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From: bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Ty Bower)
Subject: Re: Where to find PMMU's?
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:35:30 GMT

Try calling Connectix at (800) 950-5880.  Ask for the Mask 73 PMMU.
I'm not sure if they still sell the part, but they should.

Another alternative would be to hunt through magazines for dealers
who sell the PMMU.  I don't remember where I ordered mine from
(Progressive Peripherals?) but it only ran me $79.

In addition, you'll need MODE32 in order to access more than 8 of
your 20 mb.  You can FTP MODE32 from ftp.apple.com.  You need
to run System 7, and you must turn 32 bit addressing on.

If you do not wish to run System 7, two other Connectix products
may help you.  Optima allows 32-bit addressing under Sys 6, but is
incompatible with MultiFinder.  Maxima will allow you to access
up to 14mb of RAM, and use anything left over for a RAM disk.
From: feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (John A. Feinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Adding an HD activity light to a IIsi
Date: 23 Jan 93 05:05:49 GMT
Organization: UB

Well, a  little while ago I was trying to put my internal drive into the case
of a broken external drive, for portable storage.  Didn't work, but at least a
little good came of it.

If you have a IIsi with an internal Conner 40mb hard drive, adding an activity
LED is pretty easy.  Lift the drive up a bit (you will have to 'unsnap' it from
the case on the right & left) so that you can see the entire front of the
drive.  There should be a set of pins, which will look like this head-on:

   .... .
.  .... .

As you can see, there is a rightmost pair of pins a bit separated from the
others.  This is the pair of pins you connect the LED to.  Just get some longish
wires, solder them to a LED, and obtain some means of connecting the other end
of the wires to the pins.  Voila!  An activity light.  The most difficult part
of this project is deciding where to put the LED when you are done.  You can
drill a hole in the case (extreme probably warrantee voiding!!).  You can also
pop out the power LED, and pop in the HD LED, but then you can't see the power
LED.  I ended up putting it to the left of my floppy slot.  My floppy drive has
been broken for a long time, so that was a good place to put the LED (would you
believe it's cheaper to buy a new external drive than to replace it with another
internal drive??)

John Feinberg
SUNY Buffaloy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wuby@leland.Stanford.EDU (Cheng-Hsiu Wu)
Subject: Q700 buggy?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:38:50 GMT



     Ok, it's time to buy a quadra. No too long ago, as I remember,
people were complaining about all sorts of problems they came
across with their Q700's. However, I didn't pay too much 
attention to this subject because I had absolutely no idea that
a poor student like me would end up buying one of those expensive
boxes. 
     Now we have a good deal in our university. You get a Q700
4/230 with Mathematica 2.1 Enhanced, and other softwares not
so important to me, for around 4k. The question is, have all the
flaws in Q700 gone at this time? Can some kind soul out there 
tell me what's going on these days? Also, I _could_ go with a Q950
if I have to, I just don't know if I need those added features or
not. What about Q800's? Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks in 
advance!

C. Wu

P.S. I know, NeXT is great, but it is just not what I want.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Memory problem with Quadra 950
From: Tim Bieling <QAA@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:14:14 EST
Organization: Penn State University

I hope this isn't a FAQ, but I'm baffled with a recent problem with
our Quadra 950.

Observed problem:  A software package (Form-Z - 3D modeling software)
starts to "bomb" (machine hangs, app quits with type 1 error, etc) at
random times.

Initial solution:  Remove all extensions and re-install the application.
This works.  Put all extensions back - application continues to work.
A few hours later on the untouched machine the application fails with
the above repeatable bombs.  The next day the machine bombs locks up
on a different application (Speedometer 3.1).

Configurations which I used to narrow down the problem are:

A)  Q950 w/8MB Apple RAM, 230 MB disk, builtin video/13" RGB monitor, and
    a newly installed generic System 7.0.1 w/tuneup 1.1.1.

B)  Q950 w/8MB Apple RAM 230 MB disk, E-Machines Futura MX card/19" mon., and
    same system as above.

C)  Q950 w/8 MB Apple RAM, 16 MB 3rd party RAM (70ns) the rest like (A) above.

D)  Q950 w/8 MB Apple RAM, 16 MB 3rd party RAM (80ns) the rest like (A) above.

In all tests the app was re-copied from the file server before re-running
it.

Testing (A) and (B) yielded the same results - no problems whatsoever.

Testing (C) and (D) yielded the same results - app failure every time.

Note that the SIMMs used in each of the (C) and (D) tests were taken from
a Mac IIci (where everything worked fine).  In all tests, the app memory
was the same - the suggested amount (3MB).

Any idea what the problem is?  Does the above indicate a hardware problem
with the 950?

E-mail responses are appreciated, and I will summarize if there is
general interest.

Thanks much!

-Tim Bieling, Systems Coordinator, Stuckeman CAD Lab,
              Department of Architecture
              Penn State University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Cox)
Subject: Apple IIe card for Mac LC...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:03:07 GMT

	I have a Mac LC Apple IIe card.  No cable, no docs, no software
(but that should be easy to get from an Apple dealer or the Apple ftp
site I guess).  $25.00.

						Chris

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cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu			               Christopher A. Cox
cac@itchy.geog.albany.edu			       I think, therefore
cc8034@eve.albany.edu				              am confused.
From: eapu174@orion.oac.uci.edu (Wayne Chen)
Subject: Re: Can you put a 2nd hard drive in a IIsi?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: UC Irvine
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:51:44 GMT
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X-XXDate: Sat, 23 Jan 93 04:51:03 GMT

Well if you think that there's room above the existing hard drive,
check out that big space under your floopy drive.  Not that you
can do anything with that space or that the si power supply can
handle the extra load, but I'm pretty sure Apple can do something
useful with that space if they wanted to.

Wayne
eapu174@orion.oac.uci.edu

In article <1993Jan22.222016.8700@wuecl.wustl.edu> tom sullivan,
tjs@earth.wustl.edu writes:
>I'm beginning to push the limits of my 80MB drive on my IIsi and was
>wondering if is is possible to add a 2nd Internal Hard Drive? It
seems
>that there is enough room on top of the existing drive for another
>one, but can the power supply handle it? Also, does some one sell
the
>cables and brackets needed?
>
>just wondering....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: parncutt@jasper.music.mcgill.ca (Richard Parncutt)
Subject: specs for Mac sound output
Organization: McGill University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:21:30 GMT

Can anyone supply specifications for the D to A converter, and for the  
low-pass filter and amplifier between that and the sound output, on a Mac  
Classic II? I need to know about levels of distortion etc. 

(The sounds I am using are normalized to maximum 8-bit amplitude, and  
consist of superposed pure tone components in the frequency range 130 to  
4200 Hz. The sounds are created in Csound, turned into resource files  
using Sound Designer II, and called from a C program.)

Richard Parncutt
McGill Faculty of Music, Montreal
parncutt@music.mcgill.ca
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:25:20 -0500 
From: Chad Adam <ca25+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: LC to LC III upgrade?
	<tal691.727609918@huxley>

Regarding the LCIII....I heard a rumor that there may be integral
ethernet circutry....is this true or too good to be true...also, is
apple planning any machines that have built in ethernet...and about
when is the LCII-->LCIII upgrade *supposed* to be put on the market
and about what is it supposed to cost...?

	Thanks!
		-Chad
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From: jangus@alnitak.usc.edu (Jim Angus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Touch Screens
Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:50:53 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alnitak.usc.edu

Does anyone know of a good manufacturer of 'touch screens' (i.e., those screens
that allow one to touch the screen to select an item rather than use a mouse)?

Please reply via eMail.  I post a summary.

Jim  jangus@alnitak.usc.edu
From: brown.c@applelink.apple.com (Chris Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple CD300 and audio disks and non-Macintosh machines?
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:27:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <2B65C528.22267@news.service.uci.edu>, dan@cafws2.eng.uci.edu
(Dan Harkless) wrote:
> >* CD digital audio data via SCSI bus"
> >
> >So, in particular, do you know what they mean with that last line?  Are these  
> >normal audio CDs or some special format?
> >
> >I just ordered one of these beasts and was hoping to use it for reading out  
> >sound tracks.
> 
> 	It's most likely they mean sample CD-ROMs.  Maybe they set up the 300
> so you can dump the Redbook info over SCSI, but I doubt it.  Way cool if they
> did, though.
> 
Way cool --- The AppleCD 300, Sony CDU-561, and Toshiba 3401 have the
ability to copy the Red Book 16-bit digital audio samples across SCSI to
the host computer.


Chris Brown
Apple Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie)
Subject: Re: Street Fighter
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: An Ol Ag surrounded by a bunch of unfriendly Seminoles
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 22:25:18 GMT

In article <93024.093909REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
wrote:

> I agree that better games are possible on the Mac, but not while running
> in the prefered manner (ie in cooperation with the OS...).  What is
> needed is a boot system for the mac which skips the OS completely and sets
> things up for quick & dirty hardware access.

Stuff and Nonsense. Hellcats, Falcon, Spectre, Prince of Persia, Solarian
II, Pararena, Maelstrom and Lunatic Fringe all manage decent (if not
better) animation WITHOUT having to ignore the OS.

James
From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 21M Flopticals?
Date: 25 Jan 93 08:46:42 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: swiss.ucs.ubc.ca

In <1993Jan24.214914.5241@rtsg.mot.com> lamont@catfish16.rtsg.mot.com (Bradley Lamont) writes:

>Why not look into getting a Syquest drive?  The price is very similiar
>($399) for the 44 MB version.  Cartriges do cost more (~$60) but you are
>getting a larger cartridge. 

>And the Syquest are much faster.  They are on par with hard drive for
>seek & transfer rates whereas flopticals are on par with floppies.  So why
>are people even considering flopticals? 

I have had a 44MB Syquest for a long time. I like it a lot, but there are
some drawbacks. The biggest problem is that sometimes cartridges go bad.
I've had two so far that just died. It's wierd because the cartridge is
just the platter, but these "dead" cartridges will no longer format on a
Mac or a PC. 

Actually, the software that came with my drive and several other Mac HD
formatters appear to successfully format the dead cartridges, but I get
big time errors as soon as I use them. Silver Lining, however, clearly
showed repeated and new errors on every format test pass, so there was no
question of the disk being useless. I use nothing but Silver Lining now. 

That's a scary problem when you've got 44 (or 88) megabytes on one disk. I
don't know if flopticals are more reliable, but common sense says they
should be.

Another plus for flopticals is that a disk is much easier and cheaper to
mail. They could become very popular with service bureaus.
From: casgrain@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Casgrain Philippe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Hooking a DeskWriter to a PC (Q)
Date: 25 Jan 93 00:07:39 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

I'm sure I saw this somewhere, but I just can't put my finger on it...

How can I hook (if possible) a MesSy DOS computer to a DeskWriter?

Thanks,
Philippe		Casgrain@ERE.UMontreal.CA

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: james@wrs.com (James Moore)
Subject: Hard disk problem - drive doesn't spin up
Reply-To: james@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:47:01 GMT

I've got a problem with my hard disk.  I turn on the power, and
all I get is a few seconds of silence, followed by a faint "bonk"
sound.  Used to be more like a "whirrrrrrrrrrr  chuga chuga chuga."
It's a PL30 with a Seagate 138N inside it.  Are there any obvious
things I should try before I write off all my data and use it as a 
doorstop?

I did call PL tech support, and we confirmed that the interface card is
at least getting power.  There are no obvious burn marks or anything that
looks out of the ordinary to me on the interface card.

-- 
James Moore                            /|\                        james@wrs.com
Wind River Systems                     \|/                  Alameda, California
	 "Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half
			  didn't mean anything at all"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tong@cbnewse.cb.att.com (leon.tong)
Subject: Deskwriter/LCII problem
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:12:48 GMT

I just got a new Deskwriter for my LCII, but am having a problem
with it not responding to print commands.  It passes its self-test
with no problem; I've gone thru the driver installation sequence
twice; it's directly connected to the Mac over a generic straight
DIN-8 cable; I selected the serial driver icon with AppleTalk off;
it fails to respond in both foreground and background modes with
a dialog box "printer not responding. check all connections".

I called the HP support number, and was told that "not all serial
cables are created equal" and to try an HP or Apple cable, which
are shielded.  Before I spend $20 on a brand-name cable, has
anyone out there encountered a similar problem?  

Some more notes: the failure occurs on the Mac's printer and
modem ports; all of the driver files are in place, and the "preview"
option works OK.

Any advice would be appreciated.

L. Tong

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: awolfe@moo.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Wolfe)
Subject: Re: Am I the only one?
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:44:38 GMT

Funny thing.  My duo 230 came with a little book showing how to transfer
data.  One of the solutions - a serial cable.

-- 
--------------------------------------
Andrew Wolfe
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: oueichek@gram (Ibaa Oueichek)
Subject: Re: Which memory for Mac Plus?
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:03:13 GMT

 Christopher Rooney (cjr1@pacs.pha.pa.us) wrote:
: Quoth oueichek@gram (Ibaa Oueichek) in article <C1793o.9zt@imag.fr>:
: -> Bob Feldman (rfeldman@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU) wrote:
: -> : We have a Mac Plus which we'd like to upgrade to 1 MB SIMMS.  We ordered
: ->   Did you cut the resistors r8 and r9 ?. One of them means "256 KB SIMMS ARE
: ->   USED" so it should be cut. Both of them should be cut if you put 4 1MB SIMMS
: ->   ( i don't remember the definition of the second one, but i'm absolutely sure
: ->   you have to cut both of them, i've done that myself several times).
: 
: Before you get too free with those pliers,  I've got 4 MB installed in my
: Plus, and I only cut the R8 resistor, back when I first installed 2 2MB
: SIMMs.  I never cut anything else when I installed the other two, and I've
: never seen/heard/read any indication that you should cut anything else.  I
: have had no problems.  I would advise that you cut only the R8 resistor and
: try rebooting.  I think you'll find that it works fine.  It's harder to
: UN-cut a resistor than it is to cut it ;-).
  Well, you are right by saying you didn't cut R9 because it was already 
  cut :-). I've checked the book about the Macintosh hardware (Inside Mac
  hardware or something like that), and it says that R8 means "256 KB SIMMS 
  USED" and the other means "ONE BANK USED". If you want to upgrade your
  system to 4 MB's, you should remove both of them. If you open your Mac
  you'll find that R9 is cut (in my case i had to cut it because it was there).
  However, the original poster said both resistors aren't there and it still
  doesn't work. Sounds strange.
: 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ravaglia@Csli.Stanford.EDU (ravaglia postfuturisto)
Subject: Sigma Designs SCSI monitor
Summary: question
Keywords: SCSI,monitor,sigma
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:29:42 GMT


Anyone have any comments about Sigma Designs SCSI monitor? Or about
SCSI monitors in general?  Saw Sigma Designs product in the MacConnection
catalog for $679.  Anyone seen it for any cheaper?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Geoff M. Kizer <gmkizer@phoenix.princeton.edu>
Subject: Mac 512kE monitor problems....
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Originator: news@nimaster
X-Xxdate: Tue, 19 Jan 93 03:43:11 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, Class of '93
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 03:43:21 GMT

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.

-- Ken Stineman
(stineman@phoenix.princeton.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: HP DeskJet Plus, MS-DOS --> Mac?
Reply-To: motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:30:01 GMT

A friend of mine is converting from the MS-DOS 
world to the Macintosh world.  His constant 
comment is, "this is so easy, not like in the DOS
world", just about ten times a phone call.

Anyway, he has a HP Desk Jet Plus that was connected
to his MS-DOS bag-of-bolts.  According to HP, this 
printer cannot work with the Mac without a hardware
solution, serial to parallel conversion or some such.

I know that the Orange Micro Grappler will probably 
work but does anyone have any first hand experience
with its use with this printer?

The second question is, is there a software solution?
This printer has a serial interface, can this be
used with a standard serial cable from the mac and
the proper software?  Has anyone done this?

Thanks a ton, John 
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From: prj@gamba.lcs.mit.edu (Paul R. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Duo Trackball
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:19:08 GMT
Organization: lcs.mit.edu

Does anyone know how to open the Duo trackball for cleaning?
It does not seem to be designed for user maintenance.

---Paul Johnson
From: firenza@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: More SuperClock 4.0.2 problems-- It totally kills any sound on my SE
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:10:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


  Well, having not been able to use SC4.0.1, I decided to see if I could get
SC4.0.2 running.  I installed it on my SE and it ran fine.  Only one problem.
If I have it installed, I get NO SOUND!!!  I just reinstalled SC3.9.1 and my
sound is working normally, meaning I have sound at all.  I checked the sound
control panel when SC4.0.2 was running and the sound volume was on, but I was
not getting any.  I have a NewLife 25 '030 accelerator so that may be causing
the problems, but I doubt it.  It seems like I should be getting something out
of my speaker.
  Anyone having this same problem, either on an SE or any other platform.  I'm
running 7.0 tuneup 1.1.1 on a non-FDHD SE with said accelerator card.
From: Petrack@HAIFASC3.VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 11:47:29 IDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: replacing the tinny speaker on a Duo??
Reply-To: PETRACK@HAIFASC3.VNET.IBM.COM
Disclaimer: This posting may contain no views at all
News-Software: Usenet 3.1

I am not thrilled about the built-in speaker in teh Duo (230).

My question is: can I replace the speaker with  something of higher
quality?

The question obviously has two parts: where can I get a low power, tiny,
better speaker, and can I open the Duo to replace it.

I assume that such a change will void the warranty, so I might have to
suffer for a year. Maybe by that time there'll be a mini-dock with
true stereo???

Scott Petrack
Petrack@haifasc3.vnet.ibm.com
From: rajiv@athena.mit.edu (Rajiv A Manglani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PB180 vs. NEC4FG (16" rez)
Date: 29 Jan 1993 04:31:06 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: w20-575-44.mit.edu

In article <23318@venera.isi.edu>, jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
|> 
|> Well, after much ado with NEC about the 4FG and PB180 (both of which
|> support the 16" resolution of 832x624), it seems there's no way to
|> actually drive the monitor from the PB because of... the connector.
|> 
|> Seems the sense pins pon the connector say "I'm a Macintosh Hi-Res
|> Display!" and so it gets driven at the 13" resolution.
|> 

I have an E-Machines T16 II, and it ships with the adapter that you need.
Perhaps E-Machines would be willing to sell one to you?

Rajiv Manglani
rajiv@athena.mit.edu
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