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From: louislam@iastate.edu (Louis C Lam)
Subject: What happens to MacTel Technology?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:05:20 GMT

Does MacTel still exist? I haven't seen their ads for a while and the 
they're not in the HD comparsion test of March 93 MacWorld.

I have a MacTel HD and if it really has ceased to exist where can I go
if my HD fails?

Louis

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ns111310@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Nathaniel Sammons)
Subject: What is apple releasing on the 10th of Feb?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:27:27 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College



Does anyone have a synopsis of what Apple is going to release on the 10th??

I want to know if they are releasing any new PowerBooks and if they
are planning to drop the price of the 160 or 180 (or the Duos for that 
matter)


thanks,

-nate sammons
 ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: noah@apple.com (Noah Price)
Subject: Re: Quadra VRAM vs graphics card
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:18:01 GMT
Organization: (not the opinions of) Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

In article <C1F4p5.5sM@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, hr@spica.astro.uiuc.edu (Harold
Ravlin) wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to decide between adding VRAM to a Quadra 700 with a 16"
> E-machines II or buying an E-machines SX/24 card. Would someone
> comment on the pros and cons of each?

> What I don't know is what are the comparative speeds in 8 and 24 bit
> modes?  I understand that the E-machines is a relatively slow card,
> but it is in the price range.

For performance, you won't beat the Quadra built-in video.  I don't have
benchmarks handy, but I know it even beats many accelerated video cards, in
part because it doesn't need to pass any data over NuBus.  If "in the price
range" is also important, I bet you'll get out for less money just buying
the extra VRAM than buying a whole video card!

I'm not familiar with the E-machines card, so I can't compare specific
features.

noah

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
noah@apple.com                                 Macintosh Hardware Design
...!{sun,decwrl}!apple!noah   (not the opinions of) Apple Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jrg@punch (James R. Goble)
Subject: Re: Stylewriter Ii Costs
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:44:40 GMT

In article <21899.2B67BD77@zeus.ieee.org>  
Roman.Brice@f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Roman Brice) writes:
> 
>  O> Also, what is the current approximate street price of the SWII?
> 
> The only vendor which I've gotten a price from is MacBest for $329.
> 
> I believe they ship from Tempe, AZ
> 
> 
>  * Freddie 1.2 * I'm a feminist.  I believe in treating them all the  
same.
> --  
> =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
>  Roman Brice - Internet: Roman.Brice@f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org

Latest MacDepot price is $319.  If you can wait a bit, I expect the prices  
will drop even more.  The Apple list price for the SWII is only $359.  The  
SW list was over $500 and they were selling for around $340.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Peter_M._Williams@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 19:02:48 PST
Subject: Looking for a hard drive

Looking for a hard drive-	
	I'm looking at purchasing a new hard drive.  Right now I'm leaning towards
purchasing a Quantum LPS240.  I've found it at ClubMac for $519 internal and
579 external.  I know there are good used deals but I'm big on the two year
warranty.  
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Peter Williams.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Gene Naftulyev <chairman@staff.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: 1 GByte HD on a MAC Plus
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A789F96CB9016509@dialup-slip-1-9.gw.umn.edu>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 02:09:16 GMT
Organization: U of M
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:09:12 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.103246.4755@unifr.ch> Killian Stoffel,
Stoffel@CFRUNI52.bitnet writes:
>We are trying to connect a 1 G Micropolis 2112 HD to a Mac Plus for a
>slow !
>information server. The Macplus will not boot from the disk although it
>works
>with a II and a SE. The disk works fine once the Mac Plus has been booted
>from
>a floppy.
>We have tried connecting a MAC-PLUS-bootable hard disk in parallel to see
>if
>it is a problem with the power for the external termination without
>success.
>We have also tried re-initialising with silver lining 5.31 to no avail.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated !

I know the exact situation you are in...I had a Plus and a 735meg HD with
it...the problem is not in the HD really, but the Plus (duh) but it can
be fixed with software...you simply need to use SilverLining 5.28 or
earlyer, not the current version that you are using...LaCie for some
reason droped MacPlus SCSI incompatibility patching from the later
SilverLining versions...the old version should work fine for you...
From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac 512kE monitor problems....
Date: 26 Jan 93 10:56:31 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.2.12

Geoff M. Kizer <gmkizer@phoenix.princeton.edu> writes:

>I'm trying to repair a Mac512kE with intermittent monitor problems.

>After the Mac is on for a few minutes, the screen blanks out.

>The owner noticed that a few hits to the side sometimes brings the
>display up temporarily.

>It seems that the solder joints check out -- any suggestions about where
>I should look for the problem?  Is there a typical reason for the mac
>internal monitors to fail?

>Thanks.

Um, when my 512kE had similar symptoms, replacing the power supply
fixed it. I don't know if that helps, but I hope so.

Tonio

-- 
Tonio Loewald | tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au

"Yes!! For the hundred and fiftieth time!
 We're burning in hell!!!" (John Callahan)
From: fullerto@cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy dwight fullerton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LCII programmer's switch
Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:52:56 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: mostaccioli.cis.ohio-state.edu

In article <jlbraddy.727680987@vincent1.iastate.edu> jlbraddy@iastate.edu () writes:
>Anyone know why the ClassicII has a programmer's switch but the LCII
>doesn't?  I was disappointed when I found out that my LCII didn't
>have one.
>

	Under system 7, you always have the <command><option><escape> 
combination for "Force quit". The LC will also reboot with 
<command><control><power on>.

	Do you have MacsBug or the Programmers switch init? Both of those
can be triggered to achieve these and other effects with <command><power on>.

	Tim

-- 
		Tim Fullerton
		fullerto@cis.ohio-state.edu
		75720.142@compuserve.com
From: mirsky@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Joshua Mirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Stylewriter I and envelopes
Date: 24 Jan 1993 16:14:26 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu


Hi. I have had some difficulty printing envelopes on my Stylewriter I.
Firstly, it always seems to feed the envelope all the way through
without printing anything on it when I try to print an envelope. I then
have to reinsert the envelope, and most of the time it works.  But I
am wondering why it feeds it through the first time. I am sure I have
selected envelope in Page Setup. It acts kind of like a larger paper
size was selected.

I have also found it frustrating trying to print smaller envelopes:
6.125 X 4.5   

I was using Quarkxpress, because I like the interface, but the Page
Setup does not allow me to print a envelope of that size.  

I'm sure I could fiddle with the margins so that an en elope could
probably print out o with the stylewriter, but those margins in actuality
would bewarped.  That is, I want the stylewriter to print an envelope with
correct margins etc. without having to exaggerate the placement of
everything to accomodate the stylewriter.  I will do this if it is necessary
but I'm wondering if it is.

Thanks
David
mirsky@gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Modem install on PB?
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:27:13 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I have a 140 with a 2400 bps modem (installed by retailer)
that I want to replace with a 14.4. How hard is it to install?
Will it void my warrantee? Any info/experience would be 
appreciated.

--
Dave Ozonoff
dozonoff@med-itvax1
Boston University School of Public Health
80 East Concord St., T3C
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 638-4620
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Killian Stoffel <Stoffel@CFRUNI52.bitnet>
Subject: 1GByte HD on a MAC Plus
Organization: Uni Fribourg
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:39:10 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand)
Subject: Re: Help!!!! Mac IIsi Memory Manager
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:33:00

In article <smclane-210193111808@260-3l-mac5a.wdl.loral.com> smclane@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Sterling McLane) writes:

   My son has a Mac IIsi which aborts when an application finds it has used up
   its allotted memory space and needs a little more - for instance MS Word
   5.0 with a longish document will blow up when saving or printing although
   it was perfectly happy when the file was opened.  He has been able to get
   around this by giving the applications more memory through the Get Info
   dialog, but it continues to catch him on occassion and he loses data he has
   entered. I never have had this problem on our old Mac 128, or SE at home or
   my IIfx at work.  Is there something flaky with the IIsi ROMs?  If so, is
   there an INIT or something that can get around it? The machine is
   configured with 5MB of memory, the NuBus extender/Math Coprocessor option,
   System 7.0.1 with System 7 Tuner 1.1.1.

No.  The problem is that the MacOS hasn't gone to a virtual 
address space model.  Each app allocates all the memory it will
ever use at startup.  If it needs more then it is SOL.  Some
applications need more memory on color screens,  certainly 
you can be able to read in a document but not be able to
print because the application can't allocate the print
buffer.

--
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Snail:         11 Cambridge Center,  Cambridge,  MA  02142
Disclaimer:    I don't know if OSF agrees with me... let's vote on it.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jleuper@lotus.com (Jim Leuper)
Subject: Re: New 150 meg Bernoulli Questions...
Organization: Lotus Development Corp.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 22:15:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.224907.15113@netcom.com> tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C.  
May) writes:
> Another key factor is that the MO standard is supported by a dozen or
> more companies, while Bernoulli is a proprietary technology of Iomega.
> Who knows what'll happen to them over the next several years.

