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From: louis@well.sf.ca.us (Louis Jaffe)
Subject: Re: NEC CDR-74 info wanted (bad experiences ?)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:32:57 GMT

In <weihmayer-051092214521@kfps-16-dyn-1.gte.com> weihmayer@gte.com (Robert Weihmayer) writes:

>I like the CDR-74. With the new 2.25 driver problems with some
>games (e.g. Spaceship Warlock) have disappeared and I can even mount 
>a PhotoCD (single session) and read (when I get the SW from Kodak)
>the images. Its fast and quite compatible with most SW out there.

At CompUSA (San Bruno CA) on Sunday they were selling stacks of a kit 
containing NEC CD-25, two powered minispeakers, driver software and 
a half dozen CD ROMs for $399.  I was tempted, but there were no specs
offered for the drive, so I held off.  Is this a slow unit?  

Also, I do want PhotoCD compatibility.  Is 'XA' the specification for that?
And are any of the currently available CD ROM drives able to read the fabled
'multi session' PhotoCDs, or is that all still for the future?

Thanks..  LJ

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: louislam@iastate.edu (Louis C Lam)
Subject: Where to buy RAM?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:07:57 GMT

I'm sorry if this is a FAQ.

Can anyone suggest mail-order companies that sell good quality RAM
at a resonable price?  

I need 4 2M SIMMS for my IIci.

Thanks

Louis
From: 91babik@gw.wmich.edu (Lisamarie Gemma Babik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Device Driver Archive Sites???
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:30:59 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Is there any sort of archive site to get device drivers?

I have an EMAC Impact Tape Back-Up system that was given to me, but alas!  
No device driver!   So, I have a rather large paper weight sitting on my 
desk which I'd really like to put to use!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-- 
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      "Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this
                      faith is to see what we believe..."
			       St. Augustine

__________________Lisamarie Gemma Babik__91babik@gw.wmich.edu__________________
From: Ladd.Morse@p804.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ladd Morse)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Experience with CoStar's Stingray trackball?
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:29:14 -0500

Re: your Sting Ray trackball
 
I am considering getting one also.  

The only question I've come up with (not having actually seen one in the flesh)
is given that the trackball is "all buttons", is it a problem accidentally
pushing one of the buttons when you're just resting your hand on the unit?
 
Ladd
 
  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: antkasx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Ken A. Sturrock)
Subject: Re: Mac's Doomsday
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 01:49:06 GMT

Haven't we covered this enough yet?

			-ks

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ryota@ae.keio.ac.jp (Nanashino Gombei)
Subject: Request [Information about Performa series]
Organization: okoma lab., keio univ., yokohama, japan.
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:09:24 GMT

I am going to buy Performa or IIci. But I can't get any kind of
informaation about Performa in Japan. So I want any kind of
information about Performa series,for example spec,price etc.
I am looking forward to getting good information for me to be power user.
Thank you!


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*ryota@ae.keio.ac.jp*
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From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Is there a new line of notebooks coming out soon?
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:30:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.ibhan.718299007

Rahul Verma <worm+@CMU.EDU> writes:

>I've been hearing rumors that a new apple laptop is coming out to
>replace the powerbook. Is this true? what information can I get about
>this?

>Any responses will be appreciated.

PowerBook is just the name for Apple's current laptop line.  I'm not sure
I completely understand your question.  There are 4 new PowerBooks coming
out, and the 170 and probably the 145 will be replaced.

They'll be out October 19.


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From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The fastest possible Mac <speed speed speed>
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:15:33 GMT
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

Greg@sys.uea.ac.uk (Greg Newton-Ingham) writes:
>Well, I'm looking to put together the fastest Mac I can.

Well, I've had my PowerBook 170 up to nearly 100mph. (In the tankbag on my
BMW:-})

Sorry.
-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
From: whern@bnr.ca (William Hern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Connecting PowerBook 140 to Supra FAXModem
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:04:55 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK

I've got one of the rather wonderful Supra FAXModems which I've been
using with my home personal computer for the past couple of months.
I'm just about to get a PowerBook 140 laptop Mac and am wondering
whether it will be possible to connect it to the Supra. The Supra
has a 25 pin RS232 serial port and the Powerbook has (I think) an
RS432 port. Are these two RS standards compatible? I know that there
are a lot of PowerBook specific modems on the market but is that
just because they are especially compact for portable computing?
 
If it is possible to connect the two together, could anyone recommend
a good supplier for the necessary cable?

Many thanks in advance.

William Hern.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf)
Subject: Need source for ribbon 50-pin Centronics (SCSI) connectors
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:01:58 GMT

After looking through three catalogs (including Digi-Key's),
I have been unable to find a source for the 50-pin Centronics
connectors (female needed now, both would be nice) needed for
external SCSI devices on the Mac.  The crimp-on style used
with ribbon cable is very much preferred.

If anyone has a source for this part, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Daryl
-- 
Daryl Biberdorf  N5GJM    d-biberdorf@tamu.edu or  dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dblackbu@carr11.alleg.edu (David Blackburn)
Subject: Re: Graphics smoothing on HP Deskwriter?
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:32:43 GMT

In article <16637.2ACCD5C8@zeus.ieee.org> Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org  
(Glen Stewart) writes:
> There are a few examples of QuickDraw graphics in HyperCard, but I don't
> recall them being able to print QuickDraw to the printer.  Sorry I can't be
> more help.
> =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
>  Glen Stewart - Internet: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org
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One of these examples is that the oval buttons come out really oval. The other  
HC-generated objects (up/down arrows in scrolling fields etc) do not and of  
course neither do the bitmap graphics. I have figured out that the graphics  
smoothing is probably a Postscript effect and therefore it would require a  
triple patch: to turn HC's bitmap to postscript, smooth, then re-convert to  
send it to the printer. I guess this is too big of a problem for anyone  
outside of Claris/Apple or HP to solve, by generating a new print driver or a  
grayscale Hypercard or an auto-dither preprint extension. Maybe it's time to  
start paying for HC and System software so I can demand such things!!!

* Dave Blackburn  dblackbu@alleg.edu  flames to self@home.dev.null *          
* Chemistry, Macs, Hypercard, cats,  <>< religion, & the Dead      *
* (Anyone else who held these opinions would be as crazy as I am.) *
*   "Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own"   *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac SE/30
From: rhorowit@mondrian.CSUFresno.EDU (Rick Horowitz)
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:44:40 PDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California State University, Fresno
Keywords: SE/30 for sale

I'm sorry if this is the wrong group to post this.  I'm having trouble
reading news due to our site not supporting students...but that's a 
different story...

A friend of my father's wants to sell the following: 

SE 30 with HD density (SuperDrive), 4 mb RAM, extended keyboard, IW
II, plus lots of original software.  
 
I don't know what size, but it has a hard disk in it, also. 

If you are interested, call: 

Art Bartel (209) 582 3518 


I think my dad said the guy wants about $1000 or so.


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||  Rick Horowitz                  || Christ died for our sins.  Dare   ||
||  CSUFresno, Philosophy          || we make his martyrdom meaningless ||
||  rick_horowitz@csufresno.edu    || by not committing them?           ||
||  gavagai@aol.com                ||                  -Jules Feiffer   ||
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From: collet@scripps.edu (Thomas Collet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: EHMAN screen has flicker disease  HELP !!!
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:26:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: riscsm.1992Sep26.182626.14560
Organization: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

I have an old EHMAN 19 inch b/w monitor that has recently
developed a flicker. Occurence is unpredictable, but most
spells last 10-15 sec. Sometimes the whole display moves,
but mostly the disturbance is in the top third of the screen
going horizontally. Right now it is still usable, but obnoxious.

I have tried reseating the video card (in my IIcx) and removing
the dust. That does not seem to make a difference.

Any help will be appreciated.
Cheers,

Thomas
COLLET@SCRIPPS.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Andreas Wuertz <wuertz@tik.ethz.ch>
Subject: IIsi Tune-up: did I miss it?
Organization: Federal Institute of Technology
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:24:45 GMT

Hi everybody. There was a thread about a IIsi that was boosted up to (I
think, at least) 25MHz. The person who did it promised to write an
article and post it here. Has this happened yet? Did I miss it? If yes,
PLEASE repost or e-mail to the address below; I'd be very happy to make
my IIsi a bit faster while dreaming of a PowerPC :-). Thanks!

Andy (wuertz@tik.ethz.ch)

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The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
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From: al862@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brent D. McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Apple's Product Lineup
Date: 30 Sep 1992 12:07:11 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al862@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brent D. McLean)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


	Murph's latest Vaporware column shed some light on where Apple
might be going. He discusses how Apple will be introducing a 20 Mhz, 25
Mhz, and 40 Mhz Quadra in January. In addition the LC II will become a
25 Mhz 68030 machine and the 16 bit data path bottleneck will be
removed. A color Classic II also with the 25 Mhz 68030 is also in the
works. We've all heard about the IIvx, and the 50 Mhz 68040 Cyclones
were discussed in an earlier Vaporware. So where does that leave us?
	It would seem that the entry level non-Performa Macintosh will
be the new LC II & Classic II. The IIsi will be pushed out by the faster
LC II and IIvx. Murph's column already said the IIci will be replaced by
the 20 Mhz Quadra. Presumably the new Performa's will remain in their
current state for at least a little while. This would leave Apple
selling more powerful computer's (25 Mhz 68030 minimum) under the
Macintosh nameplate and leave the low end computers to the Performa
nameplate which will be mass marketed. I'm not saying this is good or
bad, just observing. Anyone care to comment?


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 Brent D. McLean                     -  "I'm at the corner of Walk and 
 al862@cleveland.freenet.edu         -       Don't Walk..."
From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Let's talk Performas, Boys and Girls
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:49:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: newshost.1992Oct1.144915.15997
Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

In article 2975@cbnewsc.cb.att.com, straka@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (richard.j.straka) writes:

><< other stuff deleted >>
>
>IIsi: 20 MHz 030, no cache
>P600: 32 MHz 030, no cache possible (only an accelerator)
>IIci: 25 MHz 030, cache
>
>Can anyone shed some insightful analysis on the relative CPU performance
>of these three models?

Good question!  I too am baffled by the reported "slowness" of the P600 as
compared to the IIci.  Yeh sure, no FPU, but that simply cannot account for
the across-the-board slowdown.  The P600 does have a 32MHz 030, after all.

Anyone have any ideas on _why_ the P600 is so slow, relative to the IIci?
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________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
Subject: fx acceleration
Organization: FOA, Linkoping, Sweden
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:57:03 GMT

Hi all!

My fx isn't coping with my matlab sessions so I need to get the number 
crunching power up. I figure I need an acceleration card for that but I can't
figure out which one. I _think_ I saw an article in MacUser about acceleration 
cards but I can't find it.

I've figured that I need a '040 card, but beyond that I have no clue.
(Oh yes, I downloaded a report on the Radius Rocket from sumex, it does seem
interesting).
So, I'm interested in your collective experiences in 040 acceleration cards.
Please reply by e-mail. If there's enough interest I'll summarize to the net.

thanx


--
Erik Svensson			Research Officer
Guided Weapons Division		National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
Stockholm			Sweden

net.address: 	eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se

"I've got LOT's of common sense. I just choose to ignore it." -- Calvin
From: maroosma@cs.ruu.nl (Martijn van Roosmalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Elvira II
Summary: vampires!
Keywords: Stuck in the house.
Date: 6 Oct 92 10:45:12 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

Hello,

I'm stuck in Elvira II in the house:

first I killed the servant of Dr. Frankenstein,scared away the ghost 
near the kitchen (or skeleton).
After that I went down to the cellar,asked a poison from Dr. F. (with the 
costume and the recipe from the library).
I went to the aquarium,poisoned the meat and threw it in the water.  
I took the key,opened the safe and took the pipe,which I brought to the
Indian.

Upstairs I resisted the lure of the ghost in the bedroom (with courage-spell)
and killed another ghost/demon in the other room with the body.
I found the secret door to the satanic chapel and discovered those vampires.


Questions:

- How to kill/resist those vampires
- How to kill/resist Dracula in the attic.
- What to do in the room filled with fire?
- What to do with the monster of Dr. Frankenstein?


Please help!

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Department of Computer Science,Department of Artificial Intelligence.
Utrecht University. The Netherlands.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dconk@waggen.twuug.com (Don Conklin)
Subject: NEC 3FGx monitor
Summary: desire opinons on NEC 3FGx
Keywords: color monitor
Organization: Brite Systems
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:38:31 GMT

I'm interested in buying an NEC 3FGx color monitor for my IIci. The
magazines gave it a pretty good write up. One possible concern is "losing "
the WYSIWYG that the 72 dpi 13" hi-res apple monitor offers. The built in
video on my mac will display 640 x 480 on the 3FGx's 15" screen. Also, the
only video card I'm aware of that offers multiple resolutions is the NEC
(read Radius) FGx 8/24 boards. Thanx.

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dconk@waggen.twuug.com | future clever comment 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: andy@infotec.ch (Andrew Warinner)
Subject: Re: The fastest possible Mac <speed speed speed>
Organization: Infotec S.A.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:34:15 GMT

tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>) writes:

>Greg@sys.uea.ac.uk (Greg Newton-Ingham) writes:
>>Well, I'm looking to put together the fastest Mac I can.

>Well, I've had my PowerBook 170 up to nearly 100mph. (In the tankbag on my
>BMW:-})

>Sorry.
>-- 
> 
>                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil

The fastest Mac is the one that was sent up in the Shuttle.

Ha!  Beat that!

Andrew Warinner				"Semper ubi sub ubi"
(andy@infotec.ch)			Infotec S.A.
phone: 022/738 44 33			8 avenue de Frontenex
fax:   022/786 50 61			1207 Geneva, Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: nazedgi@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Edgardo Nazario)
Subject: MAC MARKET
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Public Macs, Academic Computing, Yale University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:14:20 GMT

Being a former PC user and now a Mac convert I've come to the following
conclusion:  The majority of Mac users just don't get it.  If Apple really
wants to lure a significant amount of PC users it will have to do something
more than proclaim the superiority of the Mac hardware and software. 
They'll have to enter a cut-throat competition:  Dell is doing it, Compaq
is doing it,  Big Blue is doing it.  And I'm not talking about
middle-of-the-road solutions like the Performa line,  I'm talking about
really powerful computer at cheap prices.  Right now, you can get Windows
workstations for less than $2000 (including a monitor) that would blow away
all but the fastest macs, the Quadra line. Now, I'm not saying that Windows
is even close to the MacOS (heck, it's not even an operating system), but
it will certainly give you a good run for your money.  For the average PC
user, Macs look pretty,  but incredibly overpriced. 

Apple computer is a financially healthy company with huge cash reserves. 
They can afford to cut their profit margins without sacrificing quality or
performance.  If they could offer competitive prices to PC users, many of
them would jump into the Mac bandwagon.  Apple would increase their
marketshare and hence would be able to keep their profit margins down. 
Apple must act quickly because soon another formidable competitor is going
to enter the race:  Windows NT.  Bill Gates already succeded in turning a
lemon like Windows into a hit.  God only knows what he'll do with a true
gem like Windows NT.  Bill Gates is the predator and Apple may well be one
of his most coveted preys.
From: stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Stuart R. Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Help-HardDrive Crash
Date: 27 Sep 92 01:39:23 GMT
Reply-To: gb0wbff@vm.tcs.tulane.edu
Organization: Drexel U- CCD - E4 Lab

In article <1992Sep26.172759.690@cs.tulane.edu> gb0wbff@vm.tcs.tulane.edu
writes:
>I purchased a 105 meg HD in an external case about a year ago, took it out and
>swapped it with the 40meg Sony in my CX.  The 40meg Sony external has worked
>fine until about 2 weeks ago.  I had to move the system and when I hooked up
>the external drive the system did not recognize it.  The drive spun and when I
>booted the machine the light in the drive came on showing that the CPU looks
>for it  on the SCSI chain (it's #6).  However it is not on the Desktop.
>When I try to update the driviers on the disk with HD SC Setup it can't find
it
>on the SCSI chain.  However if I run SCSI Director 1.7.2 it finds it at the
>SCSI #6 and shows it as a SRD2040A.  When I try to mount it I get a message
>about sense hex stuff not being ready???  What does it all mean Mr. Natural?
>The reason I'm asking all these questions is I'd like to recover some of the
>data on the disk.  Thus I haven't tried reformatting.  When I run Norton
>Utilities 2.0 it can't seem to find it on the SCSI chain?   Any advice on how
>to recover the data on the disk would be appreciated.
>Also I see various ads in MacUser for data recovery off crashed disks.  Can
>they usually recover data?  How much do they charge?  The stuff on here is not
>that important but it belongs to someone else!
>
>Thanks in advance, Rick 'hoping this isn't in a FAQ I couldn't find' Boebel
>

	Rick, I've had similar problem with our vintage MacIIxes and SONY drive. It'
tseems that the SONY drive develop stiction problem from time to time. The only
way we've found to fix the drives is to remove them from the macs and shake
them back-and-forth in the plane of the drive platters,. kinda like shake a can
of aerosol-whipped-cream. The nI place the drives back into the mac and remove
as much data as possible. The nI send the machine out to be repair. So far this
has proved 100% successful in retreiving the data from 'stuck' SONY 40MM
drives, but I highly reccomend you get the drive replace as soon as possible
afterwards.

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stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  CCD - E4
harpersr@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu        Bill & Opus '92           LeBow-132   x1350
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dblackbu@carr11.alleg.edu (David Blackburn)
Subject: Graphics smoothing on HP Deskwriter?
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:56:57 GMT

     Is there any utility to smooth graphics (a la the Laserwriter  
drivers) when printing bitmaps from MacPaint, Hypercard, etc. onto a  
Deskwriter? I am willing to pay a big speed price for this, and even a  
reasonable $$ price if someone knows of a commercial utility. Or, can I  
dump a Hypercard screen to a graphics package which then will anti-alias  
for me? (can I get one for under $100?? )
The 300-dpi resolution is fine for text etc, but the bitmaps still come  
out (with nice square pixels) at 72 dpi. 
If someone knows of a free/share ware utility I gan get via FTP, I'd 
be especially appreciative if you know the server & pathname. 

Thanks!
--

* Dave Blackburn  dblackbu@alleg.edu  flames to self@home.dev.null *          
* Chemistry, Macs, Hypercard, cats, religion, & the Dead           *
* (Anyone else who held these opinions would be as crazy as I am.) *
* "Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own"     *