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From: howie@intermec.com (Howard Kaplan x1696)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple's new CD ROM 300i drive external, anybody?
Keywords: CD ROM
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:03:54 GMT
Reply-To: howie@intermec.com (Howard Kaplan x1696)
Distribution: na
Organization: Intermec Corporation, Everett WA

In article <1993Jan2.175340.17730@cc.umontreal.ca> parej@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Pare Jerome) writes:
>Hello NETers!
>First, happy new year to all of you!
>I'm about to buy a CD ROM drive.  So I'd like to hear from anyone who have 
>tried it if it's really as good as they say it is, if it's as fast as they 
>say it is, and if it's really that good a deal (at around $500, if I remember
>correctly?).
>So if any of you have tried it, please drop me a note.
>Thanks a lot!
>



I have the internal version of the same drive in my IIvx.  So far it works
fine.  I haven't noticed any problems and it seems reasonably fast.


Here is a rundown of the disks included though they may not bundle the same
disks with the external.

From Alice to the Ocean - very nice photos about a womensand narrations of a
voyage in Autralia from the town of Alice to the ocean by a woman travelling
herself.

Kodak Photo CD Sampler

Mac Games Sampler - an amazing number are included. I did find a minor
problem with this disk. It comes up with a "run time" only version of Easy
Access.  When quiting the machine will always bomb.  Work around by opening
the samplers from their folders directly.

Mozart String Quartet (I forget the number) - Has a companion HyperCard stack
which analyzes the piece.  The audio portion can be played on any CD player.

Nautilus Demo Disk - Demo of the features of Nautilus which is a monthly CD
publishing of Shareware etc.  The Windham Hill (recording company) sampler
had some MTV like Quicktime tracks.

Kids Story - I forget the name, but the program "read" the stroy as the pages
are turned. Slick, but for young beginning readers.

Apple CD source book - A complete listing of CD ROMs currently published. The
drive also came with a nice hard copy of CD publications.

There is one more disc, but I can't recall what it was.  All ther disks came
in a nice wallet type notebook with sleeves for the CDs.


One other observation was when audio CDs are played the volume level seemed
too low.  This is probably a decision on Apples part to not overdrive the
internal speaker of the VX.  This may be different with the external drive or
if I connected to external speakers.

Howard Kaplan

Howard Kaplan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: binder@mack.com (Ed Binder x2456)
Subject: test post please ignore
Organization: /home/oz/binder/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: 10 Jan 93 22:05:01

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From: eapu174@orion.oac.uci.edu (Wayne Chen)
Subject: Re: 5.25" Disk Drives/File Exchange Vol.
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: UCI
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:00:35 GMT
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X-XXDate: Thu, 7 Jan 93 07:59:55 GMT

In article <chip.schnarel-070193085640@maverick.wr.tek.com> Chip
Schnarel, chip.schnarel@tek.com writes:
>A bit of humor here; he thought he was buying a Mac IIc. (yes, I know
>there's no such thing, but HE didn't.)  He paid $50 and thought he got
such
>a great deal. :-) :-) :-) Ahhhh! What's in a name...?
>
>This is his first foray into computers so I'm trying to help him out. 
If I
>purchase a 5.25" floppy drive for my Mac, will Apple's File Exchange
>recognize it and allow me to format/write floppies in PRODOS and/or the
>older Apple DOS file systems?  Have any of you tried this?  Who makes a
>compatible 5.25" floppy drive?  My intent is to provide him with Apple ][
>software from Compuserve and other BBS sources to get him started.  In
>theory there are applications that should allow us to trade data files
too,
>right?  My copy of MS Word doesn't export to an Apple ][ format, but I'd
>thought that I'd seen some programs that did.  Know of any?
>
>Thanks for any and all help!
>
>Chip

You may want to try an Apple II emulator for the Mac called "II in the
Mac" 
Which may let you connect to a Apple 5.25 drive.  Other than that the Mac
doesn't work with the 5.25 apple drives.  I know this because my cousin 
with a IIgs once came over and plug the drive into my IIsi and it didn't
work.
You have a couple of more option here:

 1) Put the Apple II files in a 3.5 disk with Apple File Exchange under
 pro dos and find someone with a IIgs that can transfer the files to 5.25.

	2) Get some phonet and run appletalk between the mac and the apple IIc
	(I know that the IIgs supports apple talk, I'm not sure about the IIc)

	3) transfer the files by modem between the Mac and the IIc

Hope that help a little.

BTW the humor was quite funny.  Either way, $50 is still a good price for
an
Apple IIc.

Wayne Chen
eapu174@orion.oac.uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rock@Armstrong.EDU
Subject: Mobius Speedster '040
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 13:33:55 GMT

Has anyone seen the Mobius Speedster '040. The 25MHz has a list price of
$799 (no FPU) according to their ad in MacWeek. I'm interested and
looking for any reports from the field.

rockbox!bob@pirstes.armstrong.edu

Bob

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,ubc.macintosh
From: Kevin Hester <kevinh@apple.com>
Subject: Re: PowerBook data/fax modem
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:41:51 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1inn7kINNnga@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> Mathew Englander,
mathew@unixg.ubc.ca writes:
>Two dealers have told me that the new modem will be compatible with my
>PB140. Is this true? and if so, why would Apple have announced the
contrary?

The dealers were wrong.  The express modem only works on the
160/180/210/230.

Kevin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk (Povl H. Pedersen)
Subject: Daystar Powercache price drop
Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:08:02 GMT

Rumors are that they will drop $600 tomorrow (the 50MHz version with FPU).
The salesperson a MacZone had heard the rumor too. MacConnection had not
heard anything.

So, Anybody knows the new prices ? Or is there anybody who has been
at MacWorld who knows them ?  I really would like a 50MHz is mail order
price drops $400 or so.
-- 
Povl H. Pedersen   -   Macintosh specialist. Knows some DOS and UNIX too.
pope@imv.aau.dk    -   povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk
From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: IIsi Oscillator Upgrades: Still Going???
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:31:33 GMT
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd

In <1993Jan5.061458.24616@leland.Stanford.EDU> image@leland.Stanford.EDU (John B. Mooney) writes:

>Now the it has been a couple of months since many people upgraded
>their IIsi by replacing the oscillator, I'm curious if anyone has
>experienced any long-term problems.  Are your machines still working?

Initially I upgraded to 25Mhz (i.e. using a 50Mhz osc to replace the
40), and my machine ran extremely reliably without a heatsink for
several months.

I then found a suitable heatsink, and upped the speed to 28.6 Mhz by using
one of the dot clock oscillators on the motherboard used to provide
the video timing for the full page (A4) displays (this is 57.xxx Mhz).
This has now been running for several weeks with no problems.

N.B. I have no expansion cards, and your mileage (kilometerage??) may vary.

Regards,
Paul

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From: kevinh@apple.com (Kevin Hester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Duo data/FAX Modem
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:23:30 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1993Jan12.194741.1477@crd.ge.com> Rod Sprattling,
sprattli@azores.crd.ge.com writes:
>What third-party data FAX modems are available NOW for the Duo?

I don't know of any third party internal modems, of course you could use
virtually any external modem.

>Will the Apple Express Modem support v.42bis?

Yes.
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kevinh@apple.com     | with Apple Computer.  The red zone is for        |
Portable Beer Brewer | loading and unloading of passenger vehicles only.|
From: seanmcd@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Info on the New Macs coming Feb 10th
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:55:51 -0400
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

> Quadra 800:
>    --> 8/230 retail $4,700
> 
> Centris 650:
>    --> 4/230 retail $2,900
> 
> Centris 610:
>    --> 4/80 retail $1,900
> 
> Mac LC III:
>    --> prices start retail less than $1,500
> 
> Color Classis:
>    --> 4/80 retail $1,400
> 
Well, all I can say about these prices is WOW! About time! Apple's going
to move a lot of machines at these prices.

One question: when you say 'retail', is that suggested retail price, or
what it will retail for in a store, i.e., street price?

p.s. I heard through the grapevine that the screen on the 165c is pretty
disappointing...

Sean McDowell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo)
Subject: Re: Pixel line on 14" Color Monitor on Purpose? Help!
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:00:10 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Apple Computer
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

In article <1993Jan5.232816.10670@reed.edu>, wrowe@reed.edu ( ) wrote:
> 
> About a month or two ago I purchased a new Macintosh system comprised of a IIvx
> (4/80) with extended keyboard, and Apple's "new" 14" Color Monitor. After
> connecting everything up and powering on, I noticed there was a minor defect in
> the monitor's display: about 1/4 way up from the bottom of the screen there was
> a line of faded pixels accross the monitor. It looks like its maybe one or two 
> pixels wide, and seems like the line is dimmer than the rest of the screen.
> 
> At the time I needed the computer to badly to do anything about it, but now I
> have a respite and so I called my dealer. My dealer told me that this defect is
> caused by a wire problem in the monitor, and that there is basically nothing 
> that can be done about it. Is this true? I have a hard time believing that Apple
> would make a monitor with an inherent display flaw, and especially in the newer
> 14" monitors since they could have fixed the design from the 13" model.
> 
> Help! Is my dealer snowing me? Has anyone else heard about, or seen if you have
> a 13" or 14" monitor, anything like this before?


This is a FAQ.

All Sony Trinitron Monitors, not just the ones sold by Apple, have a fine
wire that supports the shadow mask. Actually, the larger monitors have two,
one at the top and one at the bottom.  This is just the way the Sony builds
the tubes.

-tony

>>usual disclaimer<<
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Re: IIci :onboard video or card ?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:36:56 GMT

I meant to ask for information about the IIci on-board video vs. an
Apple 8-bit card. 

Is there good reason to add an Apple 4*8 video card to a IIci ? Do
the 8-bit cards allow VRAM installation ?

What is a reasonable price to pay for an 4*8 used card ?

Thanks,

Jim
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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MaxAppleZoom vs Apple's New 14" Monitor?
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:40:56 GMT
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1993Jan12.055836.3550@udel.edu> bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Ty Bower) writes:

>MAZ doesn't work so much with the monitor as it does with the
>video card.

>just about any
>640x480 monitor, MAZ will function.  

I'm well aware of how it works, but I think you are wrong.  If you read
the docs the author states your monitor must be capable of "multisyncing"
to a certain degree; remember you are now pumping more pixels out to the
screen than with a 640 x 480 raster.  I have tried MAZ with an older
Apple 13" screen which would NOT sync properly despite extensive diddling
with the controls.  Again, the author states this *might* be a problem.
He also says it doesn't work well with the 12" monochrome monitor (which is
why he added the lower-resolution mode), but my monochrome seems to work
fine at 704 x 512.  

So, I repeat my original question: does anyone KNOW if it works properly.
By this I mean have you actually USED IT on a new 14" monitor?  I suppose
it's academic now anyway, since I already ordered the new screen.... 

.............................................................................
....Boyd Ostroff / Technical Director / SUNY Oswego Department of Theatre....
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bszeto@netcom.com (Bailey Szeto)
Subject: Postscript cmd to turn ON the startup page
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:08:59 GMT

Hello all.
   Does anybody know the postscript command to turn on the startup page for
a laserwriter? I need to know the exact command because the printer is not
connected to a mac, and therefore, I cannot run the Laserwriter font utility.

   I believe that there are two ways to accomplish this. One is to connect
a terminal straight to the serial port, and the other is to put a postscript
header around the postscript command. I need to know what the command is.

  Any help/info/suggestions/comments would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
in advance.

bszeto@netcom.com
From: spare@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Joshua Spare)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Imagewriter II
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:36:06 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University

I have an imagewriter II for sale.  It comes with a cable and a new ribbon.  It is in excellent shape and has only a few hundred pages on it.  It comes in the original box with the manual. 

Asking  $175 or best offer.

Please mail me at spare@gandalf.rutgers.edu or just reply to me through this message.

Thanks,

Josh


-- 
Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and brief.  It is no matter how
witty, so it be eloquent and full of invention.  Taunt him with the license
of ink.						Twelfth Night (III.ii.42-45)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ckix@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (George Paci)
Subject: Help: SE can't find internal HD
Followup-To: ckix@crux2.cit.cornell.edu
Keywords: internal hard drive SE scsi
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:37:47 GMT

The hardware:
  1988-vintage Mac SE (68000, internal 20 Mb hard drive, 800K floppy drive)
  Club Mac 100 Mb hard drive (scsi)

The system software:
  6.0.3 and 7.0

Some history:
  I had money and needed disk space, and my younger brother had a
100 Mb external hard drive and needed money, so I bought his drive
for slightly less than he'd paid for it.

  I hadn't yet upgraded to System 7, but he had, so I figured I could just
run 7 off of the external, and 6 off of the internal.  This didn't really
work out, since 7 likes to rebuild desktops too much, so I did something
which was probably dumb, but probably unconnected to my problem: I
just copied his system folder onto my internal.  This seemed to work
well, though occasionally, the internal drive wouldn't be recognized
(i.e. wouldn't appear when I did a scsi id search, but then would show
up five seconds later when I did another search).

  I'd already copied all of my files from the internal to the external
(a convenient, if expensive, backup medium), so I figured what the hell:
reformat my internal, and copy back all the files that I need to load
quickly (system software, applications, a couple stacks).  This, too,
seemed to work.

  After a few restarts (which in this case means a week later, since I
rarely shut my Mac down), the internal drive was consistently not
appearing when I did a scsi id search.  I unplugged the external drive
(serial cable and power), tried to reboot, and got the floppy-with-the-
flashing-? icon -- my Mac no longer recognized its internal drive!

  This is still the case, a couple days' fiddling later.  I've even
tried changing the scsi id number on the external drive, but nothing
works: even with the external drive completely disconnected, the Mac
won't boot off of the internal hard drive.

Questions:
  o  What's wrong with my hard drive?  Is it OK for me to keep using
     the external for now?

  o  How did it get that way?  Did I break any rules doing what I did?
     Could I have replaced the driver (when I reformatted it) with an
     incompatible one?

  o  How do I fix it?  There's only a few K of text on the internal
     that's not backed up on the external, so I'm more worried about
     getting my storage space back than about getting my data back.