Iomega isn't exactly a risky newcomer here. They've been shipping Bernoullis  
for years, although I will grant that they have been much more of a presence in  
the PC market than on the Mac.
I wouldn't write them off just for being a single-source, since they have a  
very good reliable solution. After all, we all have Macintoshes even though  
those involve proprietary technology and are only available from a single  
source, too. ;-)


Jim Leuper                              Lotus Development Corporation
jleuper@lotus.com                           Advanced Technology Group
From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 21M Flopticals?
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:43:12 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: swiss.ucs.ubc.ca

In <93023.214617U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> <U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:

>The 21meg flopticals run about $500 and the disks themselves are very
>expensive. If you can't even afford a Plus Drive, how can you afford one
>of these? 

The original poster did not say he couldn't afford a floptical. His words
were: "The AE Plus drive is an outragous $300 so I am investigating the
21M Flopticals, which seem to offer an ideal solution." I interpret this
to mean that $300 is far too much to pay for a 1.44M (or even 2.88M) drive
when you can get a 21M drive for not a whole lot more money. 

>I think each 21meg disk costs over $10 right now. And you have to buy
>them in boxes of ten. 

I'm sure all floptical owners are hoping for lower disk prices (I would if
I had one) but $10 for 21M is less than $0.50 per megabyte. That's pretty
good compared to other media (e.g. 88MB Syquest cartridges are around a
$1.00 per megabyte). 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: choi@crhc.uiuc.edu (Gwan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: WANTED :  MAC Portable
Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:13:10 -0600
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: glass.crhc.uiuc.edu
Summary: wanted
Keywords: mac portable


Does anybody have any idea where i can possibly get a new or used
Mac Portable computer?  I know that Apple doesn't make them anymore
since they had PowerBook out.. but I heard there are places/people
liquadating Mac Portables at very very good deals.

Any info. would be appreciated.

choi@crhc.uiuc.edu
From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac IIsi sound problems
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:09:26 -0500
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
Distribution: world
Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.intercon.com
X-Newsreader: InterCon TCP/Connect II 1.1b34

When I upgraded the crystal on my IIsi, I took the opportunity to spray the 
speaker contacts liberally with Cramolin Red (an antioxidant used a lot in 
professional audio work, and available at most "audiophile" stores).  The 
speaker's been working perfectly ever since.

Cramolin is right up there with Duct Tape and RTV when it comes to usefulness 
in fixing things...


Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
From: stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Stuart R. Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SE/30, Micron Xceed Video Board, and VM.
Summary: Video problem with VM
Keywords: SE/30, VM, Micron Video
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:12:27 GMT
Reply-To: flynnm@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
Organization: TheNews

Hello,

I'm having a problem with using Virtual Memory with my SE/30 now that I have
installed a Micron Xceed Video card. I'm running Sys 7.0.1 with tune-up and
various inits that I don't think are causing the problem since this still
happens when the extension manager takes them out of the system folder.
The crash usually occurs when I'm in the monitors control panel.

Mike Flynn
flynnm@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: johnwitt@anathema.engin.umich.edu (John P Wittkoski )
Subject: Accelerators
Originator: johnwitt@anathema.engin.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:39:05 GMT


This goes out to all of those out there who have ANY type of 68020 or
68030 based accelerators fot the Mac 128, 512, Plus, or SE.

1. Do you need an INIT for the system to operate properly? Will the upgrade
	work if the INIT is not in?
2. Do programs like Speedometer or MacEnvy report that you have a 68020 or
	68030 processor installed? If you run an INIT that came with the
	upgrade, do these programs report the correct CPU, or do they only
	report the correct one with the INIT running?
3. Have you encountered any other compatibility problems? I have heard that
	sound is a big problem, but some companies have INITs that fix the
	problem.

Respond by email or posting, whichever is easiest for you.
Thanks!

	--John Wittkoski
	  University of Michigan
	  johnwitt@engin.umich.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Distribution: world
From: Sean_P._Peisert@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:48:15 PST
Subject: Casper

Anyone out there work for Apple know people or work for apple or can generally
tell us  any insider info on Casper?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: oueichek@gram (Ibaa Oueichek)
Subject: Re: LCII Memory
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 01:22:37 GMT

Ernest T Rees (rees@.cs.pitt.edu.cs.pitt.edu) wrote:
: We have an LCII with 4 megs installed.  It has two empty simm slots.
: I'm told I can install two 2-meg simms to go to 6 megs or two 4-meg
: simms to go to 10 megs.  Is this right?  Where is the extra two megs
: disappearing to?
  They are wasted due to the MB design. Don't worry, the two megs are there
  but you can't access them.
: 
: Thanks,
: 
: Ted Rees rees+@pitt.edu
:           ^^^ use this for email - not the return path
: 
: 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Re: If only the PB100 came back 
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Distribution: na,world
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:22:19 GMT

But it really isn't that inexpensive to make. I read that Apple lost
millions on the PowerBook 100. Of course, it made much more on the 
other models, but the fact is that they just wanted to get rid of them.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Gene Naftulyev <chairman@staff.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Sampo Color Monitors???
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78B6DDC83056520@dialup-slip-1-32.gw.umn.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:38:20 GMT
Organization: U of M
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:38:14 GMT

In article <1k46koINN462@hamal.usc.edu> Dick Mead, mead@hamal.usc.edu
writes:
>Has anyone used one of the Sampo 20 inch color monitors, as advertised
>in MacWeek ads? Mac Direct has an 8-bit system for about $1300.00 and
>I am curious as to the quality. I wonder if it supports multiple
>resolution modes with another video card, or is it a single fixed
>freq monitor?

The monitor is NOT multisinc...It ONLY does 1024x786...I have not seen
the 20 in, but the 14in on SUX bigtime, were talking Goldstar quality
here, so for that price I would expect the 20 to be pretty bad as
well....still if you want a big screen and don't care about sharpness (us
the computer for less than 2 hr. per day) then this may be a good
solution...it's $1050 w/o the card from MacDirect...
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Am I the only one?
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:06:34 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

louislam@iastate.edu (Louis C Lam) writes:

>In <1993Jan23.045426.12226@oswego.Oswego.EDU> ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:

>>>THEN-- I read the article in the latest MacUser about Powerbooks and
>>>what to bring along when on the road. And they talk about how easy it
>>>is to make your own networking cable. ("For about $75, you can make
>>>your VERY OWN NETWORKING CABLE! Just buy two PhoneNet adaptors,
>>>
>>>Am I missing something? Am I the only one who knows this wonderful
>>>cheap method for hooking up two Macs with just a $10 serial cable?!?

    Actually, I usually use a 15' Imagewrite II cable. It cost $15, but
as is mentioned below, is only good for 2 Macs.

>>True, you can run an AppleTalk connection with a printer cable between
>>TWO macs.  However, if the desktop mac is part of a larger network,
>>there could be some reason it's owner/administrator may not want you to
>>pull it off the net to hook up your Duo (what if it's an active
>>fileserver, for example).  I suspect that's what they had in mind
>>recommending the phone-net hardware.....

>Someone told me that it will work with a printer cable, but doing so 
>could increase the chance of data transmittion errors. However, I'm
>using a printer cable to connect my PB100 and IIci and I've found
>no problems at all.

    I have never had any problems with the IW II cable that I have use
with various Powerbooks for the last year or so. But I have to ask: why
are you not connecting your 100 with a SCSI cable to your IIci? The
bandwidth of SCSI puts LocalTalk to shame.

--
From: Keith.Jones@macrocosm.omahug.org (Keith Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: PB Back Door
Date: 23 Jan 93 15:59:20 CST
Reply-To: keith.jones@macrocosm.omahug.org
Organization: The MacRocosm BBS, Lawrence, KS
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

The rear door on my PB 140 is no longer latching.  Nothing appears to be
broken; it just stopped working.  Does anyone have any info on this problem?

Keith
From: stump1+@pitt.edu (Robert E Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Acceleration for IIfx (040)
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:56:51 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: stump1@unixd3.cis.pitt.edu


	Not that I'm dissapointed with the performance of my Mac, but I'm
starting to get in to A/UX and would like an 040.  Problem is, I like my
IIfx and the way I have it configured.  It has six slots, and I see no
good reason for me to trade it for a three slot Q700 (can't afford a 950).

	What I need is info on what 040 accelerators are out there for
the IIfx, how much they cost (generally) and any opinions on these devices
you may have.  I've seen articles on the Fusion TokaMac fx (nice but
expensive... still, if you know anything...) and I saw something about 
a TechWorks 33Mhz 040 board, but I've seen no specs and no reviews.

Any help is greatly appreciated.  If it turns out that a new machine is
really the only way to go, I figure I may as well wait for the 060 or a 
PowerPC.  Not that these will be in my budget either but...  :^)

Thanks...


				Stump.

Mail preferred (if possible) at:  stump1@oss7q.cis.pitt.edu
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