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From: vladimir@Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir Ivanovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: A friend in Africa needs help
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:03:29 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ronnie

A friend in the Ivory Coast has a Mac IIsi with a 105 Quantum which he
bought from M.A.C in Berkeley, CA which is dying: the disk slowly fills up
with bad blocks and is eventually unusable.

He has replaced the motherboard and the drive, and has reformatted the
drive both before and after the replacements.  Things work OK for a few
days perhaps and then start to deteriorate.  MacTools will run under System
7 but reports many bad blocks.  (I seem to remember him saying that it
takes *hours* to complete!)

The problem first started under System 6.0.x and has continued under System
7.0.  (I don't know whether he has System TuneUp 7.???, whatever the
latest is.)

(1) Has anyone seen a problem similar to this before?

(2) Are there any other things to check/replace?  I thought of the SCSI
cable.

(3) What questions should I get answers to to make a more intelligent guess
at the possible problem?

Any help would be MUCH appreciated.  

-- Vladimir

P.S.  You may reply directly to me or post to the net if you think there's
value in others seeing your response.

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                         Disclaimer: I speak for myself.
From: jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Hebrew font
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:14:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Organization: Taligent, Inc.


#1.  Install the System 7.0 Hebrew system somewhere other than over your English
system (e.g., on another hard disk, another partition of your hard disk, or
remove the Finder from your System folder temporarily to "un-bless" it.  Don't
forget to put the Finder back when the Hebrew system has been installed!)

#2.  Boot with your English system.  (You may have to re-bless it.  Do this by
removing the Finder from the Hebrew system, then from the English system, then
put it back in the English system, then put it back in the Hebrew system.  Or
use System Picker--that's the easy way.)

#3.  Drag the following from your Hebrew system folder and drop them onto your
English system folder:

(a)  The Hebrew extension from the Extensions folder
(b)  The Hebrew-specific control panels (there are two or three of them)
(c)  The Hebrew fonts, keyboards, and script from the System folder.

The Finder will install all these in the right places for you.  Reboot.  You
will have an English-Hebrew system.  

This will all become a little easier when System 7.1 with WorldScript is
released.  

Good luck.


----

John H. Jenkins
John_Jenkins@taligent.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: A TECHIE view of Newton (Was:a non-techie view of Newton)
Originator: torrie@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:51:41 GMT

sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:

>In article <Brr8nw.4ru@acsu.buffalo.edu> jmpiazza@acsu.buffalo.edu (Joseph M. Piazza) writes:
>>BUT, imagine linking your Newton over a cellular phone.  Instant
>>mega-database; the power of a desktop machine at your pen tip almost anywhere.
>Imagine the car wreck epidemic as millions attempt to scrawl
>legible handwriting while driving! :-)

  That's why we need voice recognition!  When we get a Newton
with voice recognition and built-in wireless networking (which is
possible by 1994), I'll be in seventh heaven. 

-- 
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From: markham@brtph600.bnr.ca (Andrew Markham P205)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,alt.config
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.apple.newton
Keywords: Newton
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:36:14 GMT
Organization: Bell Northern Research Inc.

In article <XF8coB23w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>byrne@cc.gatech.edu (Michael Byrne) writes:
>> Don't call it "alt" anything--some sites can't get alt groups,
>> and it certainly is a "comp" subject.  How about comp.sys.newton?
>
>All sites *can* get alt groups.  Some *choose* not to do so.  There is an
>important difference.

Only if you're a unix adminstrator ;^)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: vito@well.sf.ca.us (Andris Paul Vitols)
Subject: Re: Is DEC history???
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:23:08 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.211341.2717@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> mccarty@vmser.enet.dec.com () writes:
>
>Hey, we're still alive here in colorado springs!!
>
>(why was this posted in a Mac group???)
>			Bret McCarty
>			Digital Equipment Corp (still)


I work for a software reseller called 800-SOFTWARE.  DEC just acquired us.
My personal perception is that DEC is embarking on the largest restructuring
in the history of the industry -- going from selling proprietary systems
(VAX's) at huge margins to a one stop, hardware, software and services
provider.  The 1.8 billion dollar loss was no surprise.  What's really
exciting is DEC's new Alpha chip...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: johnwl@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: File copy bombs - a new VIRUS ??
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:58:25 GMT

  I have been having a VERY frustrating time during file copies in the last 
few days and wonder if there is a new strain of a desktop-linked virus at   
our site.                                                                   
   
  My machine: IIcx 8/80 with System 7.01 (tuned), INITS include Quickeys
              2.1.2 Directory Assistant II, Behierarchic, AfterDark
              Disinfectant 2.9 INIT and AppSwitcher.

  The scenario is this:                                                     
   
  I erase a floppy disc - its desktop reads 1K in use, 779 free. I then try
to copy a simply 50K PICT file from my hard drive to the floppy. One of two
things then happens;

     (A) file takes about THREE minutes to copy and once there the   
         file is the correct 50K and the desktop is a whopping 92K (!!)

                                   -OR-

     (B) the Finder bombs with an error 41 forcing a complete restart.

  This happens with a variety of files.  I have tried Disinfectant    
then a couple of words that say Translation, then a few patterns of A's and
*'s.  Nothing that looks predictable or virus-like to my .                  
  What could be doing this ?  Could it simply be a hardware problem ? (this
has also begun happening on a friend's Mac Plus so I doubt it !) OR, is
there a NEW virus out there ? I am going nuts trying to figure this out !!      
   
                              thanks for ANY help !            Jack

     ___   ___                                                              
    /_ /| /_ /|            Jack Lawson       |Internet:johnwl@kean.ucs.mun.ca  
    | | | | | |       Psychology Department  |                              
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/___| | | | |/__ /| St. John's, Newfoundland | delightsome without          
|_____|/  |_____|/      CANADA  A1B  3X9     | communication"     Montaigne
From: bprofane@netcom.com (Gert Niewahr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Quicktime on System 6
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:26:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <2e5I03p73aOX00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@pls.amdahl.com writes:
>walker@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Scott Walker) writes:
>
>}I don't know if this is a stupid question, but I was wondering if it was 
>}possible to run Quicktime on a system running 6.0.X?  I think I saw a 
>}reference to this somewhere, but it didn't go into details.
>
>It worked fine for me.  Just drop the QuickTime init in your System Folder
>and restart.  The init is probably available on ftp.apple.com.
>
>--James Preston
>

I've got a strange QuickTime problem.  When I first installed it,
it ran fine, but I didn't have enough memory to spare for an INIT
that's so RAM-thirsty, so I uninstalled it.  Just recently I put
more RAM into my machine so I went back and put QuickTime back into
my System folder.  Now, though, both Simple Player and QuickTime
VCR bomb with an unimplimented trap system error.  I'm running
System 6.0.7 and Finder 6.1.7.  What'd I change that QuickTime is
choking on?  Same error under both solo Finder and Multifinder.
From: mccarty@vmser.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Is DEC history???
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:13:41 GMT
Reply-To: mccarty@vmser.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Hey, we're still alive here in colorado springs!!

(why was this posted in a Mac group???)
			Bret McCarty
			Digital Equipment Corp (still)
From: brandonl@gold.gvg.tek.com (Brandon Lovested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Newton Developers?
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:47:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

As "Jonathon/tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu" pointed out under his posting titled
"Corporate Newton users?", current Newton development (applications) is
being kept in-house.  That may be only temporary, especially in light of 
two facts:

	Companies like Motorola claim to be developing communication
	applications (Cell phone stuff?) for the Newton (MacWeek in the
	last 5-6 weeks or so.)

	Apple stated there would be some development system available that
	will be platform independent, specifically a Mac-based one, and a
	Windows version.  (Also in MacWeek, same time frame.)


I have asked Apple for information of said development system, and have
received only a letter stating they received my letter.  Frankly, I believe
it's because they're probably swamped right now, and such requests are 
pretty low on the ol' priority scale.  Nevertheless, if enough people voice
their desires to have such a development system, I feel Apple will say
something about it, perhaps around that magical mid-October day...


::Brandon G. Lovested                                    Ideas are wonderful::
::Software Engineer                                          until Marketing::
::The Grass Valley Group                                  gets ahold of them::
From: sstai@ocf.berkeley.edu (Samuel S. Tai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7 "map" control panel
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:56:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: planecrash.berkeley.edu


The Map Control Panel sets your Mac's time zone.
This is a somewhat superflous (IMO) variable to control.

To use:
1.  Set the System clock with General Controls or Alarm Clock.
2.  In the Map Control Panel, type the name of the city you
    currently inhabit.
3.  If that city is not recognized, type the name of some
    major city in that time zone.
4.  Hit the "Set" button.

You can replace the B&W default map with the color one in
the Scrapbook.  Just copy the color map & paste it into
the Map window.

Most people never even bother with this Control Panel.  The
only application I've seen to which the time zone was an issue
is AutoClock, which keeps your internal clock on track by
dialing up to an atomic clock in Washington, D.C.  AutoClock
needs to know the time zone to calculate the offset & daylight
savings.

-- 
-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
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sstai@ocf.berkeley.edu | Though it cost you all you have, get understanding.
                       |                                -- Proverbs 4:7 (NIV)
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From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:13:08 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4

And remember who engineered the PB 100 - Sony.  The PB 100 is in many
ways a price reduced (and weight reduced!) Macintosh Portable.  Sony
took the basic design of the portable and did a rev 2.0.  They did
a great job if you ask me.

I would venture to guess that this machine can be produced very cheaply
and will make money for Apple in the "consumer" channel.

--  Michael Peirce      --   peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org
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From: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Compressing fonts?
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:53:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>Is there any way to effectively compress bitmap, TrueType and PostScript Type
>1 fonts, and still have them be accessible as needed?  I'm running AutoDoubler
>on my system (System 7, IIsi), but it doesn't touch anything in the system
>folder.  I have a lot of fonts on the system, and I want to add still more,
>but they take up lots of disk space.

Try this: get suitcase II, and create several different suitcases filled
with various types of fonts.  For example, make a suitcase of business
fonts, fun fonts, fancy fonts, etc.  Autodoubler should compress those.  Then, 
you can only open up whateer suitcase you want depending on what type
of work you have to do.

I haven't tried this, because my mac is too slow to be anything but annoying
under autodoubler or diskdoubler, but in theory (*Ack*) it should work.
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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,alt.config,comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.pen,news.config
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.sys.newton(was RFD: alt.apple.newton)
Date: 24 Jul 92 22:42:20 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In article <ewright.711997965@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
}I disagree.  In the past, Apple never used internal project names
}at product introductions.  The only reason why we know the internal
}names is because they "leaked" out.  I think Newton probably will
}be as much a product name as Macintosh.

	How do you know Macintosh wasn't an internal name?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: X-windows software?
From: ejw1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Eric Weidl)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:57:24 GMT
Reply-To: ejw1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Academic and Public Computing

In article <1992Jul10.143210.10457@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> mf@dancer.uucp (24241-fusco) writes:
>Sorry if this a FAQ or recently discussed (I'm new to the group).
>
>I'm in need of information for X-windows software for the Mac.
>Any suggestions (for and against) will be appreciated!
>(special requirements, etc...???)
>(I will primarily access a Sun).

MacX, available from Apple, or eXodus (?), are X-Window servers for the Mac.

>Thanks,
>Marc

Eric


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      University of Chicago -- Academic and Public Computing
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,alt.config,comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.pen,news.config
From: markham@brtph600.bnr.ca (Andrew Markham P205)
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.sys.newton(was RFD: alt.apple.newton
Organization: Bell Northern Research Inc.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:50:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.193950.14111@husc3.harvard.edu> fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.192824.14109@husc3.harvard.edu> I write:
>>In article <cline.711902753@willow.cs.scarolina.edu> cline@cs.scarolina.edu (Ernest Cline) writes:
>>>alt.sys.newton  would seem to be the best place to put such a group.
>>>
>>>The main reason I am in favor of an alt instead of a comp group is that it
>>>is not certain that Newton will be the final name given to it, in fact it's
>>>probably just an internal project name, much as the Saratoga I'm typing this
>>>on was. 
>>
>>Newton is *not* a code name, it is THE real name.  The first PDA
>>itself may not be named Newton, but Newton is the name of the
>>technology and Newton is the name of the operating system.  And these
>>are the things most people are talking about.
>>
>>I comp.sys.pda is a good start, but every company is going to refer to
>>their products as PDAs as well, or least the users will.  I think
>>comp.sys.newton is the most appropriate since that's the place to talk
>>about the Newton operating system and the various Newton products from
>>Apple, Sharp, Toshiba and (eventually) others.
>
>I also want to point out that Newton is an Apple-owned trademark and
>PDA is not, so I think they're quite serious about calling it Newton
>and I think other companies will use the term PDA for their own.
>
>David Fry                                  fry@math.harvard.EDU
>Division of Applied Sciences               fry@huma1.bitnet
>Harvard University                      ...!harvard!huma1!fry
>Cambridge, MA  02138            

This sounds like a real good reason to start with comp.sys.pda and
later (if demand deems it so) move to comp.sys.pda.general, 
comp.sys.pda.newton, comp.sys.pda.andy (this is the technology I will 
develop if I get the spare time ;^), etc...

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From: bingham@malino.soest.hawaii.edu (Fred Bingham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: System 7 "map" control panel
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:13:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Originator: bingham@malino

Can anyone tell me what is the purpose of the map control panel in
System 7.  Does it connect somehow with the system's clock?
I would also appreciate some instruction on how to use
it.  There is no on-line documentation and there is nothing about it
in the Macintosh users guide.  Thanks in advance for your help.

Fred Bingham (bingham@hokulea.soest.hawaii.edu)
From: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Seeking Digital Font
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:49:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <92210.094253IA8@psuvm.psu.edu>, IA8@psuvm.psu.edu (Alan R. Heyd) writes...
>I'm looking for a font that resembles the numbers (and letters) that are
>generated by most LED or LCD displays.  If there is such a font could some
>kind soul point me in the right direction?

You are looking for a font called LED.  I believe it is available through
mac.archive.umich.edu, or wuarchive.wustl.edu.  There are also several
other similar fonts.  You should probably download font-preview from
sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the /info-mac/font directory.  It shows pictures
of what all fonts available through various sources look like.  Thus, you
can pick out what fonts you like before you spend days downloading.


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From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:02:56 GMT
 <92211.150235ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> <ewright.712431847@convex.convex.com>
 <1992Jul29.184317.13716@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich

In article <1992Jul29.184317.13716@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
baltman@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Brian Altman) says:
>
>In <92211.150235ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
>
>>on a 33MHz 386 (NOT 486 that will  be another factor 2 to 2.5). The results:
>
>>                  Mac IIsi             386
>>Dhrystones/s      5600                17400
>
>Just ran Speedometer 3.06 and got a Dhrystones/s of 3978.779 on *my* IIsi,
>but then again I got an FPU 8).

Is Dhrystone = Dhrystone ? I don`t know. I used the same source and compiled it
on both systems, so I know the programs are equal. BTW I too have a FPU
installed in the Mac !?

Michael Bode.
From: brandonl@gold.gvg.tek.com (Brandon Lovested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: PB 100 and Graphics Apps?
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:37:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

With all of this frenzied talk about PowerBook 100 4/40 with disk drive
for $900, my interest is piqued.  The price point makes it very tempting.

I have one question:

		Has anyone tried to use a drawing application
		(like MacDraw) on a PB-100? 

I don't think I have any illusions about how well these programs will
run on the PB-100....very slowly.  My principle set of interests focus around
idea processing, in which I rely upon word processing and drawing applications.
I was just hoping someone out there could tell me "Yeah, it's slow for 
complicated things, but ok for simple drawings."  (Which I tend to expect)
Or, maybe I'll hear, "Oh, geez, forget it, man.  Bag that idea right now.
No way.  Uh-uh.  Nada.  Nope.  I'm outta here."  


::Brandon G. Lovested					 Ideas are wonderful::
::Software Engineer					     until Marketing::
::The Grass Valley Group				  gets ahold of them::
From: edguer@ces.cwru.edu (Aydin Edguer)
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.apple.newton
Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 18:35:10 GMT

In article <CKD.92Jul22135015@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>Ernest> == Ernest Cline <cline@cs.scarolina.edu> 
> Ernest> There has been a lot of discussion of late about Newton the pen
> Ernest> based PDA that Apple will be introducing soon.
>
>Maybe discussion should be in comp.sys.palmtops or comp.sys.handhelds?

Hey, here is a *novel* concept... how about the already established
comp.sys.pen - interacting with computers through pen gestures.

Aydin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc