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Marcus Bointon <>Sony 1304S problems Info please!
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Anyone out there have a Sony 1304S?

I have one, and it's very nice, however - If I run it in 16" mode, the
picture won't
go very big. I end up with about 1" gap either side, and .5" top &
bottom. I suspect
an internal adjustment would fix this. Anyone tried it?

Another problem is sub-brightness: Areas that are meant to be black  are not very black. The real raster is quite visible when the
screen is blanked.
This is not too severe, but it is just not as good as other Trini screens
I have
used. If I turn the brightness/contrast down so that the raster is not
visible, the
real image virtually disappears!

The raster size is just right if I use 1024*768, but 100dpi+ is a bit too
much!

Oh, and I am using a RasterOps 24XLi card.


Thanks

Marcus Bointon

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 Re: x86 ~= 680x0 ??  
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In article <>   writes:
>I believe it goes or will go:
>680060
>powerPC
>Pentium
>680040
>486
>680030
>386
>680020
>286=680000
>


	I think this kind of comparison is pretty useless in general.  The
processor is only good when a good computer is designed around it adn the
computer is used in its designed purpose.  Comparing processor speed is
pretty dumb because all you have to do is just increase the clock speed
to increase speed among other things.

	I mean how can you say a 040 is faster than a 486 without 
giving is operational conditions?  Can you say the same when 
you are running a program that uses a lot of transidental functions.
Knowing that 040 does not have transidental functions building in to 
its FPU and 486 does, can you say that 040 is still faster?

	Anyway, I hope people do not decided upon wether a computers
is good or not solely on its processor.  Or how fast a processor is
based on its name, because one can alway do a certain things to a
processor to speed it up.  

	But if we restrict our arguements to, for example, pure
processor architectural issues.  Or how one processor will work
well and another will not based on its design, then we can get
somewhere with our discussions.  

- Chung Yang

>In a resent article in one of the macMags I think a 50mHz 030 accelerator was
> slightly slower than a 25mHz 040 accel. But, this is using a system designed
> for the 030. So, It stands to reason that a system designed for an 040 ie
> quadra) would do better. So overall I'd figure 040 = 030 * 2.5 or so.
>    Along the same lines the new POwerPC stuff is supposed to run the system
> at the level of a fast quadra, but system 8 or whatever will allow 3 times the
> speed of a 040 in the powerPC based systems. and wait for the 680060. I think
> it laps the pentium.
>
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 Re: Half-page hand scanners?
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The Logitech ScanMan 32 is a nice unit, compact and effective it will
bring in graphics with surprisingly good quality. Note that its effective
resolution in grey scale mode is only about 72 dpi. If you don't intend
to magnify a graphic, it works fine. A true 256 level gray scanner would
work better for images.

I've seen the ScanMan go for as little as $100 used. It is a reasonable buy
at that price. Higher end hand scanners are almost as expensive as used
flat bed scanners. Here is Seattle, the paper shows occasional good bargains
in the classifieds. Used color flat beds have been seen as lows as $500 lately.
Grey scale flatbeds come in around $300-$350.
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 FOR SALE: Ethernet board / 24 bit Supermac Combo
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Gene's stuff for sale...NEW PRICES!!!

The following items are for sale:

Qty.    Description                                     List    Price
________________________________________________________________________

1       SuperMac ColorLink SX/T 24 bit NuBUS/10BASE-T  750.00  _549.00_
        This card is primo! selling for $675 mailorder
        It suports monitors up to 19 in. with 28" x 28"
        virtual desktop. Accelerated, hardware pan, etc!
        This quick sale price includes free 2nd day air!
        
1       Seagate ST1480 430 meg 3.5 in HD 2 mo. old      989.00   675.00

NOTE:   All hardware is in normal working order. Prices do NOT include
        shipping. All items shipped COD  or pre-paid 

Sold:
1       IIsi NuBUS adapter card with FPU                189.00  _115.00_

For any items please contact:

Gene Naftulyev

or call  942-0134
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updated keyboard question for the plus
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I have an old Mac Plus. A couple of years ago I bought a shiney new lc.
It came with apple's new keyboard . i replaced it with
a mac-pro-plus extended keyboard .
 
well, i have this extra keyboard which i would like to use on the plus
but there's a little problem. the plus uses an rj-11 jack for keyboard
input and the new keyboards don't. i got an extra adb cable from my
local apple dealer , but they couldn't tell
me the order of the wires.
 
there are four wires in the adb cables: black, white, red, tan. I know
one's a ground, one gets the serial signal, one supplies 5 volts, and
i forgot what the fourth one does. anyway, if you hook them up wrong
you'll fry a board and i <really> don't want to do <that>.
 
if any brave souls out there have done this before, please e-mail your
experience directly to me. i would greatly appreciate it especially
since apple's original keyboard is not . . . ergonomically correct.
 
btw, i did take apart my new keyboard to see if i could find the
correlation between the wires for the rj-11 jack and the adb since it
has both, but no such luck . Oh, well . . .
 
one more thing: in case you are thinking that the ABD ports on the
newer models are different from the connection used on the plus---
you're right. however, you can use the telephone cable from the plus
and connect the mac-pro-plus keyboard via its own rj-11 jack. in
other words, this little engineering feat i wish to do *is* possible.
it's merely a matter of finding out the correct order.
 
omt, when i get this to work, i definitely will post the solution
so others can, too. thanx for the input.
 
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 Re: Centris 650 Math CoProcessor option
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 writes:

>Sorry if this is a FAQ.  I don't normally read comp.sys.mac.hardware.
>I am purchasing a couple of Centris 650's.  I configured the systems
>as follows:

>	Eight  Mb RAM
>	Ethernet
>	1 Mb VRAM
>	Math CoProcessor option

>My purchasing agent told me about the math coprocessor option and sent
>me the Apple summary documentation to prove it.  I ordered the coprocessor
>option, but I'm really not sure that we needed it.  I thought the '040 chip
>had a math coprocessor built into it.  Has Apple had a math coprocessor chip
>architectured to keep up with the speed of the '040 chip in the Centris 650?
>I am concerned that I may have set up a hardware bottleneck.

    Apple has really confused people with this whole thing. I think
we'll be answering this question for about the next year or so. There is
no "option" to get an FPU on a C650. What you have is a choice of CPUs:
there is the 68LC040 that does not have an integrated FPU like the full
'040 and is only present in the base 4/80 model of the C650 .
And there is the full '040 which you get when you order anything other
than the base 4/80 configuration. Therefore, since you have ordered one
of the 8MB versions with on-board Ethernet models you will not be
getting the LC040. But even if you wanted to have the LC040 you wouldn't
be able to order a C650 with 8MB RAM, on-board Ethernet and an LC040.
It's not an "option."
    Also, a note to people out there that have 4/80 C650s and C610s
thinking that there is an optional FPU, the '040 class chip cannot
recognize an external FPU, so there is no socket on the motherboard for
a FPU chip and you cannot go out and purchase an FPU on a PDS card or
something like that. The only way to get an FPU in these machines is to
replace the LC040 with a full '040. And if you have a C610, you will not
need to worry about a heat sink if you do replace the LC040 with the
full '040, but if you have a 4/80 C650 you do need to have a heat sink.

-Hades
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 Re: Syquest 150 ???
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In article <>   writes:
>I remember someone mention about a 150meg syquest.  Has anyone else
>heard anything about this?  I'd be interested in the cost per megabyte and the
>approximate cost of the drive itself and how they compare to the Bernoulli 150.

I think you must be talking about the Syquest 105 .
It is a 3.5" Winchester technology drive pretty much like the other Syquest
drives in terms of how it works. According to the latest MacLeak, the 
drive has a 14.5 ms access time, 1.9 MB/s sustained throughput . The drive was originally released for the PC
and just recently was released for the Mac world  and through they are currently in limited supply, according
to a Syquest rep. they are in the process of ramping up for mass production.
I have already seen them advertised by a number of manufacturers in MacLeak
including PLI, MassMicro, ClubMac, and MacWarehouse's PowerUser. The PLI
and MassMicro units are priced at just around $1000; the lesser name brands
are going for around $750 for an external drive. Cartridges which hold 
105 MB sell for about $80 each. At these prices, the drives and cartridges
are cheaper and better performing than the 88MB drives.
Cost per megabyte compares favorably with other cartridge drives and Bernoulli
drives, but for large amounts of data optical is still cheaper, and more
reliable.  Personally, I'm excited by the new drive and look forward to 
getting my hands on one.
-Chris Wand

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 wrong RAM in Duo?
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A few posts back, somebody mentioned that the Duo might crash if it has
the wrong kind  of RAM in it.  My Duo crashes
sometimes after sleep, and I am wondering if there is any software which
will tell me whether or not I have the right kind of RAM installed.  I
had thought that the problem was the battery connection.

Thanks in Advance,

Archon Fung
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 Re: My IIcx won't turn on...
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In article <>,   wrote:
> 
> Anyone know what would cause my IIcx to not turn on when I hit the keyboard
> switch?  The one in the back of the machine doesn't work either...
> The only way I can turn it on is to unplug the machine for a few minutes,
> then plug it back in and hit the power switch in the back immediately...
> Sometimes this doesn't even work for a long time...

TJ
This problem is most likely the same that all cx users are experiencing....
Thanks to one very adventurous USENET reader  it is easily fixed, if it is the same problem......


Best I can figure it is due to time, heat and repeated warmup/cool downs in
the power supply....i.e., bad solder joints in the power supply circuit
card.  Go get a desolder tool from radio shack, a low wattage iron and some
good nonacid solder and resolder the lower left quadrant of the circuit
card with the AC plugs facing away from you..........or get someone to do
it for you.  It took me less then 10 minutes and saved me at least $300 for
a new supply!
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 Re: SIMM vs DRAM
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  writes:
>Can anyone tell me what the difference is between a 256K DRAM chip and a
>256K SIMM? I need the former  to add memory to my Laserwriter
>LS. Someone is offering to sell me 256K SIMMS he removed from an SE, but
>I have a feeling this may not be the correct form of memory. The sockets
>in the Laserwriter look like they want the spidery-shaped chips .
>Believe it or not, I've never actually seen a SIMM. Help appreciated.
A SIMM is a small PCB with DRAM chips soldered on.

--maarten
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 RE: Price drop on C650 within 2 months?
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Received-Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 16: 32:52 CDT


Nathaniel Sammons writes:

>I am going to be getting a C650 soon, but I don;t want Apple
>to come out with the Cyclones and the Tempest in a month
>and have the price drop on the system I want.  I have negotiated a
>good deal with a supplier for a C650 8/80 and I would like to jump on it,
>but, again, I don't want the price drop to smuther me.  BTW, the deal
>I have is a C650 8/80 with mouse for $2295... does anyone know of a better
>deal?

I don't know how to say it best but you are gaurenteed that the
price of the C650 is going to drop this year.  This week's MacWeek
reports that Apple is probably planning a drop in August.  My guess
is that it may come sooner if Apple decides to  change the price
structure upon release of the multimedia units this summer.

Your price looks pretty good at about $50 more then I payed for
mine last month.  I would have rather waited for one of the new
machines this sommer  but the resale value of my
IIci would have not been squat by then.  Thus, financing forced me
to purchase now.  I'm happy with the machine and won't feel
betrayed at all when Apple cuts the price to less then $1000 next
week .

Bottome line:  If the C650 does what you want, buy it.  If you wait
until the Cylcones come out for a price break then you might as
well wait for the PowerPCs to come out for another price break and
then the units which follow them.  You may save some money but
you've lost a lot of time when you could have been using the
computer.  Face it, Apple's prices are going to be in a continuous
state of flux.  At least they aren't going to try raising them
again .

-John
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 how to boot from ext HD on power on ?
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I have an external hard drive I wish to use as startup disk.
problem is, when I switch on the mac, it boots on the internal HD,
but when I restart   the mac, it boots from the external.
how do I make  it boot directly from the external ?

please email replies if possible.

thanks in advance.

jerry
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Chris Roberts <>Re: Floptical Question
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In article <> Billy Lee Myers,
 writes:
>Floptical is, of course a different technology, and doesn't enjoy the
long
>term data storage of opticals.  And the last time I looked, floptical
disk
>weren't all that cheap, .


I don't know how many times I've posted this the net.  No one EVER
listens.  

Once and for all:  Floptical Media is only $1.40 a megabyte if you don't
know where to buy it.  I am bying my flopticals at $30 per 2 disks.  I
see that as $.75 a meagabyte, NOT $1.40.  No, I'm not buying in bulk, I'm
not getting a special deal.  $.75 a meg is good in my book, Approching
floppy price.

Any questions on my source can be sent to 


    Chris
Chris Roberts: Here we go again...
                               
      
Well, at least you know where to find me now..  Logged in a terminal,
checking my mail..
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 Re: Quadras VRAM Question
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Daniel Salber <> writes:

>I have a question regarding Quadras VRAM. I have tried to find info on this
>but I could not get precise answers.

>On one hand, we have a Quadra 950 with a 16" monitor, which is capable of
>32-bit color. How much VRAM does it have?

    To display Millions of colors on a 16" monitor you need 2MB of VRAM
in the Q950.

>On the other hand, we have a Quadra 800 with a 16" monitor, which is capable
>of 8-bit color only, so it must have 512 Ko of VRAM.

    Correct. This is the amount of on-board VRAM that the Q800 comes
with.

>I would like to take VRAM SIMMs for the 950 and put them in the 800 so that
>both machines have 16-bit color capability.
>Is it possible, and if yes, how many VRAM SIMMs should I take from the 950?

    Yes this is possible. Technically, you only need to take out 2 of
the VRAM SIMMs but leaving in the other two will not get you anything
because the 950 cannot really do anything with 1.5MB of VRAM. It only
knows 1MB and 2MB.

>From the documentation I have, the Quadra 800 must get 1 Mo VRAM to have
>16-bit color, is that correct?

    Yes, this is correct. You get to 1MB by putting 2 256k VRAM SIMMs
into the VRAM SIMM slots on the Q800's motherboard.

>Bonus question: where do VRAM SIMMs hide? From the 950 documentation, they
>seem to be *behind* the power supply. Do I really have to take off the power
>supply to access the VRAM SIMMs?

    Yup. You have to take off the power supply. It's only a couple of
screws so you should be ok. Just make sure that everything is
disconnected from it and watch out for static discharges.
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 I want use DeskJet on System7
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I used HP DeskJet with Orange Micros Grappler LS on System6.0.5.

But now I update system 6.0.5 to System7 with Kanji-Talk 7.1,
then I can not print by my DeskJet.

Is the Grappler LS old ?
Can I use DeskJet on System7 ?

Please tell me how to use DeskJet on System7.

Thank you

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 re: mac portable vs. powerbook 100 answers 
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Can the internal hard drive of the MacPortable upgraded to larger capacity? What is the specs? A 3-1/2" drive? LPS model?

Is there any third party modem greater than 2400 bps? With FAX option?

P.S. I notice the MacPortable batteries are avalable thru the Apple Catalog.
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 Half-page hand scanners?
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Is anyone out there using a greyscale handscanner. I'm thinking about
buying one. Is the inexpensive Logitech pretty good. I don't need
super high quality scans- but want it to be worth the $$$$.

Thanks in advance-
Mike Charles
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 Re: Quadra SCSI Problems???
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In article <>, 
 wrote:
> 
> In article <>,   writes:
> |> In article <>   writes:
> |> >I don't know about the specific problem mentioned in your
> |> >message, but I definitely had SCSI problems between my
> |> >Q700 and my venerable Jasmine Megadrive 10 cartridge
stuff deleted
> |> 
> |> I doubt this is a Quadra-specific problem.  I had to get
> |> rid of my "venerable" Bernoulli 20 last year (with enough 
stuff deleted
> |> might fix the problem - in my case the cartridges wouldn't 
> |> format/mount/partition for A/UX.  
> 
> All I know is that the Megadrives worked perfectly on both my
> Mac Plus and my Powerbook 140.  It was for this reason I assumed
> the problem had something to do with the Quadra.  Even with the
> Quadra, they mostly worked OK.  The problem occurred when I ejected
> a cartridge from a drive: it would start popping up dialog boxes
> saying "This cartridge must be formatted with Jasmine Driveware"
> even though there was no cartridge in the drive.
> 
> 	--Mark

The problem mentioned last is a known Quadra SCSI problem, it was heavily
discussed last year and an Apple employee pointed out that there was a
one byte error in the SCSI driver routine for the Quadra's .  System 7.1 should not have that problem, for most people the 
solution was to get an updated driver from the drive manufactor.  In my
case MASS Microsystems wrote a new driver which fixed the problem on my
Quadra
700, all that occured early last year.

Michael S. Kluskens

Opinions expressed are the author's and not those of his employer.
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Andrew Zelenetz <>Centris 610 Video Problem-HELP
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We have recently obtained a Centris 610 and it has developed an unusual
video problem. 

Model:	610 with 8 MB/230 HD, 512K VRAM, no cards
Monitor:	Apple 16"

When the computer is set for 256 colors and certain operations are done,
particularly vertical scrolling through a window, horizontal white lines
appear on the monitor .  These lines accummulate as the operation is continued.  If a
window is moved over the involved area of the screen and then moved away
the line disappear from that area of the screen.  This problem is not
observed if the monitor is configured for 16 colors or a 14 inch Apple
monitor with 256 colors is used. 

I suspect a bad video RAM chip but cannot be certain.  The problem has
been apparent since day 1 but has gotten worse.

We were wondering if anyone has seen anything like this, and if so, how
to fix it.  Please also respond to   Thank you
for your help.

Andrew Zelenetz
Molecular Biology Program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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 ftp site for Radius software???
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon

Hey All,

Does anyone know if I can ftp to get the newest version of Radiusware
and soft pivot from Radius?  I bought a pivot monitor, but it has an
old version of this software and won't work on my C650, and Radius said
it would be 4-5 weeks until delivery.

Thanks!

-Chuck