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From: lgorbet@triton.unm.edu (Larry P Gorbet ANTHROPOLOGY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 21M Flopticals?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:19:30 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <1993Jan24.214914.5241@rtsg.mot.com> lamont@catfish16.rtsg.mot.com (Bradley Lamont) writes:
[in response to a query about 21M flopticals]
>This is sort of a response to your question (in a roundabout sorta way).  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.

I think this depends a lot on just how tight the budget is and how
much data is gonna need to get backed up.  I cranked out a spreadsheet
comparing costs for drive plus media to backup various amounts of data
from 100M to 2G for flopticals, Syqyest 44's, Syquest 88's, and 128M
magneto-opticals.  For almost all of that range, Syquest 44's are
clearly the most expensive way to go, since they cost about the same
as flopticals, but the media cost is about 20% more *per megabyte*.
Syquest 88's and flopticals are very similar, with the former starting
out with a *slightly* higher cost but with lower media costs that inch
the Syquest ahead as the amount of needed storage increases.  Note
that the $100 difference or so in drive cost is misleading, since the
cheaper floptical includes only about 20M of usable media, while the
Syquest includes about 80M, so you have to add about three floptical's
cost to have the same storage as an 88M Syquest.  The 128M
magneto-opticals are the clear bargains for large capacity storage, due
to their much lower per meg media cost.  They become the *cheapest* of
these four choices somewhere a bit above 800M and rapidly widen their
lead from there.

I have not, obviously, mentioned speed, where flopticals are quite a
bit slower than the other three.  Pricewise, I think Syquest 88's are
a *much* better buy than the 44's at the lower end and give flopticals
a very good run even for very modest needs.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jimy@cae.wisc.edu (Jim Yu)
Subject: FOR SALE: NuBus adapter with FPU for IIsi
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:54:07 CST


I have an Apple NuBus adapter card with FPU for the IIsi for sale.
It's in perfect working condition. I'm buying an accelerator which
includes its own FPU.
Asking $110 or best offer.
Please send email to jimy@eckert.ece.wisc.edu

Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: mgleeson@angelo.amd.com (Mike Gleeson)
Subject: Need suggestions/help setting up a network
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:22:09 GMT

I'm trying to set up a twisted pair ethernet network between 3 IIci's,
3 SE's, a laserwriter II, a laserwriter IIf, and an imagewriter.  I 
was wondering if anyone would know the answers to the following:

1)  do I need to buy a hub or can I wire it up like a phone-net network?

2)  do you know of any ethernet cards/adapters for the laserwriters?

3)  do you know of any software products that will make a slaved
    imagewriter available to other nodes on the network?

Thanks for your help!

Mike Gleeson   mgleeson@brahms.amd.com
From: REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Street Fighter
Date: 24 Jan 93 14:39:09 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

>
>1. Economy of scale. There are more PCs running games than Macs running games.
>
   Quite true.  Also, the PC (under DOS) allows quick and dirty access
to the hardware.  Finally, most PC code runs in RAM (causing larger
programs which load slower) rather than in the ROM toolbox (causing
small programs which load quickly but run on a 120 nS ROM cycle time).

>2. Lack of low-resolution graphics mode on macs. PCs have a 320 x 200 graphics
>mode with 256 colours -- vga. This means that PCs have to move around about
>1/4 of the pixels that macs do, making for much faster speed in games. This
>is why Ultima Underworld or Street Fighter will have to wait for the PowerPC...
>it should be fast enough to do quick 640 x 480 animation.
>
   Not very many DOS games use the low-res mode.  Virtually all of them run
in standard VGA (640 x 480 x 256 colors).  Many of the better ones run to
fit the driver.  Ultima VII runs at 800 x 640 easilly and at higher res,
if possible.  I've seen it run on a 486 DX/50 with a 32-bit (EISA bus)
and 24 bit True Color (Orchid Prodesigner IISE) card at 1024 x 764 x
256 (ok, it still uses its standard color assignments...)

>PC companies could do more for Macs though, especially Origin/EA. I just got
>Pools of Darkness & Dark Queen of Krynn, and they retain their 320 x 200
>graphics resolution. If you click in the zoom box of one of these games,
>you'll get an excellent understanding of how PC games are faster. It switches
>between 320 x 200 -- a dinky window on a Mac -- and a double-sized window,
>which looks chunky and cheap, showing that companies like SSI don't care too
>much about the mac anyways...
>
>Sean
>^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^
>Sean McDowell                    "I am the first immoralist:
>Dalhousie University Law School   that makes me the annihilator
>seanmcd@ac.dal.ca                 par excellence" - Nietzsche

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.

When someone makes this available, the hackers will start writing good
shareware games.  Then the major companies will get into it.

Jeff Andle   DoD #3005  1976 KZ900     REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU

IntermittentNet access arranged through Bowdoin College.  Please reply
via e-mail, since a followup might expire before I see the Net again.
"Honey, bring the microscope, I think the Mac just wrote something"
Organization: Computer Operations, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:50:06 -0500 
From: "Alex S. Margita" <am3f+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Rodine 210 drive trouble


Can someone who is familiar with hard drives answer a questions for me. 
I have a external Rodine 210 drive that currently won't let me load
anything new on it.  It attempts to, then hangs & locks up in the middle
of loading anything on or even extracting things. I copied off to
floppys some of the applications to free up space thinking it was
hitting a bad block, but still no good.  I ran a hard disk test & also
optimised using Norton.  Still no good. The things that are left on the
drive currently run with no problems.  I am thinking of backing up the
entire drive & reformatting it but what I'm afraid of is that when I go
to load my stuff back on, it will do the same thing & hang & i'll be
left with a dead drive.  At least it works with the things that are
left.  Does anyone out there have any better suggestions or feel that
when I re-format the drive, it will reset everything, load new drivers &
hopefully be able to write to it.  All the diagnostic programs that i
ran, read & wrote  to every block & did'nt give any errors.

Any help will be appreciated

Thanx,

Al
From: vv1@eng.cam.ac.uk (V. Valtchev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Can Personal Laser Writer SC print a test page???
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:58:05 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK

Hi everybody,

Is there a way to find out how many pages a Personal Laser Writer SC
has done. An engineer from the local apple center suggested using the
Laser Writer Utility, however this doesn't seem to work.

Thanks in advance

Valtcho
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Killian Stoffel <Stoffel@CFRUNI52.bitnet>
Subject: 1 GByte HD on a MAC Plus
Organization: Uni Fribourg
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:30:37 GMT

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 !
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: cjones@physci.ucla.edu (Chad Jones)
Subject: Re: (Q)Distinguish Duo's revB keyboard
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1
Organization: University of California Los Angeles
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:51:19 PST

In article <lau-210193085542@michigan.aero.org> David Lau,
lau@aerospace.aero.org writes:
>  I got my keyboard replaced (to RevB) to see if I could get the space
bar
>problem
>fixed.  My keyboard also sagged at the lower left corner when a key was 
>press. (ie the Control key).  Unfortunately the space bar is still very
>insensitive but the sagging was fixed.  I think that is the only external
>difference that I can see....

Has there been an offical Apple notification of getting the keyboard
fixed?  I'm having the spacebar problem, but when I called the campus
computer store, they knew nothing about it.

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From: Dale_Adams@gateway.qm.apple.com (Dale Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quadra 700 questions..
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:09:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Apple Computer Inc.

In article <John_Shepardson.esh-270193134043@moose.slac.stanford.edu> 
John_Shepardson.esh@qmail.slac.stanford.edu (John Shepardson) writes:
> Here is an old posting by the original Quadra video engineer:
> Hey Dale, think you might update us for the 950 and on?

Apple Developer Support will soon be publishing a TechNote which is 
basically an updated version of my original posting.  It will include 
information on the Q950, although there are really only a few differences:

 - 1024 x 768 monitor support
       - 75 Hz vert. scan, 60 kHz horiz. scan
       - sense line wiring: connect pin 4 to pin 7 (but not to gnd), leave 
         pin 10 unconnected

 - 16 bpp support on all displays, including the 21" (providing you have 
   enough VRAM - 2 MB is required for 16 bpp on 19" and 21" displays)

 - Q950 requires 80 ns VRAM - the earlier Quadras required 100 ns 

 - it's faster, too, of course  ;-)

- Dale Adams
  Apple Computer, Inc.
From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Am I the only one?
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:21:49 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:
[...]
>     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.

Yes, but it's not really suitable for "casual" connections. You
have to shut down the desktop machine to attach or detach the
100.

On a related note -- my Mac at work is hooked up to an EtherTalk
network, so if I want to download stuff onto my 100, I have to
switch to LocalTalk, download, then switch back. Is there any way
I can avoid having to do this? The all-out solution would be to
buy a SCSI box and connect the 100 to Ethernet too -- but that's
overkill for me. Software routers perhaps (a la Liaison)?

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University of Otago,            Phone: +64 3 479-8179
Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.           Fax:   +64 3 479-8311
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From: ewu1@husc10.harvard.edu (Elwin Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Quadra 700 SIMM installation problem
Date: 22 Jan 93 00:05:25 GMT


	I am having trouble installing a set of four 4MB SIMMS into my
Quadra 700.  I have previously installed four 1MB SIMMS with no problem.
I bought a set of four 4MB SIMMS that are rated at 70ns so they should
be fast enough.  When I installed the 4MB SIMMS, the computer won't
even give the startup sound of the four musical tones.  When I reinstalled
the 1MB SIMMS, the computer was fine.  I then installed the 4MB SIMMS
into a IIci and they worked perfectly!!!  I was assured by the company
I bought the SIMMS from that they were 70nanoseconds.  I have tried
re-installing the 4MB SIMMS into the Quadra but they still don't work.
Does anyone have any knowledge about specific Quadra 700 incompatibilities???
Anyone have any other ideas or suggestions???  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Barry Thomas <thomasb@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: PB 180 video mirroring
Organization: Indiana University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.0
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:55:55 GMT

Our 180 finally arrived today.  The first thing I did was try the video
out.  To my disappointment, the presentation mode (mirroring mode)
reduced the size of display on the external monitor to the size of the PB
screen.  Not what I had hoped for at all.  

I looked in the manual but no info, other than how to enable  this mode. 
It this as good as it gets?  Have I missed something?  A trick?

Thanks,

Barry Thomas
thomasb@ucs.indiana.edu
Indiana University

Opinions expressed our my own and do not represent the University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom)
Subject: Re: 1 GByte HD on a MAC Plus
Organization: Communicator Nexus AB
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:09:15 GMT

In article <C1FvBE.66w@news2.cis.umn.edu> Gene Naftulyev <chairman@staff.tc.umn.edu> writes:


   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...

It may also be a Mac+ rom problem. The old begie Mac+:ses has a rom
bug that prevents them to boot from a SCSI disk that asserts Unit
Attention on power up. Unit Attention is a formatting option on most
drives, but on some drives this (mis)feature cannot be turned off and
thus wont allow a begie Mac+ to boot from it. The newer platinum Mac+
has a rom patch that allows it to boot also from a drive that asserts
Unit Attention.

Thomas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ktiedtke@jarthur.claremont.edu (Kurt Tiedtke)
Subject: Sound input
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:53:26 GMT

I have been thinking about connecting my stereo to my IIvx audio input, in
order to sample sounds that I have recorded on cassete tapes.  I figure I
need to attentuate the signal level in addition to RCA-to-mini plug
conversion?  Anybody have such a setup or have a good idea on what would be
needed for this?

Kurt Tiedtke
KTIEDTKE@JARTHUR.CLAREMONT.EDU

p.s. my IIvx (5/80/cd) was ordered in mid-Nov. and arrived in 7 weeks....









Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: avery@ccrma.stanford.edu  (Avery Wang)
Subject: Re: Apple CD300 and audio disks and non-Macintosh machines?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 18:17:06 GMT

> avery@ccrma.stanford.edu (Avery Wang) writes:
> 
> > Hi-
> > 
> > I read that the Apple CD300 can read regular audio disks via the SCSI bus,  
bu
> > I was wondering if this mode is available if I used the CD300 on a  
> > non-Macintosh computer, such as a NeXT.  I would like to read sound tracks  
of
> > a normal CD into my NeXT.  Does anyone have a clue as to whether or not  
this 
> > is possible?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Avery
> 
> I think the source of the original info was confused.
> It is true that a IIvx with a CD300i installed can record from
> and play through an audio cd loaded; but it does so by having
> analog inputs inside the computer connected to the cd player.
> I have heard that the only CD with direct digital output on
> the SCSI bus is a modified Sony available by/for SGI workstations.
> Hope this helps.
> rick gordon
> bisle!rickgo@aldus.com
> 



Hi-
Maybe you know better, but I have a technical specification sheet that says:
"Formats supported
* Multi-session Kodak Photo CD
* ISO 9660/High Sierra
* Macintosh HFS
* CD-ROM XA
* CD+G
* CD+MIDI
* Standard audio CDs
* 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.

confused,
-Avery
From: Lar Halff <halff@unixg.ubc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mirror Scanners?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:56:24 GMT
Organization: UBC
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: port64.annex1.net.ubc.ca
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
X-XXMessage-ID: <A78C0D1C0A0101A4@port64.annex1.net.ubc.ca>
X-XXDate: Wed, 27 Jan 93 09:57:48 GMT

Has anyone had experience with the Mirror's new scanners or Mirror as a 
company in general? Thanks in advance for the info!

Lar Halff
halff@unixg.ubc.ca
From: REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 random number problem
Date: 24 Jan 93 14:31:30 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System


   So-called random numbers are a sequence of numbers which are generated
by an algorhythm from a seed number.  If the same seed number is used,
the same sequence will result.  I don't think this could explain the
SAME games doing this on the SE/30 but not a plus, but if the game
writer used a global variable as the seed, it may be constant on the
SE/30 (ie unused) and variable on the plus.
  Typically, the clock ticks counter is used as the value for randSeed,
which is the seed variable for RandomNumber() (or whatever it's called).

  I suppose another possibility is that you've played the game enough
to learn the sequence and it's always done this   ;-)  ...
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 22:30:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.111400.10509@ac.dal.ca>, seanmcd@ac.dal.ca wrote:

> I didn't mean that you can't make good games that use both animation and the
> full colour screen. However, you can't make a scrolling background a la Street
> Fighter, or, say, streets of rage for genesis. It can't be done smooth enough
> or fast enough to satisfy users from LC upwards. In PoP and Maelstrom, 

Stuff & Nonsense, part II.

Never taken a spin in the 'Vette? Never gone head-to-head with a Zero
in Hellcats, or a MiG in Falcon?

Joe Bob sez: check 'em out, and then get back to us.

Joe Bob
From: rsch2867@cl2.cl.uh.edu (Brownfield, George/RICHERT, NO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: New Apple Desktop Mouse II Avability?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 09:49 CST
Organization: University of Houston - Clear Lake
Distribution: world
Reply-To: RSCH2867@cl.uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: uhcl2.cl.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  

I have a lovely flyer describing this mouse that Apple is supposed to
be releasing along with their new ergonomic keyboard... except that
none of the dealers knows anything about it's existance (and the dealers
wonder why Apple is changing channels.. but that's another subject).
I've been told that the new mouse will be price competitive with other
Mac Mice on the market.. important to me in fiscally tight college times.

Anybody out there know where/when this is shipping and if you've seen it,
any thoughts on it vs. say, a Logitech?

PS as usual, keep replies on e-mail and off the net! THanks kampers!   
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Math Undergrad @ Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake          Against
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From: lind@ll.mit.edu (Tom Lind)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Printing Red on a DeskWriter 550C
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:11:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: LL.9301271411.PN00322
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <robt-270193224749@149.171.216.24>, robt@agsm.unsw.edu.au (Rob
Trevor) wrote:
> 
> Well, I've just unpacked my DeskWriter 550C and am having some difficulties
> getting sensible colors out of it.  In particular, I'm having trouble
> getting anything that resembles red to print red - its more a 'brown' than
> anything else.  (This is true for colour PICT's as well as for the old 8
> color scheme supported by Word 5.0 - e.g., printing out the same line in
> each of the 7 printable colors in Word 5 produces a 'brown' red line.)
> 
> I know that color matching problems exist, but are they this great?  Can
> anybody else get a true red out of a 550C?  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rob
> 


Rob,  Run the color print test.  If it isn't as shown in the manual you
probably have a bad print cartridge which your dealer should be glad to
exchange.  You describe the exact problem I had with a 500C.  New cartridge
and everything was beautiful; red reds, yellow yellows, etc.

Tom...

Thomas A. Lind  < lind@ll.mit.edu >   |   Work Hard, tell everyone every-
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:21:46 -0500 
From: Sam Swett <ssbc+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: New Apple Products in Feb 10

The pricing information here may be a little out of date, but should be
fairly accurate:

Color Classic 4/80    color compact mac                         $1499
LCIII 4/80            25 mHz '030                               $1379
Powerbook 165C        passive matrix color LCD                  $3599
Centris 610           20 mHz'040                                $1859
Centris 650           25 mHz'040                                $2699
Quadra 800            33 mHz'040 w/ ethernet, 3 slots           $4679
LaserWriter Select 300 300 dpi quickdraw printer                $ 819
LaserWriter Select 310 300 dpi postscript printer               $1079

The screen on the 165c is rumored to be disappointing, but at least it's
color. 

-sam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware