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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers (long)(Flamebait)
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 11:22:35 GMT


In article <1992Jul21.064146.1137@digifix!uunet.ca>
sanguish@digifix.com writes:

>> God, you must be a Bush/Quayle Republican.  What a dumb-ass
>> attitude.  Just because it's free is no reason for it to be
>> *stupid*!
 
>	Well, the personal attack on my political stance has nothing to do 
>with the topic.  Besides, I am a Canadian living in Canada.
>	And thanks for saying I have a dump-ass attitude.  Again another  
>personal attack.

OK, you've responded to two personal attacks.  Now respond to
the other statement, please.

>With the exception of the demo complaints, EVERYTHING the original  
>poster complained about was directed at packaging and poor readme and  
>documentation files.

The demo complaints -- crazy timers -- is what *I'm*
complaining about, and so was he.

>Thats not the software being stupid, thats the FREELOADING user  
>complaining because he has to do a bit more work.

Son, you have a real bad attitude.  Most people *will* pay
for tools that help them get their jobs done.  Most people
recognize and respect the work that goes into a good product
and associate value with that work; they are quite willing
and generally very conscientious about compensating a vendor
for that work.  Your attitude, on the other hand, assumes
that others are as venal and mean-spirited as your remarks
suggest you might be.  I take back the Bush/Quayle remark
and give you Brian Mulrooney.

>>>In the REAL WORLD you would have to PAY for your Internet connection,  
>>>and PAY full price for your software, and PAY for your NeXT network.
 
>>Sure, and they pay *me* twice as much too, so what about
>>that part?  What a whiner!
 
>I don't mind being RESPONSIBLE for PAYING for my net access.  I am NOT  
>whining about that.  I'm not whining about this period.

Coulda fooled me.  So why are you shouting?

-- 
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Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
From: david@danton.gr.osf.org
Subject: Re: RightBrain ad in Fall '92 NeXTWORLD
Keywords: Rick RightBrain NeXTworld Publish Pasteup NeXT NeXTstep DTP
Reply-To: dave%prim.uucp@germany.eu.net
Organization: Liveware Corporation   Fort Collins, CO.  USA.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:25:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.012444.15510@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> captain@spock.cs.wisc.edu  
(Andrew T. Foster) writes:
> 
> 	Howdy,
> 
>   In this months issue of Publish, RightBrain's PasteUp program is  
> featured on one of the first few pages. The article talks about the power  
> of Unix Workstations, such as the NeXT, that have the tools that people in  
> Publishing need. They also go on to mention Adobe Illustrator 3.1 and  
> Appsoft Image. There was also a picture, similar to the one in NeXTWORLD,  
> of PasteUp.

this type of thing is good, and we are lucky to have a next
advocate like Rick as the technology director at Publish.
If you cross check you will notice Rick's name in BANG
and in NeXTworld issues.

>   I think that these people ARE paying attention to what is coming. I  
> think it is rather a good idea of RightBrain to put a little ad in  
> Publish. Certain software and hardware for the NeXT has been featured in  
> Publish in past. It certainly wouldn't hurt to have some more.
> 
> 	- C

They are paying attention, but it is hard when the world
of DTP was shaped by Macintosh and continues to be
dominated by Macheads.  Our time will come soon, but
maybe not soon enough ;'<

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From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: And now, a BLURRING monitor
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:05:16 GMT
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT

In article <colo.20@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> colo@odie.ee.wits.ac.za (Illan  
Colombick) writes:
> Our NeXT mono monitor isn't dimming, its great, I always used to pride 
> myself on having the smartest eyest-friendliest monitor in the lab, so what 
> if it wasn't colour?
> 
> Then one day I thought I detected some blurring near the edges. Now I'm 
> pretty sure its not as crisp as before. Has anyone had a similar thing 
> happen?

MegaPixels seem to have aging problems, and loss of focus seems to be
one of them.  Try moving a menu away from the edge of the display and
notice the difference in the clarity of the text.

>Can it be fixed by an adventurous electrical engineering graduate 

Some folks have used plastic screwdrivers and attacked the controls
inside the rear casing.  I don't like high voltage/high current,
and I do like life, so I don't mess around with such things.

--
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: senger@csfac.uwlax.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Info on Telebit QBlazer modem
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:10:54 GMT
Reply-To: senger@csfac.uwlax(Steven Senger)
Organization: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Computer Science Department

I am considering using QBlazer V.32 modems to connect my home NeXT to
my office via SLIP. Does anyone have experience with this? Also
I would like to understand the pros and cons of SLIP versus the
PPP implementation which recently appeared on the archives.

Thanks in advance
Steven Senger
senger@csfac.uwlax.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: ast@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Adrian Steinmann)
Subject: 3rd party monochrome monitors?
Followup-To: afm@frihes61.bitnet
Summary: can I connect an EIZO, how?
Keywords: monitor, EIZO, monochrome
Organization: Informatik Club Uni Zurich
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:02:50 GMT

A friend of mine without News access has asked me to post the
following, please respond directly to him by e-mail at
 
        afm@frihes61.bitnet
 
 
>From a previous computer system, I own a 21" Eizo monochrome mon-
itor.   I would of course like to use this monitor with the mono-
chrome NeXTstation I'm about to buy. Does anyone out  there  have
experience  with  using third party monochrome monitors with NeXT
machines?
The monitor itself would probably not make too much trouble,  the
NeXT's  scan rates and video bandwidth are no problem for it, and
signal levels can easily be adapted with a little hardware  work,
shouldry. The real problem seems to lie in
the digital hardware inside NeXT's monochrome monitor, which han-
e  uses  the right cables, is it possible to use a soundbox
with a NeXTstation monochrome (or a Cube, for that  matter)  thus
allowing the use of third party monochrome monitors?
 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Andreas Mueller                               afm@frihes61.bitnet
I. H. E. S.
35 route de Chartres
F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: doberman!mike (Mike Panzitta)
Subject: Re: External case for NeXT internal drives
Reply-To: doberman!mike@esunix.sim.es.com
Organization: Doberman Systems
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:03:46 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.190008.2301@doberman.uucp> doberman!mike (Mike  
Panzitta) writes:
> In article <OTTO.92Jul24145516@galahad.jyu.fi> otto@galahad.jyu.fi (Otto  
> J. Makela) writes:
> > Talking about external cases, I'm a new NeXTstation owner with an  
> external
> > 600Mb hard disk.  Is there any standard way to have the case power up  
at
> > the same time as the machine, without having to switch it from a  
> separate
> > mechanical power switch ?  Not afraid to do electronics.
> 
> Radio Shack has a power strip that is controlled by current through one  
of
> its outlets.  If you plug your NeXTStation into that one, and your other
> peripherals into the other ones, your peripherals should power up when
> you power up the 'Station.  I don't recall prices or power capacity, but
> I think it will fit the bill.
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> -Mike

Oops, sorry about this.  Radio Shack and US power cords don't do you
much good, do they?  You could still get one (mail order, or have someone
ship you out one) and replace the outlets.  Next time, I will engage my
brain before posting...

-Mike

--
Mike Panzitta                                                           Member
Doberman Systems                                   Salt Lake NeXT User's Group
doberman!mike@uunet.uu.net (NeXTMail)                                  (SLNUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: samurai@uriel.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy Brockbank)
Subject: Re: And now, a BLURRING monitor (I fixed mine)
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:20:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.160516.28276@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu  
(Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> Some folks have used plastic screwdrivers and attacked the controls
> inside the rear casing.  I don't like high voltage/high current,
> and I do like life, so I don't mess around with such things.


If you pop the back cover off, you'll see several holes inside of
which lie adjustment screws. I had a hell of a time trying to adjust
the focus using the hole given, so I took off the metal cover on
the back (had to take off 7 or so screws). After this was removed,
you could see on the opposite side of the adjustment hole for
focus, is a clearly labelled focus knob, just as in TV sets of
yore. It was very easy to turn and adjust, and I got about 90% of
the sharpness back on the monitor.

It's too bad that this knob isn't easier to adjust, as I have to
go into our lab and do that 50 times or so (big drag, and high
probability of getting shocked). I guess they just never forsaw
the need to focus the monitor after it got out of the plant.

So as Nathan said, it's probably not a good idea to poke around in
there with a screwdriver while standing in a puddle of salt water 
in your bare feet, but if you're careful, you can get your focus
back...

- db

--
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I always thought that NeXTStep was very good in its approach to color since
the tasteless are protected from their own stupidity. -- Jason Breckenridge
(I know Jason, Jason is a close personal friend of mine, and I am not Jason!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: otto@gawain.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Subject: Re: Death of the internal speaker ... or ?
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance Company
Distribution: comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 00:22:07 GMT

In article <24139@castle.ed.ac.uk> cdreyer@castle.ed.ac.uk (C B Dreyer) writes:
   the internal speaker in my monochrome monitor doesn't work anymore! with
   headphones it is perfect, though ... any ideas about what has happened to
   it? i just connected the headphones to it recently and left them plugged
   in for some time, and this morning i realise that there is no more sound.
   i hope that i have sent this call for help in the wrong newsgroup and it
   is just a software problem ... thanks for any help!

Maybe the simplest hardware solution: could the headphone jack be
malfunctioning slightly by not re-connecting the internal speaker
once the headphones have been unplugged ?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: grd@ccrma.stanford.edu (glen diener)
Subject: Re: Anyone have a Wren VII on their NeXT?
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:49:54 GMT

In article <Brwp2z.7tG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
> jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
> >I'm looking at a Fujitsu 2266SA or a Wren VII (model number ST1400N)
> >for hookup to a NeXT.  Since the Wren drive is about $200 cheaper than
> >the corresponding Fujitsu, I was wondering why people didn't jump all
> >over the Wren drive.
> *----
> The Fujitsu comes with a 5 year warranty.  The Wren is more expensive
> from my suppliers, and only has a 1 year warranty.
> --
> 	Mike Berger
> 	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
> 	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
> 	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu

Our lab has 5 Wren VII's, all with 5 year warranties.  Although 
this warranty is standard from the vendor we buy from, I understand
other vendors sell the additional warranty for an additional premium.

-glen diener
grd@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: jules@rafos.UUCP (Julia Hummon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: floppy drives for NeXT
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:52:13 GMT
Organization: School of Oceanography, URI, Narragansett, RI


Hi -

We have a cube at home and am connected with school by a 1200 baud phone
line.  Transfers are really slow.

We want to buy a floppy drive so we can download commercial software and
tar files we put on floppies from a Sun.  I haven't seen much about
floppy drives for the NeXT lately - do they work? Who know about any
good ones, or what to look for?  Are there third party vendors for the
drives? for the floppies?  Can we do the tar file --> sun floppy -->
NeXT thing?...

Please e-mail me as I don't check into the news very often - I'll post a
summary of info if it is appropriate.

Thanks


p.s. sorry for wasted bandwidth.  It will never happen again 8^)

Jules Hummon, Dept of Physical O.  |   INTERNET:    jules@rafos.gso.uri.edu 
Graduate School of Oceanography    |   
University of Rhode Island         |                                      
Narragansett, RI 02882             |   "How does this thing work???"
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Graduate School of Oceanography    |   
University of Rhode Island         |                                      
Narragansett, RI 02882             |   "How does this thing work???"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: steveh@rtsg.mot.com (Steve M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: Monitor is too dim
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:06:38 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.163527.23777@julian.uwo.ca> vesely@next.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Ivan Vesely) writes:
>Over time, the bringhtness of my old NextStation Mono monitor has dropped  
>significantly. It was so slow and imperceptable, that I wouldn't have  
>complained if someone else hadden't pointed it out to me.  The monitor is not  
>too bright to begin with, but during the course of the day it slowly gets  
>dimmer and dimmer. After I log out at the end of the day, and the login window  
>screen saver turns off the display overnight, things mysteriously fix  
>themselves.  In the morning the monitor appears to be brighter than it was the  
>previous afternoon.  During the day, the dimming repeats itself. At first I  
>thought it was all in my mind (eyes) but other people have mentioned that this  
>is hapening to their old monitors as well.  Hitting the brightness button  
>doesn't fix it since it's already at max. 
>
>Anybody else out there with a similar problem?  Can it be corrected by a  
>tune-up?

I did notice something that is prob. related to what you are seeing.

I have a halogen lamp next to my NeXTstation mono.  When it is off, but I
have the lamp on for a while and then shut it off, you can see where
the lamp's light was hitting the screen (it's off on one side of the monitor).
I happened to notice it one night as I turned off all the lights.  I figured
that it has to do with the phosphor in the screen retaining the light.  That
is, in the same way that the pixel goes black after the electron gun isn't
shooting at it, perhaps it's not fully "discharging" (or whatever you want to
call it).  The longer the screen is on, the whiter the black pixels become,
resulting in an overall perception of a not so bright monitor...

Just a hunch.  Can't really support it with any kinda of techo-garb...
-- 
Steve Hoffman <steveh@rtsg.mot.com>
Motorola Inc. Arlington Heights, IL
All opinions are my own.
Big corporations have none.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.hardware:1189 sci.electronics:13590
From: whit@milton.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Powering up accessories (Was Re: External case for internal drives)
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:38:54 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <OTTO.92Jul27025823@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:

>   Radio Shack has a power strip that is controlled by current through one of
>   its outlets.

>I believe setting it up for 230V instead of 110V would be more difficult
>than replacing the plugs.  So, does anyone know what's inside these things ?


	Many cable-TV remote boxes use something like this (the cable
box is powered-down until the TV is turned on).  The ones I've seen
have a current-sense transformer (custom made, NOT an easily found
stock item) in series with the sensed output , and the secondary of
this transformer goes to an amplifier/limiter which in turn trips
a relay to power the other outlets.

	The custom transformer has to be rated for the full circuit
current (usually 15A) and its secondary must be connected to
a virtual short circuit (not difficult).

	John Whitmore
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: doko@cs.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Klose)
Subject: Another CD-ROM question
Reply-To: doko@cs.tu-berlin.de
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 09:02:45 GMT

Is it possible to read in the the music data of audio CD's via the
SCSI bus?
If the CD-ROM can read and play it, it should no problem to transfer
to the host ...

--
Matthias Klose                            doko@cs.tu-berlin.de
Technical University of Berlin            doko%opal@DB0TUI11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: federico@heinz.in-berlin.de (Federico Heinz)
Subject: Re: color printers and RAM
Organization: Federico Heinz Consulting
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 09:50:50 GMT

In article <tanaka.711650266@husc9>  writes:
> Does anyone know of any color bubblejet printers that work
> (i.e. have drivers) for the NeXT?  Any under$4000?

With Dots Color, the HP DeskJet 500C can print in color *today*, under  
NeXTStep 2.1, and it costs significantly less than $1000 (in Germany at  
least).

You can get more information from

d'ART Software GmbH
Virchowstr. 17-19
W-2000 Hamburg 50
Germany
(+49 40) 380 23 - 0
(+49 40) 380 23 - 290 fax
software@dart.de


	Federico

Non-Disclaimer: I wrote it
From: gfoster@charm.isi.edu (Glen A. Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT Lasers (comments please)
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:59:20 GMT
Organization: USC/ISI, Marina del Rey, CA
In-reply-to: steve@writer.yorku.ca's message of 28 Jul 92 19:10:00 GMT


Caveat: my experience is with non-Turbo systems only, your mileage may
vary. 

Heavy printing will definitely slow up a NeXT, especially if it is
bitmaps, most noticeable when printing faxes. However, I find that the
average user doesn't usually notice if they are not located in sight
of the printer. The usual printing mix is generally short documents
with mixed text and graphics, longer, more complex documents may be
more objectionable.

More RAM always helps. There is a noticeable difference in speed
between each of 8, 16, 32, and 64MB increments. My recommendation
(worth exactly what you are paying for it) is to put (at least) 32MB
in (at least) your print servers. Get as much RAM as you can afford,
you will quickly get paid back with increased productivity (not so
much by the improved speed but by the lower frustration factor). 

In deciding between ethernet-attached printers and NeXT-attached
printers consider that you can locate the former virtually anywhere
while the latter have to be within 15? feet of the attached computer.
This is my pet peeve with NeXT's printing hardware. Perhaps I should
take up Steve Jobs on his offer to personally wire me up a 40 ft.
cable! ;-)

Engine speed (17ppm vs. 8ppm) is not usually the limiting factor in
determining PostScript printer performance.  The PS rasterizer is
almost always slower than the printing engine, sometimes much slower.
You may find that the "high-end" QMS actually has lower throughput
than the NeXT printers. This is heavily dependant on the content of
the files you print. I will say that printer vendors are doing a
better job of matching image processor and engine speeds than they
used to but the best way to evaluate them is to have an actual
in-house hands-on bakeoff.

You may want to take into account the fact that four NeXT printers (or
even two) provide greater redundancy and backup than does one
network-attached printer.

Finally, paper handling counts for a lot in the "real world." The NeXT
printer does not have many options in this regard. The
network-attached printers I have seen usually have multiple paper
sources and higher capacity. Your application has to be able to take
advantage of these features for them to be useful, of course.

Good luck with your decision,
Glen Foster
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: hillman@iastate.edu (Matthew C Hilleman)
Subject: The Next OD and SCSI - One last time - HOW??
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:16:36 GMT

I have one of the original OD from a NeXT cube. I know the interface is some
sort of prop. ESDI.                                                         
                                                                            
      Has anyone got the Next's OD to work with SCSI-I?                     
      (Do you use a ESDI - SCSI converter or what?)                         
                                                                            
p.s. If I can't get it to work with SCSI-I I am going to have to sell it!!  
                                                                            

-- 
*	Matt Hilleman		hillman@iastate.edu			*
*	(515) 292-4987							*
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From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Dan Shelton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: gray screens
Keywords: screens, gray
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:55:27 GMT
Reply-To: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Dan Shelton)
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio

Hello all,

On page 53 of NeXT support bulletin for spring 1992 there is a section on  
trouble shooting gray screens.  They mention that for NeXTdimension,  
NeXTcube or NeXTstation displaying a gray screen that hardware repair is  
necessary because the computer is mistakenly trying to talk to a  
nonexitent monitor.  They also give a possible software fix for the  
NeXTdimension.  We have that problem with the ND and the screen is still  
screwed up.  Has anyone else had this problem and what did the problem  
turn out to be?

Dan (dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware