HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Color tube possible on SE/30?
Keywords: color upgrade SE30
Date: 27 Aug 92 05:52:02 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center

Piece a cake. 
1) Buy a color card. I'd recommend getting a 24 bit one, but you can be a
cheapskate (and not get such nice QuickTime movies and image compression
and stuff) if you get an 8 bit one. My 24bit one was about $500 a year or
more ago so you should pay less. RasterOps and Micron both make the cards-
maybe other people- check out any Mac publication for what's available and 
prices.
2) Buy a monitor. Probably cost you about $550 for a nice 14".
3) Install card- I'd paid someone else $25 to do this. Unless you know what
you're doing I'd recommend you do this and avoid the hassle.
4) Plug monitor into card- note that due to em interference the two screens
sdould be about 15 cm apart- closer and they will make each other look
wavy.
5) Set up where you want the menubar and such using monitors control
panel.
6) Get neat free software to change screen-depth easily- stuff like
DepthGauge from sumex-aim.
7) Enjoy- I've not come across anything written afte about 1987 that didn't
work on two screens and didn't deal well with color.

See ya,
Maynard Handley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Norbert Mueller <K360171@alijku11.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Hot Horror Stories....
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6C7F1E73C016205@nmueller.chemie.uni-linz.ac.at>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 31 Aug 92 14:57:27 GMT
Organization: Johannes Kepler Univ., Inst. of Chemistry
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:59:48 GMT

Hot Horror Stories....


What about this:

During a period of unusual hot weather (>35 C) here (Austria, Europe)
where we usually
have no air conditioning three of four of our MacPlusses died (2 power
supplies,
1 logic board)


Norbert M~ller
Institute of Chemistry
Johannes Kepler University
A-4040 Linz
Austria 
e-mail K360171@ALIJKU11.bitnet
       K360171@ALIJKU11.EDVZ.uni-linz.ac.at
       Norbert@soft.uni-linz.ac.at
From: schatz@chaos.utexas.edu (Mike Schatz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: low cost PB modems
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:01:08 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin

What's the best deal for low-cost fax modem (that sends and receives faxes)
for the PowerBooks? (I'm thinking of a Global Village Bronze--does anyone
have a better suggestion?)

Thanks,

Mike
schatz@chaos.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford)
Subject: Re: Disadvantages of System 7 (How about Advantages!?)
Organization: UNLV
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 17:05:25 GMT


>>>
One advantage for us 2-mac + deskwriter(appletalk) folks:

Instant no-hassle networks at home!

A must for the powerbook+base mac group (just about every PB
owner has a desktop mac, right?) Great if you are (like me) the 'at
home'
sysadmin for the computer center :)
<<<

System 6 can do that as well.... System 6 users simply cant share
their hard drive, but they still can log on to system 7 shared hard
drives!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: hal@cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins)
Subject: DataFrame XP60 carcass
Summary: what do I do with a dead disk drive?
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:40:23 GMT

After several years of good service, the drive mechanism on my
DataFrame XP60 is failing.  The power supply and controller are still
good.  I'm looking for creative ideas on what to do with it.  If
anyone has a good use for it, I'll consider the best offer.

Hal Perkins                 hal@cs.cornell.edu
Cornell CS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: willmark@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (WILLIAMS MARK D)
Subject: Re: NewLife Accelerator in SE--Garbled sound
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:47:01 GMT

In article <BtutEx.4C@wpi.WPI.EDU> firenza@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins) writes:
>
>  I just got my NewLife 25 MHz accelerar on my SE finally, after waiting for
>3 weeks for it to get here.  After much hassle installing it, revolving around
>the salespersons little omission of asking whether I has a resistor or DIP SIMM
>SE(the accelerator was designed for a DIP SIMM and I have an older resistor SE.
>Iyou want to know how we managed to fit it in, email me.)), it works great. 
>The video is incredibly fast.  Lunatic Fringe, which was glacial before, is 
>almost too fast to play.  The only problem is that the sound is garbled.  The
>sounds devolve into static and they aren't decipherable.  I have tried the 
>sound driver options in the control panel that controls the board, but the
>problem persists.  Has anyone figured out a way to get around this?
>  Over all, for the closeout price of $299, this is was a great deal.  
>
>firenza@wpi.wpi.edu

Sound incompatibilities, and garbled sound are common problems with accelerated
SE's. I know that it is a problem with the Mobius, and with my own Total
Systems card. Most 68030 accelerator boards for the SE do not work well with
the SE's sound engine. I don't know of any company that has figured a way aroundthis problem. However, I was willing to accept it for the increase in speed
which I experienced with the board. It's just one of the things you have to
live with, but in the trade, you get a much faster Mac.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: lasleyse@wam.umd.edu (Scott E. Lasley)
Subject: Re: Diff between MacFG24x & PrecisionColor24x
Organization: Space Physics Group, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:04:25 GMT

In article <1664@radius.com> pierce@radius.com (Pierce T. Wetter III) writes:
>
>>  While we are on it. I've read in MacUser (i can post the exact
>reference)
>>a tip from a reader that the NEC MacFG 8x (and the  Radius
>PrecisionColor 8x)
>>can display 24 bits color if they are stuffed with VRAM. It seems they
>have
>>enough sockets for 2 MB of VRAM. But i didn't read any "official" answer
>for
>>the claim that only difference between the 8x and the 24x cards was the
>VRAM.
>
>
>True. The 8x is a depopulated 24x. It can be upgraded at any time to a
>24x by
>adding VRAM. Radius Product xxxx-xxxxx is the VRAM for the updgrade,
>available
>from your local dealer. You can also upgrade it half way to a 16x, which
>gives you only up to 16 bit mode.
>
> P.S.
> 
>    Radius Tech support is available via support@radius.com

according to the manual that came with my MacFG 8x video board, the
part number for the radius VRAM upgrade is 0192.  i spoke to somebody
at Radius Tech support and verified that the upgrade will work with
the NEC MacFG 8X.  he gave a suggested price of $599.  one kit will
give you 16 bits.  you need to buy two kits for full 24 bit support.

has anyone purchased this upgrade?  can i simply buy VRAM and populate 
the NEC board without buying the upgrade from Radius?  i am not familiar 
with VRAM.  the sockets on the video board are about half the width of a 
standard dip socket and have two offset rows of 14 female sockets. i.e. 

o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

is this the standard pin configuration for VRAM?  the people at 
ChipMerchant could not suggest any type of VRAM that would fit such a 
socket, though the person at Radius claimed that the board used standard
VRAM.  any help would be appreciated.

scott    lasleyse@wam.umd.edu
From: brl@kopasker.is (Bjorgvin Runar Leifsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: To wait or not to wait - that is the question!
Date: 26 Aug 92 21:07:25 GMT
Organization: Primary School of Kopasker, Iceland

Hi, netters,
here at csmh (and at some other mac newsgroups as well) I have seen a lot of
the question 'should I buy now or should I wait for the next line of Macs
from Apple Computer, Inc.'?  This question is not a new one - it has been
asked before (should I buy a IIcx or wait for IIci and so on).  I myself
bought my SE20 late 1989, just to find out that if I'd waited about one
month longer, I could have had the brand new SE30.  But I didn't wait, 
I bought.
My advice to all first-time Mac buyers is:  Don't wait, buy!  As things are
happening rather fast these days, it doesn't matter how long you wait. 
You can almost be sure that machine you buy will be outdated soon if com-
pared to next line of Macs to come.  But it doesn't really matter if your 
machine does the jobs YOU want it to do.  And anyway, as you learn to use
you computer, you will slowly but surely outgrow it and then start thinking
of updating it to the newest machine around - and then you are caught at the
same dilemma again.

Bjorgvin R. Leifsson
brl@kopasker.is
From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Should I hold off for PhotoCD?\
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:10:36 GMT
Reply-To: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Organization: Organization?  We don't need no steenking organization!
Discliamer: Upon my being captured or killed, my professors will
            disavow any knowledge of me, my statements, and/or
            my mission.


In article <scott.714883764@mcl>,
Citizen scott@mcl.ucsb.edu (Scott Bronson) writes :
>I have the money I need to buy a CD ROM drive (many months of saving,
>but now I can access the information I need).  I would like to hold off
>until PhotoCD compatilble drives arrive, but nobody around here seems
>to know when they will get here.
>
>Are PhotoCD-compatible drives within a year of getting here?

  No firm info, but in a fairly recent MacLeek (in August, not sure when)
the Photo CD concept was discussed.  I believe it said that CD ROM drives
capable of multiple sessions are coming soon.  Well before 1 year... a
coupla months, I think.

|--------------------------------|    "If you were happy all of your life,
|      J. Taggart Gorman Jr.     |     you wouldn't be human - you'd be a
| jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu |     game show host."
|--------------------------------|             Winona Ryder, in _Heathers_
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
From: sold@kit.uni-kl.de (Christoph Sold)
Subject: Re: Strange Tone Sequence During Startup.
Organization: Universitaet Kaiserslautern
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:15:16 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.134325.2096@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> 
npl@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Nicholas LaMendola) writes:

>I have a most frustrating problem with my Mac SE/30 at home. Last night, I was
>using Excel 3.0 on my Mac and got a system bomb due to a "divide by zero" in
>the Finder. This did not alarm me since I have seen it before, and proceeded
>to simply hit the offered Restart button. When it restarted, I heard the normal
>tone it makes upon startup and then saw the background being drawn, but then
>instead of seeing the icon to denote that it had located the startup file, I
>heard a strange 4-tone sequence that sounds exactly like the annoying "Your 
>attention, please" tone given at Charles de Gaulle airport, and then nothing.
>The background screen stayed, but it never found the startup file. I tried
>booting the system of a system 7.0 startup disk I had, and still nothing.
>

To end all discussion, here is a description of the Macintosh 
startup sounds:

1) Power on.
If the Mac digital logic board is properly connected, and the 
speaker is connected, too, the well-known power-on chord plays.

2) Internal system tests.
After the initial chord played completely, the Mac tests all of its 
components (i.e. RAM, ROM, I/O ports, disks, buses and so on). If any of 
these tests _fail_, for each of the tests passed (including the test which 
failed), a tone is emitted.

3) After all hardware tests, the disk icon appears, and the Mac searches for 
the first drive containing the system folder. If no such folder is found, 
the blinking disk icon remains.

Thus, the four-tone sequence tells you the fourth _hardware_ test failed. To 
put it short: This Mac is broken. Have a dealer reapair it.
Before doing so, check your SCSI cabling. This is the only source of 
hardware-failures you can fix yourself.

-Christoph

Christoph P. Sold                   CATS Software GmbH
                                    Mussbacher Landstr.2
sold@kit.uni-kl.de                  W-6730 Neustadt (Weinstrasse)
ger.xse0035@applelink.apple.com     Germany

"If an apple is fun, what the heck is an appletree?"
From: lagana@smeagol.sps.mot.com (Antonio A. Lagana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Chip Merchant
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:59:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.1992Sep2.155904.4395
Reply-To: lagana@smeagol.sps.mot.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector

I've heard that the Chip Merchant typically has very competitive SIMM prices.  Could
someone post their phone number? Also, is this a reputable place to buy SIMMs from?  Has anybody had any problems dealing with them?


Thanks in advance,

Antonio A. Lagana

High-End MPU Design
Microprocess & Memory Technologies Group
Motorola Inc.
From: Leonard.Short@macrocosm.omahug.org (Leonard Short)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: LC video RAM upgrade
Date: 31 Aug 92 08:51:36 CST
Reply-To: leonard.short@macrocosm.omahug.org
Organization: The MacRocosm BBS, Lawrence, KS
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

  Scott Hudziak asked of all
  SH> 
  SH> I have an LC with "256k video RAM, upgradable to 512k" as quoted by
  SH> the "Features" pamphlet that came with my LC. Do I needa special board
  SH> or anything additional, or can I go out an buy the 512k RAM and plug
  SH> it right in? Thanks. hue@pro-freedom.cts.com (scott hudziak)
  SH> 
  
It is just a special SIMM. You just buy the 512k SIMM. Remove the 256k SIMM and
snap in the 512k. The SIMMs cost about $50 from the Chip Merchant. It has been
my experiance that the new video ram will slow down the computer somewhat. Also
quite a few programs will display 256 colors at most so unless you are doing
something that needs 16 bit color, you will be giving up some speed and getting
questionable benifits.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kephelan@nyx.cs.du.edu ()
Subject: Can 1 X 9 SIMMs be used on a PLUS ?????
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 20:06:54 GMT


I'm sure this is probably a FAQ by now, but can I use 1 X 9 1 meg simms o

my Mac Plus?  A friend has a few, but these aren't actually nine chip one
,
they have the 2 X 4 + 1 arrangement.  Anyone know if they will work
properly before I go out and buy them?
s
ATE1 V1


Thanks as always.

kephelan@nyx.cs.du.edu              Kevin Phelan

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: maynard@groo.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Keeping Syquest cartridge in drive...
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:11:30 GMT

Just have my shiny new 88MB Syquest drive and it works beautifully. However
the info that comes with it mentions that you shouldn't leave the cartridge
in the drive when you witch it off. My plan was to treat the thing pretty
much like an extra HD and leave the same cartridge in there all the time,
except for backups and stuff I rarely access. Is this business about not
leaving the cartridge in the drive serious, or just scare talk. I don't
plan to even move the drive when it's powered off, but still has a
cartridge in it, let alone drop it or such.

Maynard Handley 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg)
Subject: Re: Powerbook screen life
Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:55:31 EDT

In article <1992Aug28.230133.28553@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf) writes:
>From what I have heard ...  The screen can last indefinitely, but the
>backlight might burn out after about two years...


Cool.  The battery controversy was dying down and I needed something
else to worry about.  

Will keeping the brightness turned part way down prolong the life?
(Are there are limited number of photons inside?)  Does this mean I
should keep the brightness down even when plugged in?


Kent Borg            kent@camex.com or (when it is *working*) kentborg@aol.com
                                            H:(617) 776-6899  W:(617) 426-3577
As always, things look better when some costs are left out.
						      -Economist 3-28-92 p. 94
From: babcock@cayman.com (Bill Babcock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PB100: Just Say NO?
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:42:35 GMT
Organization: Cayman Systems, Inc.
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
X-XXDate: Fri, 4 Sep 92 14:43:39 GMT

In article <NICK.92Aug31123024@vaila.ed.ac.uk> Nick Rothwell,
nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk writes:
>   Some of the MIDI problems are fixed by the Tuner, the rest can be
>   addressed by the MIDI software package vendor.
>
>NONE of the MIDI problems are fixed by the Tuner.

I agree - I have a 170 with the tuner, and I'm still experiencing a 20%
failure rate on my MIDI connection (using Mark of the Unicorn's MTP -
ugh!).

>Opcode are fixing the problem in OMS 1.2.

Thank God for Opcode - they support their products AND their competitors
products (MOTU's MTP) better than any other vendor I've dealt with.

>Apple are not fixing the problem in MIDI Manager 2.0 because, as far as I
>can tell, they don't care...

I'm using the current MIDI Manager to port my applications together,
which is the only way the MOTU MTP can be seen by the PB (MOTU has been
saying they'll have a fix out for 6 months now - when I last contacted
them, they said that they might do a fix if enough people needed it - I'm
glad that Cayman doesn't funtion that way, or I'd never get repeat
business from my customers).

>The PowereBook 100 doesn't have any of these serial problems to a
sufficient
>extent to cause grief; MIDI works fine, and I expect serial comms to be
fine
>as well.
>
>   This is my own understanding compiled from various sources.
>
>This is *my* understanding compiled from technical notes and extensive
>tests.
>
>   Tom Karches
>
>Nick.

This is MY understanding compiled from extensive application and use.
;-)

Bill Babcock
From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Oh my god...Did I just fry my Plus?
Date: 29 Aug 92 22:07:36 GMT

In <daniel-280892153131@129.236.30.214> daniel@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Dan Quoidbach) writes:

>Well, at least there's no smoke. 

[stuff deleted]

>...what I thought. So I opened up the Plus and put the 256's back in. I 
>rebooted and now I get normal startup sounds, but all the screen shows is
>a happy mac on a small square of desktop surrounded by black screen. The 
>computer just sits there. 

Remember to resolder the memory resistor when you switch back to 4*256k
simms. The black screen symptom you describe is what I got when I forgot
to do this once before.

[more stuff deleted]

--alen
alen@crash.cts.com
From: luigi@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Luigi Semenzato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: PB100: Just Say NO?
Date: 29 Aug 1992 00:56:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: paris.cs.berkeley.edu

I need a laptop for four things:

	1. take around and do basic text editing;
	2. send and receive fax;
	3. use as a terminal at home, with a 9600 baud modem;
	4. run MIDI software.

The PB100 would be just perfect, but what is this I hear about
problems with the serial port?  Does it mean I can't use it for
2, 3, and 4?  How could Apple bungle so badly?   Thanks  --Luigi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: Daystar Powercache + Supermac Spectrum PDQsi for MacIIsi?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 05:49:59 GMT

choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu (Dongseok Choi) writes:

> Is there anybody who use  any kind of dualport slot adapter for IIsi
> successfully with any two PDS cards?

Just to be clear, the DualPort IIsi card does not give 2 PDS slots.
It gives you a cache slot and a PDS slot.  The PowerCache uses a
IIci-type cache slot.

I don't know whether the Supermac Spectrum PDQsi video card 
will work, but there have been many examples of compatibility 
problems with 8.24 cards, including the one from Apple.
It might even be cheaper to buy a IIcx or IIci than to put 
two expensive PDS cards into a IIsi.
-- 
-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
From: luigi@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Luigi Semenzato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: wanted: 2MB for PB 100
Date: 3 Sep 1992 23:46:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: paris.cs.berkeley.edu

A friend of mine just bought the Citibank PB 100.  I'd like to
get him 2 more megabytes of RAM for his birthday.  Is anybody
upgrading to 8MB and selling their 2MB?  --Luigi
From: stine@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Blaine Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: AccessPC is NOT compatible with most 128meg Magneto Opticals!!!!!!!
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:22:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


  Well we just purchased AccessPC (2.0) and ran into problems I
thought people should know about. If you read the manual on pg7
their manual lists all the 128meg drives that the MultiDriver
is supposed to be compatible with but *beware* if you follow
the instructions and do the following:

  1) Format the MO disk on the PC using whatever software came
  with the drive. Copy files to it (I copied a bunch of TIFF
  images)

  2) Install AccessPC on your Mac and hook up the MO. The
  partitions will mount, you can open the files (I used
  Photoshop 2.0) , then save the changes.

  3) Go back to the PC and you will not be able to read or write
  to the MO disk!

  4) Go back to the Mac, mount the PC disk and the files will
  be corrupted.

I haven't figured out what AccessPC is doing to the disk and if
the changes can be fixed on the PC with Norton or something,but
basically it doesn't work like they say it does. I called
Insignia about and got the run-around from three people before
someone gave me some straight talk and said the developer
tested
the the driver with an IBM 128 MO mechanism only! Even though
it says directly in the manual it is compatible with the Sony
301. So now I'm awaiting a patch that is "supposed to fix the
compatibility problem". Also their Media Formater does not work
with the Sony 301 either....So if you have a 128MO and want to
use AccessPC with it be sure you have a handy backup ready!

  Blaine Stine
  awaiting a patch...
  stine@jeeves.ucsd.edu 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: page@cray.com (Michael Page)
Subject: 9-track tape drive on a mac
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: 4 Sep 92 12:31:45 CDT

I currently have a need to be able to move a 100 Mbyte ascii file from
a 9-track mag tape to my Mac. Conversion service companies are harder to find
than a four leaf clover and buying a drive myself is an expensive proposition
considering that if I purchased a drive myself, I probably would not use it
that often. 

Can anyone offer any assistance/advice?
From: ntc@doc.ic.ac.uk (N T Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PB100 4/40
Keywords: modem, battery
Date: 1 Sep 92 12:18:40 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak5.doc.ic.ac.uk

In article <32280@adm.brl.mil> lapoint@adm.brl.mil (Claude Lapointe) writes:
>
>How many lines and columns can the screen display, say, in the default
>teachtext font? In the default 9 point font?
>
The PB100 screen resolution is 640 x 400, which is quite a bit larger than the
512 x 342 of the Plus.

>
>General comments about PB100 utility?
>
Great machine, especially useful for impressing your friends :-)

Tseung
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware