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From: wdburns@mtu.edu (BURNS)
Subject: Re: YES THE IIVXcd WILL DRIVE THE 16" MONITOR?
Organization: CCLI Macintosh Lab, Michigan Tech University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:00:15 GMT

In article <C0nqFr.AB3@world.std.com> jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey) writes:
><IO92668@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>
>>While visiting Columbus, Ohio for Christmas break I stopped at
>>a local mac retail MicroCenter.  While I was there they hooked up
>>the 16" Apple monitor to the internal video support port on their
>>IIVXcd and it ran beautifully (even 16bit color).  They had
>
>This doesn't make sense.  Are you sure that the 16" monitor was running
>832x624 and that it wasn't connected to a video card instead?  Everything
>I have read says that the ][vx can't run a 16" monitor in WYSIWYG mode.
>Does anyone know if this has changed?
>
I am confused, I was told by Apple System Engineers that the IIvx would
definately NOT support (internally) the 16" monitor.  Dealers COULD get
the IIvx demo units bundled with a 16" monitor and Apple Double Color SX
board...maybe that's what they had...I dunno. <bafffled>

Of course it took me more than two months to get ANY of the IIvx's I ordered.
Geeze...

-- 

  Bill Burns       [ Internet: wdburns@mtu.edu ]
                   [ AppleLink: SHADOW         ]
  Apple Student Rep, MTU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: crtchlym@vax1.tcd.ie
Subject: External Hard disk on a MacPlus?
Organization: Trinity College Dublin
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:44:07 GMT


I have a an Apple 40SC external HD which I wish to connect to a MacPlus.
I have no problems connecting this to an SE/30 or any other Mac, however,
the MacPlus refuses to see the disk.  SCSIProbe sometimes sees the disk, 
but tells me that the SCSI bus is not terminatedd.  I've tried connecting
the disk with and without a terminator on the SCSI chain and still get the
same message.  I've also tried with another MacPlus and get the same problem.

I would appreciate any hints to overcome the problem; do I need to change
any jumper settings on the disk or MacPlus logic board?

Martin Critchley
ERA-Maptec,
Dublin,
Ireland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson)
Subject: Re: Rocket in a Duo Dock?
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:11:00 GMT

Rajiv A Manglani (rajiv@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
} Has anyone tried a Radius Rocket in a Duo Dock? What would happen?
} 
} Rajiv Manglani

I was just about to post the exact same question! I'm hoping someday
to have my Duo run at Quadra-like speeds when docked. Is it possible?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: aralston@hermes.ece.wisc.edu (Andy Ralston)
Subject: DeskWriter drivers
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 9 Jan 93 16:02:00 CST

Hi.  I recently (naively) upgraded the drivers for my DeskWriter from 2.X to 
3.0.  3.0 is great in that it supports spooling, but they screwed up the 
envelope printing!  Needless to say, I trashed the old drivers before 
discovering this.  Does anyone know where a set of 2.x drivers might be 
archived?  Thanks in advance.  Please e-mail responses, as I don't get to
usenet very often.

Andy Ralston
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: blanchej@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Blanchette Jean-Francois)
Subject: LCIII/Color Classic II
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: worldwide
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:39:24 GMT

	Does anyone have any tangible rumors (!) on which machine Apple will
be introducing in the February rollout? Will it be a LCIII, or a color Classic?
Are the two mutually exclusive? Anyone?...

Jean-Francois Blanchette
Universite de Montreal
blanchej@jsp.umontreal.ca
From: idowell@BBN.COM ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Serial Hard Drive Question
Date: 12 Jan 1993 19:54:50 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: idowell@BBN.COM ()
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

I have an old Apple serial hard drive (which plugs into
the floppy drive port).  It seems to work on my 512KE
but I can't seem to get it to work with my 128K (or
my IIcx for that matter).  Which Macs will it work on?
Is there any way to get it to work with the 128?

Thanks,
Ian
idowell@bbn
From: pino@gammow.berkeley.edu (Jose L. Pino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 230 & DuoDock vs 180
Date: 12 Jan 1993 05:41:20 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gammow.berkeley.edu

I am trying to decide which powerbook to buy.... and am wondering 
how both of these machines compare in terms of performance (number
crunching NOT memory, display, etc).  Assuming that the 230 is connected
to a DuoDock with a coprocessor.  I originally thougth that these two 
configurations would preform equalently, but now I have heard that the
data bus on the 230 runs at 16 Mhz while the 180's runs at 32.   Is
this true? 

Thanks,
Jose Pino
pino@ohm.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Jazzing Up Your Mac LC
From: seth@physc1.byu.edu
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:33:05 -0700
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University

> a socket for an FPU, and Focus recommend MC68882.  Question is, will an 
> MC68881 work?  The 68882 part is out of stock at all the places I've 

One question is availability. Unless you happen to already have an MC68881 
collecting dust or something, I would bet dollars to donuts you won't be able
to find one, at least not any easier than you would be able to find the '882.
Another question is speed. If you buy an fpu, I presume you actually have a
need for the extra speed in math calculations. In this case, it wouldn't be 
wise to use the '881 instead, because it is not as fast. The '882 is capable of
limited simultaneous execution of instructions, in that with some instructions
it allows a second instruction to load and decode etc. while the first inst. is
still executing. A program written to take advantage of this will run faster on
the '882 than the '881, which has to wait to do anything with an instruction 
until the previous instruction is completely finished with everything.
Hope this helps.

Seth Leigh
BYU Physics Dept.



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,sci.electronics
From: clee@theporch.raider.net (Chris Lee)
Subject: control from mac serial ports
Summary: how to control devices from mac serial ports
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:56:57 GMT
Organization: MacInteresteds, Nashville's Macintosh User Group
Keywords: control mac serial

I would like to be able to get some logic level outputs from my mac serial
port (I ultimately want to control some stepper motors). Anyone have any
ideas or circuits? Thanks

clee@theporch.raidernet.com

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: BassoR@crl.aecl.ca
Subject: SE/30 discontinued
Organization: Chalk River Labs (Canada) 
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:20:03 GMT

I've heard from our Apple Dealer that the SE/30 upgrade has been officially
discontinued in Canada. Has anyone else heard the same?
From: Mark A. Hacker <hacker@uts.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple 13" fails to power on
Date: 12 Jan 1993 05:26:43 GMT
Organization: UTS
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hacker.des.uts.edu.au
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
X-XXDate: Tue, 12 Jan 93 00:27:10 GMT

In article <C0EzF3.74n@world.std.com> Philip Borenstein,
philip@world.std.com writes:
> The Apple 13" monitor connected to my IIsi (both power & video)
sometimes
> fails to power on when I press the power key.
> 
> It goes on, then immediately clicks off. Turning it on manually usually
> works. Waiting a few minutes always works.
> 
> Does anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it?
> 
> --philip
>   philip@world.std.com
> 

I have a staff member here that has the same problem. Apparently it's a
known problem that certain models of the si tend to "heat up" and stop
powering the monitor. I know it's strange, but not much you can do but
get in touch with your Apple dealer and check it out.

Hope you can get it fixed for free.


Mark A. Hacker
Design Computing Unit
School of Design
University of Technology,Sydney.
Australia
Phone (02) 330 2917 Fax (612) 330 2933
Alink: AUST0475     Internet: hacker@uts.edu.au
From: CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (CSP1DWD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LaserWriter 6x0 and Photograde
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:10:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.053846.14864@gallant.apple.com>,
mikew@apple.com (Mike Wiese) writes:

>It's kind of a bummer, because 300 dpi + PhotoGrade is visibly better
>than 600 dpi, but text looks better at 600 dpi.

I hate crippled products... if I understand right Apple gives us
new 600dpi printers that can do fineprint and photograde at only
300dpi and at 600dpi none of those goodies work? HP in contrast
supports fineprint at 600dpi but has nothing resembling photograde?

Tough choices.

-- Denis 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Dave Jensen <djensen@claven.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Help: with SCSI driver replacement
Organization: Morrison Center for the Performing Arts
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:42:07 GMT

Hello there,

The internal HD 40 (Connor) on a IIsi is no longer being recognized. Although
it spins and seeks a short while at power-up, I get only the flashing question
mark disk icon.

SCSI evaluator does not automatically find it, but does find it's parameter
data when device 0 is manually selected. A seek-time test seemed to work OK. 

I would like to replace the SCSI driver but Apple's HD SC Setup (ver. 7) fails
to see this volume. According to "The Dead Mac Scrolls," while HD SC Setup
version 2 fails to see it, version 1.5 will see it and allow replacement of the
driver. The mention of such low version numbers when I have version 7,
perplexes me. 

A different brand of formatter program does initially identify the disk as
being device 0, but this program doesn't seem to offer the option of driver
replacement. Anyway, I have the impression that I should only attempt replacing
the SCSI driver with the type of formatter used originally (I believe this unit
came pre-formatted from Apple).

Can anyone point me in the direction of version 1.5, Apple HD SC Setup... or
offer an alternative method of recovering this disk?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

David Jensen
djensen@claven.idbsu.edu
From: parej@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Pare Jerome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple cuts prices on imaging products
Date: 11 Jan 93 06:04:21 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In previous article, Todd Sternisha writes:
>Personal LaserWriter NTR     $1,989         $1,649           17%
>-- 
>	-Todd Sternisha
>   bk146@cwru.freenet.edu              Wolf's Den (216) 528-0321 
>"I am not impressed by your ability to hurt people." -Ian McKaye of
>Fugazi

Does that means the upgrade from Personal LW NT to NTR will also be reduced?
Thanks!
Jerome.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: tommy@macpost.vanderbilt.edu (Tommy Williams)
Subject: Re: Sony MDP-1100 and the Mac
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:16:58 GMT

In article <uzot.726093129@mcl>, uzot@mcl.ucsb.edu (Jason S. White) wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had any success using the Sony MDP-1100 with their Mac (especially
> with Teaching, Learning, and Technology Interactive kit or any other HyperCard
> interface)?
> 
> I am looking to test the player with Voyager drivers or Apple's own drivers 
> (unsupported by Apple and Claris, like Audio Help). If anyone has done this
> already, please let me know.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Jason S. White

We've got a Sony MDP-1100. We've controlled it with Voyager drivers in
several different HyperCard stacks. I've done very little controlling
myself: just playing in fact. Some of the discs we use come with their own
HyperCard controllers. We also use the barcode reader on the MDP-1100.

Everything works great. If you need any more specifics, I'll help if I
can.

--Tommy Williams        tommy@macpost.vanderbilt.edu

  The Virgil Project
  Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  (615) 343-0343
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: C._L._Waltemath@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:30:33 PST
Subject: Re: Apple 13" Monitor failure: HELP!

Older 13" monitors have a defective capicator.  Apple has a "silent recall" on
this.  Any Applke service center should fix it free.  

**** From Planet BMUG, the FirstClass BBS of BMUG.  The message contained in
**** this posting does not in any way reflect BMUG's official views.

From: Tom.Langseth@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Tom Langseth)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: MICROPOLIS 1.1GIG DRIVE F
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:25:00 -0500

I have formatted it with FWB Lite 1.1 and SilverLining.  Both times I've gotten
a formatted drive that I can then install a system on and boot from.
Unfortunately, whenever I boot the machine 7 identical icons representing the
drive appear -- as if the drive is not 'terminated' to be SCSI ID#0.  When I
open up either SilverLining or FWB they show 7 1.1Gig drives on all SCSI ports
too.  AND if it turn on any of my other SCSI crap the Micropolis is not
recognized when I boot from a floppy and will not boot itself at all.

Anybody run into this before?  How do I tell if my Micropolis is set for SCSI
ID#0?

I don't understand how you are able to format and install System 7
if the drive is not already properly terminated and addressed.  All
the same, disconnect all other SCSI devices and see if the multiple
icons still show.  If not, there is an address conflict.
Micropolis drives are counted among those with the most sensible
markings on their circuit boards, so finding the address jumpers
shouldn't be a problem.  You may find three jumpers, together,
marked (between the pins - very small) DA1, DA2 and DA3.  It is
simple binary addressing all three off = "0".  All three on + "7".

Silverlining is not compatible with all 3rd party drives.  If this
address bit, doesn't solve the problem, you may need to format with
Mac-in-Stor, Disk Manager, or Drive 7 to get this thing to work.

Once you are satisfied with the format and the address, if you
still have trouble, you need to tinker with the terminators on the
Micropolis.  Since it is a "biggie", it must be in an external box.
Try it as the only device on the external SCSI chain with an
external terminating resistor (try it with the Micropolis resistor
packs both on and off).

If all else fails, get in front of the machine and give me a call,
I'm local and should be able to walk you through this.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard)
Subject: Re: Modem cable myths
Organization: Center for Biomolecular Simulation, Department of Chemistry,
	Columbia University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:49:12 GMT


>> eric@cse.ucsc.edu (Eric Rosen) writes:
>
>scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us writes:
>>The standard line given whenever anyone mentions hooking a high speed modem up 
>>to their mac is "you have to get a hardware handshaking cable."
>>
>>In my experience, this simply is not true ...
>
>Often, a "high speed modem" is synonomous with V.42 or V.42bis.
>Although I've been able to get by using a non-hardware handshaking
>cable with vanilla 9600 baud (V.32) connections, my V.42bis connections
>are not very happy without one. This may simply be due to the higher
>throughput between the computer and the modem at V.42bis.
>
>Extrapolating that argument suggests that higher than 9600 baud rates
>would also require hardware handshaking.
>
>My experiences have involved both a II and IIfx.
>

Well, I'd been using a Telebit TrailBlazerPlus modem for almost a year 
with an ordinary modem cable and software handshaking before getting a 
hardware-handshaking cable.  There was really no noticeable difference
for ordinary work over the modem.  For Z-modem transfers, the best I usually
did using the old cable was 67% transmission efficiency, while the new
cable lets me get %80 or so.  This is using Telebits PEP compression
protocal on ASCII file transfers
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From: markp@cranham.cc.earlham.edu (Mark Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Optical Drives for a Mac
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:07:13 GMT
Reply-To: markp@cranham.cc.earlham.edu

This is a 'does anyone know anything about' question?
I'm keen to get a 31/2" 128Mb  Optical Disk drive for a Mac using department.  
Pinnacle micros seem to have a good product. Anyone know as good or better  
drive and a good place to get it from? 


--
Mark H Pearson	            Coordinator of Academic Computing
Earlham College, Richmond, In 47374
regular e-mail: 	markp@yang.earlham.edu
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From: tims@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Info on Conner Drives?
Date: 12 Jan 93 09:32:55 CST
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

Does anyone have experience with the Conner drives?  I've seen them 
advertised at some incredible prices, but haven't heard very much about 
them.  I do know that Apple orders a lot from them for use in the Classic, 
etc., but I havn't heard about them outside of that.  As I am looking at 
buying one for an external drive, any info. there is would be appreciated!

Thanks tons,

TiM
.......................................................
TiM Seydel, Asst. Dir.		internet:  tims@bvc.edu
College Relations
Buena Vista College
Storm Lake, Iowa!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: memory miracle ?
From: wiesmann@uni2a.unige.ch
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:14:55 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

Hello,
	I've recently found 4 4Megs Simms, I had a SE30 with 8Megs 
(8 1 Megs Simms) so I took out 4 1 Megs Simms and plugged in the 4
Megs Simms, and now my computer tells me he has 32 Megs of memory and 
he works fine, but I'd like to know if:
a) did I put 7 Megs Simms in my computer (if they exist)
b) did I put 8 Megs Simms in my computer (then where are the 4 remaining
					  Megs)
c) was it a act of God ???

Thanks in advance

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: caruso@gbi01.enet.dec.com (Angelo Caruso)
Subject: Re: Xceed30 8-bit and System 7.1 ?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:00:18 GMT


In article <C0B588.7vA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End) writes...
> 
>Is anyone out there using system 7.1 with the Xceed 30 8-bit card in the PDS ?
> 
>After installing the card in my SE/30, I can boot from System 6.05 on a 
>floppy, but not from the 7.1 Installer 1 floppy or from 7.1 freshly installed
>on the hard disk.
> 
>Just to make matters worse, It booted fine from 7.1 on the HD the 
>first time after installation, until I installed the "Virtual Video" 
>cdev and changed the setting to 1K by 1k. I don't have any external monitor 
>attached or the internal grey-scale adapter. After removing the cdev, the 
>HD system still does not boot.
> 
>More generally, can the presence of a card in the PDS influence the start-up
>process at boot-time in the absence of any INIT/cdevs for the card ?
> 
>Thanks,
> 

I upgraded a couple weeks ago. No problem here. By the way, what is the Virtual
Video ?

Angelo.
From: dstrout@sun.rest.tasc.com. (Dave Strout)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Has anyone seen Duo Add-ons?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 12:54:14 GMT
Organization: TASC
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: dstrout@sun.rest.tasc.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: uranus.aitc.rest.tasc.com
Keywords: modem, floppy, duo, powerbook


Has anyone actually seen the external floppy, the floppy adaptor, the  
internal modem, or the Mini dock for the Duos?  I got my 230 a week ago,  
and have been getting "The floppy should be in RSN" from all of my area  
dealers.  I called Apple Assistance, they said the dealer should be able  
to order it.  Dealers say they can';t, they have to wait & see what they  
get.  Are these things in production / shipping yet?

Hating to load software via Localtalk......

dave.

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Thompson's Rule for First Time Telescope Makers:
It's easier to make a 4 inch mirror then a 6 inch mirror
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Patrick McClaughry <patrick_mcclaughry@sematech.org>
Subject: GDT PowerPrint info wanted
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A77711522A01160E@manzana.eng.sematech.org>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:58:10 GMT
Organization: SEMATECH
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:55:45 GMT

I could really use any pointers or feedback on the availability and
usefulness of GDT's PowerPrint package.  This is the serial ->
Centronics printer conversion utility.  Has anybody used this pkg
for any length of time?  I've heard good things about it but none of
them firsthand.  What about price?

Thanks in advance,
--Pat