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From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise)
Subject: Cleaning Macs
Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:50:46 GMT

	In our lab this past semester, we've had SEVERE problems with
our machines "eating" Mac diskettes.  By "eating", I mean a user comes in
with a fine disk and by merely putting the disk into the machine
(and doing nothing), they are unable to use that disk either on that machine
or anything else.  Norton II reports problems with the volume, and 
a disk recovery using Norton is about 50-50%.

I am suspecting the drives.  
(Sound right to anyone?)

	Now, coming from my HS, I have been used to tearing apart 
most machines, be they PCs or Macs and basicly tearing them apart
and cleaning each part with vaccums, cleaning the disk heads, etc.
I've done this extensively on PCs, but not much at all with Macs.

	The Macs I have my eyes on are CXes, which have not gone through
any sort of cleaning procedure in the year and 6 months that I've worked
here, and seeing that they're about 3-4 years old, I don't think they
every have.

So I have a few questions:
1) Does the problem with Macintoshes "eating" disks sound like
   a definete drive problem?
2) Are there any BIG differences between tearing the entire drive down
   and say a PC's 3-1/2?
3) Any advice on things to look for/things to avoid (we have some SE/30s
   that are even older and I do know about the "right" way to remove
   the monitor clips ;)

 Thanks!
 TTYL
 Chris
From: graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: brainstorm accelerator for the plus $230 = Mac II speed!?
Date: 21 Dec 92 04:42:09 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

I am about to buy this accelerator for my machine, but I wanted to know if
anyone had had any experiences with it - good or bad. 

If you don't know what I'm talking about, it was reviewed in MacWeek 5/4/92.
Looks too good to be true!

rsvp
mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Re: ** WARNING ** AVOID TIGER SOFTWARE!!!!
Keywords: TIGER SOFWARE, DAVID SIEGEL, FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD!!
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:43:07 GMT


I also had a similar problem with Elek-tek in Illinois.

I ordered a caculator and $50 worth of printer ribbons from them. Months
after my check was cashed I had never seen anything.

After a long pursuit I found that they had shipped my stuff to "Jim Canahn"
at the correct academic department address. My last name is Graham. Obviously
this was a computer error, and without the correct spelling, the package had 
no way of reaching the correct mailbox. Elek-Tek  would not accept 
responsibility for the error, and were satisfied that they "had a signature" 
from our central receiving department.

After about $20 worth of phone calls, a representative was starting to crack,
I called again to find she had quit the company. Rather than start again with 
another rep (drone), I ate the $50.

Bottom line: Elek-Tek didn't care that a customer never recieved  the goods
he had paid for, even after an error on their part was found in the shiiping
records.

This is not a reputable company in my experience. Now I can understand how
they are able to offer prices which undercut their competitors. 

Jim
J. Graham
Biology and Chemistry Departments
Indiana University -Bloomington
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What's missing from Q700/Q950?  (Was: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?)
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:53:20 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

In article <1992Dec15.043807.3994@cs.wisc.edu>, tonyrich@grana.cs.wisc.edu
(Tony Rich) wrote:
> 
> >> bill coderre writes:
> 
> >> What would you like to see in a new technology-leading Mac?
> >> What's missing from the Quadra 9xx and 7xx? 
> 
> 1.  Free scriptable HyperCard again

That's not part of the computer.

> 2.  Free system software & updates again

Ditto.  BTW, the system software you get with the computer is "free."

> 3.  Video support for 19" color monitors (1024x768) -- at least 8-bit color.
>     It wouldn't have to be accelerated.
> 4.  Educational pricing at $2000 or less per machine.

Again, not part of the computer.

> 5.  A/UX right-to-copy licenses for $50 or less per machine (not $290).

Ditto.

> 6.  Ethernet transceivers for $25 or less per machine (not $122.50).

He asked about the hardware, not about what software you would like to get
for free or reduced prices, nor what the price of the computer should be. 

> All of the above would make life easier for those of us still valiantly
> trying to evangelize at our educational institutions...a job that has gotten
> much more difficult with Apple's recent software unbundling decisions.
> 
> Anything that isn't free or bundled requires a separate purchase decision
> (like HyperCard, now).  That's a huge obstacle when money is so tight.
> We had trouble managing upgrades when they were free!  Our department receives
> no yearly budget allocation for software updates, for example, so every
> update has to be use- and cost-justified against other possible uses
> of that money.  ANY extra costs are hard to justify when we already don't
> have enough computers and the ones we _do_ have are outdated.

Valid points, but not repsonsive to his questions.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: George J Matey <mateyg@rpi.edu>
Subject: more 16" images:  WHERE??
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7564DACFA025538@stormbringer.stu.rpi.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:30:52 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:31:09 GMT

First, a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped me with my graphic
difficulties
and to those who pointed the way to ftp.apple.com for those inital images.
Now, does anyone know of any sites (except apple.com) that contains 
832x648 24-bit color images.  Perhaps some design studio with net access??
What about you guys at NASA?  I would imagine that you would have some
pretty cool images of space and possibly some images of some equipment
somewhere.  I would much appreciate the location (site and if possible
directory) of anywhere that contains 832x648 24-bit color images. 
Thanks!!
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George J Matey                          One lawyer with a briefcase
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute         can steal more money than
email: mateyg@rpi.edu                     a hundred men with guns.
                                                   - Mario Puzo
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From: Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
Date: 11 Dec 92 22:35:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: MSUS

In article <75489@apple.apple.COM>, bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) wrote:
> 
> Adam: 
> 
> Let's cut the bashing and get to the real question:
> 
> What would you like to see in a new technology-leading Mac?

	3D interface
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho)
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:28:40 GMT

In article <1gqec8INN7e4@transfer.stratus.com> jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.170232.14346@netnews.louisville.edu>  
>harpe@netnews.louisville.edu (Mike Harpe) writes:

>the market for the product they defined.  Today, PC does not
>mean IBM: it means Gateway, or Dell, or Compaq, or Northgate,
>or Swan, or Zeos.
>
This leads to a question which I have had since I heard about IBM's
proposed cutbacks: just what are Gateway, Dell, etc. without a strong,
at least somewhat innovative IBM? I was under the impression that
most PC R&D is done by IBM. Just how viable is the clone industry now
that IBM is in trouble? Come to that, just HOW much trouble is IBM
in? Surely it isn't in as bad shape as Wang ended up in !?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
From: meyers@lorenz.ocean.fsu.edu (Steve Meyers)
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 16:37:58 GMT


Wouldn't it be sardonic if in a few years the only companies selling 
DOS and OS/2 machines were Compaq and Dell? Perhaps we will no longer be  
able use the phrase "IBM clone" if there is no IBM as it exists today.  
What shall we say? IBM "legacies"?


-Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cf040@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Aaron Brick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: SoftAT demo Scandal?!?!?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 08:08:44 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


	I just was wondering about the SoftAT demo.
 
  I got this from sumex-aim(supposedly the authority in 
Macintosh free/shareware)  and though it was really 
full-featured. I just supposed that someday it would 
disappear since it was a demo and it is sold for much $$$.  
 
Well, when I looked at the sites again (to see if the demo 
was only in a limited release)it was nowhere to be found.  I
 mailed a letter to an archivist of the umich archives.  He 
said that the demo was the REAL thing and had been removed.
  This is totally amazing.  If you were to go to the store 
SoftAT would cost over $200.  But at least from October to
 December it has been hopping along the net for anyone to 
take for free??  Of course the taking(like in my case) was 
under the pretense of a demonstration model so maybe when
 I ran into enough money(and liked the program) could 
eventually buy it.
 
	But the proliferation of this 100% working model would
 seem to me the makes of a scandal.  I wonder what the 
people at Insignia are thinking.  I wonder too what the 
reaction is from sumex-aim.  I have heard of no official
 reactions or statements. I would expect to see something
 like Rer excuse me that demo you have of softat is not a 
demo and please erase it promptly.S  I have seen no such 
message and am wondering what the XXXX is going on!
 
	     What are my legalistic obligations.? What are those of 
all the different sites? What if this made it into private 
BBSes and even pressed onto shareware CD-ROMS.??! This is
 all quite mysterious and would love if someone could 
explain to me the answers of my questions and any other 
greater implications of the case of the SoftAT demo that wasnUt.
 
				Thanks,
 
						Jeff
From: craigw@fnal.fnal.gov (Craig Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a scripting language for the mac
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Date: 18 Dec 1992 14:45:19 GMT
Organization: Fermilab - Batavia, IL
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnpm06.fnal.gov

In article <1992Dec17.162053.6098@cti.com>, kmeek@cti.com (Kevin Meek)
wrote:
> 
> 
> I want to write script to switch between ethernet and appletalk and
> assign it to an icon so our executives can attach their laptop to 
> the network just by clicking an Icon. 
> 
> Is there anything for the mac that is similar to a DOS batch file?
> 

YES - Quikeys from CE software. It can automate nearly EVERYTHING, run
scipts at preprogrammed times, etc.
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From: hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
Subject: History was made today...
Date: 17 Dec 1992 02:04:40 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

History was made today.  IBM's stock price dropped to below its book
value of 55 today, to close at 51 points per share on news that Big
Blue would be shedding another 25,000 workers and cutting their
dividend.  On the very same day, Apple Computer stock closed at 55
points per share, 4 points higher than that of Big Blue.

When the Apple Macintosh was first introduced, IBM derided this computer
as "a toy" claiming that mice were too difficult for users to comprehend
and use.  They laughed at the little toaster of a machine:  "The business
world will never accept it."  "No one could use this for any serious
commercial development."

But who's laughing now?  IBM is on the skids and scrambling to stay
alive.  Apple Computer is experiencing record sales and revenues
thanks to their new Powerbook computers.

Innovation and attention to the customer in the form of ergonomic design
and well engineered products are what distinguish Apple's computers from
the utter crap being churned out by IBM and the PC clone manufacturers.
No longer able to rely on consistant sales of big mainframes to huge
institutions, IBM is suddenly finding it has to (gasp) compete and, if
it learns its lesson at all, will have learned it too late.

Ignore the market... and the market will ignore you...

- Dark Hacker
-- 
Dark Hacker @ Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation
hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us

"Life itself is... COMPUTATION!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: paris@ipsp.ucl.ac.be (Bernard Paris)
Subject: Mac for blinds ?
Organization: University of Louvain-la-Neuve
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:50:12 GMT

We use PCBraille to print documents for blinds.
Is someone having ever heard about translators to convert Ms-Word 5 (or 4)
documents to PCBraille one or somethink like that ???

Thanks to mail any answer to 
paris@ipsp.ucl.ac.be
From: aaron@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Aaron Schrab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: pb100 WYSIWYG??
Date: 19 Dec 1992 08:00:21 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
NNTP-Posting-Host: studsys.mscs.mu.edu

In article <1992Dec19.024114.20492@sarah.albany.edu> pw4963@sarah.albany.edu (Peter G. White) writes:
>Is the powerbook 200 WYSIYG?  I notice that most windows seem smaller than
>on my LCII?

I believe that the PB100 is WYSIWYG. What you are noticing is probably a caused
by different monitor resolutions. The Mac measures objects in pixels not inches
so the same things will appear to be different sizes on monitors with
different resolutions. Monitors with higher resolution pack the pixels more
closely so that objects appear to be smaller thatn on monitors with lower
resolution.

>-Peter
>
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>Peter White                                Internet:pw4963@uacsc1.albany.edu
>State Univ. of New York at Albany          Bitnet:pw4963@albnyvms
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>
>


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Enrique Navarro Sanchis <navarro@si.uji.es>
Subject: HELP--MacX
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:53:59 GMT
Organization: Universitat Jaume I

Hello:
      I have a question about MacX connected to an HP9000 s700 (UNIX).
      I execute as remote command a "/usr/bin/X11/mwm -display ... "
      and I work nicely except that in the menu "EDIT" it does not appear
      as active the items Cut,Copy,Paste.
      I can not copy and paste. ( I can not use the Command-c nor
Command-v)
      It seems it work like an X-terminal, you can mark the text with the
mouse
      left button an paste the text at cursor position with the mouse
right button.

       HERE IS THE PROBLEM --->  the Mac mouse has ONLY a button.
                                                   Can I simulate the
right button ...???
       PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME ???

      Please, I do not read nor write frecuently at this group.
      Can you e-mail to me???
       Thanks in advance...
      e-mail address:   navarro@si.uji.es

       		B O N     N A D A L !!!
       		F E L I Z   N A V I D A D !!!
      		M E R R Y     C H R I S T M A S !!!

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Analiste de Sistemes.				AT XMAS....		
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From: dtb@otto (David Bath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Help for pizza lover needing apple stuff
Date: 16 Dec 92 06:08:15 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: otto.bf.rmit.oz.au
Summary: where do i get stuff

I'll admit I am not fond of Macs, but I need to know where the
archives, newsgroups, FAQ's are for a friend with a Mac but no
internet experience.

It seems a program called BINHEX is needed (sort of like
uuencode/uudecode for UNIX).  Could somebody post me this in
uuencoded format.

Any help appreciated.

David T. Bath	Email:dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au	Phone:03-3477511
Global Technology Corporation, 179 Grattan St, CARLTON, VIC, 3153, AUSTRALIA
Latin scholars note the similarity between bad and apple.
malus malus

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Global Technology Corporation, 179 Grattan St, CARLTON, VIC, 3153, AUSTRALIA
"Failure to emulate is the best revenge" - Marcus Aurelius
From: rwb@alexander.VI.RI.CMU.EDU (Robert Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Nec Monitor and FCC Class A
Date: 13 Dec 92 00:51:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Bz6AEB.KF7.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


I wanted to order a NEC 4FG and have it shipped to my business
address.

Club Mac said they could only ship it to my home address
since that is the address associated with my credit card.

MacConnection said they could only ship it to the business address,
since the monitor is FCC Class A. So they got my order.

Do the FCC rules prohibit selling Class A devices for home use?

If so, Club Mac couldn't sell them to credit card buyers at all!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: raek@athena.mit.edu (Robyn A E Kozierok)
Subject: INIT file conflicts
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:47:07 GMT

Hi,

Is there a FAQ file anywhere that lists know INIT file incompatibilities?

(I have behavior on my mac suggesting an init file conflict.  the inits 	I have are: disinfectant 2.9
	    extensions manager
	    after dark 2.0
	    be hierarchic
	    super clock)

Thanks
--Robyn


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
Subject: Re: ** WARNING ** AVOID TIGER SOFTWARE!!!!
Reply-To: brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger/Anadrill Sugar Land, TX
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 12:29:15 GMT

In article <101917@netnews.upenn.edu> isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Sylvia Isler) writes:
>In August of this year, I ordered some software from Tiger Software, a
>mail order company in Coral Gables, Florida. Weeks went by and I never 
>received the software even though I specified and paid extra for
>overnight delivery.
> [...]
>If you are thinking of ordering from TIGER SOFTWARE, my advice to you
>is DON'T DO IT!

I ordered a few things from them in that interval as well.  It was shortly
after the hurricane went through.  They were a bit behind at the time, but
they sent me everything properly to my satisfaction (just a bit slow,
understandably so, at the time).
_______________________________________________________________
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Dowell Schlumberger   | P.O.T.S.:   (918)250-4312
Why do they call it easy listening music if it's so darn hard to listen to?
From: cbarton@festival.ed.ac.uk (C Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: HP laserjet drivers
Summary: Are there printer drivers for the HP laserjets
Keywords: printer drivers
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:47:09 GMT


Does anyone know if there is a mac driver for HP laserjet III. We have a
solitary mac user in the group and a new HP 4 with no postscript option.
If there were a mac driver for an HP III then I think they would be able
to print on the network.
                    Craig Barton.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: Michael_J._Bell@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:00:37 EST
Subject: Re: Early 13" Color monitor, screen went dark, started to smoke

Mine has not smoked but mine kept switching off. I heard of this problem from 4
or 5 users now. Apparently, there's a faulty cap in power supply. Apple had a
silent recall out on it. Supposedly it expired in september or so, but I got
mine fixed (FREE) in november....call!

PS Many dealers do NOT know about this! 3 in Boston claimed I was wrong, and
would have to pay about $150 for parts and labor. 1 said he wouldnt even
guarantee the work --- that I'd have to pay more for it to actually be
analyzed and tested -- the $150 was just for going with my
assumption...Moral:Careful!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: hookman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Andrew R Hill)
Subject: forsale SE/30 with floppy drive problem
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:21:16 GMT

Okay folks, here's the deal....

I have an SE/30 with a 5mb RAM and 105mb Hard drive configuration.  The
drive is a 105mb Quantum lps.  I have a bit of software with it, as well
as the standard keyboard, mouse, and a really nice carrying case :)

the only problem is the FDHD 1.44 floppy drive.  It won't eject disks
automatically anymore, and I've gotten used to using the manual eject
hole with a paper clip.  Getting the drive fixed would cost more money
than I have right now, but for any interested buyers' purposes, a NEW
drive would cost maybe $300 (?) and I don't think it needs replacement.

other than the drive problem, I'm selling it because I no longer need
the speed or power the SE/30 has.  MacWeek was quoted for resale on the
4/80 configuration at about $1675... so please make some offers
accordingly, especially since I have the 5/105 config :)

the other thing to consider is that I DO need a new/used computer if
this is sold, so I will entertain any offers of purchase that include a
trade of a classic, classic ii, lc, or lc ii, etc., as part of the deal.

email:  hookman@titan.ucc.umass.edu
phone: 413-546-4729 (until 12/22)
phone: 413-256-4210 (after 12/22) 

note:  I will not be reading my email between the dates of 12/21 and
12/28...

-Andrew R. Hill
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: chchang@ncb.gov.sg (Chang Chen Hsien)
Subject: Network version of Mac application software ?
Organization: National Computer Board, Singapore
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:22:09 GMT

Hi,

Is anyone out there knows whether there is any application program
like word processor, spreadsheet, graphics drawing program etc that 
runs on multiuser environment (network version) ?

I have check with some of the local Mac software dealers and their
reply is no. So, I do not know whether anyone in the internet have 
come across these software. 

I would like to know the product name and where can I get it from.
Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Chen Hsien :>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc