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re techworks what you say well although this may be an uncommon occurrence or not i had a bad experience with techworks this past summer i upgraded increased the memory in a powerbook and a ci when i called to place the order for the pb ram i was told by the sales person that they would give me a rebate if i would return the original ram which was also techworks ram i followed the instructions for returning the old ram expecting to see a credit on my visa within a few weeks well months went by and no credit after many calls almost none of which were ever returned arghhh i finally found someone who told me why we never received your old chips i then explained i the procedure that i had followed to return them to which the person replied you mean you sent them us mail which i had per the original sales person s instructions i was told that they their loss of us mail shipments is not uncommon come on and that i should have sent the stuff via fedex etc i reasoned that i had done exactly what i had been told to but they would not budge the people i spoke with were absolutely no help i sent letters copies of the original receipts attempted to trace the package through the us mail made many more phone calls to techworks all to no avail i wouldn t give up because i was so disgusted sales support people supervisors there was nothing i could do to pursuade them to make it right i finally in total disgust wrote a letter to my credit card company asking them to investigate the problem three weeks later the credit miraculously appeared on my statement i have not in recent memory been so disgusted with the service that i received from a company in all fairness they had no way of knowing that was not trying to rip them off but i went to such great lengths to prove to them that this really happened oh well c est la vie i will never buy another product from them again there had to get that off my chest
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cyclone and tempest could someone please post any info on these systems thanks bob robert novitskey pursuing women is similar to banging one s head rrn po cwru edu against a wall with less opportunity for reward
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lciii midi does anyone have any experience using lciii with midi do they get along ok i have heard that the iivx is not suitable for midi but i have not heard anyon e say anything definitive about lciii and midi if you have had experience wh at midi interface have you used anyone used finale software in this setting please e mail i will summarize thanks jerry bartlett peoria illinios u uicvm cc uic edu
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re sigma designs double up jap po cwru edu joseph a pellettiere writes i am looking for any information about the sigma designs double up board all i can figure out is that it is a hardware compression board that works with autodoubler but i am not sure about this also how much would one cost i ve had the board for over a year and it does work with diskdoubler but not with autodoubler due to a licensing problem with stac technologies the owners of the board s compression technology i m writing this from memory i ve lost the reference please correct me if i m wrong using the board i ve had problems with file icons being lost but it s hard to say whether it s the board s fault or something else however if i decompress the troubled file and recompress it without the board the icon usually reappears because of the above mentioned licensing problem the freeware expansion utility dd expand will not decompress a board compressed file unless you have the board installed since stac has its own product now it seems unlikely that the holes in autodoubler diskdoubler related to the board will be fixed which is sad and makes me very reluctant to buy stac s product since they re being so stinky but hey that s competition stan kerr computing communications services office u of illinois urbana phone email stankerr uiuc edu
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re price drop on c within months in article apr yuma acns colostate edu ns lance colostate edu nathaniel sammons writes i am going to be getting a c 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 c 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 c with mouse for does anyone know of a better deal thanks is that the low end configuration if it is it has the lc no fpu as opposed to all the other configurations with a rc has an fpu be sure you know what you are getting before you buy the rc is around right now if you intend to upgrade it from a lc sunny
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lciii to vga monitor adapters i m having a real tough time finding out the proper adapters to use a vga monitor an ibm sold w many ps s to be exact on the mac lc iii all of the vendors i have called say that the internal video will not work on a true vga monitor but will work on a ibm compatible multisync like the sony s or the nec monitors i thought the vga capability of lciii was very attractive because it allowed you to use inexpensive vga monitors am i confused or are these vendors just not up to speed has anyone used an lciii with a non multisync vga monitor and if so where did you get your adapter please be specific w vendor and cat i would prefer to get a apple monitor for these lciii s it s unseemly to see the finder inside an ibm bezel but the more money we save on monitors the more lciii s we can afford and the more ps s we can get rid of charles kuehmann northwestern university steel research group qman casbah acns nwu edu
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re warning don t break powerbook screen in article d ub c outpost sf bay org peirce outpost sf bay org michael peirce writes surprised shouldn t be protective tarriffs almost always end up hurting the u s in the long run same with subsidies they way to build a strong economy isn t to wall it off from the tough outside world but rather to compete in the global market place and don t come crying when the world doesn t always want to play by our house rules tell that to the japanese their local market is neatly protected by the japanese government its one very tough nut to crack in fact the only current way to break into it is to do it with a japanese company as a partner in the venture gary gary snow uunet clark gsnow or gsnow clark edu
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need advice about tech works etc greetings i planning to upgrade my mac iisi from the present megs to megs and add a math coprocessor technology works of austin texas comes quite highly recommended by some mac magazines i was just wonderring if anyone could share with me anything about tech works both good and bad experiences or give any advice about other mail order companies that i may consider your reply would be very much appreciated thanks in advance sincerely peter choo choo sigma ecs umass edu
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duo dock problems has anyone had any problems with their duo dock not ejecting the duo properly when i first got it the duo would come out of the dock a couple of inches when ejected and i had to pull it the rest of the way nowadays and i ve had the system for months the duo doesn t come out at all despite the fact that the mechanism makes all the appropriate noises and i have to grab hold of it and pull it out myself is there a simple fix for this or do i have to return it to my apple dealer where it will languish for weeks while i have to make do with no colour display no vram no floppy or scsi etc btw it s not that the duo is locked into the dock it just doesn t want to slide out any more phil jimmieson computer science dept janet phil uk ac liv csc liverpool university internet phil csc liv ac uk po box liverpool l bx i was head over heels in love until i got cramp uk
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re help internal hds in mac ii in article apr siemens co at kurt netzer kurt siemens co at writes is it possible to install a nd mb hd in a mac ii with a mb qunatum hd can i us a pin cable with connectors for the internal motherboard scsi connector and the scsi hd connectors the first hd is nt terminated the second will be whats about the power supply where can i connect a amp connector to supply my hd it is very possible to connect another internal hard disk in any macintosh if you can find the space to put it i have a iisi that came with a quantum meg drive when i ran into space problems i slapped in another meg quantum that i had sitting on a shelf here is what i did first off i was concerned about space since both drives are quantum quarter height drives i finally decided that the logical place for them was stacked one upon the other fine they fit snugly i have not had a problem with heat yet and these drives have been running together for over two months the next problem was connecting the drive if you have a spare internal hard disk power cable as i did then half of your troubles are over just splice in the extra cable so that you get one square motherboard connector and two hard disk power connectors if you don t have a spare cable you will have to buy the wires and connectors which can be found in any good electronics store for about i would suggest properly soldering heatshrinking the connections to reduce the possibility of shorts or bad connections next you need a ribbon cable connection again i had a spare hard disk ribbon cable and i wanted to be careful in case this didn t word so what i did was purchase a crimp on pin cable connector that gave me another male connector in the middle of my spare cable the part cost again and is easily attached with any good wood vice the theory behind using a crimp on connector is that if this doesn t work my original cable is not damaged and i can go back to the original setup having done all that i couldn t be bothered to check the dev notes for power consumption so i plugged it in and it works like a charm to this day in a mac ii everything should work the same be careful with the id s of the drive and ensure that the terminating resistors on both drives are intact i did not try this without the terminating resistors but it seemed logical that if i am splitting the scsi chain that the signal should be terminated at all the ends let me know if you have any more questions peter hansen bell northern research pgmoffc bnr ca
