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From: cgarnett@unix.amherst.edu (Craig Garnett)
Subject: Re: what to do w/ Mac 512k
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:31:09 GMT

Richard L. Goerwitz (goer@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: I have recently come into possession of someone's old Mac (512k
: model).  One floppy.  No hard drive.  What exactly can I do with
: this thing?  Is it worth upgrading?  If not, what can be done to
: it to make it useful?
: 
Sounds like a candidate for Dumb Terminal status to me. :)

-C
From: ma168faf@imath3.ucsd.edu (Matthew Guarnotta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: 16"monitor as television
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:18:45 GMT
Organization: Univsersity of California, San Diego


Help!!!!

I want to use my 16" apple color monitor as a televsion and hook it

up to my VCR as a tuner..but I don't want to remove cables from my

computer each time I do this..Any ideas??? Also I have a Duo230 and

will be getting a dock that has 2 NuBus slots and a video out...Also

is it possible to watch television in a small box on the screen while

you take a break from your computing???? Please help I'm lost!!!

Thanks
From: d1pihlan@dtek.chalmers.se (Fredrik Pihlstr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Pc to Mac software conversion needed
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:44:47 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

peter@aci_1.aci.ns.ca (Peter Cormier) said:

>I have binary and ascii files located on an MSDOS type diskette.  Is there
>software around that will allow my diskette to be read in a Mac so that I 
>can copy the files.  Any help (FTP sites etc.) will be greatly 
>apprecieated.

Try "Apple File Exchange" - bundled with the System software for your
Mac.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: ebido@bio.vu.nl (Etienne Bido)
Subject: Re: Color Disk Icons?
Organization: VU Biology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:09:52 GMT

codish@chen.bgu.ac.il (Shlomi Codish) writes:
: I *do* recommend speedy finder. It's a lot of fun, AND speeds things up
: when you use the finder. So far I haven't had any crashes due to it.
: 
: Shlomi
:
I use autodoubler and unfortunately it crashes with autoduobler.
But speedyfinder is a great program. (I think copydoubler is a bit
better) 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pablo@wam.umd.edu (Paul James Schnake)
Subject: Jasmine DirectDrive
Organization: National Library of Medicine 
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:19:14 GMT


I need help!  We have an old Jasmine DirectServe connected to a DirectDrive.
Well, the DirectDrive is dead.  I can't seem to use any of the formatting
tools I have to deal with this drive.  I can see it with SCSIProbe and I 
used the DirectServe software to "update" the drivers on the disk.  However, 
it cannot be seen on the network and the drive still does not mount when it
is attached to my Quadra.  Jasmine is no longer with us (out o' business)
so I can't call them.

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?  (Aside from chucking it out the 
window)

Paul Schnake
National Library of Medicine
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re: NOW Utilities 4.0.1
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:10:52 GMT

Alan D. writes
> Well, after saying I'd wait to see if anyone else got the Now
> Utilities 4.0.1 updater, I buckled under the pressure & downloaded it
> from AOL last night.  Then, I binhex'd it & tried to upload it to my
> unix box, but it didn't work (according to mcvert).  Anyway, just
> wanted to let people know it's been released, & will be sent to sumex
> (by me) tonight, if no one else has beaten me to it...

It was archived on mac.archive.umich.edu this morning. We beat you to it. :)
From: fcs$1224@altair.selu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Dress Sizing Pgm for Patterns Needed
Date: 8 Nov 92 12:35:27 -0600
Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University

Hi:

I am posting this for a friend of mine who teaches home economics.

She is looking for software for the McIntosh System 7 for a flat
pattern clothing design class that can be used in grading patterns;
that is, sizes.

As I understand it, a dress is designed for a "standard size
woman," and then the pattern is sized up or down.  For example, the
standard design can be sized upwards for a woman who is six feet
tall or sized downwards for another who is five feet tall.

Please send me e-mail answers at higginbotham@selu.edu.

