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From: l26@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PB and ADB and keyboards
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:14:12 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Hi Jim,

I can't speak for the pen mouse from Appoint but I can tell you that I have
been using an extended ADB Apple KB and mouse with a 140 attached to the power
supply, from day one with no problem.

They KB and mouse remain in my office.  At the end of the day, I unplug 'em,  
and take the unit (and power supply) home.

BTW, I prefer the KB at work, while at home it's more convenient NOT to have
the keyboard.

Hope this helps!

Larry Slack
Family Life Development Center
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14850

 
> Can I use a regular keyboard (not low power) with a PB when it is
> connected to the ac adapter.  It seems to me it should have enough
> power available when it is plugged into the wall.
> 
> Also, does anyone know if the pen mouse from Appoint will work with
> the PB.
> 
>                Thank you for your time.    Jim Harm.
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From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: ARA with Global Village Modems?
Reply-To: motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:51:40 GMT

I am planning on purchasing the Global 
Village Teleport modem for a power book.

I see that there is a script for the 
Teleport modem but there is no indication
that it is the bronze, silver or gold 
teleport that is supported.

Anyone know which is supported?  Thanks, John
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From: mullignj@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Applecare Question
Date: 9 Sep 92 03:07:49 GMT
Organization: New York University


Even though the one year warrantlyl isn't up on my PB100 for a
few more months I've been wondering...how does Applecare work?

If I pay them the couple hundred dollars a year for Applecare do they
effectively promise that my Powerbook will continue to function, no
matter what goes wrong?  Will they replace the Screen, the backlight?
the HD?  Is there anything Applecare does not cover?

Thanks in advance!!!


 

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From: Eric.Choi@p5.f57.n7000.z8.ieee.org (Eric Choi)
Subject: Radius Powerview and others
Organization: FidoNet node 8:7000/57.5 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:09:30 GMT

We need your inputs!!

Our user group purchased a Sharp LCD display a few years back. It works with
the Apple, and Macintosh with video out adaptor. At that time we bought one
for a Mac Plus and another for a SE/30 from a place, I think, called Power R
Us or something.

Our challenge whenever we need to use the LCD, the members with video adaptors
have to bring their Macs to the meeting. This may not be possible all the
time.

Someone suggest the Radius Powerview as an option to work off the SCSI port
of any Mac. But my impression is the device is designed for the Classic and
powerbooks, not for any other models. Also isn't it designed to work with like
a RGB monitor, not with a LCD display?

Someone else in the club suggest the Scuzzygraph device? Honestly we don't
know.
We are in a smaller town and cannot locate dealers to come and talk to us.

We appreciate any suggestions, helps, tips, or tell us how your club does it.
We really need something that can work with any Mac (at least most Mac) and
interface with the LCD.

Thanks in advance.
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From: hopper@cs.ucsd.edu (Steve Hopper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac Video Conferencing H/W
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:16:08 GMT
Organization: CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego
Originator: hopper@empyrean.ucsd.edu


I recently ran across an ad for a video conferencing Nubus board for
Macs but can't seem to locate it again.  It included the harware 
compressor, v.32bis modem and fax capability.

Does anyone recall who the manufacturer is?


Steve
From: g-man@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us (Greg Sachs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: PB 2 meg module for sale
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 20:52:47 EDT
Organization: Princeton High School, Princeton, New Jersey

The subject basically says it all, The module is 1 month old and 
came out of a Price Club PB100.  It will work with all PBs and 
worked fine when it was removed.  The reason for selling is that 
we replaced it with a 6MB module for more battery life.  Reply to 
g-man@phsbbs.princeton.nj.usa.  The Chip Merchant wants $100 for 
one, I am looking for $70 obo.  If you think this is unfair, 
email me or call me and we can work something out.  You can call 
Greg or Harvey at (609)-655-1642, eves, EST. This will be faster 
than emailing me, due to the bastardized bbs setup that I 
have.;-)
g-man

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From: meyer@husc10.harvard.edu (Eric Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: HELP -- Mac II won't recognize internal HD
Date: 12 Sep 92 03:17:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep11.231724.15539
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center



