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From: mrn@eplunix.UUCP (Mark R. Nilsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Brain Storm Accelerators for Mac Plus
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:50:01 GMT
Organization: Eaton-Peabody Lab, Boston, MA

In article <1jnt5gINNaih@zephyr.grace.cri.nz>,
srchbgm@chv.lincoln.cri.nz writes:
> NNTP-Posting-Host: chv.lincoln.cri.nz
> 
> Hi Has anyone out there upgraded their Mac Plus with a BrainStorm accelerator 
> card? If so I would like to here about it. Any problems?
> I use Mark of the Unicorns Performer and Composer. How do these two products
> work with the Brain Storm Accelerator.
> 

I installed the BrainStorm in my Mac and had trouble finding stable SIMMs
to work with it.  There are some manufactured SIMMs that are speced
to be fast enough but do not work with the BrainStorm.  

As far as Performer goes,  I think you need a 68020 at least to run
3.61.  I did some work with 3.61 and my BrainStormed Plus and although
it did run there were some MIDI troubles in certain situations such
as looping.

After I isolated it's limitations and found working SIMMs I was very
pleased with it but I did upgrade to a IIci because of the Performer issue.

--Mark.
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The world has changed and we can no longer think that logic is going to
prevail ... 
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From: HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:25:56 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

In article <C19AI2.E39@dcs.ed.ac.uk>,
axl@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Long) writes:
>
>Hmm, did I hear somebody muttering "Amdahl's Law"  in
>the background somewhere?
>
What the heck is Amdahl's Law?
>
>PS Anyone like to comment on the likelihood of an LC II -> III
>upgrade path?

There will be a logic board upgrade from the LCII to the LCIII.
Given that the LCIII's street price should be $1000 to $1250 in a
base configuration, it would have to be under $500 to be worthwhile.
That's not to say it will be under $500, but it should.

Mark Rogowsky
rogo@forsythe.stanford.edu
From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Looking for a 200MB drive
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:39:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Hi folks,

I'm in the market for a 200MB drive, and have pretty well narrowed my
choices to either the APS Quantum 240 or the APS Maxtor 213. The
March 1993 Macworld had a comparison test of drives in this size
range, and from their tests the Maxtor is significantly slower than
the Quantum.

If you have either of these drives (external), I'd like to hear your
impressions of them, from the point of view of speed, and noise. The
report seems to indicate that both drives are fairly noisy. I'll be
using this drive on a IIci.

I'm also wondering about Club Mac. They were absent from the review.
What do you think about their products? The prices seem competitive.

Thanks for any comments (or other drive suggestions),
Rich

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From: scottw@boulder.Central.Sun.COM (Scott Wiesner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: What's being discontinued?
Date: 28 Jan 1993 22:43:16 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: scottw@boulder.Central.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: boulder.central.sun.com


I hadn't given much thought to this before, but does anyone have an idea of
what's being discontinued after the new products are announced in a few
weeks?  I noticed a local store was selling off the Performa 200 and 400
in a "Closeout" sale.  The salesperson didn't know what was coming, but
said they were definately being replaced with something new.  I find it 
hard to believe Apple would be eliminating the B/W Classic II!  I assumed
the LC II would be replaced by the LC III, the si by the Centris 600, and 
the ci by the Centris 650, but didn't think the color classic would replace
the Classic II.

Scott Wiesner
Boulder, Colorado
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: lord@andersen.uucp (Bob Lord)
Subject: Re: replacing the tinny speaker on a Duo??
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:02:01 GMT

Petrack@HAIFASC3.VNET.IBM.COM writes:

>I am not thrilled about the built-in speaker in teh Duo (230).

>My question is: can I replace the speaker with  something of higher
>quality?

>The question obviously has two parts: where can I get a low power, tiny,
>better speaker, and can I open the Duo to replace it.

>I assume that such a change will void the warranty, so I might have to
>suffer for a year. Maybe by that time there'll be a mini-dock with
>true stereo???

>Scott Petrack
>Petrack@haifasc3.vnet.ibm.com

The Duo speaker is not half as bad as my DuoDock speaker, which must be 3
times as big.

You might try to connect a little external speaker to the (Mini)Dock for
those times when you are docked.  Other than that, replacing the internal
speaker is probably not worth voiding the warranty.

-Bob


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From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Need power supply repair or replace for IIfx
Date: 23 Jan 1993 15:27:55 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu


 Mark Nagel writes:
> A friend of mine has a IIfx with an apparently dead power supply.
> Does anyone know of a repair or replacement for less than $180?

yep.  call Rick Allphin (Omnitek) at (915) 938-5537 and ask for advice/help.
Feel free to mention where you received the pointer as he knows that I would
stop recommending him if he doesn't do right by netters (as he knows that I
will publicly go after those netters who take advantage of the preferential
treatment he often given netters by "forgetting" to pay for repairs ;-)
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From: suhler@pollux.usc.edu (Paul Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Experience with Dayna PathFinder?
Followup-To: comp.protocols.appletalk
Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:32:12 -0800
Organization: USC Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu

Does anyone have experience with Dayna's PathFinder?  It's an
AppleTalk-only router between LocalTalk and ethernet.  Does it give
problems with CAP?  I assume that you can't run MacX across it.

Please reply by e-mail and I'll repost if there's interest.

Thanks,

Paul Suhler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jrg@punch (James R. Goble)
Subject: Re: Help!!!! Mac IIsi Memory Manager
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:33:36 GMT

In article <smclane-210193111808@260-3l-mac5a.wdl.loral.com>  
smclane@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Sterling McLane) writes:
> My son has a Mac IIsi which aborts when an application finds it has used  
up
> its allotted memory space and needs a little more - for instance MS Word
> 5.0 with a longish document will blow up when saving or printing  
although
> it was perfectly happy when the file was opened.  He has been able to  
get
> around this by giving the applications more memory through the Get Info
> dialog, but it continues to catch him on occassion and he loses data he  
has
> entered. I never have had this problem on our old Mac 128, or SE at home  
or
> my IIfx at work.  Is there something flaky with the IIsi ROMs?  If so,  
is
> there an INIT or something that can get around it? The machine is
> configured with 5MB of memory, the NuBus extender/Math Coprocessor  
option,
> System 7.0.1 with System 7 Tuner 1.1.1.

I think the flakiness has to do with Microsoft.  There is an "upgrade"  
(read: BUG FIX) available to version 5.0.2.  It is available on  
CompuServe.
From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Street Fighter
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:45:06 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <93024.093909REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes...
>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.

 I'm not so sure that this is necessary. There are excellent games that run
 full-screen in 8-bit (or 4-bit) mode, and "cooperate with the OS," not in the
 sense that I can switch them in and out under MultiFinder, but certainly with
 other programs running, and without rebooting. Some examples:

 Ben Haller's Solarian II
 Andrew Welch's Maelstrom
 Velocity's Spectre
 Psygnosis' Lemmings
 PacMan (the author's name escapes me)
 Casady & Greene's Crystal Quest, Sky Shadow, & Mission Starlight
 Spectrum Holobyte's Vette

 Obviously, excellent arcade games can be done in concert with the Mac OS.
 My perception is that many of the game companies simply don't
 care about the Mac. That's OK; I won't burden them with my money.

 Tangent: I played a bit of Castle Wolfenstein on a friend's PC. It reminded
 me so much of Spectre! You go around the castle (grid) and shoot enemy
 soldiers (enemy tanks) and restore your energy by running over food (recharge
 grids). The grpahics were different, though :-).

 Rich

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.periphs.printers
From: rashid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert G Rashid)
Subject: Re: New LaserWriters ?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:37:58 GMT

The Laserwriter 600, as it ships, is a 300 dpi printer.  It looks
better than previous 300 dpi at small text sizes, probably due to the
finer toner particles.  However, with a memory upgrade (Photogray
option) it becomes 600 dpi, and FinePrint/Photogray at 300 is also
available.  What then differentiates an upgraded LWP600 from an LWP630
is the additional ports (ethernet) and SCSI connections on the 630.

Hope this helps.
Bob.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: elenay_creations@tcs.las-vegas.nv.us (Anthony D. Saxton)
Organization: Cyber Sanctum
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:52:22 PST
Subject: Re: SE/30 memory upgrade...

>>		I've got a SE/30 with 4Mb of RAM.
>>		This month I got more 4Mb (4 1Mbit Clearpoint SIMMs) and tried to install
it
>>on the Mac. It didn't work! When I switch the power on, the Mac emits 3 or 4
>>sounds, and locks...

Remove the last 2 SIMMS and try to boot with just the first 2. Then remove
those and replace them with the 2 previously removed. If it fails to boot in
either situation, you've narrowed it down to a bad SIMM in the pair. Simply
swap, to determine just which one is the culprit.

Good Luck,

Anthony D. Saxton
Elenay* Creations
From: udarryl@mcl.ucsb.edu (Darryl (True) Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: HP Deskwriter C (500) and Adobe Illustrator 3.2
Summary: Need help printing color with Illustrator 3.2 and HP Deskwriter C
Keywords: illustrator hp deskwriter color printing driver
Date: 21 Jan 93 10:50:52 GMT

hi--

i've got a 2si with a HP Deskwriter C (original, not the nifty five
fifty)...

i could of sworn that i printed something in color once with
illustrator 3.2, but perhaps i was mistaken.  i KNOW that i can with
pagemaker 4.2, but when i place EPS into pm 4.2, all that prints is a
nasty bitmapped preview.

illustrator somehow cleans up it's previews and rasterizes (?) it's
postscript commands into something that looks quite nice on the
deskwriter.  unfortunately it doesn't do color.  grayscale it does,
color it does not.

i've got...version 2.0, directly from HP.  

so somebody tell me--apart from buying freedom of the press light (oh
yeah, i've got $99 lying around here somewhere--NOT)--is there any way
to get color from illustrator 3.2 to my deskwriter c?

please e-mail your replies, and i'll post a summary--honest :}

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From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Need parts to build a Mac SE
Date: 27 Jan 1993 03:04:04 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: spock.dis.cccd.edu

Hi,

I am building an SE for fun and would like some references.

I have:

Case
Internal chassis
2 800k floppies
20 meg hard drive


I need:

Mother board WITH ROMS.
Analog board.
Video board.
Power supply.

Any ideas?????


Thanks,

maurices
From: tjt@dogfish.oki.com (Tom Teixeira)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 16" monitors for PB180?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:09:23 GMT
Organization: Oki Advanced Products Division
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tjt@oki.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: dogfish.oki.com
Keywords: powerbook video

Has anyone used a 16" monitor (other than the Apple 16" monitor) with
the external video on a PowerBook 180? I'd like to be able to use the
same monitor on a PC occasionally, so something like the NEC 5FG or
the Sony 16" Multiscan would seem to be ideal. I tried an NEC with the
832x624 adaptor, and the NEC wouldn't sync, but worked OK at 640x480.
--
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508-480-9635 (Fax)      Marlborough, MA 01752
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: pb180
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:32:00 GMT


Hi everyone:

Does anyone know the current acedemic price for the pb180?  How much would
I have to pay if I want to add 10 more mbs onto it?  How much money do I
need to add ethernet also?

Thanks.

Thian.
From: hm002b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (PRIMUS SUCKS!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: HELP!: HP DeskWriter vs. StyleWriter II
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:29:16 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article:
The subject header says it all. I am considering the purchase of a new Inkjet
printer I was wondering if anyone has any reasons why I should buy the
StyleWriter II over the DeskWriter. I will be using the printer on my SE/30
running System 7.01 and basically I will be doing fairly heavy printing
using EXCEL and a little wordprocessor printing. From what I saw the print
quality between the two was nearly the same. The HP seemed to be built a
little better and it also seems a bit faster. The biggest advantage of teh
StyleWriter II is the 15 sheet auto envelope feeder. Is there anything I am
missing? Any comments will be appreciated, thank you!
Hasit
BTW- I would appreciate it if someone could tell me approx how many pages I
will be able to print from one ink cartrigde on each printer.
From: P.A.Flecknell@newcastle.ac.uk (Paul Flecknell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: MAC SE memory
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:36:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of Newcastle, UK

HI, I've just upgraded a IIsi and had 4 spare 1meg 80ns SIMMs. I used 2 to
upgrade an LC11, and hoped to put the remaining 2 in an SE which had 4x256k
simms. This was not successful ,so we tried putting all 4 1meg simms in the
SE, and got a working machine which only reported 2meg of ram. Can you mix
256k and 1meg simms in an Se, and if so, which combinations of simm slots
should be used? Alternaitvely, if I get 2 more SImms, how do I get the Se
to report 4meg of ram? PS, with the 4x256k SIMMs, the SE had 1meg, and we
checked the 1meg simms in the lcII and they all worked.

Paul
From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: * RasterOps 364 problem!
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:17:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

Howdy,
	I have a RasterOps 364 card which worked very well inmy Mac
IIsi. Recently, and almost simultaneously, I upgraded to a Mac IIcx adn
System 7.1. Now the problem is that although I'm still able to grab
still images, I can't record QuickTime movies. Adobe premiere, Media
Grabber, and other software just beeps when I hit their respective
'RECORD' buttons. Only one PD QuickTime grabber says that the grabbing
software cannot be found (apparently this is the VDIG).

	Deleted all but the threee RasterOps ext/cp's from control panel
(except QT) and still nothing. Here's my setup:

Mac IIcx
20 meg RAM, 210 meg HD
Usual inits installed:	NOW Utilities 4.0 (and I deleted the Toolbox!)
			Startup manager (NOW)
			ColorSwitch
			QuickTime
			Apollo 1.0
			Disinfectant 2.9
			DeskPicture (NOW 3.0)
			Dialog View
			Mode 32 (with 32 bit mode on of course)

Now, with all the above deleted, it STILL happened. Of course, RasterOps
knows NOTHING about this. I have the newest drivers and the latest
hardware. I even tried putting the card in a different NuBus slot. If
anyone can tell me what the problem is, PLEASE DO! E-mail me.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: echriste@afit.af.mil (Eric R. Christensen)
Subject: Apple 13" HiRes RGB Monitor Failure
Originator: echriste@wb10
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:12:00 GMT

I have had a MACII with a 13in Apple HiRes Monitor and an 8 bit video
card for about 5 years.  A couple of weeks ago the monitor quit.  When
I took the powere supply out it was discoverd that some wires were cold
soldered.  These wires were resoldered and all worked fine for about
2 weeks.  Earlier this week the monitor just shutoff.  I restarted the
system and the monitor came up fine and stayed on.  This morning the
monitor again shut off.  I shut down and restarted the monitor came up
again but then shut down almost immediately and wouldn't restart.  I
waited about a half an hour and tried it again and it came up ok and 
has remained on for the last 2 hours.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be wrong and how to fix it?

If you have any ideas please send email and I'll summarize to the net.

Eric Christensen
email:  echriste@afit.af.mil
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:28:28 EST
From: Tim Bieling <QAA@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory problem with Quadra 950

In article <93022.231414QAA@psuvm.psu.edu>, I wrote:
[problem with added memory in Q950 deleted]

I should slap myself silly!  The problem I had was solved by moving
the 4MB simms to the first bank, and putting the remaining 8MB (1MB simms)
to banks B and C.

(Now, if Apple could just be consistant with the "bigger simms first"
arrangement - sheesh)

-Tim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: IZZYEY8@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Howard Cheng)
Subject: Re: Mac IIsi sound problems
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:08:07 PST

In article <1993Jan20.234850.84673@laison.w8hd.org>, on 20 Jan 1993 23:48:50 EDT,
Jonathan_Rochkind@laison.w8hd.org writes:

>IIsi is constructed, that is without much solder.   Some have said the problem
>can be fixed by cleanign the contacts between speaker and board, various
>methods such as using a pencil erraser have been suggested. Others have said
>this is only a temporary fix anyway as the residue will build up again anyway, and

Didn't work for me.  I cleaned off all the gunk from the contacts by
various means (eraser, knife, rubbing alcohol), and the sound still
hasn't returned.

>
>In any event, spiking the power, that is turning the volume up all the way,
>then back to it's previous level should cause the sound to come back. It will
>leave again later, of course.  There is even an FKEY which will automatically
>spike the volume and then turn it back again.
>

No, that didn't work either.

Does anyone know of any other solutions, short of buying external
speakers?  I've gotten some new games recently and I think my game
experience would be much improved by having sound...

howard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: oueichek@gram (Ibaa Oueichek)
Subject: Re: New Macs Supporting 16"ers...hmmm
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:17:41 GMT

cvadsgvo@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu wrote:
: In article <1k4t30INNkgj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:
: > 
: > Its interesting how most of Apple's new Macs have come out (and supposibly
: > will come out) with support for 16" monitors. Just a few months ago word
: > floated around here and in MacWEEK that Apple is trying to push 16"
: > monitors as the 'future' standard. Is it me or is this rapidly occuring?
: > -- 
: 
: i think Apple is pushing but it will not really succeed until the price of 16
: inches drops to around 700 dollars.

 $700 seems to be too low for a 17" monitor. I don't think such a price will be
met soon, not even in a year. The least expensive usable 17" i saw was the SONY
1604S at ~$1000. I don't think there'll be a price drop of %30 in a year, 
despite the increasing demande and the potentially big market.
: 
: 

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