Thanks,

Tom

T. F. Higginbotham, Ph. D.
Professor of Computer Science
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, Louisiana 70402
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
Subject: Re: Bad Sector
Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: As little as possible
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:47:30 GMT

mongoose@cardinal.stanford.edu (Ravi Konchigeri) writes:

>	My computer was sitting idle today when Autodoubler popped up this nice
>little dialog box.  It said something like, "Autodoubler has caught an
>error or type -20999 ... The file is good but your hard disk might be
>bad.  Please contact tech support."  I looked up -20999 in the
>SystemErrors DA and couldn't find it.  Does anyone know what this error
>is?  When I ran Silverlining it found a bad sector.  Is there any way I
>can map out the sector without re-formatting?  If not, what's the best
>way to get around this.  Also, when I try booting any of the files that
>were in the folder that Autodoubler caught the problem in, Finder gives
>me a "Not enough memory" message when there's clearly enough memory. 
>Thanx in advance.

What you should do is try to copy the files out of the folder where
there was a problem (onto a floppy or removable cartridge), make sure
everything else is backed up, and check your Silverlining manual for
"How to map out a bad sector."  (Hint: There's a button in the 'check'
dialog which says "Map out sector".)  I wouldn't worry too much about
it; I got about 3 bad sectors on my 'new' hard drive when I bought it.
(Since it was a 1Gb drive, I figured they were entitled to a few...)

	-=Alan
From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: EBCDIC Browser: Does it exist?
Date: 13 Nov 1992 13:00:40 -0500
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation


In article <34302@slice.ooc.uva.nl> kees@ooc.uva.nl (Kees de Ridder) writes:
>
>We are looking for a simple EBCDIC browser for the mac.
>Does anyone know such a beast?

For a quick hack, why not just make a copy of some popular font with
the characters moved to match EBCDIC instead of ASCII? Then you could
view EBCDIC documents in any program which displays text documents in
your choice of font. 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: horne@physics.su.OZ.AU (Geoff Horne)
Subject: mac prices (BMUG) please?
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:35:47 GMT

does anyone have a current price list of the new macs available
from either BMUG or MacWarehouse ??

I'm transferring to the US next year and want to know if i should
buy here or there..

BTW what's the student discount situation??

Thanks in advance

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From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: DISRUPT 7.1 LINES
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 13:18:28 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
> You're half right, though.  Apple is in it for the money, but not just for
> the money. If Apple were in it just for the money, they would be making MS
> DOS clones and would have dropped the Mac long ago.

You're kidding.  Apple would *never* be able to make money selling MS-DOS
clones.

No MS-DOS user would put up with being told that he has to visit his dealer
in person before they'll deign to sell him a computer.  No MS-DOS user would
wait two weeks for that machine to be delivered.  No MS-DOS user would wait
four weeks for it to be repaired.  No MS-DOS user would buy a machine
claiming to be supplied with "a free copy of <x>" and accept that what it was
actually supplied with was "a free cut-down demo copy of <x>, if you send
away a card and wait five weeks".  No MS-DOS user would accept buying a
machine advertised as being supplied with remote access software, only to be
told he'll have to pay another $250 for that.

I'm clearly no MS-DOS user.


mathew
-- 
Macintosh System 7.1 -- just say no.  If I'd wanted to pay $50 for OS upgrades
I'd have bought an IBM.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Dictionary Manager
X-Xxdate: Mon, 9 Nov 92 22: 23:17 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jtc1@cornell.edu
Organization: Office of Computing and Statistical Consulting
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:14:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.105903.29478@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> Mario Herodotus,
m_herodotus@csc32.enet.dec.com writes:
>	Well I for one would like to see all the vendors settle on some 
>dictionary and stick with that. I'd even pay a reasonable fee to buy 
>the standardized dictionary, and would really welcome them using a
>standardized Thesaraus and hypenation dictionary too! My drive is

Here's what I'd like to see:

A standard suite of AppleEvents and a Dictionary Manager (and Thesaurus 
Manager and Grammar Manager) that provide a standardized means for an 
application to 'lookup' a word/phrase/sentence.

The Dictionary/Grammar Checker/Thesaurus should then grab the event and 
do with it what it wants, returning the expected value.

Thus, no matter whose dictionary (etc.) you choose to use, all programs 
could use it. Microsoft, Claris, etc. could still ship their dictionaries 
as standards (perhaps with reduced functionality, though), and third 
parties might wish to ship 'power' dictionaries. The end-user leaves the 
checker of choice installed and all programs bow to his/her choice via 
the Dictionary Manager.

Of course, hell will freeze over before this happens, but...

- John

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Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Wednesday, 4 Nov 1992 21:41:50 EST
From: Andrew Ball <FCTY7402@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: This is not a Mac disk...?!

Forgive a "newbie" a FAQ, but I am stumped.  This Mac disk, which contains Mac
files, (Pagemaker, Word, etc...) is no longer readable.  My (new) Mac wants to
format it.  Would Disk FirstAid help ?


* fcty7402@RyeVm.Ryerson.ca
* aball@acsserv1.ryerson.ca
My opinions, my problem.
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From: pierce@radius.com (Pierce T. Wetter III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Info on RocketShare?
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:37:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Radius

In article <2323@grivel.une.edu.au> Gerard Hammond,
ghammond@metz.une.edu.au writes:
>Has anybody tried RocketShare.

I helped write it.

>It's the method of making the mac a
>multiprocessing machine by allowing both chips to work
>more or less independantly.
>I'm considering buying it if I buy a rocket for my IIci.
>So has anybody had any problems yet.
>Does the second finder window have any particular nuances or
>is it just like any other mac window.

It's just like any other mac window except that all command keys go to
second
finder window instead of the motherboard.

Having a desktop that scrolls can be weird, too.

Pierce
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: mi@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Mark Interrante)
Subject: Hooking Dous to a university of ethernetted macs...
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:15:07 GMT

If one wants to buy a Dou and forgo the dock [till the cool third
party ones come out in the spring] how would I simply hook up
the machine to the ethernetted quadra under my finger tips in order
to access its files and printers?

-Mark 
mi@ponder.csci.unt.edu or mfi@uxmail.ust.hk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: awells@fenris.claremont.edu (Adam "Servo" Wells)
Subject: Type 1/Type 3 fonts -> TrueType?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:03:44 GMT

Is there any way to convert the Type 1 and Type 3 fonts found at many major
archive sites to TrueType?  Are there any utilities that perform this
conversion?

If so, where can they be found (if shareware) and/or what is the cost?

Adam Wells

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From: thomasj@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (thomas jeffrey w)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: APPLE NOT HONORING THE WARRANTY
Summary: APPLE NOT HONORING THE WARRANTY
Date: 8 Nov 92 02:38:13 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Has anyone had trouble with Apple not honoring their warranty?
Or has anyone been forced to sign a non-disclosure statement to
get a replacement?

Any info or suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks


jeff
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Powerbook 145 vs 160
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:55:03 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

dowling@hubcap.clemson.edu (Drew Dowling) writes:

>pw4963@sarah.albany.edu (Peter G. White) writes:

>>Also, What would be the advantages in buying the 160 over the 145?
>Strickly speaking the diffrence is the screen.(period)
>Yes you can expand the ram a little more and it is a tad lighter.

    Well, there is a bit more to it than that. There is the video-out
capabilities, that most people see as the largest selling point of the
160 over the 145, and there is also the ability to connect to a mac as
an external HD.

--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
	"Hey, we're on the Cutting Edge!"
	"Too bad it's not the side you keep." - Mr. Boffo
From: spcmagnu@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (James Magnuson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: printing to 1 printer from sys 6 & sys 7
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:44:58 GMT
Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC


we're having some problems getting our system 6 & system 7 macs
to print to the same printer.  our system 6 macs with
the system 7 print monitor and laser writer extension lose
the option of background printing.

we also have a iisi that either gets a printer error -50 or the
message 'application unknown has unexpectedly quit as a result
of error type 3' when we try to print through a local talk
connection.  (the iisi is running system 7...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: lefty@apple.com (David "Lefty" Schlesinger)
Subject: Re: slow network
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:03:06 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <10NOV199214120563@rigel.tamu.edu>, mmh2941@rigel.tamu.edu (Mary
Haskett) wrote:
> 
> Howdy! I manage a small appletalk network. We have six Classic II's, four
> LCII's, a SE/30 and a IIci all connected with an Imagewriter and a HPIII
> printer. The network is very slow, especially printing to the HP III.
> We have added memory to the printer, what is the next step to increase
> speed? Thank you.

What version of AppleTalk are you running?

--
David "Lefty" Schlesinger (lefty@apple.com)
Chief AppleTalk Bug Wrangler
Apple Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: Philip_Sarin@uu0570.foggybottom.com
Organization: Foggy Bottom / Washington, D.C.
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 10:04:55 EST
Subject: Re: ImageWriter II and AppleTalk?

I asked someone who has an Imagewriter networked and he said that it
needs a board.  There's an RDEV (chooser device) included with the
system software that'll support it.
Foggy Bottom - your FirstClass Mac connection in Washington, DC

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cadesjar@leibniz.uwaterloo.ca (Curtis Desjardins)
Subject: Beeps/Sounds question
Originator: cadesjar@leibniz.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:09:01 GMT



I've got software that can convert a sound file to a beep file,
but I'm interested in obtaining software that can do the opposite
(ie. beep sounds to something, say, SoundMaster can use)

Is there such software available?

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From: fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple Unit Sales to Pass IBM in '92 (from Mac
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:31:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov11.193155.17356
Distribution: inet
Organization: Harvard Math Department

In article <TTN.92Nov11063806@kivikkorastas.cs.tut.fi> ttn@cs.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.163321.19676@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
>
>   Apple is expected to pass IBM Corp. in worldwide personal computer
>   unit sales for the first time in 1992, according to International Data
>   Corp.  Through nine months of 1992, Apple has shipped 2.03 million
>   units, while IBM has shipped 1.85 million.
>
>	     1990             1991             1992 Estimate (Source: I.D.C.)
>   Apple     1.69 million     2.48 million     3 million
>   IBM       2.84 million     2.91 million     2.9 million
>
>It would be nice to know just how much of the total PC sales does IBM
>make. That might put things in a quite different light.

It might, but the figures show completely that Apple and IBM are
heading in different directions.  Consider also that the price per
share of Apple and IBM stocks are approaching each other, something
unthinkable a few years ago without a split in IBM stock.  Yes, I know
there are many more outstanding shares of IBM, but the point is that
it was once thought that if IBM fell below $100/share, the world would
come to an end.

David Fry                                  fry@math.harvard.edu
Division of Applied Sciences               fry@huma1.bitnet
Harvard University                      ...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138            
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf)
Subject: Need Excel Gradebook/Chi Square templates
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:30:47 GMT

I need to find a way to convince Excel 4.0 to be:

1.  A Teacher's Gradebook

2.  A Chi-Square Wizard

I think there should be a template for the first one, and either a template or 
a macro for the second one floating around the net somewhere.  Can anyone help 
me out?

Bob
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From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.multimedia,comp.music
Subject: Foot switches for mouse buttons?
Date: 9 Nov 1992 20:10:04 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

A friend of mine is interested in a foot switch that can be used as a
mouse button. She wants to be able to advance a Director or Persuasion
slide show at critical points in a musical performance WHILE she is
playing her instrument. A conventional mouse could be used, of course,
but clicking on something that small (and relatively fragile) would be
very difficult to do accurately if at all under these conditions. Any
suggestions would be welcome! Thanks.

Bill
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From: potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Autodoubler
Date: 6 Nov 1992 20:43:18 GMT
Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: helen.oit.itd.umich.edu

In article <parkyn.721079061@sfu.ca> parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn) writes:
>I also encourage use of Autodoubler among my cliendts...
>
>Should be using at least version 1.0.7 (i) or 2 (i).
>
>There are some side effects from compression such as not being able to 
>use the Find File feature of Word 5.x.
>

The only problems I've had with AutoDoubler are the following:

I had a pocket hard drive which was unable to do error-free file transfer.
The usual tools, which just test individual sector reads and writes, didn't
show problems, but the drive would give frequent read errors. AutoDoubler,
which did reading and writing to the drive while I was doing other things,
did manage to make some files unusable, although most of them could be
repaired. This was with an early version and hardware that wasn't working
right. Auto-Doubler's test tools showed that it had problems writing and
reading to the free space of the volume successfully. If anyone is using
AD and having files become corrupt, test your drive very thoroughly - that
is likely to be the problem. Some third-party drives come with very poor
SCSI circuitry and cabling, and the noise introduced can cause errors.
AutoDoubler, by doing reads and writes to compress the files, can reveal
an underlying problem if there is one.

I got my money back on the Pocket hard drive... :)



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