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re help internal hds in mac ii in article apr siemens co at kurt netzer kurt siemens co at writes is it possible to install a nd mb hd in a mac ii with a mb qunatum hd can i us a pin cable with connectors for the internal motherboard scsi connector and the scsi hd connectors the first hd is nt terminated the second will be whats about the power supply where can i connect a amp connector to supply my hd it is very possible to connect another internal hard disk in any macintosh if you can find the space to put it i have a iisi that came with a quantum meg drive when i ran into space problems i slapped in another meg quantum that i had sitting on a shelf here is what i did first off i was concerned about space since both drives are quantum quarter height drives i finally decided that the logical place for them was stacked one upon the other fine they fit snugly i have not had a problem with heat yet and these drives have been running together for over two months the next problem was connecting the drive if you have a spare internal hard disk power cable as i did then half of your troubles are over just splice in the extra cable so that you get one square motherboard connector and two hard disk power connectors if you don t have a spare cable you will have to buy the wires and connectors which can be found in any good electronics store for about i would suggest properly soldering heatshrinking the connections to reduce the possibility of shorts or bad connections next you need a ribbon cable connection again i had a spare hard disk ribbon cable and i wanted to be careful in case this didn t word so what i did was purchase a crimp on pin cable connector that gave me another male connector in the middle of my spare cable the part cost again and is easily attached with any good wood vice the theory behind using a crimp on connector is that if this doesn t work my original cable is not damaged and i can go back to the original setup having done all that i couldn t be bothered to check the dev notes for power consumption so i plugged it in and it works like a charm to this day in a mac ii everything should work the same be careful with the id s of the drive and ensure that the terminating resistors on both drives are intact i did not try this without the terminating resistors but it seemed logical that if i am splitting the scsi chain that the signal should be terminated at all the ends let me know if you have any more questions peter hansen bell northern research pgmoffc bnr ca
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quantum q hard disk i recently aquired a quantum q harddisk it is a meg mechanism it is scsi i have a few questions and a few problems first there seems to be an extra connector socket on the back that i can t figure out what it is for the address is set by some jumpers on the bottom so i don t think it is for that any ideas second it would be nice to get a hardware manual for the drive there are a lot of jumpers on it that we don t know what they are for third i have got the drive to format it took a while to get things to work and most of it is fine for now the formating initialy was troublesome but seems to be ok the main problem is if you do a reset on the macplus the drive disappears if i shut the mac off and then back on agian then the drive comes up fine any ideas please reply to one of the email addresses below thanks richard crispin department of psychology email rcrispin watarts uwaterloo ca university of waterloo psych watserv uwaterloo ca waterloo ontario phone or ext canada n l g fax
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help powerbook and caere typist plus graphics hand scanner edited and forwarded by the csm announce moderator please respond to the originator by email also what he needs besides a cable that works is a phone number and applelink address for caere and a smile and a pat on the back please i beg you if you know anything about the caere typist plus graphics hand scanner please read and solve my problem i will be truely grateful for the rest of my life the problem is that my caere typist plus graphics hand scanner will not connect to my powerbook the cable on the scanner will not fit into the scsi port on the powerbook i then got a cable assembled to adapt the original cable to fit the scsi port this however turned the computer into scsi mode and treated it as a hard disk i have asked an engineer in london to assembled a new cable the idiot out of sheer laziness has taken weeks and has yet to solve the problem i am aware that caere co in the us have a solution do you know of a cable that will solve this problem please help me if you know the solution i will be forever grateful to you my e mail address is zia uk ac ed castle wrong side of the road syndrom for us that s zia castle ed ac uk thanking you in advance zia
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re disappointed by la cie in article apr umiami ir miami edu f ehg umiami ir miami edu writes it seems to me that reconditioned hardware should be sold as reconditioned at a discounted price and that replacements for new hardware gone bad still covered under a day warranty should be new well sounds like we need some kind of a lemon law on the hardware industry after all it does sound unfair to me for someone that has paid the price of a new drive for a reconditioned one what do you guys think
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re the c fan is noisy any solutions in article summeral rintintin colorado edu summeral rintintin colorado edu summerall thomas g writes is it me my or all s it doesn t seem to broken it isn t making grinding noises or anything it s just loud much louder that the fan in the iici i just sold anybody else have this problem how about a solution is there a good replacement fan that s a lot quieter but moves the same air any easy way to insulate the sound but not the cooling air hah i can t even hear the fan on my gee i wonder if its working yup just checked its exhausting air out the back just fine gary gary snow uunet clark gsnow or gsnow clark edu
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re price drop on c within months nathaniel sammons writes i am going to be getting a c 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 c 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 c with mouse for 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 c 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 more then i payed for mine last month i would have rather waited for one of the new machines this sommer like the cyclone 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 next week heh bottome line if the c 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 grin john komp leonardo src honeywell com
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re comparative scsi performance kurt tiedtke ktiedtke jarthur claremont edu wrote could someone direct me to information on scsi performance for each mac max throughput etc max thruput on a centris or quadra is about mb sec max thruput on iici or iifx or equivalent is about mb sec max thruput on slower machines is slower peter a cohen no i don t reflect my employer s opinions peterco eff org heck my employer doesn t even know i m here
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apple tape backup sc under system x i need to get an apple sc tape backup unit working under sys x but do not have any drivers software to access the device does anyone know where i can fidn the tools to access this device appreciate any info comments curtis curtis c generous generous sti nasa gov nasa sti code jtt washington dc
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axion serial port switcher good or bad hi i m looking into buying a serial port switcher because while my mac has two serial ports i have appletalk a modem a printer midi and a sound digitizer unfortunately specifically i m looking at the axion electronic switcher because it seems to be fairly cheap about at maczone does anyone know anything about it i ve heard that with most of these things you can still only use serial ports at a time it just prevents you from physically swapping cables although i ve also heard that programs that use the comm toolbox may be able to use as many serial ports as they want does anyone know if this is true with the axion switchbox finally if the axion stinks or if you re using something else that you think is good i d be interested in hearing about other products i would like to spend under if possible please reply through mail i m not a regular reader of this newsgroup if there s interest i can post a summary of replies thanks a lot m scott smith umsmith mcs drexel edu
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pleeze help me buy a mac hey everybody i want to buy a mac and i want to get a good price who doesn t so could anyone out there who has found a really good deal on a centris send me the price i don t want to know where unless it is mail order or areound cleveland ohio also should i buy now or wait for the power pc thanks bob reply via post or e mail at rrn po cwru edu robert novitskey pursuing women is similar to banging one s head rrn po cwru edu against a wall with less opportunity for reward
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re iisi at mhz success story howdy folks back in september or october i posted instructions on how to upgrade the iisi to mhz by doin a little solderin people bolder than me have reported that they ve done the same procedure but put in a mhz oscillator instead of thus running the cpu at mhz instead of so i tried it and i ll be darned if it doesn t work has anyone tried or does anyone know if this procedure will work on an se mine s old slow and in need of either death or power kelley thomas kelley boylan powerpc ibm austin kelleyb austin ibm com
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re adb woes in article apr afterlife ncsc mil mlbelan afterlife ncsc mil mark belangee writes greetings oh wise netters oops that s the oracle sorry anyhow i have a basic question that i cannot answer just where in the heck can i buy a adb cable mine on my trackball is shot and i haven t been able to find a replacement anywhere unless i m looking in the wrong mail order catalogs anyone have any ideas places prices just make it myself mark mlbelan afterlife ncsc mil you should be able to pick up an adb cable at any computer wiring store i d give you the address of alberta computer cable in calgary but a i m in victoria b c canada and b i don t think an address in calgary would help you too much basically however i just phoned them up and they charged me approx cnd for a custom made adb extension cable for my mouse hope this helps dave maclachlan dmaclach ra uvic ca nightfall software inc
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re cd i in article ps d innrc srvr engin umich edu chyang leghorn engin umich edu chung hsiung yang writes in article bauer bauer informatik uni ulm de christian bauer writes in article afi shs vohmrylee 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 ms while the sony apple cd rom drive has an access time of ms for the doublespin models chung yang i have the a cd technology drive with the toshiba mechanism and it is supposedly the fast and best now it has an access of ms and a data transfer rate kb sec it is multisession photo cd compatible it is available from educorp for the cd technology one and comes with two mail in coupons for two free cds i m not sure if the cd s are good since i ve only had the drive a little less than a month and had the cd s shipped to my home address in california instead of here in maryland the cd technology drive has a separate power supply separated from the drive which supposedly gives it a longer life and keeps it cleaner with no fan to attract dust a toshiba brand drive is also available but i think the cd technology is better since you get the same mechanism and at a slightly lower price with two free cds the apple i drive sony mechanism is around a ms access time i think and a data transfer rate of kb sec i know it is the slowest of the three mentioned here it is not widely available except through the apple catalog which is bad at a price of only it is also multi session photo cd compatible i think the external model comes with free cds some of which are pretty good the nec drive has been out the longest it has an access time of ms and a data transfer rate of kb sec it is available from many vendors around dollars including educorp it wasn t multi sesssion photo cd compatible before but i hear that the current version that is shipping is owners of the older drives can get an upgrade it does not come with any free cd s unless you buy it in a bundle of the three cd rom drives above i think the best choices would be the apple drive and the cd technology toshiba drive the apple drive for it s compatibility with apple products and the cd technology toshiba for it s speed and performance btw the models of the drives are apple applecd or applecd i internal cd technology cd t the toshiba brand name model i m not sure but it is also something like with nec cdr i m very happy with my drive and have had no compatibility problems whatsoever if i am wrong about any of the above do correct me but i am pretty sure of myself even when i think i m not also some of you out there might notice that i have the same last name as the president of cd technology which happens to be in southern california my hometown however i am not a relative nor do i know the guy liu is just a common chinese name especially in southern california with the enormous chinese community besides one of my doctors in california has three steve liu s as patients and another steve liu comes to my school and lives in the next dorm this is to show that liu is very common steve steve liu i wish for a better sig drlovemd jhunix hcf jhu edu suggestions are very welcome drlovemd jhuvms hcf jhu edu
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re apple tape backup sc under system x in article generous nova generous nova sti nasa gov curtis generous writes i need to get an apple sc tape backup unit working under sys x but do not have any drivers software to access the device does anyone know where i can fidn the tools to access this device appreciate any info comments curtis curtis c generous generous sti nasa gov nasa sti code jtt washington dc retrospect dantz works nicely with this combination you can buy it from the mail order vendors
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help please hand scanner problem if you know anything about the caere typist plus graphics hand scanner please read on and save my life my problem is that my caere typist plus graphics hand scanner will not connect to my powerbook the cable from the scanner will not fit the scsi port of the computer i managed to gaet a cabled assembled that adapted the cord to the computer however this placed the computer into scsi mode that is it acted as an external hard disk whenever i switched the computer on i ve asked an engineer in london to assemble a new cable for me but he s taken weeks and has yet to find the solution out of sheer laziness and i know that a cable exists to solve the problem if you know the solution please let me know what cable i need and how i can get hold of one my e mail address is zia uk ac ed castle i will be truely grateful for all your help thanking you in advance zia
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cannot move data fast enough i want to achieve an overall throughput rate of around megabytes sec for very large data transfers around mb i have a quadra i have a nubus network card that can pump data in to mac memory at mb s using block mode transfers i have a high speed disk array no asynchronous pb calls that can achieve mb s let s say all transfers go from disk to buffer to network card it is not enough to first transfer all the data from the disk to buffer then transfer all the data from the buffer to card mb s then mb s result in an overall mb s too slow so i tried the following scheme for an n megabyte transfer step load the st mb from disk to buffer step asynch send st mb out card load the nd mb from disk to buffer step asynch send nd mb out card load the rd mb from disk to buffer step n asynch send the n mb out card load the nth mb from disk to buffer step n send the nth mb out card even though the code apparently does execute the card transfer asynchronously and the card does not use the mac cpu at all it is using the buffer tho each of the steps through n take as long as if the two transfers were executed one after another so there is no improvement in the rate why is the mac ram dual port so the nubus card and the disk driver can both access data at the same time is the problem that the two devices card and disk driver both have to use the same bus to mac ram is there anything i can do david david blume i get tired thinking of all the things i dcb wdl wdl loral com don t want to do bukowski barfly
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new duo dock with processor here s why well folks after some thought the answer struck me flat in the face why would apple release a duo dock with a processor of its own here s why people have hounded apple for a notebook with a processor in it apple can t deliver that right now because the saps too much power radiates far too much heat and is too large for a notebook how does one get around that without designing a new chipset use existing powerbook technology to your best advantage the duo dock gives apple a unique ability to give users that power in a semi portable fashion by plunking the into the dock you ve got quadra power at your desk on the road that mhz should be able to handle most of your needs okay not the best solution but its an answer to a no win situation so does this mean one will be able to use the powerbook s processor in parallel to the dock s processor okay we re getting really hypothetical now travis grundke macgames digest your source for information contributing editor news reviews of gaming software and the gaming macgames digest industry in the macintosh community reply an cleveland freenet edu for more information on macgames digest
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powerbook questions why or how actually can a powerbook have a x pixel display regardless if it is a or and still keep the dpi resolution i assume that it doesn t and i don t mean to imply they all have these dimensions any info on price drops or new models non duo coming up thanks jt
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re question x on quadra in article d u nu bostrauma trauma com ennui trauma com n is for neville who died of ennui writes does anyone have information on acheiving x resolution on a q using interanl video is this even possible i suspect that it isn t although i d certainly like to know for sure of course its possible i get x on my centris all you need is a correctly wired video cable gary gary snow uunet clark gsnow or gsnow clark edu
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re new apple ergo mouse in apr utkvx utk edu nwcs utkvx utk edu schizophrenia means never being alone writes does anyone know how to open up the apple ergo mouse adb mouse ii mine lives near a cat true really and picks up her fur from what i can tell it looks like apple welded it shut by rotating the plate around the mouse ball counter clockwise you can open the mouse and clean it it isn t as obvious as the desktop bus mouse i but it opens quite easily once you see what has to be done geoff geoffb dartmouth edu computing support consultant tuck school of business if you don t vote you don t count
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re cheapest mike for centris in article summeral rintintin colorado edu summeral rintintin colorado edu summerall thomas g writes i just bought a centris 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 c if you get it with the internal cd rom drive gary gary snow uunet clark gsnow or gsnow clark edu
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re new duo dock with processor here s why an cleveland freenet edu travis grundke writes why would apple release a duo dock with a processor of its own here s why people have hounded apple for a notebook with a processor in it apple can t deliver that right now because the saps too much power radiates far too much heat and is too large for a notebook how does one get around that without designing a new chipset use existing powerbook technology to your best advantage the duo dock gives apple a unique ability to give users that power in a semi portable fashion by plunking the into the dock you ve got quadra power at your desk on the road that mhz should be able to handle most of your needs okay not the best solution but its an answer to a no win situation so does this mean one will be able to use the powerbook s processor in parallel to the dock s processor okay we re getting really hypothetical now it would also be great for another reason when not docked it could serve as an ara server to the large internal hd your corporate email etc in a pinch you would also have two machines instead of if they could couple that thought with rocketshare and let you use both the on the pb and the on the dock it would be a mighty powerful dock brian hall mspace netcom com mark space softworks applelink markspace america online markspace do not disturb i m on a mission from egghead
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re apple tape backup sc under system x in article pskkt ln fnnews fnal gov b fnclub fnal gov david sachs writes in article generous nova generous nova sti nasa gov curtis generous writes i need to get an apple sc tape backup unit working under sys x but do not have any drivers software to access the device retrospect dantz works nicely with this combination i also use retrospect but i noticed that central point software s mactools backup also supports the apple tape drive under x the apple tape drive is quite slow so the advantages of retrospect relative to the simpler mactools backup are less significant than might be the case for someone backing up a large server to a dat drive used apple tape drives are going for so it might make less economic sense to pay an extra for retrospect when mactools is cheaper and includes other worthwhile utilities retrospect is nice though and i m probably going to upgrade to bill johnston johnston me udel edu chambers street newark de
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re duo dock problems in c ge ks compsci liverpool ac uk phil csc liv ac uk phil jimmieson writes has anyone had any problems with their duo dock not ejecting the duo properly when i first got it the duo would come out of the dock a couple of inches when ejected and i had to pull it the rest of the way nowadays and i ve had the system for months the duo doesn t come out at all despite the fact that the mechanism makes all the appropriate noises and i have to grab hold of it and pull it out myself is there a simple fix for this or do i have to return it to my apple dealer where it will languish for weeks while i have to make do with no colour display no vram no floppy or scsi etc btw it s not that the duo is locked into the dock it just doesn t want to slide out any more phil jimmieson computer science dept janet phil uk ac liv csc liverpool university internet phil csc liv ac uk po box liverpool l bx i was head over heels in love until i got cramp uk also has anyone heard any rumors that the new docks the ones with the cpu will be better designed that this first batch i love my duo but installing cards in the dock is not much fun bob bob lord south wacker room network manager chicago il cstar group andersen consulting lord andersen com
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re internal scsi installation how but apple hd sc says unable to locate a suitable drive on scsi what s he doing wrong apples hdsc will only format a hard drive that apple sold you need to use a third party formater like drive or spoton
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re cd i in article ps d innrc srvr engin umich edu chyang leghorn engin umich edu chung hsiung yang writes in article bauer bauer informatik uni ulm de christian bauer writes in article afi shs vohmrylee 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 ms while the sony apple cd rom drive has an access time of ms for the doublespin models chung yang the toshiba has a ms access time the nec has a ms 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 k 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 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 mark
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re new apple ergo mouse in article c qm on dartvax dartmouth edu geoffb coos dartmouth edu thumper writes in apr utkvx utk edu nwcs utkvx utk edu schizophrenia means never being alone writes does anyone know how to open up the apple ergo mouse adb mouse ii mine lives near a cat true really and picks up her fur from what i can tell it looks like apple welded it shut by rotating the plate around the mouse ball counter clockwise you can open the mouse and clean it it isn t as obvious as the desktop bus mouse i but it opens quite easily once you see what has to be done geoff geoffb dartmouth edu computing support consultant tuck school of business if you don t vote you don t count i think the original poster meant opening the mouse not just releasing the ball and getting to the rollers i found that on the original adb mouse sometimes unscrewing the two halves allowed for easier cleaning if the original poster has his answer i ll ask how do you open the new ergonomic mouse by open i mean split the two halves to get at the guts it isn t obvious to me based on the minute look i spent with one at the office yesterday as there are no visible screw heads mark
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re disappointed by la cie in article bc f d news service uci edu wayne chen eapu orion oac uci edu writes industry after all it does sound unfair to me for someone that has oops i meant fair not unfair
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quadra problem question i just got a quadra and i ve noticed that i can t change the desktop color from the beautiful gray i thought maybe i should reinstall the os using the install me first macintosh centris quadra diskette because the system file on this diskette is more recent than the one on the hard disk the easy install selects macintosh cnetris system software does anyone know if i should use this or customize and use system software for any macintosh or does it matter thanks in advance for any suggestions kay alexander old dominion university bitnet kba s oduvm internet kba s oduvm cc odu edu
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re sales of powerbook slowing down in article martin tohi comp sys mac hardware martin tohi jean francois martin writes first this is not an april joke a dealer in my town told me that the powerbook don t sell as they use to sell the guy told me that apple is having the same problem it has when the desktop mac was too expensive the powerbook are too expensive in comparison to what you can get on the dos side what do you think of this do you feel the same thing about it just curious sounds about right if there is high demand for a product there is little incentive to aggresively cut prices once the demand fall off a bit then is the time to start getting aggressive with pricing waiting too long can really hurt your business though the powerbooks have sold very well up to now if they are slowing down apple needs to come out with some lower priced versions the only reason i own a powerbook is that i could spring for a pb the rest of the lineup is way to pricey for me i d bet they ll be coming out with more power versions too michael peirce peirce outpost sf bay org peirce software suite hibiscus place san jose california usa makers of voice fax smoothie applelink peirce america online afc peirce
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cache card and optimum memory settings here s a question that may be simple enough to answer but has stumped myself and a few others what does an external ram cache card do for you if you already have a large cache set through control panel in your simms ex i have a mac iici with meg ram an external video card so i don t rob my simm s and the default apple cache card i believe this is k say i have my cache set at meg what good does a measly k do me on the cache card could it actually slow things down by dividing the cache between the card and the simm s or does it still speed things up by providing a secondary staging area for data normally passed directly into the simm ram cache i m confused because it seems like cache cards are so low in memory to really do any good compared to what you can set yourself yet daystar fastcache has numbers which show around a performance boost on some operations are the chips on the cache card simply faster than most simm accesses please help i m trying to find the optimum memory settings for the iici system described in the ex above patrick hurh fnal fnal gov
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monitors and video cards for se hello all i am thinking about buying an external monitor for my se and was wondering if anyone out in netland has any advice for me i am mostly thinking about a color monitor and an bit card that can switch between and something higher like i read an old report on a card from lapis that could do this but could not use the external monitor as the main screen with menubar which to me is a major draw back has this perhaps been fixed or can any other cards do this like the micron xceed also which monitor should i buy at the moment i am leaning towards the sony s or what exactly is the difference between these but are there any other good cheap monitors i should know about doesn t the monitor have to be multisync to support cards that can switch resolutions please send me e mail and i ll summarize i would also greatly appreciate getting the e mail addresses of any mail order companys that sell monitors or cards thanks in advance eggert thorlacius university of iceland
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re new apple ergo mouse i believe that in order to get at the innards of the new mouse you must remove the label on the bottom that says apple desktop bus mouse ii there you should find two screws on either side i haven t tried it myself yet but when i ran my fingernail accross the label these two divots appeared and i can only assume that these are the elusive screws in question cheers john john m graham the cleveland institute of music jmg po cwru edu brought to you by the letters j m and g and the number
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re monitors in article pco einn i corona hsc usc edu daniel s chen dschen corona hsc usc edu writes i m interested in getting a color monitor for my new lciii unfortunately i m really quite confused with the sony monitors could someone please compare the sony and the apple thanks dan just thought i would mention that sony no longer manufactures the cpd because of several manufacturing flaws the new model is now the which just like apple s new sony trinitrom claims to be inches i m not sure of the details on the defects but i work at our schools bookstore and can tell you that nearly half of them were returned with some kind of defect or another just my two cents worth
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re monitors joseph m kasanic jmk po cwru edu writes just thought i would mention that sony no longer manufactures the cpd because of several manufacturing flaws the new model is now the which just like apple s new sony trinitrom claims to be inches i m not sure of the details on the defects but i work at our schools bookstore and can tell you that nearly half of them were returned with some kind of defect or another i m assuming that you are referring to the s correct what kind of flaws have been reported i ve been using mine for about months now and i haven t noticed any problems might they develop later or did i get lucky and snag a good monitor just curious john john m graham the cleveland institute of music jmg po cwru edu brought to you by the letters j m and g and the number
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re how do you like the apple color onescanner in article apr midway uchicago edu johnc jcav ellis uchicago edu writes we re all set to buy one of these for the office to use for scanning in color photographs and for optical character recognition we ve played with the original grayscale onescanner and were very pleased is the color model comparable in quality also what brand of ocr software would you recommend we re leaning toward caere omnipage any better ideas thanks i work in a campus bookstore and we had the opportunity to demo the color one scanner i found it to be very impressive as well as affordable with the educational discount of course note also that it comes with ofoto software which is sufficient for our needs
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re need advice about tech works etc gregory welch writes i followed the instructions for returning the old ram expecting to see a credit on my visa within a few weeks well months went by and no credit after many calls almost none of which were ever returned arghhh i finally found someone who told me why we never received your old chips i then explained i the procedure that i had followed to return them to which the person replied you mean you sent them us mail which i had per the original sales person s instructions i was told that they their loss of us mail shipments is not uncommon come on and that i should have sent the stuff via fedex etc i also returned pb memory last summer for credit and the sales person warned me not to use us mail i did although i did insure the shipment and apparently techworks got it my minor grip with techworks is that they have different price lists for different people i ordered duo memory thinking i got their best price because of my employeer i subsequently found out that apple was offering developers memory for less than techworks charged called up to complain and was told i should have said i was an apple developer and they credited my card for about of the purchase price i like techworks quality and installation instructions and they include powerbook tools but for out of ca purchases no sales tax chip merchant seems to be a bit less forrest howard oracle corporation oracle parkway box redwood shores ca
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lc vs rc in centris i would like to know what people s opinions are about the real world differences are between a c with and without a coprocessor i don t use anything like mathamatica maple etc i don t use spreadsheets at least no sheets with complicated anything i don t use d cad apps although i used to i do use d renderers extensive communications i run a bbs i write software i write papers etc btw just for kicks this is what i was told by my local apple rep about upgrading a lc to a rc on a c well apple built in an extra socket for the coprocessor chip that way you just plug in the coprocessor and it works i then heartily laughed and hung up the phone thanks nate o o i hate quotations this message brought you by tell me what you know nate sammons and the number ralph waldo emerson ns longs lance colostate edu o o
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re lc vs rc in centris i also use photoshop to edit photos and do dtp work nate
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re new apple ergo mouse in article c eqg h dartvax dartmouth edu hades dartmouth edu writes nwcs utkvx utk edu schizophrenia means never being alone writes does anyone know how to open up the apple ergo mouse adb mouse ii mine lives near a cat true really and picks up her fur from what i can tell it looks like apple welded it shut you must not have tried very hard i just opend mine in about seconds take a look on the bottom it has a dial that turns to open much like the older adb mouses used to have it s a bit harder to turn at first but it is quite simple to open nope i m pretty sure that this person knows how to take the ball out i think that what they want to do is take the mouse apart the old mouse had four screws on the bottom that you could unscrew to do this while there s no obvious way to take the new one apart tony quan cs stanford edu
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re iisi clock upgrade hi i have been getting a lot of requests for this information so i thought i would post it for those interested parties sorry for length to increase the maciisi speed to mhz or mhz the clock must be changed from mhz to mhz or mhz respectively this is done by going to a static free work station or putting some aluminum foil down to work on open up the si by lifting the tabs at the back of the case remove the hard disk by disconnecting the power and scsi cables spreading the tabs and lifting the drive out remove the flopy drive remove the power supply by spreading the tab in front and lifting the supply straight up and out remove the fan by pressing the ears together at the back bottom side of the fan and lifting straight up and out remove the mother board by spreading the tabs on the left and right side of the board and sliding the board forward then lifting the board out all connectors on the back of the board must be removed first desolder the mhz clock the one closest to the memory modules this is not easy even for a skilled solderer get an ic socket with the round pins and remove four of the pins by pushing them up from the bottom with long nose pliers put the four pins in the holes vacated by the clock and solder them in insert a mhz or mhz clock put large power transistor heat sink s on the processor chip and the other large chip just to the right of the processor and figure some way to hold the heat sync s in place i made a simple clamp by putting a four inch screw up through the hole in the board between the two chips mount the screw using insulated washers screw a cross member down over the heat sync s to hold them in place don t use too much pressure put it all back together and go for it disclaimer this is only the procedure i used and is not authorized by anyone you are on your own for this procedure i m quite sure it will void your warentee bye for now ralph durtschi idaho state university email durtralp ux isu edu
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racet optical i ve got a racet mo drive with a ricoh ro e mechanism with the new roms the thing is i have a new tosoh optical disk bytes per sector cart for the thing that refuses to mount or be formatted all the carts that i have for the drive that work are racet certified media k sector carts all i can think of is that this tosoh cart uses some kind of incompatible low level format anyone know what software will allow this to be formatted on this drive or a new dip setting for the mechanism i ve tried just about every combination of drivers and custom formatting programs i can find with no luck any ideas joshc csa bu edu if you have a good idea please e mail it to this address if possible i can t check this newsgroup constantly thanks
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powerbook the powerbook with fax data modem is available thru citibank s citidollars catalog for s h citidollars the modem is bps data bps fax send only monty solomon po box framingham ma monty roscom think com
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problems with a rose does anyone work with the a rose card we have the problem that after certain crashes the card disappears from the system and lets crash the mac then okay we don t use the card quite like one should because we simulate errors in the before every instruction some specified registers are masked eg to simulate a stuck at error in certain bits normally the crash instance of a rose notices a crash sets a flag and stops working by reading the mentioned flag the mac can notice a card crash that works fine for almost all crashes but as said sometimes the card doesn t set the flag and disappears from the system the documentation of a rose does not tell us anything about its behavior when crashing and so at the moment we are trying to understand by analyzing the assembler code and that s both frustrating and lengthy so can anyone help please only reply via email as i don t read this group department of computer science iv university of dortmund germany laf aennig e mail maennig veronica informatik uni dortmund de in the beginning god created adam ahem atoms atoms of hydrogen
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re floptical question in article bmyers slip x ots utexas edu bmyers ccwf cc utexas edu billy lee myers jr writes the last time i looked floptical disk weren t all that cheap per floptical disk per megabyte per sysquest is per megabyte flopticals have been available since the beginning of the year at per floptical per megabyte and i have seen them advertised in macweek at per megabyte for someone on a tight budget the fact that the minimal dollar increment for more storage is less versus sometimes matters
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centris video problem help we have recently obtained a centris and it has developed an unusual video problem model with mb hd k vram no cards monitor apple when the computer is set for colors and certain operations are done particularly vertical scrolling through a window horizontal white lines appear on the monitor which generally but not always spare open windows 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 colors or a inch apple monitor with colors is used i suspect a bad video ram chip but cannot be certain the problem has been apparent since day 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 azelenet bigmac mskcc org thank you for your help andrew zelenetz molecular biology program memorial sloan kettering cancer center
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noisy se what can i do 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 regarding failed raid attempt in tx
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tempest and cyclone info needed if anyone has any information about the upcoming new computers cyclone and tempest i am in need of some info anything would be greatly appreciated thanks shawn breedsa wkuvx bitnet
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re rumours about new duos jek ultb isc rit edu j e king writes since we are on the subject of chip power consumption i heard from a very reliable source that the dec alpha chip uses the power that intel s pentium chip does and it still whips the pentium s butt makes you wonder why intel ever made a chip to begin with wouldn t you like a powerbook alpha running about mips cool idea bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt sorry wrong it would be an extremely hot idea at least with the current alphas the available alphas run up to mhz but they produce quite a bit of heat in fact so much that they need special mounting with extra large heat sinks also apple looks pretty commited to the powerpc route instead of a deal with dec sid sidney w kitchel kitchel cs indiana edu kitchel dpsi com data parallel systems inc dpsi e morningside drive bloomington indiana usa fax
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ps appletalk card question i have a chance to buy a used ps appletalk card to create a network with my home machines however the guy who has the card tells me there s a db or db can t remember now on the back of the card rather than the pin or pin mini din that i expect this sounds more like a thicknet ethernet card should there be a transciever on it like on the quadras what would be a reasonable price to expect to pay for one of these cards keeping in mind that it s micro channel architecture which means take your best guess and double it email replies would be appreciated to here or to rrr ideas com thanks richr the opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the university of north carolina at chapel hill the campus office for information technology or the experimental bulletin board service internet launchpad unc edu or
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removable storage we have a quadra with mb hd but need to a lot of sound sampling for auditory research what would be the best type of removable media for storing these audio clips ron they say i m lazy but it takes all my time life s been good to me so far joe walsh ron pritchett internet pritchet ash cs scarolina edu fidonet ron pritchett
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a mouse in the bottom drawer i just found an old a mouse with a db pin plug i assume that it belonged to a deceased plus or something could any simple modification turn it into a proper adb mouse reply by mail preferably thanks ulf lagerstedt communicator c consult sweden ulf c consult comm se
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re re re x video on q adaptor pinouts this does not make sence why would the fg work but the fgx not work it is the same monitor without accucolor and digital controls works fine at x with svga what s the deal anyway you can get a svga with mm and x for at damark are you saing that it probably would work while a nec won t the fgx has a maximum horizontal scan rate of khz so driving it at khz to get x on the mac is way beyond the tolerance the fg is spec ed at khz so going khz is only above the minimally guaranteed figure i too doubt if the damark monitor would sync to a mac at x like most things you get what you pay that s the deal john rutirasiri p s i wouldn t have posted if i wasn t sure
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re quadra acceleration about this quadra clock acceleration has anyone heard of anything like it for the quadra please reply e mail i don t get to the news very often thanks mark beale mbeale at wallaby mrc uidaho edu
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re mac plus is constantly rebooting in article c hsyu dxq hpuerca atl hp com russ hpuerca atl hp com russ hodes writes tae shin tshin husc harvard edu wrote basically the mac pluses are constantly rebooting themselves as if the reboot button were being pushed sometimes the mac is able to fully boot and display the desktop but it is only a matter of time before it reboots again at times the frequency is as high as several times a minute i wonder if your mac has those little reset interupt switches installed they are plastic devices that push on the switches which are inside the mac or mabey those switches are bad and need replacing this problem is usually a low vdc from the power supply there is an adjustment for this on the supply if the voltage is still unstable or low then the culprit is probably a bad rectifier at cr jeff hite computing center u of oregon jeffh ludwig cc uoregon edu
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a stylewriter ii question i just read an article on the swii one thing puzzles me the article says the swii is a serial only device does that mean i ll have to unplug my modem each time i want to print something
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cd rom for a quadra would there be any problems with hooking up a toshiba external cd rom drive to a ron hey jack the ripper won t you come on over and hook me up to the power lines of your love jethro tull ron pritchett internet pritchet ash cs scarolina edu fidonet ron pritchett
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re interesting adb behaviour on c in article apr waikato ac nz ldo waikato ac nz lawrence d oliveiro waikato university writes i ve noticed an interesting phenomenon on my centris if i unplug the keyboard and mouse and plug them in again without turning the power off the mouse suddenly switches to about half its normal movement speed i check the mouse control panel and there s no change in its setting there it s still on full speed the way i like it restarting the machine restores the normal mouse speed by the way it happens with both the newer style mouse that came with the centris and the older style mouse from my iifx at work thus i don t think it has anything to do with the resolution setting in the mouse it s definitely a quirk of the adb interface either hardware or software in the centris itself i have noticed this exact same phenomenon occurs with my lciii perhaps it is a quirk of the new machines dan
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iisi clock upgrades any new reports about iisi clock upgrade to mhz mhz any failures a iisi owner with a slow mac and an itchcy soldering iron
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what is rom accelerated video in the macuser article on the new centris and quadra machines mentioned that the c and the q and not the c had rom accelerated video it didn t seem to make much difference in their benchmark test what is it i don t recall seeing it in dale adams post erik speckman p s could someone tell me if dale s posts on video and memory are archived somewhere
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re quadra hades coos dartmouth edu brian v hughes writes jbailey world std com jim bailey writes b clark nwu edu brian clark writes quarda is a popular misspelling of quadra which has a mhz processor the has a mhz and some local buses on the motherboard run faster the video is different also the can run a and i believe a monitor in bit color without a vram upgrade actually you could put as much vram into a q as you want and you still won t be able to get bit color on any monitor it s not part of the on board video the q however can use bit video on monitors up to with mb of vram hades yes but if you upgrade the vram in a you get bit color so you really don t care my point is that out the box the has more video capability for the same size monitors the can do bit with both and doesn t support and does bit on monitors
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re quadra differences jim jagubox gsfc nasa gov jim jagielski writes jbailey world std com jim bailey writes rdk cec wustl edu robert david klapper writes i also believe that the fixed a bug in the cpu which screwed up some floating point calculations robert d klapper washington university in st louis rdk cec 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 and are basically runs at mhz not mhz has mhz i o bus not mhz upgraded graphics controller results in q requiring ns vram not ns rom fixes a rounding errors in floating point calculations at th 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 buffers so no doubt the person was refering to a hardly screwing up though jim jagielski and he s gonna stiff me so i say jim jagubox gsfc nasa gov hey lama how about something nasa gsfc code you know for the effort greenbelt md
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re what to put in centris internal bay hades coos dartmouth edu brian v hughes writes tzs stein u washington edu tim smith writes jbailey world std com jim bailey writes yes you get internal mixing of the analog cd audio outputs with the mac generated audio on the mac motherboard also you can sample the cd audio using the sound control panel by clicking on the options button next to the microphone icon how do you click on the options button i ve never seen it undimmed the latest word on this is you have to disconnect the microphone cable on the motherboard then the button is supposed to un dim hades sorry i assumed that the the various new machines with the internal cd rom bay worked the same as the quadra obviously they don t i can use any of three inputs by changing the radio button under the sound cp on my quadra microphone external and cd rom i always leave the microphone plugged in even though i never use it
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re iici q upgrade in article c ha x oq austin ibm com login austin ibm com writes a while ago i posted a note asking for specs on the quadra and opinions on the q upgrade of a iici vs an accelerator card so far no responsed that i ve noticed please let me know what you think of these possible upgrade paths cost efficiency pros cons etc thanks complete q are best obtained from your dealer or some recent copy of macworld or macuser my foggy memory suggests that the most relevant comparison factors vis a vis a iici are as follows mhz mhz data path don t recall this for sure but it s slower than q style machines for sure ethertalk card on board audio in out mb ram on motherboard simm slots nubus slots more flexible build in video than the ci uses vram in comparison a iici with an accelerator won t give you audio or ethernet or the same video options with a accelerator cpu performance can be comparable but i think it ends up costing more greg dudek
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re sampling cd audio was re what to put in centris ldo waikato ac nz lawrence d oliveiro waikato university writes in article bskendigc h i fu netcom com bskendig netcom com brian kendig writes jbailey world std com jim bailey writes yes you get internal mixing of the analog cd audio outputs with the mac generated audio on the mac motherboard also you can sample the cd audio using the sound control panel by clicking on the options button next to the microphone icon what s this my iivx with an internal cd doesn t have any cd audio icon i can t find any such option on my centris either on the other hand i don t see why i need one if i try recording sound with the built in microphone with an audio cd playing in the drive i get the cd audio mixed in with the microphone sound and i guess if i unplug the microphone then i ll get uncontaminated cd audio admittedly sampled at bits through a d a d conversion sorry about the misinformation i made a bad assumption about the new machines behaving like a quadra see previous post about sampling the cd audio though have you tried it i found the aliasing to be really bad like it needed a filter or something much worse than i expected i installed the cd in the quadra myself so maybe i missed something everything else works great though
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re recommendations for removable storage media wanted in article apr kth se you write after having used both syqyest and bernoulli s i most enthuiastically recommend bernoulli s syquests although more popular are much slower prone to cartridge what does your friends have buy it if you have no friends buy a mb optical and stop i bought a bernoulli pro drive last year after comparing it with lots of diffrent storage solutions optical drives are slow very slow compared to to ms access of bernoulli since i needed additinol online storage rather than just a backup or archiev e disk i choosed bernoulli drive i use adobe preimere and quicktime movies alot you ran out of storage real fast imho the best buy currently is the bernoulli multidisk mb per cartridge homayoon akhiani turning ideas into reality digital equipment corporation alpha the new beginning reed rd hudson ma all rights reserved copyright c email akhiani ricks enet dec com the words are mine and not my employer
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lcd overhead projectors i am looking for one of those color lcd screens you place on an overhead projector and control the presentation with a mac can you recommend me a particular brand what price are we talking about thanks jan vandenbrande jan ug eds com new address jan lipari usc edu school address forwards uucp uunet uupsi ug jan
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re ad conversion i am working a data acquisition and analysis program to collect data from insect sensory organs another alternative is the use of the sound input port can you really make due with the non existent dynamic range of an bit converter of probably dubious linearity and monotonicity and perhaps ac coupled as well it would depend on the requirements of the poster s data for some purposes resolution with or without calibration curve otherwise the other possibilities would be get a digital voltameter with serial output connect to serial port on mac collect data with some communications program buy an a d chip from analog devices burr brown etc connect to a parallel to serial converter use serial port for acquisition nah too much soldering and trouble shooting get a board from national instruments data translation omega etal the finest solution but possibly the most costly to the original poster if the signal is too large why not use a voltage divider two resistors cost very cheap george sukenick sci ccny cuny edu
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powerbook batteries a quick query for powerbook gurus tom spearman in a post on alternative powerbook battery options mentioned that there exist versions of their powerbook batteries a amp hour one m a a amp hour one m b and a amp hour one m c anyone out there know how to determine which of these a battery is i looked at my battery and there is no obvious exterior indication i contacted tom spearman who had gleaned the information from macuser and he didn t know either anyone out there know the answer thanks christopher majka nextug ac dal ca btw if you can reply via email i would be grateful i don t often read this newsgroup i will post a summary of answers
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re what happens if you completely flatten your pb s battery in article c fodg on raistlin udev cdc com swiers chaos aqeng cdc com aaron swiers writes schuyler netcom com gabriel m schuyler writes stanger otago ac nz nigel stanger writes can running a powerbook s battery completely flat have any detrimental side effects other than the pb not going i ask only two things i can think of although nicad c batteries should be completely discharged about once a month leadacid batteries shouldn t ever be completely discharged well maybe once in a while is okay this is a very common mis conception dealing with ni cad batteries it is a good idea to completely discharge a ni cad cell periodically it is not a good idea to completely discharge a ni cad battery the difference being that a cell is only one cell nicad puts out volts like a rechargeable aaa aa c or d a battery is defined as more than one cell volt or for nicad equivalent due to differences in the individual cells of a battery complete discharge can actually harm a nicad battery more than help it overcome the memory effect the most common problem is that over time an individual cell can develop internal shorts which will weaken other cells that are connected to it thus reducing the lifespan of your battery pack etc okay naive question how does one discharge a cell without discharging the entire battery
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memory upgrades excuse me if this is a frequent question i checked in several faqs but couldn t really find anything i have a iisi with the standard meg memory and i want need to add additional memory but i m on a budget i really don t need more than meg max so what is the best performance wise and most economical way to do this someone told me that i should only use simms of the same amount of memory that is meg meg etc what if i just wanted to buy just meg and use the rest of what i already have the manual hasn t been very helpful with this thanks respond via e mail if it isn t worth the bandwidth common human laws and interests i wouldn t exactly call it a and emotions have no validity a happy dogma but it makes me or signifigance in the vast feel better about not cosmos at large getting laid hp lovecraft r carter jacob sunspot ssl berkeley edu
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trying to find a reliable power center for macs hi there i am trying to find out a reliable power center it is basically a surge protector that sits below the monitor and has individual control for each outlet some people have an opinion that none of them work well the ones that i could locate in microcenter catalogue were tripp lite s isobar command console proxima power director kensington masterpiece plus has anyone used one of these could you please send me your feedback on these thanks shalabh
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centris tms drive i recently purchased a centris and am having difficulty getting my computer to recognize my hard disk drive external using both the disk uitily of tms diskwriter and jasmine s software neither one will show the drive the drive is the only device connected to the scuzzi port i cant find the manual to the tms pro and seem to remember that it is terminated is there something else that i am doing or not doing that does not allow my to recognize my external disk drive thanks in advance for the information eugene e rosen genie erosen riverside road compuserve sandy hook ct aol gene rosen
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modem question art
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re educational pricing in article c iz n kyv cs dal ca hayes ug cs dal ca kevin b hayes writes you can find retail that is within the price of a keyboard of educational prices i would be very wary of retail outlets selling as cheap as educational prices i went for a retailer actually mail order cda computers because its price was better thant the campus computer store i found out why later on when i tried to get a repair done at an apple registered repair center the cpu was a resale the serial number had been removed and replaced with a non standard number probably from cda computers consequently the apple repair man could not do any warrenty repairs so i ended up with just a day warrenty from cda over the apple month warrenty boy was i pi ed moral of the story caveat emptor however if you go with a reliable trustworthy mail order firm if they exist maybe someone could enlighten us with their experiences you will probably get a better price than your local educational outlet simply because mail order out of state does not require sales tax yet though for how much longer remains to be seen the addition in sales tax on a cpu purchase will probably wipe out an educational discount again caveat emptor some mail order companies do include sales tax on purchases even if they are out of state so check richard richard j appleyard f jaguar csc wsu edu o o washington state university voice fax o to err is human but to really screw things up takes a computer
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re accelerator for se i too am interested in peoples experience with accelerators for the se is an accelerator the best route to improve performace in my se or should i consider upgrading to an se motherboard obviously buying a new mac would be ideal but alas i only have enough money for an accelerator or motherboard e mail reply preferred thanks steve labovitz dept of materials science engineering u penn
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where can i get the cheapest price hi all does anyone know where i can get the cheapest price for the teleport gold fax modem by global village any answer will be highly appreciated thanks in advance regards thian
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to fix trackball the trackbal on my pb no longer moves in the horizontal direction when i called the nearest authorized apple service person i was told that it probably needed replacing and that would cost me over ouch can anyone recommend a less expensive way to fix this problem one strange symptom of the problem is that when i take the ball out of the socket and shine a light into the hole i can make the cursor move horizontally by moving the wheel with my finger it works fine that way but won t work if i turn off the light any suggestions or comments ben roy just a poor college student internet br a american edu
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re monitor turning off on its own in article gcohen mailer acns fsu edu gcohen mailer acns fsu edu gregory cohen wrote in article apr rhrk uni kl de staudt physik uni kl de willi staudt ag linder writes from staudt physik uni kl de willi staudt ag linder subject re monitor turning off on its own date tue apr gmt kayc leland stanford edu k c ku writes i have a strange problem with my apple monitor which hopefully someone can shed some light on i would be using my computer for minutes and then the screen would go blank as if someone has switch the monitor off after the screen went off i would not be able to turn the monitor off even if i turn the power off and back on i will have to let the monitor sit over night and it usually turns on although it doesnt stay on for very long dooes anybody has similar experience with such a problem before is there some fuse in the monitor that prevents it from turning on when i try to turn the monitor on it seems that the monitor tries to turn on but it prevented by some mechamism in certain apple rgb monitors there has been a problem with the high voltage capasitor apple knows about this problem and is replacing the cap at no cost if it falls into the bad batch that they got from their supplier your local repair shop should know about repair extension l
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hp laserjet iii printing non appletalk with duo how does one print to a non appletalk printer using dmm laserwriter stuff i m using the serial driverand does nothig i vetried saving a postscriptfile and then tried sending with sendps and it says can topen laserwriter driver then some appletalk messagethatprinter not specified i m using and imagewritwrite one cable should i use a null modem adapter help lowell lowell reiter i need a vacation now tufts university internet account lreiter jade tufts edu
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dead mouse my macclassic mouse died i dissected it and determined that it is the microswitch that senses the click that is stuck in the depressed mode this tragedy prompts the following questions is it easy to find a microswitch that i could solder into the place of the old switch i have old mice max mac ke can they be used with some adapter
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general questions on software and hardware i have just been introduced to macintosh systems i have a few questions e mail prefered just what is system i want hard details not dingy commercials like their ads in magazines has anyone used the microsoft office i would like suggestions on and descriptions on each has a microsoft before the actual name a word b excel c power point d mail what is the major differences between mac wordperfect and word thanks a lot
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performa internal modem i hear that the performa is really an lciii with an internal modem can the modem part be obtained and installed in an lciii it would be nice if it were actually a powerbook internal modem but that might be too much to hope for
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re interesting adb behaviour on c in article apr waikato ac nz i said i know that plugging and unplugging adb devices with the power on is not supported and you can hit problems if you have multiple devices with clashing addresses and all that i ve had a couple of e mail responses from people who seem to believe that this sort of thing is not only unsupported it is downright dangerous i have heard of no such warnings from anybody at apple just to be sure i asked a couple of our technicians one of whom has been servicing macs for years there is no danger of damaging logic boards by plugging and unplugging adb devices with the power on scsi yes adb no lawrence d oliveiro fone computer services dept fax university of waikato electric mail ldo waikato ac nz hamilton new zealand s e gmt
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re quadra scsi problems jim jagubox gsfc nasa gov jim jagielski writes what the heck is this is this true aps has no info since they get their formatter from apollyonics and they haven t been any help actually it s transoft now and that s what i meant jim jagielski and he s gonna stiff me so i say jim jagubox gsfc nasa gov hey lama how about something nasa gsfc code you know for the effort greenbelt md
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lc iii nubus capable forgive me if this has been asked before but here goes my friend recently purchased a lc iii and he wants to know if there is such a demon called nubus adapter for his pds slot compusa and computercity supercenter says they don t carry them does this mean lc iii is incapable of carrying a nubus board much obiliged marvin mmiller garnet msen com the more i deal with hearing editor in chief co publisher of people the more i understand the deaf michigander terrorism a year for by marvin monthly newspaper e mail me for a complimentary above quote does not apply to copy today all hearing people though
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re asante en sc pb adaptor won t work with duo bill kurland bill panix com wrote i guess this changes my opinion of them and i thought i would warn any prospective customers for the en sc pb fwiw i work for focus enhancements and a lot of the people we sell our etherlan sc sc t our scsi ethernet interface are disgruntled en sc users i also now need to know if anyone has been successful with the comparable product from dayna or focus i really don t want to use up that nubus slot sigh i wish i had better news the focus etherlan sc is currently incompatible with the duos this may change in the future we do have apple register compatible cards that are compatible with the duodocks though send questions to focus applelink apple com peter a cohen i d rather be telecommuting
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re interesting adb behaviour on c in article bb a df djcohen yalevm ycc yale edu daniel cohen djcohen yalevm ycc yale edu writes i ve noticed an interesting phenomenon on my centris if i unplug the keyboard and mouse and plug them in again without turning the power off the mouse suddenly switches to about half its normal movement speed i check the mouse control panel and there s no change in its setting there it s still on full speed the way i like it restarting the machine restores the normal mouse speed by the way it happens with both the newer style mouse that came with the centris and the older style mouse from my iifx at work thus i don t think it has anything to do with the resolution setting in the mouse it s definitely a quirk of the adb interface either hardware or software in the centris itself i have noticed this exact same phenomenon occurs with my lciii perhaps it is a quirk of the new machines sorry but mine works fine c my cents worth
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best frontplate for syquest in iivi iivx c could someone tell me how to make find get the best frontplate for iivi iivx c with internal syquest drive is there one available or do i have to make one from the original or cd rom one or scratch every suggestion welcome jartsu
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spigot on lc iii a friend of mine has problems running spigot lc on an lc iii his configuration is spigot lc lc iii system video spigot extension i would appriciate if i can get any postitive negative experience with this setup thanks amir
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