occurrs more often and correlates with
: > disk accesses.  Is this a bad power supply problem as was recently discusses
: > with regard to the MacPlus?  Or is it something else?  thanks.
: > - tom willett  drwho@lab12.gatech.edu
: 
: Does your new hard disk have FCC approval sticker on it?  It seems 
: to me that you have an interference problem there....

This is unlikely to be RF interference (which is what the FCC approval is for)
but more likely magnetic interference from the stepper (or voice coil) on the
disk..  CRTs are very easily deflected with even small magnetic forces...

Is your SE one of the ones with both floppy drives still installed ?

I installed a Quantum drive in an SE which gave this problem, and found that
turning the drive around (so that the cables went over the top of the drive
and into the other side) placed the stepper far enough away to get rid of
the problem..

Ken
-- 
 Ken Taylor              |  "I have a friend who's seen inside my tiny brain
 ken@cujo.curtin.edu.au  |   He's seen the aging and the mildew from the rain
 Curtin University       |   And he does what he can to keep on top of every
 Perth, W. Australia     |     one of them"     - Happy Rhodes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bx770@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Marlow Blum)
Subject: Wanted: Display, card, and more!
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 02:40:04 GMT


I am looking for the following equipment:


----------------------------------------------------

8 to 16 MB of RAM for a Mac IIFX. (any vendor)

Will Pay $100 to $400 depending on amount and speed

----------------------------------------------------

ADB Keyboard (any vendor) $50 to $100 

and Mouse (any vendor)    $20 to $60

---------------------------------------------------

Mac Color Video Displays 13" and above $300 to $650
(display does NOT need to be produced by Apple)

NuBus Video Card 8 or 24 bit $100 to $300
(card does NOT need to be produced by Apple)  

--------------------------------------------------

If you would be intrested in selling me any
of these parts please call me at:

313-851-1996  ask for Jim

Thanks!


      
-- 
James Blum
Email: bx770@cleveland.freenet.edu
FAX: (313)339-3474
From: LVDUANE@SCIVAX.LERC.NASA.GOV (Duane Beach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: IIci -> Quadra 700 Upgrade Pricing
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:20:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center

I recall a discussion about the Mac IIci to Quadra 700 upgrade pricing a
while back.  Please post or e-mail sources for the upgrade and their prices.
My current (only) source is listed at abouit $3100 with a logic board 
trade in.

Duane Beach
lvduane@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov
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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Quadra 700 / 17" monitor prices?
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:08:48 GMT
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

jdavis@husc13.harvard.edu writes:

>As someone from Dartmouth should know, buying in, say, New Hampshire (where
>there's no sales tax) could save me a few bucks, making it fairly likely that
>*someone* might be able to beat Apple's price + 8 1/4%.

    Well, I did say "almost impossible". ;->

>Regarding the monitor, I had in mind a post from a few weeks ago (haven't
>been shopping for a monitor for six months, sorry) that claimed that the
>Sony Multiscan 16" was a terrific monitor, available commercially for $999.
>I take it from your post that the Apple is *not* a multiscan monitor, or at
>least you can't change at all easily between modes.  Can people confirm this?
>Everyone who wrote to me loved their Apple 16".

    The Apple 16" is not a multiscan monitor. At least that is what it
says in the book. As far as I know Apple doesn't produce multiscan
monitors, although I might be nice if they did, if only to drive down
the price of other multiscans. And speaking of price, that $999 is one I
haven't seen on the Sony 16" multiscan. The prices that I have seen have
been in the $1400 - $1500 range. if oyu can get it for under $1k I say
don't ask questions.

--
			"Seems awfully breezy in here." - Drip-along Daffy
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes, Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info)
From: sytang@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Shoou-yu tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Is Toshiba TXM3301A1 work with Mac?
Date: 29 Jul 92 06:38:43 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523


 Is the Toshiba TXM3301A1 works with Mac? It's SCSI external CD-ROM drive, but
 the cd-rom setup from APPLE does not see it. Does it need a special driver to
 be used with Mac. Where to find one and/or cost of the driver?
 Thanks
 Tang]

 sytang@lamar.colostate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook slowdown after 5 seconds of inactivity
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Greg Talmo)
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:30:24 -0600
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing

In article <1992Jul28.174406.13332@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, bdugan@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bill Dugan) writes:
> 
> Using my Powerbook 140, I notice after about 5 to 10 seconds of not moving
> the mouse or typing, the system slows down.  This is not powering down the
> hard disk or sleeping; the system just slows down.  It is most apparent
> when I run SSI's "Secret of the Silver Blades," which is a poor IBM port,
> and it's scrolling some text by and it will be scrolling merrily along and
> suddenly slow.  If I move the mouse (ok, trackball) around the text
> immediately speeds up, then slows again after about 5-10 seconds of not
> moving it.
> 
> Is this documented anywhere?  Can I turn it off or modify it if I wish?
> 
  Yes it is documented, in the manual for your PowerBook 140. 

  To turn it off, open the Portable control panel, hold down the Option key, 
and click on the text reading "Minutes Until Automatic Sleep."  You will then
be presented with a dialog box explaining this "feature" ;-), and two radio
buttons that will turn it on and off.
   What the "feature" does is to slow your 68030 down from 16Mz to 8Mz (I think
those are the right numbers) to save your battery.  Until I searched the manual
for how to turn it off I found it one of _the_ most frustrating "features" of
my PowerBook 170.

  - Hope I helped

    Greg Talmo (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: pow@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Charley Pow)
Subject: Re: HP Deskwriters, esp. C
Reply-To: pow@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 21:19:11 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.230059.2056@vax1.mankato.msus.edu>, fredh@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
>*GAC* I keep asking questions...
>
>Ok. I'm looking in to buying an HP DeskWriter C. Is the color worth is?
>(opinions here are probably all that can be gotten). Thing is, I want to be
>able to print gifs from color printing software. What programs work with the
>DeskWriter C, etc...
>
I've heard that the black from the color version isn't a true black,
since it's a mixture of the three colors.  

>also, can a DeskWriter be attached to a local-talk network of any kind? Is
>there an upgrade avaliable, and if so how much is it?
>
The Deskwriter comes standard with localtalk and a serial port.  I used
a PhoneNet clone for localtalk, and it came right up.  

Charley Pow
pow@lmsc.lockheed.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: gnoer1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Geoff Noer)
Subject: When is the new ci coming out?
Organization: Swarthmore College
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:13:02 GMT

Does anyone know when the new version of the IIci is coming out (or the new
IIsi?)  Or their specs (the new IIci is 33 mHz, right?) ?
Thanks,
Geoff

**********
Geoffrey J. Noer       gnoer1@cc.swarthmore.edu
From: mwu@orion.oac.uci.edu (Matt Wu)
Subject: Anyone know of a way to get remote net access?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:18:38 GMT



Does anyone know of any communcations hardware and/or software that will
allow a remote Mac to log into an AppleTalk network via modem? I'm looking
for something that will make people dialing in from PowerBooks appear to
be on the network, not just controlling a computer, as with Timbuktu. I've
seen ads for a product like that, but I can't remember the name of the
company.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail replies.


Matt
mwu@orion.oac.uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: supra fax modem
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:46:51 GMT

In article <mills.712202523@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com> mills@athena.lkg.dec.com (George Mills) writes:
>No there is NOTHING wrong with WinFAX. They had to "HACK" it up
>to work around the a HARDWARE problem !!!
 
This is old news.  The same situation occured with FAXstf for the Mac.
With ROM v.1.00, a `hacked' version of FAXstf was released.  Supras
with ROM v.1.200C were released with a different version of FAXstf.

Something similar undoubtedly occured with WinFAX;  check the Supra
ROM version with `ati3', then check with the publisher of WinFAX.

>MY primary purpose it local 9600 data and I think it will be ok for that.

Your Supra will do local 14.4 kbps data.

>Can a $300 modem do coast-to-coast DATA at 9600 or 4800
>Can a $300 modem do coast-to-coast FAX at 9600 or other speed.
>Can the Supra do the above?
>Can a $700 modem do the above?
>Can any Modem do the above on non-conditioned lines?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.  Line noise is a fact of life, but
I've successfully used used the Supra for long distance FAX and
data, with no more problems than I was accustomed to with a 
2400/9600 data/fax modem.
-- 
-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparing Stylewriter with DeskWriter
From: nwc1@quads.uchicago.edu (Einstuerzende Neubauten)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:21:12 GMT
Reply-To: nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Beaver Consulting Co.

In addition, the DeskWriter is upgradeable to the DeskWriter C for colour
printing. Is this $450 still?


-- 
N.W. Choe
nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu
nwchoe@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Beaver Consulting Co. Chicago
From: Patrick.D.Warn@dartmouth.edu (Patrick D. Warn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 battery and brightness
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:45:24 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Jul29.154232.21053@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
tjohnson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Todd R Johnson) writes:

> 1. Even after charging the battery for 12 hours, the superclock
> battery display only shows a partially charged battery. Despite this,
> the machine will run for about 2 hours. Is this normal for the 100 or
> does it indicate a problem. 

I too have noticed this. If I plug the AC adapter in and then take it
out again, often the display will go to full once the little lightning
bolt goes away. When I talked to Apple tech support I was told that the
battery gauge was written for the Portable, and as such it is not
accurate for the PowerBooks. I think this goes more for the 140/170
then the 100 due to the different battery types.

I also forked over $$$ to get a battery charger and some extra
batteries. I've found that when left on the charger over night, they
seem to get a fuller charge then a similar amount of time in my 100.

Wondering what it all means,
Pat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware