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From: hcs+@cs.cmu.edu (Henry C Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
Summary: X-Ray OK, Magnets NOT!
Keywords: Disks Airport X-Ray
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:06:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BzGnAL.GD3.1
Organization: Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon

In article <BzELGq.329@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath) writes:
>In <1992Dec17.055403.2955@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, yu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
> (Chen-Kuang Yu) writes:
>
>>        Is it alright to pass diskettes through airport X-ray?  Is it
>> ok if I include them in the luggage?  Are they as sensitive as the
>> harddisk to strong magnetization?
>
>A year or two ago MacUser did a pretty good test.  One of the people
>who writes the hints page ran some disks through the x-ray machines
>1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 times.  He got no problems with the once or twice
>disks but quite a few read errors with the 4 and 5 times disk.
>
	I remember seeing this article; the impression I got was the
tester felt that it wasn't so much the X-Rays, but the motors driving
the conveyor belts that were the problem.  Anyway, what with the
X-Rays, and the magnetic radiation I generally have them manually
check my disks.  I definately use the rule of thumb: "If it's
important, pass it around."  When delivering client software, I NEVER
took a chance.  The times I did run disks through, I never had
problems.  Your mileage may vary.
-- 
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:20964 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:16043
From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Date: 20 Dec 92 11:39:58 EDT
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <76U702Un2fZK01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, jjm70@ccc.amdahl.com (Jerry Miller) writes:
> 
> I don't want to rain on your parade too badly but the original 128k Macintosh
> was just that - a toy.  And an incredibly expensive one at that.  I have never
> met anyone who claimed to do any "serious commercial development" with one.

Well, you must not get out much. The 128K was just enough technology to be
useful. With 512K, you could run Excel, which for years was the only platform
to run this spreadsheet -- an excellent business tool.

> As a matter of fact, it wasn't until the Mac II was introduced that the
> business community started getting serious about the Macintosh.  

No, the business community started getting serious about the Mac when the Mac
Plus came out. The Plus featured something the 512K lacked -- expandability.
You could add memory and a hard disk easily.

The now-lowly Plus was the top of the Macintosh line for over a year, and
businesses snapped them up at a furious rate. Even after the SE and II came
out in '87, the Plus still sold at a rapid rate up until it was discontinued
in October of 1990. Indeed, the 68K toaster line (Plus, SE and Classic) 
comprise the largest segment of the Macintosh installed base. (Although that
is starting to skew now that they are no longer sold, and the LC is the
hottest seller)

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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac software for Sale
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:48:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

In article <1992Dec14.210449.2481@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>,
mf@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (fusco,marc) wrote:
> 
> 
>   Recent posts of Mac sotware makes me wonder:
> Is it _legal_ to sell software that you have received
> (paid or otherwise) updates for.
> E.g., can a person sell Word 4.0 if they have paid for the upgrade
> to Word 5.0?  What happens if the new owner wants to upgrade?

When I upgraded from PageMaker 2.x to 3.0, Aldus said that they had no
objection to anyone selling their old copies of 2.0,  but they would not
support the new owner of the 2.0 package.

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From: cgarnett@unix.amherst.edu (Craig Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How to add RAM to 10 MB in LC?
Date: 13 Dec 92 20:06:57 GMT
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Henry S. (hongyu@gandalf.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: Can anyone telol 
: Can anyone tell me how many RAM should I install in my LC with 4 MB RAM(from Apple)? Should I remove them and install 10 MB Ram , or just put 6 MB RAM in?

You have 2MB on the motherboard and 2 1MB SUMMs in your two SIMM slots.
To take it up to 10MB, you have to buy 2 4MB SIMMs and replace the
1MB's.

-C
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pw4963@sarah.albany.edu (Peter G. White)
Subject: Apple toll free #
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 23:38:14 GMT

Could someone e-mail me apples toll free #.  It is not listed and I don't
have a copy of macuser handy at the moment.

-Peter

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From: Paul_W._Griffin@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:39:15 PST
Subject: Re: Oakland Airport to Moscone in SFO?

If your flight arrives during the day, you could take the airport shuttle bus
to the BART (bay area rapid transit) station.  The bart will take you to
downtown San Francisco, within a few blocks of the Moscone Center.  There are
a lot of cars in san francisco and not too much parking space.  Bart shuts
down at midnight, so you'll have to use taxis for late night excursions.  Have
fun.

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From: imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar)
Subject: How to change Hard Drive icons on startup disk?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:30:20 GMT
Distribution: us
Organization: IMRAN: Information & Media Resources, Affiliations, Networks


I wanted to get some System 7 icons to replace the boring old hard disk
icons,  but for some reason it does not work on the icons of
my current disk, or the fileserver disk icons.  I turned off System 7
file sharing, even tried booting up with another floppy disk System
but to no avail :-(

Yt I was able to change the icon on the hard disk of a third Mac even though
I accessed it as a "fileserver" hard disk (system 7 sharing) so I dont
know what the "rules" are - why does it work on some disks and not on
others :-(
From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Soft_PC. How compatible is it?
Keywords: PC emulation
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:23:18 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

T.Stewart@massey.ac.nz (T.M. Stewart) writes:

>Soft-PC was mentioned a number of times.  Although it's likely to be slow,
>just how compatible is it?  

100%.

>Do any users of Soft-PC have any comments?

OK, I'm not a user I work for Insignia. But the emulation is solid.
T

-- 
Tony Cunningham, Insignia Solutions Ltd. tjc@ed.ac.uk or tjc@insignia.uucp
This explains a lot about me. I thought it was the heavy drinking, the
late hours, the barking mad women, the lying around in bed reading novels and
eating Nescafe out of a jar with the  spoon. But it's because of the Mac.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:20845 gnu.misc.discuss:4058
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Apple/Novell merger discussed
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 17:23:59 GMT
Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
> In article <0soXVB23w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
> >Yes.  So if Novell and Apple merged, you'd presumably boycott DOS and
> >Netware.  And you'd have fun boycotting DR-DOS without boycotting
> >MS-DOS, other OEM DOS versions, and Windows.
> 
> So because Lotus is being boycotted and since Lotus sells a spreadsheets
> programs, then all spreadsheet programs must be boycotted?  Your argument
> does not follow.

It's very simple.  If Apple and Novell merge, as Novell and DR merged, then
the company we know as "Apple" will be selling the operating system we know
as "DR-DOS".  Therefore presumably the FSF would have to boycott DR-DOS in
the same way it boycotts the Mac System.  Or is it just a hardware boycott?

> What does Novell have to do with MS-Windows?

You can run Windows on top of Novell DR-DOS.

> Why can't I boycott DR-DOS and not boycott MS-DOS?

It's going to be technically difficult, not to mention unpopular.  When
someone says "I'm running GCC on my 386 under Windows, and it's causing my
DOS shells to crash", you're going to have to ask him exactly which DOS he
bought, and explain that if he bought DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS or PC-DOS or
Compaq DOS or whatever, you're going to refuse to help him.  You're going to
have to ask him if he's running gcc on a Novell Netware fileserver.

Also, DR-DOS and Netware have a significant share of the market.  Such a
boycott might actually hurt the FSF.


mathew
From: cosc184z@menudo.uh.edu (David Alten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: .hqx files
Date: 15 Dec 1992 14:11:37 -0600
Organization: University of Houston
NNTP-Posting-Host: menudo.uh.edu

>        I have a similar problem with hqx files.  The problem with all 
>these solutions is:  what if I've downloaded the stuffit program, but the 
>decoding program (stuffit) is itself encoded in hqx???  If I don't have a 
>decoder already, how do I decode this decoding program?
>        In other words, is there any shareware out there for decoding hqx 
>which is available in unencoded form?  Or is there any encoded decoding 
>programs that are self decoding/expanding?
>
>        Sorry for the confusing message, but that's my state of mind 
>right now.
>        Thanks for your help.

What you can do is get the file as MacBinary, denoted by a .bin extension.
When you download, make sure you set your communications program for "binary"
transfer.  You can get BinHex.bin (only 5K) to decode .hqx files.  When you
get BinHex, you can then get StuffIt Expander 3.0, which will expand the most
popular (.cpt, .sit, .pkg, .hqx) files for you.

Also, I would like to correct my previous post.  I stated that BinHex 5.0
would not decode .hqx files.  It WILL.  Surprisingly, only one person (wait
'till I get my hands on him $&8@"@$!!!) corrected me.

Later,

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From: luis@outland.wpd.sgi.com (Luis Oleson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: memory upgrades for original mac portable
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Date: 11 Dec 1992 21:58:52 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: outland.wpd.sgi.com

Where's a good place in the bay area to hunt for mac portable memory>

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Office: (415) 390-1552                                 Pager Tel: (415) 940-5409
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From: niel@cars.com (Niel Bornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: HP laserjet drivers
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 09:21:03 EDT
Organization: Heavy Objects R Us
Reply-To: chinchilla!niel@cars.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <29541@castle.ed.ac.uk> (comp.sys.mac.misc), cbarton@festival.ed.ac.uk (C Barton) writes:
>
>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.
>

Yes there is, but I believe it requires the PostScript option.

Niel

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From: russol@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Louis Peter Russo)
Subject: Does a EPS (or PS) -> PICT application exist? 
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:44:01 GMT

Hello, I remember reading in passing about these types of applications.
Can anyone please give any info that they have on this type of process
(for example, any FAQ's or programs which will do this).

Basically I have a postscript file (either kind) that I want to read into a
word processor (I do not have MS Word 5!), so I want to be able to convert 
this to a PICT file.

Thanks,

Lou Russo
From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: question about sw compatibility
Date: 16 Dec 1992 04:38:17 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ratmandu.esd.sgi.com


   posting this query for a friend:

      she recently began to work for a group that has a 
      MAC-PLUS, OS: 6.0.7, finder: 6.18, and has a "Microsoft Database" 
      (V. 2.00 (c) 1986-90) that they have been trying to use 
      to generate mailing labels without success.   
      i am a macdummy but am wondering if anyone can tell me 
      which version(s) (4.0 or greater?) of a Microsoft sw pkg 
      would include a mailing labels generator that would be 
      compatible with a 6.0* operating system (and, i assume,
      they could successfully feed their current mailing labels database
      into so they don't have to enter the whole thing in again.)

      any tips, sugs, recomends greatly appreciated!

--
                                              daveus rattus   

                                    yer friendly neighborhood ratman

                                KOYAANISQATSI

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        in turmoil.  3. life out of balance.  4. life disintegrating.  
          5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
From: mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins)
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:48:55 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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.

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc craigw@fnal.fnal.gov (Craig Williams) writes:

>In article <1992Dec17.191137.423@walter.cray.com>, huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
>wrote:
>> 
>> From the 1990 Almanac (I wish I had a later one)
>> Sales in Millions:
>> IBM  - 59,681
>> Apple - 4,071
>> 

>Well Troy, this year Apple sold more machines than IBM. Now I dont have
>exact numbers, and no that does not include all the clones either, but it
>does illustrate a graph pointing in a direction that Mac users like to look
>at.

  But comparing Apple sales to IBM-PC and compatible combined sales, you
  see a really different picture.

  A lot of this is based on IBM having competition and Apple having none.

  Sure, they compete with the IBM-PCs for the desktop, but only in a limited
  way.  A person makes a decision at this level on the GUI for the most
  part.  If they chose an object oriented one, that used to mean only a
  Macintosh.  I know a lot of people who wanted a Mac, but couldn't afford
  one.  They bought a PC instead.

  Apple will begin to compete more directly with the IBM-PC and compatible
  now that OS/2 has (Work Place Shell), and Windows NT is moving towards
  (Cairo, I believe), an object oriented user environment.

  With these OSes, I think Apple will start to get some pressure.  I think
  more people will opt for the less expensive PC route if they can get an
  environment similar to the one on the Mac there.

  I think you would agree that the MAC-OS environment is the strongest selling
  point of the Macintosh.

  I like this type of environment, and I got something I like with an IBM-PC
  and OS/2 2.0.  It is not as mature as MAC-OS, but it is very good in
  comparison to the MAC-OS in it's first year.  And it can run a lot of DOS
  apps.

Don

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:20739 comp.sys.mac.system:15286 comp.sys.novell:10606
From: plumpton@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au (David Plumpton)
Subject: Quadra Icon weirdness
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 22:37:06 GMT

I just copied all my files from a IIsi to a Quadra 700. Everything was
fine, except for one strange thin; my ResEdit icons went black and white.
I rebuilt the desktop, and the icons changed to the default application
hand drawing on a diamond shape. After rebuilding the desktop again I
had black and white ResEdit icons once more.

What's going on? What do I have to do to regain colour ResEdit icons.
(There is one copy of ResEdit, one alias to ResEdit and some files).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
From: ken@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Ken Taylor)
Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** Novell + QuickTime = Disaster
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.novell
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:21:31 GMT

USENET News System (news@massey.ac.nz) wrote:
: Just in case this is unknown:
: 
: Apple NZ & our Apple Education Centre were running some courses on
: campus and wished to use some of my software as demos. However I was
: going to be in OZ so I had to leave the software on the Novell file
: server so they could pick it up an demo it. Result: "Not a valid movie
: file" whenever they tried to run a movie during the demo :-( :-(.
: 
: I've tracked this down to the Novell server altering files in someway
: (I think I know how, but until its confirmed no rumors) which results
: in the connection between a QuickTime movie reference (i.e. a pasted
: movie in some document or application) and the QuickTime data file
: being invalidated - so none of your pasted movies will work :-( :-(. If
: you open the ORIGINAL movie file it will still play, and re-pasting it
: will also work.

A known problem with Novell's AFP server is that it doesn't maintain
correct modification dates on some files (this makes system software
installations from Novell flaky), but I have never had a file be
"modified" by the server..

: WARNING: DO NOT place ANY QuickTime movie files on Novell file servers
: to which you have references, EVEN if you move the
: documents/applications containing the references. This problem has
: been confirmed using the ScrapBook as well as my own software.

Then you have another problem, we regularly transfer movies via a transfer
volume which is on a Novell 3.11 fileserver..

: This problem may also affect other programs, not just QuickTime, but
: we have not found any so far.
: 
: Moral: Don't use so called "multi-platform" file servers which are
: really just DOS is disguise (personal opinion!). Novell DOES NOT
: PROVIDE A TRANSPARENT MAC FILE SYSTEM.

No, but it provides one of the best value-for-money AFP platforms for
high-performace servers..

Please confirm rants and raves before posting them worldwide...

: Systems: Mac LC, Quadra, System 7.0.1, System 7.1, Novell 3.11 + 3.011
: for the Mac.
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: Massey University                 Fax: +64 6 350 5611
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: New Zealand

Ken
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From: feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (John A. Feinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: MacWorld/MacUser issue with Word 5 tips?
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:12:20 GMT
Organization: UB

Sometime this year, either MacUser or MacWorld published an issue that had an
article full of tips on using Word 5.  In the article, they had a page dedicated
to telling you handy places you could click the mouse, in order to bring up 
various dialog boxes.  Does anyone know which issue & magazine this article was
in?  I have most of the old issues in the basement, but I would never find the
article unless I knew what month issue it was in.

John Feinberg
SUNY Buffalo

Three weeks and counting waiting for my Word 5.1 upgrade (ordered from
Microsoft directly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pw4963@sarah.albany.edu (Peter G. White)
Subject: pb100 WYSIWYG??
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 02:41:14 GMT

Is the powerbook 200 WYSIYG?  I notice that most windows seem smaller than
on my LCII?

-Peter

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