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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: PhotoCD capable drives? (Was: Apple CD150 Plus)
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<poorman.712242921@convex.convex.com> <6319@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:47:40 GMT

Chuck> == Chuck Melikian <chuckm@tekig5.pen.tek.com> 

 Chuck> According to recent NEC advertisments, their CDR-74 and CDR-84
 Chuck> drives will.

Nope; read the (very) fine print; "Single session only."  They're not
being particularly loud about this shortcoming, though.
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From: buckc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Carolyn Buck-Gengler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Advice needed: LCII or IIsi?
Keywords: LCII, IIsi, student discount, back-to-school-sale
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:50:31 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

With the recently mentioned apple back to school specials hopefully
coming soon to my local university computer store (:-), I need some
advice re LCII vs IIsi.

Normal student prices are 1479 for LCII 4/80 vs 2329 for IIsi 5/80,
(1939 IIsi 3/80), making the LCII the best choice for us.
*However*, when looking at prices for Amherst and Dartmouth, the
IIsi's come within reach.  Specifically, if a IIsi 5/80 on special
were about what I expect to pay now for an LCII, is it worth it to
get the IIsi, or to get the LCII special at around 1100?

What if the IIsi is a couple hundred more (~1600 -- CUs store said
they mark up a bit more than Dartmouth)?

In other words, what are the hw diffs between them, and based on
your experience and opinions out there, are the diffs worth the
money?  (for that matter, is it worth-while getting a IIsi 3/80, or
is 3Mg not enough?  how much would it cost to upgrade it, or am I
better off with the 5/80 *if* I get a IIsi?)

(summary of prices alluded to above:
		LCII 4/80	IIsi 3/80	IIsi5/80
current student  1479 <-	  1939		  2329
Dartmouth sale   1145		  1255		  1475 <-
guessed cu sale  1247		  1371		  1609  

[from university store, a recent netnews article, and est based on
estimated markup on top of amherst's listed price, recent article])

Thanks for any and all advice!!!

Carolyn Buck-Gengler
buckc@ucsu.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: duncan@rti.rti.org
Subject: FAQ for taking a Mac to Europe?
Summary: Can a Mac and printer run unmodified in Britain?
Keywords: power national
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 18:06:42 GMT

Does anyone have a FAQ on taking Macs and accessories to Europe
from the US?  Specifically, I'm interested in taking a Classic II
and HP Deskwriter to Britain.  From things posted on SW, do I
have to worry about taking software?  How do these things determine
which country they're in?  I'd probably be taking something
something akin to Microsoft Works.

If the hardware has a universal power supply, can it run with just
a plug adaptor?  If so, which Macs and printers have universal
power supplies?

Steve Duncan
duncan@rti.rti.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tlt38517@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel)
Subject: Re: Radius Pivot and the se30
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:01:02 GMT

rcarvin@x102a.ess.harris.com (carvin robert 60184) writes:
>I am considering ordering a radius pivot for use with my se/30.  I would
>appreciate comments on my choice.
Frankly I don't understand the point of buying a pivot when you can buy a
two page monitor for much less (except for color, then you can get a 16-inch
for about as much) and the two-pager is much more versatile.  
-Terry
From: jetzer@litsun.epfl.ch (Laurent Jetzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: print an imported EPS file in Word5 on a Stylewriter
Date: 24 Jul 92 08:39:22 GMT
Organization: Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne DI-LIT

I have the following problem with printing on a Stylewriter.

When I print an Illustrator document from Illustrator, the quality is very good
with the driver 7.0.1 and bad with the driver from tune-up 1.1.1.
But when I save an Illustrator document in EPS format and import it with
Word 5, the quality is bad with both drivers.

What is the solution to this problem?
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: pwan@scott.skidmore.edu (peter wan)
Subject: Re: MAC KNOWLEDGE SOUGHT
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:46:34 GMT

PLEASE NOTE:
The author, when "60030" and "60040" appear in this article, most
definitely is referring to the Motorola 68030 and 68040
microprocessors, respectively. There are no "60030" or "60040"
microprocessors for the Macs.
  
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daver@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (David Ray) writes:
> Rumor is: 1) August 1, lots of Mac prices will drop on current products
>           2) October 15, new products may be announced
> 
> General: For the 60030 and 60040 lines, this includes:
>             LCII, SI, CI, QUADRA 700 and 950
> 
>          Rumor: All these will be upgraded later this year (extra features
>                 will be added at the same price, prices of current models
>                 will be dropped)
> 
>          Currently:
>             LCII: 16 MHz 60030, 16 bit data path, built in video RAM,
>                   1 PDS slot (16 bit card)
>             SI:   20 MHz 60030, 32 bit data path, 1 NuBus slots (32 bit)
>             CI:   25 MHz 60030, 32 bit data path, 3 (?) NuBus slots
>                   special slot for RAM cache card
>             Q700: 20 MHz 60040, 32 bit, 1 (?) NuBus slot, built in video
>             Q950: 33 MHz 60040, 32 bit, several NuBus slots, built in video
> 
> General Mac vs PC stuff:
> 
>    Advantages:
>          MIDI: No card is required, unlike the IBM. All you need is a
>                serial port/MIDI adapter, about $50. Mucho shareware avail.
>         Video: The LCII and Quadras have built-in video support, 8-bit color on
>                a 600x480 monitor, 16-bit on a 512x384. ** They are compatible
>                with most VGA and SVGA monitors as well as Mac monitors.
>           OS:  The Mac operating system has always had great GUI compared
>                to the cluged Windows environment. Has some multitasking
>                and backgrounding capabilities unlike DOS.
>           SW:  Tons of useful freeware and shareware available, more than
>                for the PC. Real (paid) SW takes advantage of the Mac OS --
>                backgrounding, transferring data between applications, etc.
> 
>    Disadvantages:
>          Parallel Centronix printer port: None of the Macintoshes offer
>                a parallel port with TTL outputs. This means that some
>                PC programs that use TTL outputs can NEVER be ported to Macs.
>                Example: Motorola's HC11 assembler/simulator board and program.        
>          RAM:  IBM's have more advanced RAM cache, resulting in faster number
>                crunching at the same clock speed. Only noticeable if you are
>                running something like AutoCad.
> 
> hope this stuff is useful.
> Dave

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: K_LEPA@unhh.unh.edu (Kristen   Lepa)
Subject: Re: Comparing Stylewriter with DeskWriter
Organization: University of New Hampshire
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:13:09 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.12

In <1992Jul22.171655.23308@cis.ohio-state.edu> fullerto@carp.cis.ohio-state.edu writes:

> In article <1992Jul22.054536.14246@news.cs.indiana.edu> John Lacey <johnl@spinner.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
> >I seem to recall a comparison between these two a while back (a year,
> >maybe two).  I am buying something, almost certainly one of these, and
> >I would like to know what people think of them.
> >
> 
> 	The stylewriter has better resolution but the deskwriter is faster.

What?  320 vs 300?  That's what I heard...
	-Kristen

> 
> 		Tim F.
> 		
> 
>
From: cbm@stiatl.salestech.com (Chris Medders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Where can I mail order a "grappler" cable ?
Summary: Need to purchase a "grappler" cable
Keywords: grappler, printer, cable
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:59:50 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.


Does anyone know of a mail order house (number &/or address) where I can get
a "grappler" cable to connect a Macintosh SE/30 & an NEC LC-860+ ?!?  Is 
Computer Shopper a good resource or is there an equivalent magazine just for
Mac's ?!?  By the way, thanks for all the replies I received regarding the
Mac --> NEC connectivity problem !!

-Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf)
Subject: Re: Asante--probable SCSI ethernet software bug fix
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:22:12 GMT

We have also experience the Asante EN/SC lockup problem...I haven't called yet,
but since they have a fix already, maybe I will...

Bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: lriggins@afit.af.mil (L. Maurice Riggins)
Subject: LC II Cache/FPU Card?
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:55:39 GMT

I've seen cards for the IIsi that combine 32k cache and FPU (along with
Nubus or PDS adapter), but so far, all I've seen for the LC/LC II are just
FPU-only cards.  Anyone know of a source (or rumors thereof) of a cache/FPU
combo for the LC II?

Thanks,
-- 
Maurice               INTERNET:  lriggins@afit.af.mil
From: mills@athena.lkg.dec.com (George Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: supra fax modem
Date: 25 Jul 92 23:57:57 GMT

>Greetings-

>I also have the FAXmodem V.32bis and I do have the fax software.  Although I
>haven't sent out too many faxes, it seems to work ok.  Z-modem file transfers
>BTW, go at about 1500-1700 bytes per second, on already compressed, binhexed
>files.  (Usually >1600, though)  I have, however, had lots of trouble
>with long distance transfers- probably the greatest source of complaints for
>this type/speed of modem.  (Good thing most of my transfers are local :)

>btd

Can you give more details about not working at hi-speed long distance.
If we can't reliably get 9600 what are we paying $309.00 for?
I know good modems are $700.00+/-, are all $300.00+/- equal?

I just bought one of these things (Supra v32.bis external) and am getting
extremely disgusted with it.

First I brought it to work with me to test the FAX because a real
FAX machine was just a few offices away. I bought it with WinFAX.
I admittedly did not read the manuals and needless to say I could not
send a FAX. Then later (read some of the manuals) and found out that
oh, by the way, that software you payed extra for that works with most other
modems doesn't work. You have "pay" for a long distance BBS connect to get
the stuff that works :-). Isn't that nice.

No problem, I'll just "long distance" dialin with my New Hi-speed modem
and get it. Wrong :-(. I have gone through all the different trouble
shooting hints. The only thing that I can get this thing to do so far
is work like my cheapo 2400baud internal that I sold for $20.00 !!!!

I take that back. I did once connect at 9600 with no compression
to a another modem that was very close. Now I am 150 miles away from the same
modem and I cannot connect. I must of spent $25.00 in attempts. Grrrr.

Using the supplied cable on a 24 serial port I did manage the 9600 connect.

150 miles away on another system,cable, and 9 pin serial port I can only do
2400 with no mnp. Can it still be the cable,24-9 pin adapter, IRQ conflict
or whatever. I've been assuming hookup is ok since 2400baud works.

Still I've told the modem to not connect at above 4800baud and it still
connected at 9600.

The symptom is that is sounds like it negotiated ok and then when the speaker
cuts out I get tons of garbage onto the screen no-stop.

I have 3 modems and all connect to a 2400 baud line 150miles away.
None of the 3 modems will connect at any speed to the Supra BBS.
The supra will not connect 150 miles away to a 9600 line.
I like the package and the documentation is good but have yet
to get what I thought I paid for.

Damn, my wife wants to send a Micro-Soft word 20 page document to her work.
Sure hard to explain a near $350.00 charge bill and I have to tell
her that she will have to fedx her document.
From: filibert@vista (Daniel Filiberti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: buying a NEC 5FG
Date: 17 Jul 92 16:54:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: ohsu.1992Jul17.165409.5233
Reply-To: filibert@ohsu.edu
Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University

In article <9207152357.aa19662@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> nyang@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU  
writes:
> Hi!
>    I am thinking of buying a NEC 5FG because everybody is telling me how good
> it is.  I just want to know if anyone owns this monitor.  If so, how is it?
> Also, I have a SuperMac Spetrum 24/Series III video card.  The max resolution
> is 1024 x 768.  Does 5FG supports this resolution?  I called up NEC, but they
> couldn't find this card on their campatible list, but the tech guy told me it
> will work.  I hope so....  I am getting it this week...  Thanx for any info
> in advance.

Check out the Nanao F550i.  We just purchased one and they
are excellent.  The color on our NEC 4fg is just as good, but
the F550i comes with anti-glare treatment, and now the
new versions have an equivalent to Accucolor (with even
more ability to adjust the guns).  The controls on the
Nanao are much better in my opinion, and it is cheaper... 

You can't do much better than that! Two thumbs up.

Daniel

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Oregon Health Sciences University
Biomedical Information Communication Center (BICC)
3181 Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland, Oregon  97201-3098
email:  filibert@ohsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: blimoges@sobeco.com (Bertrand Limoges)
Subject: Suggestions needed for network fax modem/software
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:26:59 GMT

We need a fax solution for our office. My priority is to serve the Mac
users, but any suggestions which could also accomodate IBM PC's and/or Unix
machines is definitely welcome. It is probably obvious that I am looking for
a network solution, and we have a MacII that acts as a server on the network
(and several Unix boxes). Features that are of particular interest are
cover-page generation, accounting facilities, and of course, ease of use.
Please reply through email, and I will summarize if requested.

Thank you, Bertrand
--
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Internet: blimoges@sobeco.com


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wonko@titan.ucc.umass.edu (not in use)
Subject: Re: Jasmine drive needs repair
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:45:25 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Is it live or is it "LASER"?
From: fredh@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 22 Jul 92 05:29:05 -0600
Organization: Mankato State University

I saw a _singular_ ad once, a long time ago, in a mac-mag for some kind of
external box which you can buy for your computer (like an SE/30 or low-end II)
that adds a bunch of perfomance (was it a 030 with four slave 68000's to do
dual-processing) and six NuBus slots. Does anyone else remember seeing this, or
is it just my possibly corupt memory? And if you know anything about it, where
do you find them, how much do they cost, and are they worth it?

-Todd Hartman (marauder@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok)
Subject: Re: Mac ROM -> RAM?
Organization: Inst. f. Thermodynamik u. Waermetechnik (ITW), U. of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:22:19 GMT

In article <14hoqmINN3gv@network.ucsd.edu> simon@ivem.ucsd.edu (Simon Lee) writes:
>Does anyone know of any utility to remap the Mac ROM to RAM?
>My Mac IIfx rom is bad and I want to put a copy of my good
>Mac IIfx rom into the bad one's ram so I can at least work without
>it crashing every other time I run a piece of software.
>
>Thanks.
>-Simon


Wouldn't that also speed up the machine somewhat? It's a common strategy
for speeding up MESSDoze-PeeCees. (fastbios.sys)
Can someone knowledgeable elaborate on that?
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From: mceder@gateway.novell.com (Mike Cederholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Help on repairing Mac SE, please!
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:23:46 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

mikem@beanpot.ma30.bull.com (Mike Machnik) writes:
: This is more of the same problem I posted about last week.  Only got one
: response then - thanks to Dana - so I've been going pretty blind since then
: but have made some progress.  But I'm stuck again.
: 
: BTW, this problem came about because of an apparent power surge that hit
: the Mac about two weeks ago.  Actually, there were three from what I was
: told (it isn't my Mac).
: 
: The SE came up with the sad Mac and an error code which indicated
: that SIMM 2 was bad.  I swapped SIMMs 1&2 and the new code indicated SIMM 1
: was bad, so I felt pretty confident that was the problem (or a problem).
: I removed SIMMs 1&2 and replaced them with 256K SIMMs (all four were 1 MB),
: bringing the machine down to 2.5 MB.  Now I get a checkerboard pattern on
: the screen AND a happy Mac.  This confuses me because in Larry Pina's book,
: he refers to a straight checkerboard pattern as being representative of a
: ROM problem but he doesn't say anything about a happy Mac.  In addition, I
: tried pressing down on the ROM chips and they seem to be in as far as they
: can go.
: 
: My main questions are:
: 1) Does the checkerboard with happy Mac indicate something else?

It can but in this case it is due to a bad memory address map... you took out 
1 meg simms and put smaller ones in, but did you make sure the resistor that 
lets the machine know what kind of simms are in was correct, and did you follow
the guidelines for the banks of simms.... i.e. the 1 megs have to go in the 
correct bank.... so check the address resistor ( 470k I think... its marked)
and try switching the banks of simms (in pairs)  your problem should go away.

: 2) Could one or more of the ROMs be bad?  How easy is it to find
:  replacements?

Roms are almost NEVER know to go bad... consult your dealer... you will pay 
dearly for these so consider it a last resort.

: 3) Could the SE be unhappy that the 256K SIMMs are in slots 1&2 instead of
:  3&4?  I can check this tonight but if someone knows the technical details,
:  I'd appreciate it.
: 
See above....
: Anything else that anyone can suggest will be greatly appreciated.  I've
: been trying to do this repair for a friend who owns the Mac but has no
: money for a quoted $350 logic board repair at a local store, and she certainly
: can't afford a new computer.  Thanks VERY much in advance.
: --
:  == Mike Machnik                     Bull HN Information Systems Inc. ==
:  == 508-294-2177                     300 Concord Road   MA30-836A     ==
:  == mikem@beanpot.ma30.bull.com      Billerica, MA 01821              ==

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam)
Subject: Re: MAC vs IBM-the CPUs
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:51:47 GMT

mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:

>486DX/SX same addressing as 386DX/SX, plus 486SX doesn't have FPU.

It is my understanding that the 486SX both 32 bit internal and
32 bit memory access, not the 16 bit memory access of the 386SX.

James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: anderson@fpg.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Anderson)
Subject: Second Wave expansion boxes
Organization: Department of Computing services
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:11:54 GMT

Has anyone tried to use one of these boxes with an accellerator card in them?
 
In particular an IIsi and Radius Rocket board
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: gchism@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Grady W Chism)
Subject: Laserwriter I/oBoard
Summary: Need a source for an I/O board
Keywords: Parts, Help , Laserwriter
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:14:57 GMT

Our old original Apple Laserwriter appears to require a new I/O board and the
lowest cost I have been able to locate is $650.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to some other source for the board?  Anyone 
have one in their junk pile?

This machine is like my old Chevy when the transmission went.  I hate to put 
much money in it but it has been a wonderful machine.
Thanks.
-- 
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Dept. of Food Science and Tech.    Voice:614-292-7719
Ohio State University              FAX:614-292-0218
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From: pfile@subversion.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Pfile)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Sharing Laserwriter between Mac and Unix
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:05:53
Organization: /users/pfile/.organization
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: subversion.berkeley.edu


Some months agio, I posted much the same question: how does one share a LW
between unix machines (running transcript) and one macintosh.

At the time, everyone told me to put the mac on the local ethernet. That
was not and still is not feasible, due to the cost of an ethernet board
and a new tap in the office. I was directed to a program called "Janus"
which will fool a unix machine into thinking it's talking directly to a
Laserwriter, and still lets one print from mac applications. For one
reason or another, I never got this working.

Now with the advent of SLIP, I can get the mac on the net for only the
cost of MacSlip or Versaterm SLIP.

The question now is: what software do I need to either:

1) get the mac to send it's print jobs over the net to a sparc running
transcript, which is physically connected to the printer? (which would sort
of be a chooser version of the lpr software)

or

2) get something like transcript for the mac, run the equivalent of lpd on
the mac, and tell the rest of the unix world that the printer is on the
mac, which will have an IP address and a name, like any other machine.

In both cases I need to be able to print from unix or from the mac without
switching any cables or hardware.

How do people accomplish this these days?

thanks.

rob pfile
pfile@cs.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system