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From: lc0v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Luis Abdon Cifuentes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Where is Price Club? (yes, but WHERE IS IT?)
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:08:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8eP62RC00Uh7A4UGlX
	<1992Jul21.171446.4933@convex.com>
Distribution: na
Organization: Doctoral student, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

> 
>In article <wingo-210792093253@zardoz.apple.com> wingo@apple.com (Tony
Wingo) w
>rites:
>>In article <oeP1r4S00WBMQ2_WAo@andrew.cmu.edu>, lc0v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Luis
>>Abdon Cifuentes) wrote:
>>rent number.  I dont know about the second one.
>>>  
>>> I called the first number. Yes, it is Price Club, but NO, they don't
>>> carry Apple computers yet. They carry Dell and Leading Edge. Where did
>>> you get your information from?
>>> 
>>> Luis
>>
>>According to the 7/13/92 edition of MacWeek, the PB100 4/40 will start
>>appearing at the Price Club "in a few weeks".
>>
>>-tony
>>
> 
>Powerbooks are already at several Price Clubs.  I personally saw a stack
>of about 75 of them last Friday at the Price Club here in Dallas on Central
>Expressway.  They were priced at $899 for the PB 100 4/40 *with*
>external drive.  
> 
>Calling the Price Club may not do you much good.  When I called the 
>Dallas location, I got a recording stating that they do not give merchandise
>or pricing info over the phone.
> 
>I have a friend in CA who just bought the last PowerBook at the Price
>Club in Burbank.  It sounds like they are selling fast in some areas...
 
Gee, I can't believe it. The computer store here on Campus told me today
that the waiting period for the PB100 is now 4 to 5 weeks (before was
'only' 1 or 2 weeks), and the PB100 4/40 with floppy us $1740!!!.

Something is awfully wrong with Apple's marketing. Can somebody explain
what is the strategy of Apple? Get all the academia people mad as hell?

Luis

PS: can you buy one and ship it to me? I may even take a plane to
Dallas, it will be cheaper and faster than buying one here!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Quantum GO 80 Drives Opinions Sought
Organization: The University of Western Australia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:41:08 GMT

Greetings

I'm seeking opinions/experience (facts even) on the Quantum 
GO 80 drive for PowerBooks.  If anyone has bought one recently
I'd be really grateful if they Emailed me their thoughts on it.
Issues I'm interested in are...

a) speed
b) reliability
c) noise
d) power consumption
e) weight
f) general happiness

... not necessarily in that order of importance.  If I get lots of
responses I'll summaries to this group.

Quinn "The Eskimo!"   <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>  "Real Coke, Diet .sig"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
  -- Point f) is rather redundant.  Anyone who's be previously crammed
     into the PB's standard hard disk will obviously be happy with
     their 80MBs!
From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Powerbook cards
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:43:22 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA


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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tswift@well.sf.ca.us (Theodore John Swift)
Subject: Re: Powerbook Prices, marketing (was Price Club,etc.)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 09:42:23 GMT

> Gee, I can't believe it. The computer store here on Campus told me today
> that the waiting period for the PB100 is now 4 to 5 weeks (before was
> 'only' 1 or 2 weeks), and the PB100 4/40 with floppy us $1740!!!.
>
> Something is awfully wrong with Apple's marketing. Can somebody explain
> what is the strategy of Apple? Get all the academia people mad as hell?

