Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: Re: (C) Features wanted in new macs...
From: ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Date: 24 Dec 92 05:26:08 GMT

Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:

>I believe *this* will prove to be the undoing of Apple, who was supposed to
>produce an mp-system for 7.0 already, but has shown itself uncapable of
>doing what Amiga has done several years ago, that IBM (ps/2) can do now and
>MS (Windows NT) real soon.

I believe this is what PowerOpen (A/UX 4.0) will be designed for.  Last I
heard, it's getting quite far (already beta?).  The PPC's aren't really
ready yet, though.
--
	       -  Ishir Bhan -  ibhan@husc.harvard.edu  -
				     - - -
	   "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:08 GMT
From: JMPAYO@mvax.cbm.uam.es
Subject: 1Mb/4Mb PC SIMMs

I was told that if you want to upgrade RAM in your Mac, you can put 1Mb PC
SIMMs safely in SE and LC models. I have heard that PC SIMMs are 9 bit
SIMMs, and Mac SIMMs are 8 bit SIMMs, but I don't know what this implies
when working in a Macintosh. It happens that, at least in Spain, PC SIMMs
are cheaper than Mac SIMMs. Before I can get a fried SE/30 logic board, I
would like to ask to netland:

Have you tried to put one of these configurations in a MAC SE/30?
a) Four PC 1Mb SIMMs + Four Mac 1Mb SIMMs
b) Four PC 4Mb SIMMs + Four Mac 1Mb SIMMs

Any help will be appreciated.

Jose M. Payo    <jmpayo@mvax.cbm.uam.es>

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:14:18 +0100
From: holst@diku.dk (Bo Holst-Christensen)
Subject: Apple Associates/Partners programme.

I have just received the prices for the European Associates and Partners
programmes. I would like to compare the European prices with the US prices.
What are the prices for the US Associates and Partners programmes?

   Bo Holst-Christensen
   holst@diku.dk      dikubhc1@uts.uni-c.dk      FAX: +45 53 640 321

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:46:45 GMT
From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: Apple SOS Service is AMAZING!

I don't normally write this type of article, but I had such a WONDERFUL
experience this week, I wanted to share it.

My Powerbook 140's trackball has been giving me trouble for a while, and last
weekend it finally gave out and would only move horizontally (not a good
thing ;).

Monday morning I called 1-800-SOS-APPL (after being told by all the local
dealers that they couldn't do it in less tha a couple of weeks), talked with
a nice rep who took down all of my information and said he'd send out the
box for shipping and that the'd have it back on the 28th (not great but better
than the dealers).  So the box arrives on Tuesday, and I send it right back
out via Airbourne Express (all the forms come predone at Apple's expense).

This morning (Thursday), my Powerbook returned to me FULLY REPAIRED!!!

Talk about service, they turned the machine around the SAME DAY they recieved
it, so I was only without my PB for 2 days (airbourne time).

It's about time someone (Apple, thankfully) did something like this in the
computer (or any other) industry.

Leonard Rosenthol
P.S. I did this as an "end user", I received no special developer privledges
and never even identified myself as one.

Leonard Rosenthol                       Internet:       leonardr@netcom.com
Director of Advanced Technology         AppleLink:      MACgician
Aladdin Systems, Inc.                   GEnie:          MACgician

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 9:55:45 EST
From: leo@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Prof. L.G. Leduc)
Subject: Bell Curving

Netters,

Does anyone know of a Mac program which can bell curve student marks?

A shareware program would be preferred.

Please reply directly to me.

Leo G. Leduc

leo@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:11 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: Downloading NON .hqx files (A)

Todd Breslow asks in 10-304:

>I came across some files I'd really like to download at the umich
>archive site, and they are listed as simply ".sit" and not ".hqx"
>files. I've had a hell of a time trying to get them to work.
>I've downloaded the files both in ASCII mode and in BINARY mode,
>and neither work. StuffIt will recognize the ASCII download, but
>can not unstuff it. The Binary version is complete nonesense.
>
>I ask: what am I doing wrong?

Well, Todd, you don't really say what you've done. You don't mention the
download protocol, the systems used, the software used, the settings used,
or the files you had trouble with. All that info can pin down the cause of
your problem.

But I'll take a shot anyway. My guesses:

1) There have been some changes in the StuffIt format in the last few
years; the old decompressors can't handle the newer formats. Try unstuffing
with Stuffit Expander 3.0 (info-mac/util/stuffit-expander-30.hqx), which
handles all the StuffIt formats (and a lot more--and is free).

2) If you're doing your ftp first to a mainframe and then to your Mac, odds
are pretty good that you wound up with MacBinary files that have to be
turned into real Mac files before StuffIt will work on them. Try using
info-mac/util/unfolder-20.hqx
on the errant files.

Jeff Needleman  <needje@msen.com>

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 9:04:02 MET
From: Henk Verhaar <verhaar@cc.ruu.nl>
Subject: Expressionist 3.00 to 3.01 (R)

Gordon S Bates writes: (Info-Mac 304)

>   Would whoever posted the Expressionist 3.00 to 3.01 Updater please do
> so again -- I have downloaded what is on Sumex and get a file of size 0K.

Well, I also downloaded the Expressionist updater and had absolutely no
problem with it. So as far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the file
found on Sumex.

Hope this helps

Henk (verhaar@cc.ruu.nl)

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:29 CDT
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <LEMKE@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU>
Subject: Froehliche Weihnachten und ein glueckliches neues Jahr!

Date sent:  23-DEC-1992 22:22:50

In the spirit of the season, I thought I'd offer a Weihnacht's Baum.  Rest
assured that the so-called "Christmas Tree" is a non-denominational symbol
of the Winter Solstice first brought into vogue by my pagan Teutonic
ancestors.  It was adopted by the early Christians as a way of assisting
in the conversion of pagans.



			     +
			     *
			  +*****+
			     *
			    *|*
			   */|\*
			  */|||\*
			 */|||||\*
		       */|||||||||\*
		     */|||||||||||||\*
		   */|||||||||||||||||\*
		 */|||||||||||||||||||||\*
	       */|||||||||||||||||||||||||\*
		       */|||||||||\*
		     */|||||||||||||\*
		   */|||||||||||||||||\*
		 */|||||||||||||||||||||\*
	       */|||||||||||||||||||||||||\*
	     */|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||\*
	   */|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||\*
			   |||||
			   |||||
			   |||||

	   *************************************
	   *************************************

[No Disclamer, because "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!]

-Dwight

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 01:53:37 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Future Macs

On Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:24:09 CST you said:
>It would be interesting to know how RISC and '060 Macs will compare.
>The problem is, as I understand it, that the RISC Mac will only be
>compatible with current Mac software via an emulation mode
>and will rely on developers porting their apps. If an '060 Mac is
>only 6 months behind a RISC Mac (a Power PC, I seem to remember they're
>called) it's conceivable that the '060 Mac would be worth waiting
>for.

The '060 may be worth waiting for because all the nifty little
extensions and control panels you've come to love probably won't work
under PowerOPEN.  Applications, on the other hand are not likely to be
much of a problem, even if they haven't been completely recompiled in
native code.

First, do you really care if your word processor runs on 5 times as fast
as it would on a Quadra rather than 15 times as fast?   If your using
something like PhotoShop, native code can make a difference.  However,
that difference isn't going to be as large as you might think because
Macintosh applications are executing toolbox calls a surprising fraction
of the time (more than two-thirds of the time and sometimes as much as
five-sixths of the time).  Apple is rewriting the entire toolbox in
native RISC (perhaps not every routine will be rewritten for the first
version of the PowerPC operating system).  Hence, even 1986 Macintosh
applications that religiously followed Apple's programming guidelines
should run on the PowerPC and in native code 70 percent of the time or
more.  At that rate, the '060 isn't likely to offer much of a raw speed
advantage for older applications.

[One of the key points of the PowerPC RISC design is that it is more
 cost-effective than the Motorola and other complex chips. Even if the
 speed is similar, the PowerPC Mac will come at a reduced price. Also,
 power consumption should be lower, which is important for portables. -Bill]



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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:23:01 -0500
From: wilson@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (Michael I. Wilson)
Subject: Hidden Surprise in Maelstrom...



I noticed that the game Maelstrom has a neat surprise -- when the date is
near Christmas the options on the first screen change to Christmas tree
ornaments!!



-Michael Wilson

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:07:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Daniel Neuman <dann@u.washington.edu>
Subject: JPEG Accelerator Card

I just purchased a Mirror Quick! JPEG Accelerator card in order to see if
I could make better Quicktime movies or smaller files. I was sceptical
that it would do much, but was assured that if I didn't like it, I could
return the card (sale priced at $499) within 30 days.

Using a Quadra 950 with 24 Mb of Ram, QuickTime 1.5, and a Videospigot
capture card with its software (Screenplay 1.1.1), I captured a 12 second
QuickTime video clip from a TV monitor output at no limit per frame
(coming to about 15-16 fps) at the 320 by 240 size, with audio enabled.

Here are the results.

12 second clip 320 x 240 (all at 3.0 quality)

Default ( saved by Videospigot in its native format)   7.9 Mb
JPEG without the accelerator board                     5.8 Mb
JPEG compression with accelerator board                2.6 Mb

Without the card it took 4 minutes and 37 seconds to make the JPEG
compressed file. With the card it took 1 minute and 40 seconds to
compress. I can't explain why there was a difference in file size
between the JPEG compression with and without the board, but it
really did make an enormous difference in the time it took to save
the file and the degree to which it compressed the file.

As to quality, when played back through Spigotplay, I could not tell
any difference between the original 7.9 Mb file and the 2.6 Mb file.
If anything the JPEG compressed file played back more smoothly than the
original, perhaps because it required less computing to put images to the
screen.

Needless to say (but I'm saying it anyway), I have nothing whatsoever to
do with the company. If you have questions, however, you can call them at
612.633.2105.


________________________________________________________________________
Daniel M. Neuman                         Internet: dann@u.washington.edu
Seattle, WA  98195

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:28:54 GMT
From: meo@eskimo.com (M. Erroll Ozgencil)
Subject: looking for Mac II dev notes (Q)

Apple publishes technical information for each of there
machines called "developer notes" and makes them available
at ftp.apple.com and on the developer CD. I don't have access
to the developer CD anymore, and ftp.apple.com only has the
notes for more current macs. Can anyone point me to the developer
notes (or any other source of hardware info) on the original
Mac II?

Erroll
meo@eskimo.com

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 01:54:23 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Macintalk

On 23 Dec 1992 04:34:59 +0100 (CET) you said:
>Recently a few people inquired were Macintalk could be found. I am
>unable at the moment to upload it, but you can ftp it from ftp.uni-kl.de
>(pub/macin/macintalk.hqx).

NOT!  Too bad, I imagine a LOT of trans-Atlantic (probably some
trans-Pacific too) bandwidth got wasted on this wild goose chase.
Fortunately, the file is small and Christmas Eve probably is a "slow
news day" anyway.

Out of curiosity, I ftp'd that file (and also macintak-stack.hqx).  It's
a HyperCard external for using MacinTalk in Hypercard programs, but it
is NOT MacinTalk, nor does either archive contain MacinTalk!

/s Murph Sewall <Sewall@UConnVM.UConn.Edu>

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:59:38 PST
From: kroemer@apex.ece.ucsb.edu (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: MacWorks for the Lisa

The other day someone inquired about MacWorks Plus (or something like that)
for the Apple Lisa (a.k.a. Mac XL). It turns out that one of my colleagues,
who once owned a Mac XL, still has the software, and might be willing to
part with it.

>
>>
>  I'm sure I'm not the only one to get the info on 9 to 5 office software
> deal.  It states that it contains abbreviated versions of some programs,
> and Hypercard 2.1 is included.  Has anyone gotten this yet? Is it worth
> the $20?  Sounds to me like a few Hypercard stacks and some demo
> programs put together to make $$.
>   Thanks
>

I got this - I would consider it a fairly full-featured package, rather than
a 'demo'. It does benefit 9-to-5 because it shows how their add-ons can be
put to good use.

nrf

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Date: 24 Dec 1992 13:42:34 +0100 (MET)
From: MICHELE%PDIGI3.PD.CNR.IT@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: multiple disk icons (A)

I found twice in few days the same question about the appearance
of multiple disk icons for the same disk. Seems to become a FAQ item.
The appearnce is related to a SCSI ID conflict, often because the disk
ID is set to 7, which is reserved to the Mac CPU. So even if 7 is
available from the disks switches, beware fiddling with them too much.

Michele
internet: michele@pdigi3.pd.cnr.it

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:09:08 GMT
From: m16547@mwunix.mitre.org (Arthur Gorski)
Subject: Portable 1.3 Control Panel on PB100

Kee Nethery writes:

>Strangeness. When I open the Portable version 1.3 control panel on my
>PowerBook 100 I notice that the screen goes dim (no backlighting), the
>system and Hard disk sleep times are set to 1 minute. When I increase the
>backlighting from none to something, backlighting turns back on. I can move
>the sleep sliders from 1 minute to various other settings. When I close the
>Portable control panel and then reopen it, everything has been reset to no
>backlight, 1 & 1 minute for sleeps. What is going on and how do I get it to
>remember te settings? No, the file is not locked. Hmmm.

>Also the other thing I notice is that when the PB100 is plugged into power,
>it never goes to sleep. I do not have the "don't sleep when plugged into
>power" checked in the Portable control panel.

I haven't seen this phenomenon using System 7.0.1 and Tuneup 1.1.1 on my
PB100.  However, I'm using Portable control panel v7.0.1.  There is an
extension named "The Regulator" which sets sleep to 15 minutes when you're
plugged in, overriding the Portable control panel settings.  You're not using
anything like this are you?
--
email:  agorski@mitre.org        Arthur M. Gorski        (713) 333-0980
snail:  The MITRE Corporation, 1120 NASA Road One, Houston, Texas 77058

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 17:27:41 +0200
From: safran/weizmann <BPSAFRAN@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Subject: postscript to eps or postscript to pict

Does anyone know of a program - commercial or otherwise - which
can take a postscript file and convert it to an eps file or a pict
file which can be both read and manipulated by programs such
as photoshop, canvas, ... ?

many thanks

Sam Safran
Dept. of Materials and Interfaces
Weizmann Institute
Rehovot,  Israel 76100
Phone: 972-8-343362
Fax: 972-8-344138
Bitnet: BPSAFRAN at WEIZMANN

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 18:57:14 MDT
From: Alonso Castro <acx@loco.lanl.gov>
Subject: ResEdit 2.1.1 & SoftwareFPU incompatibility

>Not that anyone probably really cares, but ResEdit 2.1.1 simply will not open
>ANYTHING if SoftwareFPU is installed ("Can't open resource [-192]" I
>believe).
>Just thought I might be able to save someone else the trouble of rebooting a
>hundred times (like I had to) until the offending cdev is found...
>The author of SoftwareFPU will be informed of this as well..

I have been using ResEdit 2.1.1 and SoftwareFPU for years (well, ONE year)
with
no problems. The problem may be caused by a combination of SFPU and something
else. Have you tried installing fresh copies?

Alonso Castro
acx@loco.lanl.gov

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Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:21:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu"@HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU
Subject: ResEdit 2.1.1 & SoftwareFPU incompatibility...

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