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From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Subject: Re: Sony digital output and NeXT DSP
Organization: L5 Computing
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:07:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.074202.17403@news.acns.nwu.edu> jland@nwu.edu (John  
Landwehr) writes:
|> 
|> 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?
I got my MZ-1 Dec 23. I've spent zmas/newyrs playing around with it.

1. This is a _very_ first generation Sony device. Several obvious things
are missing (it doesn't even have a backlight button!)

2. It's max recording time is 74minutes (if you can get those discs, otherwise
it's 60 minutes.) This is generally a little short for alot of live recording.

3. The battery is undersized. You get 60 minutes of portable recording with a
brand new battery.

4. The unit uses ATRAC compression. What goes in is _not_ what comes out, even
if a digital copy is made. It is currently impossible to make true "digital"
copies using a minidisc (the effect is much like de-JPEGing a picture and then
re-JPEGing it and then un-JPEGing it again, you don't get what you started
with.)

5. The ATRAC does cause distortion of the music. I've made recordings that had
a sound in them that I'm calling "buried static." I've never heard it before
and I find it kinda scary to think that at any time the MD can screw up a
recording in this fashion.

6. My local dealer dtill hasn't gotten any of the optical link cables. Fiber
optic is currently the only digital linkage option.

7. Operator controls for setting record level and balance for live recordings
are primitve at best. The VU meter is a sum of L and R channels and is crudely
labeled.

A Sony D3 portable DAT costs less and: Runs for 2 hours on it's battery, Can
record 2 to 4 hours on a DAT, has all the expected controls, and comes with
the fiber optic interface cables out-of-the-box, when digitially copying
material what you put in is what you get out. The D3 is also more compact
and you can charge it's battery while using it (with the MD you get your
choice charge battery or use it.) A 2 hour DAT costs $9 a 60 minute MD goes
for $15 locally (ie list price.)

The D3 has a docking bay they provides for remote control. This would allow
the NeXT to run the D3 for you. The MD has no provisions for remote control.

And lastly, my sound field processor doesn't like the output from my MD. Rather
than bringing recordings to life they turn dull, rather dead sounding. I've
found that my sound field processor to be a pretty good critic of recording
quality. The exact same recording played from DAT sounds rich and vibrant,
that same DAT transfered to MD sounds dull and lifeless until the sound
field processor is turned off. If you want _all_ the music you need a DAT
not an MD.

Scotty
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From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Subject: Summary Re: >>>HELP<<< PLEASE: Fujitsu hard disk problems
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 16:32:43 EST
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reply-To: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu
Distribution: usa

>This is a general problem with this disk!!! It happens when it gets too  
hot  
>inside a slab. Last year I had a total data loss due to this problem.
>
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Thanks for the answer. My disk (as I said in the original post)
is in an external box (The original that came with it). I included
this answer because it was the only one sure of the problem and had
previous experience with it. Other answers included:

1) Check jumper settings
2) Bad or loose cable , terminator etc.
3) The disk is dying. Exercise your warranty
4) Voltage sensor deciding it does not have enough power to spin.
and this one:
5) Disk is getting hot. Fujitsu's have this problem. It happend to me.

I placed the disk away from my slab and I'll wait and see. The problem
did not re-occur yet since the original post about a week ago. (Fingers
crossed)
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From: erich@alamo.mth.pdx.edu (Erich S. Boleyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Adding CD-ROM to Mono 'Station
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:04:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: alamo.erich.726311073


   Hi out there...  I have a Mono 'Station that I'm looking to put a
CD-ROM onto (I'm also adding RAM and a big hard disk, but that's
pretty well-understood by now...  though certainly still appreciated in
some camps ;-).  The CD-ROM is in preparation of a 3.0 upgrade (3.1?)
at some point in the near future, so I hope 2.1 and 3.0 supports the
same CD-ROM drives.

   I guess what I'm after is information on what CD-ROMs will work OK
and which won't.  I'm not looking for a miracle list of some sort...
just some e-mail of success stories (and horror stories, although
these are somewhat less interesting).  Needless to say, if I get
a whiff of more than one or two pieces of useful info, I'll post a
summary.  No point otherwise.

   Actually, a miracle list would be pretty nice...

   Erich

P.S.:   On second thought...  I had heard somewhere that the NeXT SCSI-II
        was not a true SCSI-II...  what gives?  The drive I am looking
        at right now is a 1.7GB Panther Maxtor, which is SCSI-II...  and
        it would be nice to use it that way.

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From: kohno@medicine.ics.kula.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Fujimasa Kohno)
Subject: Re: Instructions on modifying CPU board for multi-CPU NeXTcube
Organization: Dept. of Information Science, Kyoto University, JAPAN
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 09:36:44 GMT

In article <C0DLrJ.21E@sounds.wa.com> BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian  
Willoughby) writes:
> Brian Willoughby writes
> | Brian Willoughby writes
> | | 
> | | 	Does anyone have a copy of this posting that they could e-mail to  
me?   
> | 
> | Got it, thanks!
> 
> Well, so many other folks (at least eleven) e-mailed me who also wanted  
these  
> instructions that I decided to submit Felix A. Lugo's articles to the  
Archives.
> 
> If anyone else is thinking of asking me to e-mail them a copy of the  
multi-CPU  
> back-plane modification, take a look on Sonata.cc.Purdue.EDU and  
cs.OrSt.EDU in  
> the pub/next/submissions directory for the file Dual_CPU_Back-plane.Z

Thanks. I'll check sonata.cc.purdue.edu.
-Fujimasa-
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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Subject: Re: PPP from Morningstar?
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:12:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.233141.591@almserv.uucp> rmcghee@fnma.com(Rich McGhee) writes:
   I think Morningstar supports SLIP and PP for the NeXT.  What is
   their number or e-mail address?

Morning Star Technologies
1760 Zollinger Rd
Columbus OH USA 43221
+1 614 451 1883	(voice)
+1 800 558 7827 (voice)
+1 614 459 5054 (FAX)
marketing@morningstar.com (e-mail)
ftp.morningstar.com:pub/ppp/* (anon-FTP)
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1760 Zollinger Rd, Columbus Ohio USA, 43221           +1 800 558 7827
bob@MorningStar.Com                                   +1 614 459 5054 (FAX)
From: John_Graves@next.com (John Graves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXTstation Color simms
Keywords: next computer RAM
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:56:57 GMT
Reply-To: John_Graves@next.com

In article <UfAX2w=0Bwwb44VzID@transarc.com> Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com writes:
> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> > 32 MB is the limit of the first color stations.
> 
> I've heard this stated before, but I've also heard that it's merely a
> form factor problem: the slots are too close together for 8MB SIMMS
> to fit in them.
> 

The original NeXTSTATION and NeXTSTATION Color computers are limited to 32 MB.   
The cannot address any more RAM.  That was all we designed them for and 4  
megabit DRAMs were the maximum density available at the time.  (32 MB used to  
be considered a lot of RAM.)

Turbo computers can address up to 128 MB.

--

John Graves
Hardware Engineering
NeXT Computer, Inc
From: jimb@access.digex.com (Jim Brooking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Advice on Seagate Drive
Date: 12 Jan 1993 18:13:41 GMT
Organization: National Commitee to Keep Slower Traffic Right
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com


Does anyone have anything to say, pro or con, about
the Seagate model ST42400N drive?  We're thinking
about buying one for external use on a server cube.

Thanks!
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Merry Land (MD) U.S.A. | (Bike) 1986 GSXR750    (sold)   |     ClarksBURG
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From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem info request
Date: 5 Jan 93 00:51:54 GMT
Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

In article <1992Dec30.063726.4269@netcom.com> death@netcom.com (David Burrowes)  
writes:
>>I'm looking at buying one of these relatively inexpensive 14400 fax/V.32[bis]
>>modems that I've seen advertised.  The one called the supra fax modem has 
>>generally looked like a good deal.
>>I wondered if anyone could offer any commentary (e.g. experience with
>>this supra fax modem) to let me know whether this is actually as good
>>a deal as it sounds (about $300 for the 14.4 fax and V.32 data).
>>I'm also sure much of this has appeared in the past on this group.  So, if
>>someone could let me know where to find archives, I'll turn my attention
>>there as well.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>\david john burrowes

Get a Zyxel/NXFax combo.  It just works.
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Advanced Micro Devices	[self dream-on];
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
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From: jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Patrick Stein)
Subject: Re: IBM 1Gig Disks - Don't! -> they do !
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:11:26 GMT

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


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From: flog@open.ch (Florian Gutzwiller)
Subject: IBM 1Gig Disks - Don't!
Reply-To: Florian.Gutzwiller@open.ch
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:32:15 GMT

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.

jfyi

-Florian
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From: steves@truevision.com (Steve Spicklemire)
Subject: SupraFax modem
Summary: Can someone who has one of these worlking tell me how?
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:10:21 GMT
Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Keywords: supra fax

Hi,
	I'm trying to use a SupraFax modem to work on may station. So
far I haven't even gotten it to send data reliably with another Supra
on a Mac. If you have one of these working could you e-mail me with
some notion of what you had to do to get it up and running (I don't care
about the Fax part... at the moment)?

thanks!
-steve

(send e-mail to steve@estel.uindy.edu  thanks!)

-- 
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steves@truevision.com (daily)	spicklemire@gandlf.uindy.edu (NeXTmail!)
Dept. of Mathematics and Physics, Univ of Indianapolis 
(317) 788-3313
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From: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang)
Subject: Black CD-ROM  caddy
Reply-To: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:59:29 GMT

Hi,

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

Gary

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+----------------+   
Northwestern Univ.      E-Mail: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:44:34 EST
From: <HARRAPR@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject:    NeXT Color Printer Cartridges.

I heard through a marketdroid at Canon that some US companies are selling
refilling kits for the NeXT Color Printer and the equivelent Canon machine
(the BJC-800). Has anyone heard of who this might be, or have suggestions
on who I could call.

Yes, this will void the warranty on the printer, but that's about to expire
on my Canon anyway......

Please respond by email and I'll summarize if I get anywhere.

Rob Harrap
Dept. Geological Sciences
Queen's University
Kingston, Ont.
Canada
harrapr@qucdn.queensu.ca
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From: ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de (Andreas Ploeger)
Subject: Re: IEEE Port ?
Reply-To: ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de
Organization: Andreas Ploeger
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 01:39:45 GMT

In article <Bzzzqw.18E@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried  
Mayer-Kress) writes:
> Does anyone know if I can use an IEEE-488  8 bit bus parallel
> transfer standard on the NeXT?
> Thanks,
> 
There is one SCSI/IEEE converter especially for NeXT made by IOtech. Another  
one is made by National Instruments which is cheaper ans seems tom be more  
sophisticated. However, they don't offer any NeXT software.

Andreas
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From: rebel@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Edward Piou)
Subject: Need recommendations on hardware for backups
Organization: Edarchy First!
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:33:21 GMT

	Hi. I am looking for recommendations on a good DAT tape drive
or other backup system with which to make backups of a NeXT network. We
have 4 stations, and are approaching 1 gigabyte of disk space.

	Something compatible with IBM PCs would be desirable, but not
necessary.

	Please respond by email, and I will post a summary of responses
in a week or two. Email to piou@page1.com or the address below.

			thanx
			ep

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numbered. My life is my own - you won't hold me. This policy may be
changed in return for monetary or sexual favors, though." (The PrisonEd)
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From: lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
Subject: Blurring MegaPixel Display
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 23:10:18 GMT

My monochromatic MegaPixel display is beginning to show significant 
'fuzziness' around the outer edges of the display. The interesting part 
that if I have a screen saver running (the 'space' view in BackSpace),
as soon as I interrupt the screen saver the image is razor sharp. However,
as time passes (a minute or so) the image begins to blur. This fuzziness 
is aggravated with increased brightness.

My monitor has a serial number that indicates it was part of the lot which
had dimming problems. However, I've never had a problem with dimming.

Any suggestions? Does anyone think focusing might help? But won't focusing
cause the initial display, just after exiting the screen saver, to become
blurred?

Michael McCulloch
Huntsville, AL
From: lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Toshiba MK-538FB, any experience?
Date: 11 Jan 93 06:09:06 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Well, in my search for a reliable, inexpensive, easy
to use hard drive, I've come across several glowing
recommendations for the Toshiba MK-538FB, which is
a 3.5" hard drive that's extremely fast, seems to
be very reliable, and *formats* to 1.2GB.  All for
the price of ~$1400 by mail.  
So, my natural question is, has anyone here had any
experiences setting one of these up to run on a
NeXT?  Is it plug and play?  Does it require hacking
to get NeXTStep to recognize it?  (2.2 or 3.0?)  My
information source uses it on a 486-50 and is totally
satisfied with its performance.
Anyone who wants more info on how to get the product
can e-mail me.
Any comments on whether this device runs with a NeXT
and how much work it takes to set up will be appreciated.
Thank you!

-Lily Liou
lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu

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From: climpach@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Christian Limpach)
Subject: where can I buy NeXT ???
Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:21:03 GMT

Hi,

can someone please send me some places where I can buy a NeXT colorstation for
a goof price. Anywhere is fine, as long as it is not too expensive...

Please reply by netmail, as I don't read this group...

   christian

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From: kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane)
Subject: Re: >>>HELP<<< PLEASE: Fujitsu hard disk problems
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:15:02 GMT

Wassim M. Jabi (wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu) wrote:
: Hi:
: I've been experiencing some trouble with my Fujitsu 520MB
: external.  It happens once or twice a week. I would hear the disk
: go "click, click" and then the console window will have these messages
: scrolling by. Many times an alert window would come up telling me
: to save documents before logging out. Any idea what is going on?
: 
: Messages:
: ------ cut here -----------------------------
: Target 0: HARDWARE ERROR; block 0H retry 1
: Target 0: NOT READY; retry 1
: Target 0: NOT READY; retry 2
:              .
:              .
:              .
: Target 0: NOT READY; retry 19
: sd0 (0,0): sense key:0x2  additional sense code: 0x4
:     SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
: IO error on pagein: error = 5.
: Dec 30 15:00:18 Workspace: Controller exited.
: ------ cut here -----------------------------
: HELP!!!!!!

	Well, as I can testify... that's not good news. My
	HD was DOA. It was a M2624F rev 0304 and it was just going
	click click ... no stop.

	Nothing worked! Fujistu techie said that it was the drive
	was unable to read it's own specification area! Yikes!

	Now I have another one, a rev 0404 that arrive a week ago.
	This one requires absulutelly no jumper modifications, as
	it talks lingua franca SCSI either way. Nice improovment.

	Personally, I'm looking for the sense on a 1024 Byte
	formated one... anybody ?

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| Stephane I. Matis               |  /   \_BATLLETECH  /\__\ Viva NeXT! 
| E-Mail : kgnome@cs.concordia.ca |  \___/   \___/     \/__/ NeXTSTEP 3.0!
| "It Just Works..." - Steve Jobs |      \___/   
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From: heller@heller.slip.uiuc.edu (Helmut Heller)
Subject: Re: Toshiba MK-538FB, any experience?
Reply-To: heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:04:05 GMT

In article <43311@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou ) writes:
> Toshiba MK-538FB
> Any comments on whether this device runs with a NeXT
> and how much work it takes to set up will be appreciated.

I have this drive as an external SCSI drive on my NeXTstation Turbo and it  
was plug and play! No problem at all and it works just great!

Here is how much memory you get if you format it as a NeXT drive:
/dev/sd1a            1175379  342694  715147    32%    /albino

I am all for it, no minuses!

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FAX:   (217)244-6078                      ZEN, one of BLAKES7                
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From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: Advice on Seagate Drive
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:57:48 GMT

In article <1iv1olINNcse@mirror.digex.com> jimb@access.digex.com (Jim  
Brooking) writes:
> 
> Does anyone have anything to say, pro or con, about
> the Seagate model ST42400N drive?  We're thinking
> about buying one for external use on a server cube.

If that's the 1.2 GB model, we had to return one or two due to
either noise problems of media failure.  Our units were
internal units in NeXTcubes, and frankly we suspect that
inadequate ventilation might have been a contributing
factor to the problems, since several Maxtor 1.2 GB
drives have also acted up inside cubes. 

Perhaps it's time for someone to market a second fan for
cubes that would blow filtered air though a replacement
back panel with holes or something... 

--
Nathan Janette
PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu

Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)

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From: u8021804@cc.nctu.edu.tw ()
Subject: Re: Toshiba MK-538FB, any experience?
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:48:58 GMT

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