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I have a Radius Precision Color 24x video card for the Mac that fits in a  NuBus slot.  The card has 3 Mb of VRAM on it, which means that 24-bit color  is possible on the card!  The card supports just about any monitor scan rate you can think of (I used it at 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768, but it can go higher).  You can switch resolutions and depth on the fly with a software control panel.    This is the ACCELERATED version of the card, which means all QuickDraw  calls are not executed by the CPU but taken over by the video card, freeing up the mac processor for other tasks.     The cheapest I could find this card for when I called around last night was $1738 at Mac's Place.  I will sell it for $1250 + shipping.  It is just over a year old and never been any problem.  It comes with software and the original manuals.    Hurry!
I bought a StyleWriter II a couple months ago, and lately, when I print something, I notice white lines or "gaps" running through the line being printed.  It's almost like the paper is advancing a smidge too far when advancing lines.    I replaced the ink cartridge thinking it might be the problem, but the lines are still there.  Has anyone else noticed this problem?  What's the best way to get rid of it?
HELLO, New to this area so.... I have read about some upgrades for the LC II, Doing some modification to make the thing run faster! Is the Performa 400 about the same as an lc and if so would the homemade speed upgrade work?? Thanks Brad
I'm getting a sad Mac icon on a black screen with the error code 0300FF. Could someone please tell me what's wrong?  Memory?   Thanks a lot. I'd appreciate it infinitely...
Several weeks ago, I described a problem with my Apple High-Resolution monitor and promised to summarize replies received by e-mail. To recapitulate: Occasionally, every two or three hours or so, my monitor momentarily loses sync. The entire raster image bounces down about an eighth of an inch or so, then rights itself. This usually happens right after I close a large window, highlight a large area, or do something that radically alters the image on the screen. Sometimes, though, it happens with no provocation whatsoever.  I have received a bewildering range of replies. At one extreme was a man, clearly quite knowledgable about monitors, who said that the problem was that the 13" monitor's power supply simply couldn't always keep up with sudden changes of the raster image; the rapid change from a largely light screen to a largely dark one overtaxed the monitor's power supply. There was no fix available, he said, because nothing was really wrong. (I guess he meant that the flaw was so fundamental that it had to be endured.)  This seemed quite persuasive and I would have been tempted to adopt an attitude of stoicism, except for a reply from a 13" monitor owner who discovered that this very problem is documented in the  Apple Service Technical Procedures, Volume 3, under the heading Jitter Correction. The section describes a fix involving the replacement of a capacitor, the adjustment of a potentiometer, or, failing that, the swap of a circuit board.
> I have a (very old) Mac 512k and a Mac Plus, both of which  > have the same problem. > Their screens blank out, sometimes after a minor physical jolt > (such as inserting a floppy in the internal drive), sometimes  > all by themselves (computer left to itself just goes blank). >  > I have replaced the wires connecting the logic boards and the  > video board, because it seemed at first that jiggling the wires > made the screen come back on.  This worked for a while, but the > blanking out has returned. >  > Can I do anything?  Do I need a new power supply?  A new CRT? > A new computer?  I had the same problem with my 512 a long time ago.  Resoldering the joints on the motherboard (all of them) fixed it.  Turns out that continuous heating and cooling caused annular (ring-shaped) cracks to develop in the solder, effectively cutting the video circuitry off.  If you're not a solder-jockey you might want to have someone else do it -- I took mine to an electrical engineer buddy -- but it was a 20-minute job, tops.  -Kelley- --  ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Kelley Boylan, PowerPC, IBM Austin, kelleyb@austin.ibm.com
Hi- Do any of you hardware gurus out there know what kind of memory architecture   Apple uses in the powerbook Duos?  Or in the powerbook in general?  What are the factors that make the Duo 210 so slow compared to a desktop   machine running the same processor at the same speed (25MHz 68030)?  How many   wait states are in the memory system, etc?  What kind of a data bus does it   use?  32-bit or 16-bit?    It's still slow when plugged into a DuoDock.  Anyone know in general what kind of shortcuts notebook manufacturers take when   making notebooks?  I heard of a 486DX2/66 notebook getting a "whopping" 10   MIPS rating.  A similar desktop machine should be getting about 3 times that,   I guess.
In article <1993Apr18.163339.380506@bmug.org> David_A._Schnider@bmug.org writes: >The real question here in my opinion is what Motorola processors running system >7 on a MAC are comparable to what Intel processors running Windows on a PC?  I >recall there being a conversation here that a 486/25 running Windows benchmarks >at about the same speed as 25Mhz 030 in system 7.  I don't know if that is >true, but I would love to hear if anyone has any technical data on this. > >-David
In article <1qk2rjINN503@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes: >There's this old SE here. It's got the older-style fans that remind >me of a house-ventilator. A cylindrical drum instead of the bladed rotor >I usually see. Anyway, the SE makes this loud buzzing noise due >to vibration somewheres. If I remove the screws and loosen the front >from the back, it quiets down. I can only assume that the fan housing >from this goofy thing is touching the back of the case and vibrating >against it.  > >Anyway, any suggestions for where to get replacement fans and how to >"stealth" this guy? Your experiences welcome..... > >--  >"If everything had gone as planned, everything would have been perfect." >	-BATF spokesperson on CNN 3/2/93, regarding failed raid attempt in TX.   When I owned an SE, I replaced the fan with SE Silencer, available, I believe, from MacWarehouse or MacConnection.  It comes with instruction for installation and requires no soldering.  Worked like a charm.  I think the manufacturer is Mobius.  __Dave
On a related note, will the 1304 work on a Centris 650 with internal video and give the multiple resolutions?  This I'm VERY curious about...  Thanks!
ns111310@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Nathaniel Sammons) writes:  >Alas, this is a funny system, it SOUNDS like a good deal, but this is a  >Centris 650, 4MB (on the motherboard) 4MB SIMM, 80MB HD, NO ETHERNET >and NO COPROCESSOR (well, actually it's a 68LC040 instead of a 68RC040, >'just had to say that to keep people from saying "there is no such thing >as an '040 without a coprocessor, since the FPU is built into the chip")
Has anyone ever hooked a Hayes 2400 Macintosh modem up to the serial port on a PC?  What are the pin outs to do this?  I have a mac printer cable to hook a DB 25 to the Mac serial port.  Can I hook the two Mini-8 ports together? Do I have to swap pins?  Thanx in advance.
would there be any problems with hooking up a Toshiba 3401 external CD-ROM drive to a 700?   Ron
The problem is this: After starting up my machine it gives a high pitched sound once at the desktop also it only does it when the mouse is up or a menu is not showing.  as if I click the mouse the noise goes away for the amount of time the mouse is down. also this problem only happens for about 5-10 minutes.
In article <1qmgjk$ao5@menudo.uh.edu> , sunnyt@coding.bchs.uh.edu writes: > 	Its not a good idea to have a horizontally formatted hard disk in a   > vertical position.  If the drive is formatted in a horizontal position, it can   > not completely compensate for the gravitational pull in a vertical position.    > I'm not saying that your hard disk will fail tomorrow or 6 months from now, but   > why take that chance?  If you want more detailed info on the problem, please   > mail me at:===> sunnyt@dna.bchs.uh.edu <===.   >   Sunny,  I asked this question a while ago while contemplating placing my 650 on  it's side.  I received a response from someone at Seagate (Sorry I  trashed the message) stating that most newer drives (Seagates at the  least) can very well compensate for gravity.  This means that a  horizontally formatted drive can be later placed vertically with no data  integrity problems.  The only way that newer drives cannot work is if you  have varying forces (shaking, bouncing, etc) so don't place the drive on  it's side on a rocking chair :).  What constitutes a 'newer' drive I  don't know, try calling your drive manufacturer.  I have a Quantum LP240S  internal, and since I got it a month ago, I am guessing it's 'newer'.
eu> Apple does not authorise sales through Mail Order.  As a result mail   eu> order companies have to obtain their machines by the grey market.   eu>    eu> This market is supplied with machines from authorised resellers who   eu> have more machines than they can sell.  They come into this state of   eu> affairs by overordering either accidentally or deliberatly to get a   eu> better wholsale price from Apple.  In either case they often obscure   eu> the serial nunber to protect their identity.  As a result the warranty   eu> is void.    I have ordered several Macs from different mail order companies with absolutely zero problem. You have to dig around to find the true gray market dealers that sell Macs with authentic serial numbers untouched. There are value-added dealers (nothing to do with VAT, no flame please) that are very legitimate.  CDA unfortunately is one of those that replace the serial number with their own to prevent Apple from tracing which authorized dealer sold that machine to CDA.
In my quest for speed, I've run into a problem. 66.66 mhz and 80 mhz clock oscillators are available but I haven't found any speeds between 66.66 and 70 mhz for further testing. Fox Electronics (813) 693-0099 can make custom oscillators but if anyone knows a source cheaper than $12/osc please let me know. Some 68 and 70 mhz units would complete my speed trials on the old Q700
In article <C5yGDq.6MI@news.iastate.edu>, kmradke@iastate.edu (Kevin M Radke) wrote: >  > I need help identifying this board that I found stuffed away in a corner. >  > As the title says, all that is printed on it is NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS NB-DMA-8. > It fits fine in my Mac IIci and snooper gives the very same name for the > board.  It looks like it has an HP-IB connector on the back of it and > another connector on the top (2 rows by 25 pins).  It also looks like > it has an Intel processor on it (#A82380-16 Intel '86) >  > On an EEPROM there is a sticker with the P/N 700584-01. >  > Anybody ever seen or heard of one?  Or better yet, do you know what it does? > We are all clueless here.  Our last option is to hook it up to our HP > workstations and see if any smoke comes out.  It's made by (SURPRISE) National Instruments: 6504 Bridge Point Parkway Austin, TX 78730-5039 (800) 433-3488 anonymouse ftp at: ftp.natinst.com  Their 1991 catalog lists the NB-8G as follows:  fetch and deposit DMA controller (8 channels) IEEE-488 interface with data rates up to 850 kB/sec, with DMA and programmed I/O    transfers 8 16-bit counter timer channels RTSI bus (that's the connector on the top of the board - it links it with    other National Instrument boards List price of $1295
Hi.  I am working on a project for my marketing class and I'd like to ask your help.  The assignment is to come up with a product and create a marketing plan for it.  Technical issues are not terribly important at this point.  Well, my group's plan is to market a "full page" monitor for laptop computers.  It would be a third-party product to be installed by authorized repair centers (like Newer Technology's PaletteBook screen).  The idea is that the screen would fold in such a way that you would get twice the screen height of a normal screen (remember, technical issues aside!).  In fact, by adjusting the fold of the screen and the monitor configuration, you could have regular OR "full" height.  The screen would probably be monochrome. The motivation behind this is that laptop computers seem to be very popular among business people.  Business people also commonly use word processing and spreadsheet applications for which it is very convenient to see a large portion of the document.  Because of the target users and applications, color screens aren't really a neccessity.  We could hopefully keep the cost between $2000 and $3000.  Now, please don't write this off as completely ridiculous.  I really need some constructive feedback.  So, if you would, please reply to me via email and let me know: 1. If you would consider buying a "full page" laptop screen 2. How much you would be willing to pay for it 3. Any helpful commentaries on the idea  Also, if you take this idea and make a lot of money off it (doubtful, but who knows!), please send me some.  Thanks in advance!!!
I have finally decided to update my SE :-)). I am planning on buying a Centris 610-8/230 CD. Now, what monitor should I get? Here are a few guidelines: 	My wife uses PageMaker occasionally, I use Excel sometimes 	and I do alot of Telecommuting from home to work. We both 	do Word processing. Greater than 14 inches.  I have looked at the Radius Color Pivot. This can be bought for under $1000. I have heard good things about the E-Machines T-16, the older model not the new T-16 II. How about the Super Mac 17T? These both can be had for a little over $1000. Any others??
Hi, I got a glimpse from the other side, talking to the technician at the place I recently bought my Mac from. The guy told me that they stopped shipping SIMMs to their customers and only install them themselves - those babies get  zapped too easily by static electricity  or so they claim.  HSK
Is there a way to connect a PowerBook 145, Mac IIsi, and Personal LaserWriter LS so that I can (not necessarily silmultaneoulsy) print from either the IIsi, or PB, and file share between the IIsi and PB? I know I can get the ($expensive$) LW NT upgrade for my LS, but I can't afford that...
I'm looking for the best source for SIMMs in the USA. I'm not looking for    the lowest prices, but rather for the best quality SIMMs and the one with    the lowest rate of defective SIMMs. I know the chip Merchant has good     prices but they seems to have a high rate of returned SIMMs.    Does anyone know how many SIMMs you have to purchase to obtain quantity    discount ?.    Thank you.
Any idea on the price range of the Cyclone or the Tempest? (compared to  current line of computers, where will the new ones fall in price) --  ============================================================================  KEEPER:  Heh heh.  Stop!  What is your name?  ARTHUR:  It is Arthur, King of the Britons.  KEEPER:  What is your quest?  ARTHUR:  To seek the Holy Grail.  KEEPER:  What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?  ARTHUR:  What do you mean?  An African or European swallow?  KEEPER:  What?  I don't know that!  Auuuuuuuugh!  BEDEMIR:  How do know so much about swallows?  ARTHUR:  Well, you have to know these things when you're a king you know.
It happened to my classic ii once.  At startup, after the usual powerup tone, there were chimes (kinda like do(1st)-mi(1st)-sol(1st)-do(2nd) or 1st C - 1st E - 1st G - 2nd C on the music scale), and it hanged before giving the happy mac.  I had to re-powerup.  This was asked before but I can't remember the answer.  I've tried to find the answer from the faqs and other ftp sites but to no avail.  Can anyone tell me what those unusual chimes mean?  A spurious memory check error?
I've been getting seemingly random disk accesses on my Centris 610 with a Quantum 240 LPS, but this is NOT the regular recalibration it has been doing since I got it....  This is sometimes short, sometimes long, accesses that sound like there is some read/writing going on. 	I have SAM 3.5, and Disinfectant 3.0, but neither picks up anything.. Any ideas?
I heard that the magic date for price drop in a number of Apple products will be  June 30th.  Can anyone second this rumour? --  A motion picture major at the Brooks Institute of Photography, CA Santa Barbara and a foreign student from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
In article <11259.75.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us>, barry.davis@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Barry Davis)  writes:  |> The Lisa was originally introduced in 1980 or '81, I forget now, and |> sold for $9995 with 2 400k floppy drives and 1Mb memory. It didn't do |> too well. <grin>  Close, but no cigar.  The LISA was introduced in January, 1983 (at the same time as the Apple //e).  I'll have to check to see if the Hard Drive came bundled for the $10K.  The floppy drives were 5.25" initially (the infamous "twiggy" drives)
Has anybody heard about a thing called a MacWatch? I saw it on TV a couple of years ago, it is a watch with a reviever and a transmitter for your mac. The practical upshot is that your Mac can page your watch and display a small message. My flatmate is off to the states for a week or two soon and I am interested in getting one. Any info would be appreciated.
We're about ready to take a bold step into the 90s around here by accelerating our rather large collection of stock MacPlus computers. Yes indeed, difficult to comprehend why anyone would want to accelerate a MacPlus, but that's another story. Suffuce it to say, we can get accelerators easier than new machines. Hey, I don't make the rules...  Anyway, on to the purpose of this post: I'm looking for info on MacPlus acelerators.  So far, I've found some lit on the Novy Accelerator and the MicrMac MultiSpeed Accelartor. Both look acceptable, but I would like to hear from anyone who has tried these.  Also, if someone would recommend another accelerator for the MacPlus, I'd like to hear about it.  Thanks for any time and effort you expend on this!
Also, if someone would recommend another > accelerator for the MacPlus, I'd like to hear about it. >  > Thanks for any time and effort you expend on this! >  > Karl  Try looking at the Brainstorm Accelerator for the Plus.  I believe it is the best solution because of the performance and price.  Why spend $800 upgrading a computer that is only worth $300 ????   The brainstorm accelerator is around $225.  It speeds up the internal clock speed to 16MHz.  That may not seem like much but it also speeds up SCSI transfers.  I think that feature is unique to brainstorm. Check it out.
A member of the local BBS I frequent is looking for Mac oriented BBSs based in Chicago.  Any leads would be most appreciated.
In article <C5L39p.2qz@news.udel.edu>, johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes: |> In article <1993Apr16.144750.1568@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> nodine@lcs.mit.edu (Mark H. Nodine) 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 |> >drives.  My solution was to get Silverlining.  None of |> >the loops that involved blind writes worked to the drives; |> >in fact the only loop that worked was the "Macintosh |> >Software" loop (whatever that means). |>  |> I doubt this is a Quadra-specific problem.  I had to get |> rid of my "venerable" Bernoulli 20 last year (with enough  |> cartridges purchased at ~$90 each to make the whole thing  |> worth more than my whole computer ;).  The tech support guys |> at Ocean Microsystems suggested that some third-party drivers  |> 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.
OK...here is my question.  I want to hook up my PowerBook 160 to a SVGA monitor but I do not want to buy the PowerBook/DOS Companion.  Can anyone tell me the EXACT cable I need to connect them?  If there is such a cable, can I purchase it from MacWharehouse or some computer store? If I must buy the cable from James Engineering, how much do they run and how can I get a hold them???  I guess that was more than 'a' question.  :) Thanks in advance for any replys.              John Schrieber       E-mail: schriejh@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Peter, I'm sure someone out there has a better/easier way to do what you want to do, but I'll tell you how we do it where I work. We have about 15 Macs networked together using Appletalk and PhoneNet connectors. To chat we use a program called 'Broadcast'. With it we can send brief messages to all or selected machines within the network.  Hope that helps...
In article <summeral.733961443@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> summeral@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Summerall  Thomas G) writes: > >I just bought a Centris 650 and discovered, to my dispointment, that Apple >has gotten too cheap to include a mike anymore, internal or external.  You get a mic with the C650 if you get it with the internal CD ROM drive.  Gary  --
jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:  >jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey) writes:  >>rdk2@cec2.wustl.edu (Robert David Klapper) writes:  >>>	I also believe that the 950 fixed a bug in the CPU which screwed up >>>some floating point calculations. >>>--  >>>Robert D. Klapper >>>Washington University in St. Louis >>>rdk2@cec2.wustl.edu >>>Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology:  There's always one more bug.  >>Does someone have any definite information on this.  This is the >>first I've heard of it.  How does the CPU get fixed by a hardware >>upgrade?  This doesn't make much sense to me.  >Let's see now... The differences between the 950 and 900 are >basically:  >	1. Runs at 33MHz, not 25MHz >	2. Has 25MHz I/O bus, not 16MHz >	3. Upgraded Graphics controller >	4. #3 results in Q950 requiring 80ns VRAM, not 100ns >	5. ROM fixes: >	    a. rounding errors in floating point calculations >	       at 15th digit  So patch the ROMs with the latest OS version.  I don't see how this is a problem.  >	    b. Ethernet problems with more than 16 buffers  >So, no doubt, the person was refering to 5a, hardly "screwing >up" though :)
In article <1ps8d7INNrc0@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>, chyang@leghorn.engin.umich.edu (Chung Hsiung Yang) writes: > >In article <bauer-060493101758@134.60.68.23>, bauer@informatik.uni-ulm.de (Christian Bauer) writes: >> In article <Afi9sHS00VohMrYlEe@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Donpaul C. Stephens" >> <deathbird+@CMU.EDU> wrote: >> > >> > What is the difference? >> > I want a double-spin CD-ROM drive by May >> > >> > looking into NEC and Apple, doublespins only >> > what is the best? >> >> Nec Toshiba and Sony (Apple) nearly deliver the same speed. >> As apples prices are very low (compared to there RAM SIMMS) >> You should buy what is inexpencive. But think of Driver revisions. >> It is easier to get driver kits from Apple than from every other >> manufacturer >> >> Christian Bauer >> >> bauer@informatik.uni-ulm.de > > >        I thought NEC and Toshiba CD-ROM mechanism have an average >access time of less than 200 ms.  While the SONY-APPLE CD-ROM >drive has an access time of 300 ms for the doublespin models. > >- Chung Yang > The Toshiba has a 200ms access time, the NEC has a 280ms access time, right around the Sony/Apple. Access time is, of course, somewhat important, but not as vital in the case of CDs as data transfer rate.  All the drives are double-speed drives with maximum data transfer rates of 300K/second. Any is a good choice. Apple's is very cheap when included with new Macs and I agree with Christian's comment about drivers.  Plus, Apple's is bootable on the Centris and Quadra 800. A very nice feature if you need to install System software. I don't know if the NEC or Toshiba are bootable on those machines.