Apple expected *everyone* to want a PB 100, and many fewer to want PB140s
and 170s.  Turned out *everyone* bought 170s who could afford them, and
most of the rest bought 140s.  Apple is simply getting the 100 out of the
way to make room for the new stuff coming out soon (when and what I would
like to know!).
  The reason the waiting list is "4 to 5 weeks" is probably because Apple
may have quitely discontinued the 100 and "4 to 5" means "never; won't be
delivered".  Computerland took my order for a PB100 4/40+floppy a week ago,
but when I called them 23July, they said "Oh... it's dissappeared off our
product lists".  Your campus store may be quoting you that price because
they don't have the 15 July price list, at least.  Of course they're not
trying to get anybody mad, but they do seem to be tripping over themselves
moving these things.
  Does anyone have any idea if they're going to cut the price of the 140
when the new models come in?  I've heard from an unreliable source that
the next machines will be around the 170 in performance (higher, probably),
and that the price on the 170 would drop, but that the 140 would probably
stay near it's present price.  I'm trying to decide whether to hold out for
that larger, heavier 140 rather than try to make do and buy a 100...
-- 
----------------------
Ted Swift tswift@well.sf.ca.us or, better yet, Ted_Swift@qm.sri.com
"You bally well are informed, Jeeves!  Do you know everything?"
"I don't know, sir"    ~P.G. Wodehouse
From: gatorman@elm.circa.ufl.edu (Thomas Barket)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: ImageWriter II @50Hz ???
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:39:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Florida, Gainesville

Has anyone out there had any experience using an Imagewriter II in Great
Britain? I want to know if I can hook it up to a transformer that will
bring down the voltage BUT NOT the cycles. The printer is supposed get 60Hz
but this set-up will provide 50Hz. For some appliances, this isn't supposed
to be a big deal (I hope!), but how will an Imagewriter handle it?

Thanks,
Tom
gatorman@elm.circa.ufl.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:14263 comp.sys.mac.system:10415
From: jwang@phy.duke.edu (James Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: PowerBook 145?
Keywords: PowerBook
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:31:06 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

What features does this system have?  Color?  If not color, when will that
be equipped and how big of a price tag will that carry with itself?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: liu@cerl.uiuc.edu (Albert Liu)
Subject: (Q) External HD SCSI termination for Portable
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:33:46 GMT

I've got a strange problem with trying to connect an external SCSI
hard drive to a Portable.

If I put an external terminator on the drive, then the Portable starts
up with a disk containing a question mark.  Putting a bootable floppy
in will start it up.

If I take the terminator off, the Portable will boot off of the internal
drive (also SCSI).

This same external drive works with or without the external terminator
on several Mac IIsi.  The SCSI cable from the drive is quite short, if
that makes any difference.

I haven't found any spare internal terminators to see if that makes any
difference; I don't see why it would, though.

What's going on?  

Perhaps related, this external drive sometimes isn't "recognized."
That is, a hard drive formatting utility will claim that it has a
capacity of 0 megs, and trying to mount it will fail.  However, a reboot
will show the correct capacity of 203, and, at that point, it's mountable.
It's a Conner mechanism (CP3200F, I think).  The software is by VCP
Computer Products (one of the places advertising external drive enclosures
in MacWeek).

Albert
liu@cerl.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland)
Subject: Two Page Monochrome Monitors*Advice Wanted*
Keywords: monitors, two-page
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:11:11 GMT

We are about to purchase a MacIIci.  We'd like to get a two page  
monochrome monitor....we need suggestions on which monitors are VERY sharp  
and clear, prices and vendors.

Many thanks in advance !

Anthony Holland
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Subject: Re: Sampling from music CD digital output
Originator: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
	<155f62INNice@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:31:38 GMT

@ivem.uucp (Simon Lee) writes:

   >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 think you should get more literature on how digital sampling works first.
   I suggest Digital Audio by Ken Pohlmann (SAMS is the publisher).  It goes
   over the basics of digital audio and such.

Good idea. And then get one of the new cards from DigiDesign, that
include digital ins already; no need to go from D to A to D again
when you can just use an opto cable :-)

-- 
      Jon W{tte, Svartmangatan 18, S-111 29 Stockholm, Sweden
                  h+@nada.kth.se    +46-10-141652

              My cat usually runs around on the roof.
From: streater@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Tim Streater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparing Stylewriter with DeskWriter
Date: 23 Jul 92 04:21:40 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <1992Jul23.154611.9574@waikato.ac.nz> ppm@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>> What?  320 vs 300?  That's what I heard...
>> 	-Kristen
>
>
>Sorry, but the StyleWriter has a best quality resolution of 360 dpi.  I have
>one of these *little* beauties and I love it because of;
>	a) Its resolution
>	b) Its very small footprint.
>
Yes, it is 360 dpi. I find the speed of my StyleWriter to be acceptable for
what I do, which is to write a few letters, print envelopes, print out some
doccy. Light duty is the keyword here.

The only possible problem is that I cannot network it. Am I right in thinking
the DeskWriter can be put on AppleTalk? This may be a consideration for some
folks. In addition, if I cannot put my StyleWriter on Appletallk, then I have
to use the serial port for it. If I also use a modem, how can I then later add
Appletalk? Seems I have run out of ports.

Bottom line is, there is no *right* choice, just what is right for your
circumstances. I am very happy with my StyleWriter.

Tim.
From: jh@heel.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jack Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: MagicModems 9600
Date: 31 Jul 1992 18:08:26 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: heel.cs.berkeley.edu

Has anyone bought/used the Magic (Fax) 9600 modems from MacProducts USA? It
is retailed for $189. What are your experiences with it?

-Jack
From: ds8k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Donpaul C. Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Difference between different Macintosh machines
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:45:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.4ePF84_00WBK40o2k=
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Looking at the back of my 700 - 

yup, two ADB ports!

Donpaul C. Stephens
***************************************
Ross Perot in '92
    - the only candidate that realizes the govn't needs fixed...not tweaked
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: * Mac NTSC report
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 00:58:43 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Jul28.142610.18404@njitgw.njit.edu> meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman) writes:
>A few weeks ago I posted a message here asking how to get NTSC output
>from a Mac. It turns out that pins 5 & 6, connected to the inside &
>outside of an RCA jack respectively, give black and white output only.
>Pins 3 & 4 are composite out & ground, but connecting them gave me nothing
>but garbage, although I was getting some kind of signal. If anyone else
>can elaborate more on this, please do. 

5&6 are green out and ground, respectively.  (mono out if the display
is set to mono in software).  3&4 are probably composite SYNC and
ground, respectively-- no video signal.  You can't get composite out
directly from the mac.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
Some news readers expect "Disclaimer:" here.
Just say NO to police searches and seizures.  Make them use force.
(not responsible for bodily harm resulting from following above advice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac
From: dsherif@csws9.ic.sunysb.edu (Darin D Sheriff)
Subject: Mac Classic II 
Keywords: Mac Classic, Mac Classic II
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:03:14 GMT

Hello all.  A friend of mine wants to buy a Macintosh and has settled on
the Mac Classic II.  Can anyone tell me the difference between this 
machine and the Mac Classic?  Thanks in advance.


-- 
Darin Sheriff; Amiga 500 owner. dsherif@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu
"Make one move and i'll kill him with this deadly jelly-baby"
                                 -The Doctor-
Disclaimer: Aliens did it.
From: metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu (metlay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook slowdown after 5 seconds of inactivity
Summary: Oh my God, a question I can ANSWER on this group! I think....
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:21:46 GMT
Organization: Atomic City

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

>Is this documented anywhere?  Can I turn it off or modify it if I wish?

Yes, it's documented. Being a total iconoclast, I read every manual I get
with every piece of gear I buy. I have owned my PB100 for less than 24
hours (it's my first Mac, too) but have already discovered this problem 
and fixed it with the help of the manual. It's called System Rest, and
you can spot it if your clock DA occasionally skips displaying a second
or two, or programs suddenly slow down.

You turn it off by going to the Portable Control Panel, pointing to the
phrase above the two sliders for Sleep timeouts and option-clicking.
You'll get a Rest dialog box; you can set the PB to REST or DON'T REST.
This may not solve your problem but it's a good place to start.

Gosh, my first message as a Mac user! How'd I do, guys? Huh, guys? Huh? |->



--
dr. michael metlay          \  "Warning: This is not normal music.
atomic city                  \  This is heavily processed pain."  
                              \ 
metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu \                       (r. miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
From: tlod_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Thede "Bo" Loder)
Subject: Re: the interleave ratio
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 20:49:10 GMT

In <1992Jul27.163659.17808@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jwas_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jason Wasson) writes:

>I would like to increase the interleave on my 20meg hard drive; is
>there any danger of my hard drive becoming less reliable if I increase
>the interleave to 1:1?  Also does it matter if I use the standard apple
>HD setup program or would I get better results from something like
>Silver Lining (I have an old internal miniscribe)?

>						Thanks,
>						Jason Wasson
>					jwas_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

>-- 
>					Jason Wasson
>					jwas_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

I would uses silverlining, v5.32 or above if you have it.  However, by
increasing the interleave to 1:1 from 2:1, you will most likely lose storage
space.  If you are using a slower machine such as a mac II or any of the
compact models except the SE/30, I highly doubt that your scsi transfer times
will increase, and may infact decrease significantly.  The reason for the
interleave factor is to make up for the speed of the machine.  Unless you
are using a fast mac, you will actually lose performance, as the disk will
have to spin extra rotations to read the same information.  

So, if you are using the drive on its original machine, I would leave the
configuration as is, for reliability and the best performance.

Silver Lining is definitely nice, as it allows many features not available
with HD setup.  

-Thede  <tlod_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:14342 comp.sys.mac.system:10453
From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Mac SE/30 Questions!!
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:15:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Thanks to everybody that responded (all 11 and counting of you!)

The answers were:

All SE/30s have SuperDrives, but some upgraded SEs do not.

SE/30s are not 32 bit clean, but apparently MODE32 does the trick and one
person said that MODE32 will be included in a future version of System 7
(and you can get it free from ftp.apple.com now anyway.)

All SE/30s have 16 Mhz FPUs

Thanks again,

Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay)
Subject: Re: Recommend a 9600 baud modem?
Keywords: modem, hardware, recommendations
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:44:25 GMT

I've been very happy with the Practical Peripherals SA 9600 baud external
modem.  ($369 + $7 cable is what I've paid).  I bought 2 in feb and a
colleague has purchased a third.  Very happy.

sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjiv Sarwate) writes:

>Howdy!

>I am thinking about purchasing a new 9600 baud modem for my MacII, and I was
>wondering if anyone could give me any recommendations about which kinds have
>given satisfaction, which ones to avoid, etc.  

>Either email replies or followups will be appreciated.

>Thank you!


>-- 
>Sanjiv Sarwate		sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu	SANJIV@UIUCVMD
>"The next day, the former Prime Minister accepts his first job since leaving
>the Executive Mansion; cleaning out the inn's stables.  He notes that the two
>occupations are not, essentially, dissimilar."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: QUICK! SE/30 Questions
From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Date: 31 Jul 92 11:44:58 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

jcl@deshaw.com (Jonathan Laventhol) writes:
> 
> Hi SE/30 Owners: 
> 
> QUICK: Can anyone tell me about
> 	* Sound capability
> 	* 240-volt capability

The SE/30 has a stereo (I think) sound output jack, but no sound
input jack. If you want to record sounds, you'll need something
like MacRecorder (from Farallon methinks?).

As for the power supply, hang on, I'll just have a look at the
back of this beast... <crane, peer> :) OK, there's a little
sticker on the back that says the "input voltage range is
self-adjusting from 100V to 240V." I think that answers the
second question.

> Everyone tells me how great the SE/30 is, and I've found
> one secondhand.  (Otherwise it's LCII-land for me.)