I have a MacII with a 40MB QA250 internal hard drive.  For almost four years,
everything has worked fine.  And then last week out of the blue, the Mac II
decides it can't see the drive anywhere on the SCSI bus.  There seems to be
nothing wrong with the computer itself, since it can see external SCSI devices
(provided the internal drive is disconnected from the bus -- otherwise the
computer can't see any SCSI device).  The drive seems to sound OK, though.  I
can hear it spin up and make those little tick-tick sounds when i turn it on.
Larry Pina's "Dead Mac Scrolls" recommends reinstalling the SCSI driver with
Apple HD SC Setup v. 1.5, but this won't work because the hard drive can never
be found on the SCSI.

I also checked the cable by exchanging it with one I know works.  Didn't help.

Has anybody out there had a similar problem?  Or know how to fix it?

If I get the solution (or close to it), I'll summarize to the net.

Thanks alot!

-- 
		--	Eric Meyer  (meyer@husc.harvard.edu)
			Harvard University Physics Department
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: RE: Looking for info on the 68000 chip family
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:52:10 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

Motorola would surely be happy to provide this info to you.  313-347-7946 is
the number of Don Marsh - the Michigan-area rep.  He's not too bad at getting
info.  If you need product manuals, he should have those on hand to send you
right away.  I suggest you start with that - they're pretty detailed.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rroberts@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ross Allan Roberts)
Subject: Re: SE to SE/30: Worth It?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 14:43:20 GMT

>I'd definitely take the IIsi over the SE/30.  It's got a faster processor,
>built-in color video (it's not great, but it beats the heck out of no
>built-in video at all), sound-input, a full 32-bit data path like the
>SE/30, power on from the keyboard, power off from the Special menu, much
>better expansion capabilities, 32-bit clean ROMs, and easier access to the
>guts.  The only disadvantage I can think of is the "limited" RAM expansion
>(65MB vs 128MB with 16MB SIMMs).

Have you actually RUN a IIsi? I dont' get it really... I have a SE/30, and
occasionally play with a si at work... and for as 'powerful' as it is,
that si is very pokey. In fact all the si's I ever had a chance to diddle
with did just that... diddle along, at their meager pace. I think the
internal video kills any speed advantage the si has over the cx or SE/30.

The only new-machine option that's close is the ClassicII, and it's
crippled by a 16-bit data path. Get the upgrade for your SE... in the end,
you'll have the better machine.

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From: rajiv@athena.mit.edu (Rajiv A Manglani)
Subject: 8-24 GC/T16 II problem
Keywords: 8 24 GC T16 II
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:28:44 GMT

  I have a T16 II (brand new) connected to a 824GC (version 1.1) in a IIci. The
card supports the monitor at 832x624x16 and 640x480x24, all I have to do is
change the adapter. But: after fifteen minutes of use, the display starts
"wiggling." That is, vertical lines look like worms. This problem starts slowly,
but then gets faster. When a 13" RGB monitor was connected to this setup, there
was a different problem: after fifteen minutes of use, bright streaks began
moving across the screen, very quickly.
  Could the two problems be related? Any ideas?

Rajiv Manglani
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Wanted info on full page OCR scanner [ cheap]
From: ASM@snowyt.me.psu.edu (Aravind Melligeri)
Date: 10 Sep 92 01:44:22 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

hello,
I want to buy a cheap fullpage scanner. My main use of this will be for OCR. 
but it will be good if it can scan pictures with decent amount of grey scale.
i would appreciate any info. on this.
thanx

--Aravind S. Melligeri				
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From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: SE/30 Power supply replacement
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:10:05 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.225737.9421@sequent.com> kfd@sequent.com (Ken Dove) writes:
>Does anyone have a good (cheap!) source for replacement
>SE/30 power supplies?  Something with the normal SE/30
>wattage rating would be fine.

Soft Solutions repairs SE/30 power supplies for $95 (+ $20-$30 parts).

However, power supply failure is rare for the SE and SE/30;  the only
common failure is that the on/off switch will sometimes die.  I'd try
jumpering out the switch before sending out for repair or replacement.

Second, most symptoms that might seem to indicate power supply trouble
are in fact caused by analog board problems, which are more common.
Soft Solutions sells an analog board repair kit with good quality 
parts that can be installed by anyone with a multitester and a bit
of experience soldering/desoldering circuit board components.
(They also do repairs in-house for much less than the cost of buying
a reconditioned board or ($$$) a new one from an Apple dealer.

I just finished installing most of the parts from a Soft Solutions
kit about an hour ago, and I'm using the Mac now.  Somewhere in the
middle of the process I happened to notice two cracked solder joints
on the analog board -- which I proceeded to fix -- so I'll never 
actually know whether the new flyback transformer, transistors, 
rectifiers, and suchlike actually fixed my Mac.  It does come up 
smiling every time I throw the switch now, so I prefer to think
that it likes the new parts even if it didn't need them ... ;-)

Contact info:  

Soft Solutions;  907 River Road;  Suite #98;  Eugene, OR 97404
Phone:  (503) 461-1136;  Fax:  503-461-2005

In addition to selling parts and repairing Macs in-house, 
Soft Solutions also sells copies of Larry Pina's classic
Mac repair books.  The Dead Mac Scrolls has certainly saved 
me a bundle ...
-- 
-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
From: wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: powerbook battery lif
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:13:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Apple Computer

In article <laogtlINNab3@nada.cs.utexas.edu>, benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William
Kent Richards) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Sep7.1164.13909@channel1> "joseph france" <joseph.france@channel1.com> writes:
> 
> >GT>With this [LED's Conditioner] I've been able to get 2 - 2.5 hours of
> >GT>useful time on a PB 170 with 2Mb of RAM and 10MB of virtual memory
> >GT>running MS Word 4.0.
>  
> Interesting.  Seems to go against the earlier post's warning against
> draining the batteries all the way.  Anyone know why?
>  

I would assume that a "Power Conditioner" would have enough logic in it to
avoid reversing a cell (which is the danger with manually discharging a
nicad).

-tony

>>usual disclaimer<<
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From: luigi@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Luigi Semenzato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Powerbooks 100 at the Whole Earth Access???
Date: 5 Sep 1992 14:46:45 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: paris.cs.berkeley.edu

I am sorry---the original article about the $699 PB 100 2/20 with
external floppy at Computer Age in Maryland was posted only to
comp.sys.mac.hardware.  At the time it was believed they would
take mail orders, which they do: but only for shipping in the
state.  It appears that this, and a store in NY City, are the
only remaining sources at that price.  I forget the name of tne
NY store: check old articles in comp.sys.mac.hardware.  Citibank
sold them for the same price through their Citidollar catalog;
but, according to a recent report, they already ran out.

The phone number I gave was the one of Computer Age.  Don't
bother calling from out of state.

And by the way, according to reports, Whole Earth Access keeps
changing the price---which seems to suggest that there is
room for negotiation.

In article <ZeVJqB3w165w@tosh.UUCP> starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) writes:
>luigi@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Luigi Semenzato) writes:
>
>> Someone corrected me: the PB100 2/20 with external drive is really
>> $799 at the Whole Earth Access.  I swear I was quoted $849 on the
>> phone---not very nice, someone was trying to make extra money I
>> suppose.  In any case this is moot since you can get it for $699
>> at (301) 588-6565.   --Luigi
>
>Who is at 301/588-6565?
>
>john
>
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From: ahn@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (Hyo E. Ahn)
Subject: Rodime Driver Utility
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:04:00 GMT


        Dear Netters:

   My 140 MB Rodime hard disk currently have a problem with the
   subsystem hardware.  I checked it with Rodime Driver Utility
   with "Verify Disk Media" command and it gave the following message,
   "An error has occured in verifying the media
    Type = 6, Error = 0."
   Does anyone out there know how to solve this problem?
   I have a very old Rodime Driver Utility (v 2.03) and do I need a recent
   driver?  Thank you in advance.

	
	Hyo Ahn, Los Alamos National Laboratory

	Bitnet:		AHN@LAMPF
	Internet:	AHN@DAC.LAMPF.LANL.GOV
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From: rhaller@oregon.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller)
Subject: logitech mouseman problem solved
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of Oregon
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 16:40:45 GMT

Some time ago I posted a problem with the Logitech mouseman 3 button mouse
and MacX. Basically, it doesn't work right if you configure the mouse to
send option-right and option-left for the middle and right buttons (and
configure MacX to expect these). This is desireable if you wish to use the
cursor keys as cursor keys.

No one here had any ideas, so I called Logitech. Got through the first try
and the knew about the problem--it's a bug in the MouseKey 1.0 software.
They are sending me the new version.  Rarely have I had a vendor respond so
promptly to a problem. Congratulations, Logitech.

-Rich Haller
From: peterc@cubetech.com (Peter Creath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Newtons: lefty-compatible please!
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 21:05:14 CDT
Organization: Cube Technologies
Reply-To: peterc@cubetech.com
            

Of course, Apple would never overlook a detail such as this, but I
hope they also wouldn't gloss over it:

What about us lefties?

Please make the menu/dock system either on top/bottom or reversible
(left/right) depending on writing persuasion...

(Just thought about that today -- normally never made a difference,
since typing is typing)

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From: scottp@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Scott Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac Depot - Color Pivot LE
Keywords: Color Monitor, Mac Depot
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:01:24 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity


Mac Depot is offering the Color Pivot LE for $799 with the color card
for an SE-30.  Two questions:
 1.  Is the Color Pivot LE a good deal?
 2.  Is Mac Depot a good outfit to deal with mail order?

Scott Phillips
scottp@BRL.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: nschultz@zeus.calpoly.edu (Ned Schultz)
Subject: Mac ROMs: 64k or 128k?
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 14:39:03 GMT


Can anyone help me identify some Mac ROMs by serial number?  They are
not in a Mac, so I can't check using software.  Here are the numbers:
342-0220-A and 342-0021-A.  All I need to know is whether they are
64k or 128k ROMs.  They are for use in an AMax emulator.  Please email.
Thanks...

Ned Schultz
nschultz@nike.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: gnoer1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Geoffrey J. Noer)
Subject: Converting an external drive case...
Organization: Swarthmore College
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 19:02:39 GMT

I have an external drive case which has a broken 5.25 inch HD.  How can I
convert this drive case so that I can stick in a Quantum 240 3.5 inch
drive?
Is there a bracket available that I need to buy?  Also, there are several
holes in the bottom of the case that like they might be for a 3.5 inch
drive?
Can I just screw the drive in, plug things in, and have a secure moveable
external drive?

I'd appreciate any information any of you might have,
(E-mail preferred)

Thanks,
Geoffrey J. Noer
gnoer1@cc.swarthmore.edu
From: alan@metasoft.UUCP (Alan Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac LC II Keyboard Swap
Keywords: Keyboard Swap
Date: 8 Sep 92 00:42:35 GMT
Organization: Meta Software Corporation, Cambridge MA


I recently bought an LC II 8/80, which came bundled with the
"Macintosh LC Standard Keyboard". Having used it for 2 months, I now
conclude that I would prefer to use the "Apple Keyboard", which is the
normally unbundled keyboard.

The differences between these keyboards are illustrated in the
"Macintosh User's Guide" on pages 244-247. In short, placement of
some special keys, like ESC, CAPS LOCK, CONTROL, and others, follows
different usage parameters.

So, if anyone is using a relatively new "Apple Keyboard" and would like
to swap for a 2 month old "Mac LC Standard Keyboard", please email me.

Thanks.


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Alan Epstein
Meta Software Corp		 Internet:  alan@metasoft.com
125 Cambridgepark Dr
Cambridge, MA 02140  USA	      
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From: d88-jwa@black.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Subject: Re: TV Receiver for mac??
Originator: d88-jwa@black.nada.kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:36:06 GMT

.amd.com> faisal@dvorak.amd.com (Faisal M. Bhamani) writes:

   I saw this weekend a video card for PCs that allows you to watch TV
   through a VGA or better monitor.  Is there such a thing for the macs??

There are several (and they also provide for frame and
video grabbing, of course)

Most popular is probably the VIdeoSpigot.

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