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From: leue@crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Disposable StyleWriter
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:37:54 GMT
Reply-To: leue@crd.ge.com
Organization: General Electric Research & Development

I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience with their StyleWriter.

A few days ago, my StyleWriter began making horrible grinding noises when
it was powered up.  I took it in to my Apple dealer.  According to the
dealer, there are only two "field replacable units" in the StyleWriter:
the "frame" and the logic board -- my frame was defective, and needed to be
replaced at a cost of $309 plus tax.  Ouch!

Since the unit was only two and one-half months out of warranty, I called
Apple Customer Service to protest the cost of repair and ask for a warranty
extension.  After a few more days, the response came back -- no such luck,
fella!  In fact, the Apple service rep pointed out to me that I would be 
better off buying a whole new StyleWriter, since the cost of the frame was
close to the "street" price of the unit, and a new unit gives me a new
one-year warranty, whereas the repair would only be good for 90 days.

I have heard reports from various quarters, including an Apple dealer, that
the problem with my unit is not unique.  I now wonder how widespread this
problem is.

So, I'd like to hear from anyone else who has had a similar problem.  I intend
to write a letter to Apple as a last resort, and then consider other options.
My immediate emotional reaction is to say that Apple ought to be forced to
put a warning label on the printer and on all advertising for it, for instance:

"WARNING:  This unit is liable to self-destruct shortly after the warranty
expires, and it will not be cost-effective to repair it.  You ought to
seriously consider buying an HP DeskWriter instead!"

If this proves to be a common problem, I suspose there's a miniscule chance
that we can get Apple to extend the warrenty for these failing units.  Please
respond, and I will summarize for the net.  In you message, you ought to say
whether or not I can cite your name in correspondence with Apple on this
problem.

Thanks!
-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com

Disclaimer:  These are my own personal views (and my own personal StyleWriter)
and not those of GE.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: mboone@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael B Boone)
Subject: Panasonic Printer
Organization: The Ohio State University (GO BUCKS!)
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 03:59:19 GMT

Hey all,

My roommate is getting Mac LC tomorrow and we'd like to be able to use
my Panasonic KXP-1124 printer which is normall hooked up to my Amiga.
I don't see why this wouldn't be possible with the right printer driver,
right?  I'm familiar with the Mac OS but I don't know much about what
kind of hardware you can connect to one.  Any info you could give me would
be great.  Please email me if possible as I usually don't read this news-
group.

Thanks.
Mike.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Stephen Cooper <stephen@csd.uu.se>
Subject: Re: unchangeable HD name and icon
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6C7F86917010C8A@mac-4.csd.uu.se>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:25:13 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:24:27 GMT

In article <31VPB0ZW@cc.swarthmore.edu> Daniel Kohn,
kohn@cs.swarthmore.edu writes:
>	I hope this doesn't count as a FAQ, but I cannot change the name or
>icon of my hard drive.  I have turned file sharing off, and have tried
>eveything else I could think of.

Actually, it is a FAQ, but I don't know if it's made it to the FAQ list
yet.
>
>	I have a IIci 5/80 running AutoDoubler and a couple other rows of
>extensions.
>
>	A friend suggested that this is a known problem and that I can
>download a program that can fix it.  He couldn't remember the name; can
>you?  Where is it?
If it weren't a known prob, it wouldn't be a FAQ :-).  
Pick up Unlock folder from sumex.  This will fix your problems.
>
>	Thanks.
shucks, twarnt nuffin :-)

Stephen
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From: rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt SpaceSaver corrupt my files...
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:35:19 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

Actually I did have Stuffit Deluxe 3.0 and Spacesaver on both machines in 
question.  The problems occurred primarily while doing file transfers over 
AppleTalk (couple hundred files).  It is possible that SpaceSaver was 
compressing a file while Finder attempted to move it...would that do it?

Bob
From: cliff@spdcc.com (Cliff Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: examples of SCSI programming on the Mac?
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:49:21 GMT
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

Can anyone steer me to some source examples of SCSI operations on the Mac? I
just want to shive a packet or two to a tape drive to reset some of
its configuration data.
				Thanks, -cliff

-- 
Cliff Spencer cliff@spdcc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kdobbs@brahms.udel.edu (Kerwin D Dobbs)
Subject: Stylewriter printing problems
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:07:26 GMT

I gave my parents my Mac II for them to use. They needed
an inexpensive printer for printing out letters and such,
so I convinced them to buy a StyleWriter. Now, I had to 
install system 6.0.7 for them before I was able to install
the printer software. Now, I do not recall the version
number of the printer software, but I can get it if it is
necessary to get my problem solved (I live in Delaware while
my parents live in Virginia). The problem they are encountering
is that printing is ocurring as if there is a carriage return
in the middle of the page. In other words, they would create
a Word 4.0 document of say 12 lines and it would print out in
about 24 lines because it would print out only to the middle
of the piece of paper. The strange thing is that any old
documents (before the installation of the Stylewriter) will
print out fine with no problems.

Does anyone know what the problem is and how to solve it?

kdobbs@brahms.udel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ronaldw@sco.COM (Ronald A. Wong)
Subject: Re: PowerBook Insurance
Organization: SCO Developer Relations
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 23:30:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

In article <SMITTIE.92Aug18133554@beach.csulb.edu>, smittie@beach.csulb.edu
(Smittie) wrote:
> 
> I received the following info on a card that came as junk mail.
> 
> The ComputerInsurance Agency, Inc.
> 6150 Old Millersport Rd., N. E.
> Pleasantville, Ohio 43148-9900
> (800) 722-0385
> 
> +covers theft, fire, power surges, accidents, natural disasters, even
> earthquakes and flood.
> 
> +Replacement with no depreciation
> 
> +Covers computer hardware in the home or office
> 
> +Transit up to $10,000 (anyone know what this means?)
> 
> Costs are listed as follows:
> Hardware	Software	Annual
> coverage	coverage	premium
> $3000		$600		$60
> $4000		$800		$80
> $5000		$1000		$100
> $6000		$1200		$120
> $7000		$1400		$140
> Call for rates on higher amounts
> Subject to underwriting
> 
> There is a 30 day free trail period - Satisfaction Guaranteed
> 
> I have absolutely no relationship with this company what so ever.
> 
> smittie
> -- 
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> GEnie, MCI, AOL:Smittie | If all of us were as smart as we think we are the
> smittie@beach.csulb.edu |  current world problems would be yesterday's news.
> ________________________|___________________________________________________

The rates sound fairly reasonable --- I've purchased a commercial/business
policy through State Farm for $2000 coverage at a little less than those
rates.  They don't offer an attachment to a homeowner's policy.

'Probably useful only if you already have some business with State Farm...


______________________________________________________________________
Ron Wong            The Santa Cruz Operation             408-427-7128
Net & Comm          400 Encinal Street, PO Box 1900      FAX: 425-3544
Segment Mgr         Santa Cruz, CA  95061-1900
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf)
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 11:43:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.065401.29323@CS.ORST.EDU> pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne) writes:
>Think about it, apple and IBM are jointly developing a new computer platform
>that will be able to run the old software of both platforms, but not
>be either.  Motorola is developing the chipset, and from what I've heard will
>be able to sell it to 3rd parties.  IBM didn't want to get into the legal 
>battle with Apple that Microsoft and HP did, so they got the rights to 
>elements of the interface.  

>Apple has some good points, and was once
>one of the best GUIs around, but they are loosing ground fast.  Try OS/2
>and WPS before you get in a tizzy, you might be suprised.

I've got OS/2 and the Workplace Shell running on a machine that's not
3 feet from my (newly acquired) Mac.  The WPS *is* nice (and very powerful),
but it comes with quite a bit of complexity.  I can only imagine
someone like my mother trying to figure out what all the object
settings are -- and you have to see this stuff in order to rename an
object on the desktop.

I think Apple's done an excellent job with keeping their GUI powerful yet
manageable.

Daryl
>
>
>-- 
>Carl W. Price		 	*      * Work keeps us from three evils:     * 
>Computer Engineering Student	*      * boredom, vice, and need.            *
>Oregon State University		*      *                                     *
>pricec@prism.cs.orst.edu	*      *       ---Voltaire                   *


-- 
Daryl Biberdorf  N5GJM    dlb5404@rigel.tamu.edu  or  dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu
        "You're not messy.  You're organizationally impaired."
                _Real_Life_Adventures_, July 3, 1992 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:17:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Aug28.201740.18893
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.

>>Strange, my PC has a memory limit of 4GB without any of the expanded et al.
>>BS.  

>You said it.  BS indeed.  The PC has a memory limit of 640 kilobytes.  
>Not megabytes, *kilobytes*.  Memory beyond that barrier cannot be
>addressed without resorting to tricks such as those used by Microsoft
>Windows.  Tricks that don't always work, which is why Ventura Publisher
>for Windows, for example, cannot multitask with any other Windows program
>no matter how much physical or virtual memory you have installed.  If you
>don't believe me, just call Ventura technical support and *ask*.

I don't use Ventura publisher, I use Pagemaker.  So I don't think I'll call
Ventura.  But as I stated above, I have 32 bit flat memory, i.e. 4GB without
the tricks etc.  not *kilobytes* but *gigabytes*.

>>You Should check out the PC world, much has and is happening (the
>>great thing about competition).