No doubt about it, it's a great little box.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nigel Stanger,                  Internet: stanger@otago.ac.nz
University of Otago,            Phone: +64 3 479-8179
Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.           Fax:   +64 3 479-8311
Gig whip. Gig whip. Gig whip.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
Subject: PowerBook 100 Pricing: Here's Why
Reply-To: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 01:11:44 GMT


Apparently, for those stunned and in AWE at pricing for the PB100, it has
been stated that Apple has officially DISCONTINUED the PB100 and to clear out
its remaining stock (what little there was), Apple sold the remaining PBs to
Price Clubs and the such to clear them out. Here's also the 'rumoured' prices
I got for August:

IIsi 5/80: $1250
IIci 5/80: $1470

Don't bug me on validaty on these prices, I've just heard them 'spoken' in
holy terms!!!!!
-- 
 "When I was young we got our first color TV set and our neighbor kids got
jealous 'cause their parents wouldn't buy one. So the parents put red green 
and blue celophane on it and called it color...now they have Windows 3.1"
    Travis Grundke --- an780@Cleveland.Freenet.edu --- Cleveland, Ohio
From: CPS@cup.portal.com (CHRIS PATRIC SMOLINSKI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Dead serial port on SE/30
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 18:20:41 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

Help! The printer port on my SE/30 died. I suspect it got fried during a 
recent electrical storm (I have a mini network in the house using phone wire,
and think it picked up a surge). Anyway, I suspect that the driver/reciever
ICs are fried. I measured the resistance to ground on the four RX/TX pins,
and found values from 60-2600 ohms, compared to 100K for the same pins on
the working modem port. Does is confirm/deny that the drivers/receivers
are to blame?

Unfortunately, the SE/30 uses surface mount versions of these chips, which
I can't seem to locate. Anyone know of a source?  How easy are they to
replace? (I consider myself to have faily good soldering skills, but have 
never worked with surface mount before). I'd rather do this myself, I
suspect that this would require a logic board swap at the dealer, which I
guess is going to be quite expensive. Or maybe I should just buy that Quadra
I've always wanted...
- CHRIS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bj356@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rick E. Dieringer)
Subject: Re: resolution of NEC 3FGX monitor
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 15:18:14 GMT


PS> PS> I don't know that much about macs so pardon me if this is a
PS> dumb PS> question: If I hook up a nec 3fgx monitor to a mac IIsi,
PS> what PS> resolution will be displayed? 640x480 or something
PS> different? Is PS> there a way of getting it to display 800x600
PS> without having to PS> purchase a video card?
Unfortunately, with an si, a video card is required for the larger screen
resolution. NEC -suppossedly- is working on a cdev for the Quadras
that will allow switching resolution with built-in video. The 3fg does,
however, allow resizing of the 640X480 image to fill the screen (makes
pixels bigger).
-- 
Rick Dieringer
usr0563a@tso.uc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: poorman@convex.com (Peter Poorman)
Subject: Opinions on 21MB "floptical" disks?
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 20:16:39 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.

I've been looking for a good way to add HD diskette support to my original
Mac II, and the ads for the PLI 21 megabyte "floptical" drive have caught
my eye.  It seems for about the Apple price for an FDHD and SWIM upgrade I
can buy one of these puppies and get the additional ability to read/write
these 21MB diskettes.  (No more backup to floppies -- horray!)

Does anyone have any experience with these drives?

Do you know whether they can be used to read/write PC floppy (using 
Apple File Exchange, or something like DOS Mounter)?

Email, and I will summarize.

Thanks!

-- Pete Poorman
   poorman@convex.com
From: harrison@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Improved NuBus
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:29:57 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

What are the improvements in the "improved NuBus" available on the Quadras
and the FX (was it available on the FX?).  In "Designing Cards and Drivers"
it says that block transfers are not supported but may be supported in the
future.  This book came out before the later Mac II's or Quadra's.  So does
improved NuBus support block transfers?

Dave Harrison