Please e-mail me responses, both because I'd like to get them fairly
quickly, and because I'm not sure how interested the other readers
of this group are in this particular problem.  I'll summarize to the
net if there's demand for it.

Thank you in advance,
--George Paci
From: pinghua@emily9.Berkeley.EDU (Pinghua Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Apple Warranty: Apple 16" Monitor
Date: 11 Jan 1993 02:19:37 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: emily9.berkeley.edu

Hi, can anyone tell me exactly how Apple Warranty works?  I just
bought a Quadra 700 with Apple 16" Monitor about a month ago.
However, there's a slight problem with the monitor.  Both horizontal
sides of its active viewing area curve up in the middle.  Do I have
to take it back to the place of purchase in order to get it fixed?
Or can I just go to an authorized dealer near my place and get it
fixed?  I hate to haul the heavy and bulky monitor over the highway
for several hours.  Thanks for any information.  --Pinghua
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From: agm@bnr.co.uk (Andrew G. Minter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: (Q) Connecting PB180 to VGA monitor
Date: 12 Jan 1993 10:50:36 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.164.64.60


I have one PowerBook 180, with the "VGA adaptor lead" that came in the box
and a fairly standard Microvitec VGA monitor and lead. My problem is that
the leads will not connect up.

The VGA lead that comes with the monitor terminates with a connector with
three rows of pins (like most VGA leads) which the adaptor from Apple
expects to connect to a 2-row 25-pin D-type.

The Apple dealer shrugs and says he doesn't really know about PC stuff can't
help. I've considered violence, but I'm not sure it would do any good. The
PC people I've seen have never seen a VGA connector of the sort supplied by
Apple. I'm beginning to feel that while Apple is trying to entice PC users
into the fold with all sorts of promises if connectivity and interoperability,
their dealers just don't want to know about anything to do with PC products.

Does anyone out there have a clue what I need to obtain to hook this
monitor up? If you know the pin-outs I can cope with making up a connector
myself. If nobody can help, perhaps someone can lend me a baseball bat
for the next time I visit the Apple dealer!

Thanks in advance, Andrew
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From: seanmcd@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac VX 
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:49:08 -0400
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1993Jan6.211333.13604@linus.mitre.org>, (m19701) writes:
> Greetings and Salutations.
> 
> Does anyone out there know when Apple will really be shipping the VX with
> the CD installed.  Its been over a month now since I (foolishly) believed
> CompUSA and pre-paid for a Mac IIvx system w/ CD-rom.  They're now telling
> me that 1) Apple won't tell them anything, 2) Apple has changed it's mind
> about the CD-ROM and is changing units, and 3) I might see the system late
> Feb/early March (if I'm lucky).  Since I'm losing interest on the money I
> paid, I'd really like to know what the truth is.  Does anyone know?
> 
> ed casey
> 
> (insert standard disclaimer here)

I got a IIvx 5/230CD In late December; Apple Canada received a large shipment
of IIvi & IIvx computers at this time. The MacWeek of 12/07/92, however, reports
that availability will be 'constrained' on the IIvx until mid-February. I guess
that CompUSA is simply waiting & hoping that they get lucky and get some 
machines from Apple. Apple is simply having trouble making enough computers;
the CD might be the Achilles heel in the process if they can't get ahold of
enough from their supplier.


On another note...I took the lid off of the IIvx to look inside. Earlier I had
commented to my girlfriend how stupid it was that there wasn't an activity light
on the CD -- hard to tell if there's a crash since it's slow -- and of course
there IS an activity light: only it's covered by the IIvx case...i suppose you
could drill a hole for it!

Sean
From: jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Info on the New Macs coming Feg 10th
Date: 13 Jan 93 02:29:29 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <Eric.G.Sack.1-120193204724@tc1-41.nd.edu> Eric.G.Sack.1@nd.edu (Eric G. Sack) writes:
>I've been wanting to ask this for a while, and I can't wait any longer.
>What case is the Q800 going to have? Is it the IIcx/IIci/Q700 case? (I
>doubt it since Apple will surely want poeple putting CD 300i in 'em.)
>That leaves either the IIvi/IIvx/P600 case OR a mini tower. Something
>like a chopped Q900/Q950 case. Personally I'ld like to see the mini
>tower. Does anyone know for sure? Did I miss a possibility?
>

Your wish is Apple's command (maybe!).  It's supposed to be a "mini-tower".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rosseel@imec.be (Jan Rosseel)
Subject: Re: Apple Announces Ergonomic Keyboard and Mouse
Organization: IMEC V.Z.W,Interuniversitair Micro Electronica Centrum, Belgium
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:08:03 GMT

This new keybourd and mouse looks interesting. 
Can somebody post a picture (.gif, .jpg, whatsoever) of them?