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From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Subject: Re: Interface zwischen CD-player und NeXT
X-Excuse: X-Copyright wegen Emma, Suedwestpresse und /C'T/DISKUSSIONEN.
Reply-To: andreas@atlas.physchem.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 09:24:02 GMT
X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1992 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved.
		 Reproduktion, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer,
		 nichtkommerzieller Datennetze nur mit ausdruecklichem,
		 schriftlichem Einverstaendnis des Autors.

How to connect a CD player to a NeXTstation digitally?

In <1ijggkINN2on@klaus.physchem.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de> andreas@atlas.physchem.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Haug) writes:
>Nein, es ist ein S/PDIF nach synchron-serial converter, er wandelt also
>die "Digital Audio" Daten des CD/DAT-Players in fuer den DSP verstaendliche
>Signale, und das fuer einen Materialpreis von ca. 50 DM.

Translate:

No, it is a S/PDIF to syncronous-serial converter, it changes
"digital audio" output of a CD/DAT-player into a signal that is
understood by the DSP and all that with material for approx. 50
DM.

>Unser einziges Problem ist, dass das Ausgabeformat (2 Words a 32 Bit) nicht
>mit dem von "gewerblichen" vergleichbaren Geraeten (2 Words a 16 Bit) identisch
>ist. Sollte sich jemand bereit finden daran weiterzuarbeiten koennten wir
>die Schaltung als "Public Domain" (bzw. unter der GNU PL) veroeffentlichen.

Our sole problem is the data format (2 words of 32 bit) which
is incompatible with that of "commercial" comparable devices (2
words of 16 bit). If someone is interested to do research on
this, we will give the plans for the circuit away as public
domain (or under GNU GPL).

It looks roughly like this:
>Grob sieht es so aus:
>                                   Quarz
>                                     !
>Digital        Schmitt-           YM3623B            DSP
>  IN    >----> trigger  >-----> (all-in-one) >-----> OUT 

>Der Rest besteht aus Widerstaenden Konsensatoren und _viel_ Kabeln :-).

plus resistors, capacities and cabling.

Reply-To is set.

Kristian
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From: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de(Ralf Neumann)
Subject: Music-CD-production with NeXT
Reply-To: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de
Organization: no
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 12:43:59 GMT

Hello!

I am looking for informations about soft- and hardware for the
production of a CD with my NeXT. Because I'm Flamencogitarrist
I need to record acoustic guitar, voice and handclapping. So the
Midi-stuff is not very interessting for me.
As far as I know, I need a lot of space on my harddisk (about 1 GB),
a stereo A/D converter like Sony PCM 501, ProPort 656, Irkem Board,  
HolsteinA/D and a Streamer to save the songs.
The sofware should have minimal 16 to 2 tracks and effects should be
included (I heard that Metrosoft is bringing a new one (Metrotracks)
out) but I got no more informations.
I have very small ideas about getting out a mastertape (I think I need
another converting thing to get the song as normal industrial CD format
on a DAT player).
If you got any information about this or other stuff for the professional  
producing of CD's or any systems you have developed I would be very glad  
to here about them (also prices would be very interesting (inclusive  
shipping) cause here abroad everything is very expensive.
I wish you a happy new year from Berlin
					Ralf


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From: dblackbu@alleg.edu (Dave Blackburn)
Subject: shielding RF interference?
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:39:55 GMT

Hi!
I have a NeXTstation (plain pizza-box type) and it emits a fair amount of RF  
interference, enough that my already mediocre FM reception is destroyed. How  
and where can I shield it to minimize this RF noise? Is there a specific  
component in the (grayscale) monitor or pizza box that is the culprit? Can I  
simply put a bit of tinfoil or something over the outside of the computer to  
shield this? Currently the boombox radio is located about 2 feet to the right  
of the computer. Alternate locations don't seem to help much though. 
Please reply by mail as I do not subscribe to this group.
Thanks In Advance...

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From: mflafeer@athena.mit.edu (Mohamed F. Lafeer)
Subject: NeXT Dimension
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:02:31 GMT

I have an opportunity to buy a NeXT Dimension system. I understand that the
ND board never lived up to initial advertisement and may have some bugs.
Could someone please summarize what this board can and cannot do and what
bugs may exist?

I have three specific questions:

1.) Does this board and its software work under 3.0?
2.) How much memory do I need to add the the board?
3.) Does this card work with monitors other than the NeXT monitors?

Thanks for your help.

-M.Firoze Lafeer
mflafeer@athena.mit.edu
From: chwe@chwe1.spc.uchicago.edu (Michael Suk-Young Chwe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:31:16 GMT
Reply-To: chwe@quads.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

I have been having all sorts of problems installing system 3.0
on my external hard disk.  Before trying to upgrade, I had system 2.1
on both my internal (105M Quantum from NeXT) and external (1G Fujitsu)--
the external's SCSI ID was set up so that it would be the default
bootup drive.
After plugging in a friend's CD-rom with the 3.0 CD, and running 
UpgradePrep.app from the CD-Rom tools diskette, it took me a long
time to get the computer to read the CD-rom.  Finally it did and I
did the automatic installation on my external drive, which seemed
OK.  But after installation, booting from my external drive 
puts me into a System Panic window, which eventually stops and
then tries to boot again.  I tried booting from the CD-rom as detailed
in the manuals but this did not work either.  If I unplug the external
and CD-rom I can still boot up from my internal drive, luckily.  
Currently I can't access my external drive at all (I've tried
bsd(1,0,0) from the ROM Monitor to boot from my internal drive, 
but I haven't tried changing the SCSI ID of the external drive,
which involves opening the enclosure and moving the jumpers).

Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated!  I've been
out of the country for the last four months so I haven't been able 
to keep up with the current folklore on system 3.0--so excuse me if
this is an old question.  Please repost or send email (regular,
not NeXT) to chwe@chwe1.spc.uchicago.edu.

Thanks in advance,
Michael Chwe
Dept of Economics
University of Chicago
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From: andrew@cubetech.com
Subject: Re: Hayes ISDN Extender
Keywords: Hayes ISDN
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:30:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.140735.13902@daimi.aau.dk> jhj@daimi.aau.dk (Jens H|rup Jensen) writes:
>Is it possible to use the Hayes ISDN Extender with a normal telephone line
>as a modem and a fax-modem. If yes, at what speed?

It could be a 2400 bps data modem (V.22bis) and a 9600 bps fax (T.30),
but not anything higher than that...if someone with the expertise
decided to write the software.  Modems are so cheap now that it
wouldn't be worth the effort to do it.


andrew
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From: tjhendry@king.mcs.drexel.edu (Jonathan Hendry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: CD player -> NeXT DSP
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:18:17 GMT
Reply-To: tjhendry@king.mcs.drexel.edu (Jonathan Hendry)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Drexel University

If anyone has the article which described how to hook a CD player
to the DSP, could you please mail it to me? Or perhaps point me to 
where I might find it in the archives.

Thanks!


-- 
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Drexel University College Of Information Studies
Anderson Financial Systems "Programmer-in-Exile" :)
tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu (No NEXTMail :( )
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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: Sony to Create Mini-Disks for PC Storage
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:11:02 GMT

On Jan 3rd, izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
> I just came across this, and thought you might be interested.
> 
> NeXT's original optical disk flopped, but this may be what everyone
> wanted all along with features:
> 
> * 130MB re-writable storage
> * Cheap blank media ($12 now) which you can buy in any audio store
> * For mass distribution, pre-recorded (read-only) stamped format
>    like CD-ROM is available.  Will it be called MD-ROM?

How fast is it?

MO drives are getting close to hard drive speeds now, and can handle 256 meg  
cartridges (on 3.5" disks).  You can't get the speed *and* the 256 meg size  
in the same drive (yet), but I'm sure that future drives will improve on  
current offerings.  Me, I'd like something even larger than 130 meg for use  
on the NeXT (though 100meg would be fine for my Mac).

> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Newsgroups: clari.nb.trends,clari.nb.top,biz.clarinet.sample
> Subject:  ****Sony to Create Mini-Disks for PC Storage 12/24/92
> 
> Expected to be ready for commercial release in about two years,
> the Mini-Disk is smaller than a 3.5-inch floppy disk, but it
> can store 130 megabytes data, or about 130 times more than 
> a regular 3.5-inch floppy disk. With these advantages, Sony is
> betting that the Mini-Disk will replace not only floppy disks 
> but also the optical disc in the future.

If they don't expect commercial release of this for another two years, then  
they should realize that they shouldn't be comparing themselves with 1.4 meg  
floppy drives (gee, the NeXT has 2.8 already, and that doesn't count newer  
floptical or 3.5" MO drive technologies).  If this was available *today* it  
could be a big hit, but two years from now the competition will be much  
different, I'm sure.

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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: Black CD-ROM  caddy
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 05:45:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.035929.4453@news.acns.nwu.edu>
garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu writes:

>	Can someone point me out where to get black CD-ROM caddy? And the  
>price info? $14/caddy from Nextconnection? Is that okay?

Can't answer any of your questions (that's why I'm
repsonding :-), but upon seeing the grey end of caddy
through the flap of the black drive, the first time I used
it, I whipped out a black felt-tip marker and painted that
end black.  Low-tech but effective, and virtually free.

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From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Subject: Re: Sony to Create Mini-Disks for PC Storage
Organization: L5 Computing
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:53:48 GMT

In article <pf!3-vp@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)  
writes:
|> MO drives are getting close to hard drive speeds now, and can handle 256 meg  
|> cartridges (on 3.5" disks).  You can't get the speed *and* the 256 meg size  
|> in the same drive (yet), but I'm sure that future drives will improve on  
|> current offerings.  Me, I'd like something even larger than 130 meg for use  
|> on the NeXT (though 100meg would be fine for my Mac).
Sony claims hard disk class performance for their MD MO technology. This is
a whole new MO material that is _much_ faster than that in use on the
current 3.5" and 5.25" MO systems. They claim a write speed of 8Mbits per 
second. This new material also allowed them to lighten the optical head
and they claim that the MZ-1 MD recorder can position the head in 13ms
(part of their "You can't make this unit skip" technology.)

I've heard that they have a new 5.25" unit using the new material about ready
for release...

Other rumors say Apple will be shipping the MD-size computer drives later this
year.

And if all of that isn't enough, Sony claims they can make "hybrid" MD's that
are part ROM and part MO. This would evidently be used for something like a new
Nintendo machine (and Sony _is_ working with Nintendo on their new machine...)

Scotty
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From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley)
Subject: Re: Instructions on modifying CPU board for multi-CPU NeXTcube
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:00:41 GMT

In <1ig7crINNj0a@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:

>In article <C09tsv.2AJ@ccu.umanitoba.ca> tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard  
>Tilley) writes:
>> 
>> I am using an 030 board to drive a NextPrinter under 2.1,
>> but have been unable to do this under 3.0.
>> 
>> The headless 030 boots fine but panics when it tries to start WindowServer.
>> Everything else works fine, but WindowServer is needed to run the printer :-(
>> 
>> Has anyone succeeded in getting a headless Next to print under 3.0?
>> 

>Yes, buy a sound box and install it on the display port.

Aha! Progress. But this solution will only work for a color NeXT.
Do the color slabs also panic without the sound box?

... Richard <tilley@tilley.cc.umanitoba.ca>
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From: jland@nwu.edu (John Landwehr)
Subject: Sony digital output and NeXT DSP
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:42:02 GMT


I am considering the purchase of a SONY MINIDISK player/recorder.  I was  
wondering if anyone has had experient with connecting similar devices to  
the DSP.

I remember a schematic that showed connections to a chip inside a sony  
discplayer, but I would prefer not to have to open a minidisk player, and  
just use the digital input/output connections.

Ideas?

John Landwehr
Northwestern University
jland@nwu.edu
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From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Black CD-ROM  caddy
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:47:39 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.035929.4453@news.acns.nwu.edu> garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu writes:
>Hi,
>
>	Can someone point me out where to get black CD-ROM caddy? And the  
>price info? $14/caddy from Nextconnection? Is that okay?

Go into any store that sells the Amiga CDTV (or any of the mail order Amiga
places that deal with it). It uses black caddies. $14 is not reasonable.
 
Philip
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
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From: yikes@netcom.com (Jenny Doll)
Subject: Re: Seeking information on Wacom tablet
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:41:26 GMT

>Create 3.0 (which isn't shipping yet, but probably will be soon) has Wacom  
>support.  Wacom's generally cost several hundred dollars, pick up any Mac  
>magazine.  The 6x9 pad is very compact and nice, I think it's under $500.  The 
 

Does anyone know if the new Wacom ArtZ tablet will be supported?  It's an ADB
drawing tablet (6" x 8") that they were selling at MacWorld for $299.

...Michael Brill

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From: jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G Shirlaw)
Subject: The Clock on the NeXT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:03:29 GMT

Hi,

I've just got back for several weeks away to find that my NeXT had lost about 5
minutes, mesurements since sugest its loosing about 10 to 15 seconds a day, is
this normal...do other people have this problem?  Does anyone know what the
accuracy of the clock is suppost to be?

For information I'm running a NeXT colour Turbo under NS 2.1.

Thanks in advance

john.
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From: u8021804@cc.nctu.edu.tw ()
Subject: Re: where can I buy NeXT ???
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:42:22 GMT
From: kohno@medicine.ics.kula.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Fujimasa Kohno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: No loginwindow!!! Help with loginwindow.app
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:05:34 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Information Science, Kyoto University, JAPAN

In article <1993Jan12.055734.4013@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T.  
Dornfeld) writes:
> I think I overwrote the loginwindow applicatiion binary with a
> loginwindow.tiff file.  At any rate, my TC boots properly, but no
> loginwindow appears on the screen.  I am sure the system is fully booted
> since rlogin and all standard UNIX operations work perfectly.
> 
> The binary for loginwindow is now 49714 K large and its date is about
> the time I was fooling around with loginwindows.  Is this correct or
> wrong?
> 
> Can someone email to me
> /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow ?
> I should be able to put the app back in its place and be merrily on my  
way.
> 
> Alternatively, I have been trying to mount the 3.0 CDROM with no  
success.
> I am told there is no device at /dev/sd1 to mount.  If I could mount the
> CD, I could copy in loginwindow from there.
> 
> Hope someone can help.
> -- 
> 
> Mark T. Dornfeld                              Voice: (416) 234-9048
> CYANTIC Systems                               Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
> 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103                Email: mark@cyantic.com
Can't you at least boot up from CD-ROM in single user mode

ex. bsd(0,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd0 -s

and mount harddisk drive?

ex. mount /dev/sd1a /MyDisk

I did it on several occasions and vice versa with no problem.
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From: bostrov@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU (Vareck Bostrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: New Keyboard problems
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:40:54 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: flop.engr.orst.edu

I have a Next station turbo color with one of those new keyboards with the
pipe key in the right place and the little green power  button. I like the
keyboard a lot but one problem I have is some of the apps don't seem to realize
what is going on. 

Wordperfect, for example, is a big problem. I start typing and get weird
things like 'iie ^]E' .. and I have the same problem with X11R5 that I got
from foxtrot.???.ucsb.edu . 

What's the deal? How do i fix it?

- bostrov@engr.orst.edu
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From: druck@.afit.af.mil  (Dennis W. Ruck)
Subject: Spurious DMA Interrupts
Reply-To: druck@afit.af.mil (Dennis W. Ruck)
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:19:32 GMT

I have what I believe is a network related problem, but my network gurus here  
have been unable to track down any problems. The symptons are that whenever I  
perform some function that requires network access (nfs, ftp, ...) I get error  
messages of the following sort logged:




spurious DMA interrupt


NFS server frodo ok



Network access is definitely slower than before these symptons cropped up.  
Also, ping gives unusual results as shown:

gandalf<54> ping frodo
PING frodo: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=1. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=2. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=3. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=4. time=38. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=5. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=6. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=7. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=8. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=9. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=10. time=2. ms

[... lines deleted ...]

64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=67. time=42. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=68. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=69. time=2. ms
^C
----frodo PING Statistics----
70 packets transmitted, 65 packets received, 7% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 2/6/60
gandalf<55> 

I would appreciate any help in tracking down the cause of these problems.

Thanks!

Dennis

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From: lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 12Volt power supply for hard drive
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:24:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Another question for the hardware gurus...

Does anyone know how critical the 12V value is that
is supplied by the power supply for a hard drive?  I
just bought a power supply (and case) and measured
5 volts for the +-5 lines, and only 10.6 volts for
the supposed +-12 lines.  Is this standard?  Acceptable?
Should I try to return this to the store?

Thanks for your help.

General interest: this power supply is part of a baby tower
case (Manufacturer=Achieve) with 4 bays, 8 slots, and
can supply 230W (supposedly, haven't tested this) and
12V (not true according to a voltimeter anyhow).  Cost
was $43 before tax.  A typical price in San Diego.
Color is NOT black :-(.

-Lily Liou
lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM 1Gig Disks - Don't! -> they do !
Date: 10 Jan 93 07:48:32 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1993Jan5.161126.24505@news.lrz-muenchen.de> jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Patrick Stein) writes:

| In article <1993Jan4.183215.11821@bernina.ethz.ch> flog@open.ch (Florian  
| Gutzwiller) writes:
| > We've just had some annoying experieence with the IBM 0663 and 0663E 3 1/2  
| hard  
| > disk drives. They won't work on NeXTs.
| 
| First time we tried to install the IBM 633E in a Station
| the drive did not work, but without contact to the cover
| of the station it works well ...probably the 663E was too
| close to the cover.
| We installed it then in a cube and all works fine since
| then. 
| 					jolly

Probably the mounting screws on the drive were the problem.  These
drives have copper foil sitting at +2v just inside the chassis,
and if the mounting screws are just a tad too long, they short the
chassis to the foil, and the drive doesn't work too well in this
state.  *Lousy* mechanical design!  Other than that, the drive
is pretty solid, if not all that fast by current high end drive
standards.
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