>Look, kid, I've already stated this several times, but 
>since you obviously have trouble reading, I'll state it
>again, in capital letters just for you: I AM TYPING THIS
>ON A PC.  I USE A PC EIGHT HOURS A DAY -- MORE THAN I USE
>THE MAC.  I don't need to "check out the PC world," I am
>already more familiar with it than I really care to be,
>probably more familiar with it than most people here, and
>obviously a hell of a lot more familar than you.   

[for those who want, leave now]
Listen Shithead, you know jack shit about me, so quit calling me kid 
because my sig tells you I'm in college, how the fucking hell do you know
how old I am.  Maybe if you'd open your fucking eyes and read you'd realize
that I'm using OS/2.  What's that you say.  It's a 32-bit OS, without 
the limits of that Microsoft shit.  Obviously you're not to familiar with
the PC world, if you don't even know what's happening in it.  Just 
because you work with it 8 hours a day doesn't mean you know it.  And you
are not "obviously a hell of a lot more familar" with the PC than I am,
just because you sit on your ass and type on one.  Get Real and come 
back down to mother earth.

[Flame Off]

--Carl

-- 
Carl W. Price		 	*      * Work keeps us from three evils:     * 
Computer Engineering Student	*      * boredom, vice, and need.            *
Oregon State University		*      *                                     *
pricec@prism.cs.orst.edu	*      *       ---Voltaire                   *
From: J.Cook@ENS.Prime.COM (Jim Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Oscilloscope in a mac?
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:58:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: primerd.1992Sep4.175847.16414
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.

In article <hise.714935833@vincent1.iastate.edu>, hise@iastate.edu (Allan R
Hise) writes:
>> 
>> I seem to remember seeing last fall (before I had my mac...) a vendor
selling
>> a card & software that essentially allowed you to use your mac as an 
>> oscilloscope.  Anyonmne out there know about this?  I would very much like
>> to have one of these in my IIsi....
>> 
>> Thanks for any info,
>> Allan
>> hise@iastate.edu

I don't know if this helps, but BioMation makes a logic analyzer based on a
Mac.

J
From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Details on the new machines
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:14:27 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Can anyone give me relatively firm details on the new Macs coming out RSN?

Also, when are they supposed to be announced?  When is the new price list
due?

Jess Holle
From: pollansw@cse.fau.edu (Warren Pollans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: undoin .cpt files?
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:49:26 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

I just downloaded zterm from an ftp archive.  It's zterm.cpt.  I
understand that that is a "compact pro" file.  What's compact pro?
where do I get it?  Better yet, where can I find zterm as a .sit
file?

Thanks,

Warren

(pollansw@cse.fau.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: vladimir@Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir Ivanovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: 32-bit Quickdraw INIT?
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:17:18
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cocteau

Quicktime refuses to load because it's missing the 32-bit QuickDraw INIT.
Where does one get this beast?  Will I get it if I install system software
(7.0) for all Macintoshes?  I have an accelerated (20 MHz '030) MacPlus
with those ancient ROMs.

Thanks.

-- Vladimir
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(415) 336-2315                                  MTV12-33
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From: cooneys@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Screensaver for ancient Mac 512?
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:02:06 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <185ofvINNslr@early-bird.think.com>, Paco Ojeda <Paco_Ojeda_Gonzalez@macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:
> In article <1992Sep3.141259.5125@gw.wmich.edu> , cooneys@gw.wmich.edu
> writes:
>>Can anyone point me to a screen saver that works with early 
>>Macs, such as the 512K? I'm running system 4 on it, and it 
>>doesn't handle INITs, as far as I can tell.
> 
> How about Moire? It's shareware and it should be available on SUMEX. As
> far as I can recall it's a control panel, thus, should work just fine
> with your computer.
> Good luck!
> 
> Paco Ojeda
> 
> ===============================================================
> Paco Ojeda-Gonzalez          |ffoogg@macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu
> Graphic Services Coordinator |
> Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | The opinions expressed here are
> Boston, MA                   |    mine and not Dana-Farber's
> ===============================================================


Moire is great, but not for this 512. And I was wrong about 
the system: it's FINDER 4.1, not "system": the system is un-
numbered, so is probably System 1!
From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: new version of the Regulator available from ftp.apple.com
Summary: ftp.apple.com = 130.43.2.3
Date: 31 Aug 92 12:13:18 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In the directory pub/powerbook is a new directory for
The_Regulator_1.3, my hack to set sleep & hard disk spin settings on a
PowerBook or Portable depending upon whether the battery charger is
plugged into the PowerBook or not.  This version fixes a problem not
recognizing plug state at startup.  Thanks to Charlie Rieman for the
code fixes.

As always, source included, and comments welcome to blob@apple.com.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"
From: smwall@aol.com (Steve Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:05:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U.S. Army Armament Research Dev. & Eng. Ctr, Dover NJ

According to an article in the 8/24/92 edition of MacWeek, Guarino was
wrong when he said Taligent's OS won't run Mac applications right away.  This
information is attributed to 'sources', which doesn't say a lot for it's 
reliability, but the article goes on to say that the SW developers' kit
for Taligent OS seeded prior to the OS ship date won't have full OS/2,
AIX capability, but might do System 7.  

On a related note: I thought of a good name for the Taligent OS. Let's call it 
Taligent's Comprehensive Operating System, or Tacos.  :-} 

Steve Wall
From: sshws@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Herb Schilling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: MPW Script to access ftp archives
Date: 2 Sep 92 11:46:17 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center


I have this very fuzzy memory ( dream ? ) of reading a Usenet posting about an 
MPW script that would access ftp archives such as sumex. Am I dreaming this ?
If not, can someone point me in the direction to it ? Thanks.
-- 
Herb Schilling , NASA Lewis Research Center , 21000 Brookpark Road, MS 142-5
Cleveland, Ohio 44135 . (216) 433-8955       sshws@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kanefsky@src.honeywell.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:35:35 GMT

In article <92240.120751ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
>In article <ewright.714845483@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V.
>Wright) says:
>>
>>affix smiley faces to *all* your arguments.  And I'm still waiting for
>>you to tell me where you got ATM and OS/2 for free.
>
>Let`s see: where do I get MacOS for free? At the Mac dealer, if I buy a Mac.
>So where do I probably get OS/2 for free? At the IMB dealer, if I buy a PS/2.
>Or from Dell (as far as I have heard) if I buy a Dell machine.
>If I don`t buy a machine I get nothing for free. Apple charges me DM149 = $100
>for System 7 and IBM DM212 = $141 for OS/2.

If you have ftp access, try ftp-ing to ftp.apple.com and look in the 
/dts/mac/sys.soft directory.  If you have a CompuServe account, try looking 
there.  You'll find all the latest system software, as well as some older 
versions.  You only need to pay for the upgrade if you want *printed* manuals.

Where can you ftp OS/2 from?

Even with free upgrades, I still consider the ability to download the latest
system software directly from the horse's mouth (so to speak) a significant
advantage.

>>No, what Apple is really charging you for is (overpriced) documentation
>>and technical support.  If all you want is System 7, you can get that
>>free.
>See above. A device or program w/o documentation is no device or program.
>It`s simply nonexistent for any practical purpose. If I depend on it
>which is surely true in case of an OS I need doumentation i.e. pay cash.

System 7 is so easy to use you don't really need any documentation.  But there
is plenty of *on-site* documentation which comes for free.

--
Steve Kanefsky

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joe Demon)
Subject: Re: System memory useage under system 7
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:50:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.004906.5000@sierra.com>
tbiggs@sierra.com (Todd Biggs) writes:
 
>Why under system 7 on a MAC with 17MB of memory does the system take up
>12 MB of space when the system that is there should only use 3 MB at most ?
>
>I've used the system 7 tune up disk and that doesn't seem to help.  This
>has never been a problem before, but now I need to use all of that memory.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Todd
>
   hmmmm. Depends on the computer. My brother-in-law had the same problem
with a IIci. He's running 20 meg of real RAM ( no virtual). I went over,
installed Mode 32, enabled it, and bingo! the problem was solved.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Gavin Adams <gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Only Mac Does It
X-Xxdate: Thu, 27 Aug 92 15:53:16 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:53:35 GMT

In article <66985@hydra.gatech.EDU> LEE, gt2627c@prism.gatech.EDU writes:
>Bright future..... Apple cares well........ they are developing
WorldScript.
>
>I don't see any hope in PC in this topic..

Windows NT...

--- Gavin
Visualize Whirled Peas!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: scotty@verdix.com (Scott R. Chilcote)
Subject: Getting Mac Programs from a PC Floppy
Summary: How to set the file type? 
Organization: Verdix Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:47:52 GMT


Hi.

I suspect this has been asked here before, but the only FAQs I found were for
mac.programmer and didn't touch on this subject.

I have a disk formatted under MS-DOS which contains archives for the Mac in 
Stuffit format.

I used Apple File Exchange to copy these .SIT files over to the Macintosh, and
then ran UnStuffIt.  UnStuffIt would not recognize these files as archives and
therefore would not decompress them.  The files came over with type "document"
which is apparently incorrect.

Is there a simple means of converting these files to be decompressible?

Unfortunately the Mac in question does not have a modem, so the files cannot be
downloaded directly, only transferred via floppy from a PC compatible.

Thanks for any help.  If this one is discussed a lot, please answer by email.


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postings do not represent their opinions.  
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                                            scotty@verdix.com  - or -
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