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re floptical question in article bmyers slip x ots utexas edu billy lee myers bmyers ccwf cc utexas edu writes floptical is of course a different technology and doesn t enjoy the long term data storage of opticals and the last time i looked floptical disk weren t all that cheap per floptical disk per megabyte per sysquest is per megabyte i don t know how many times i ve posted this the net no one ever listens once and for all floptical media is only a megabyte if you don t know where to buy it i am bying my flopticals at per disks i see that as a meagabyte not no i m not buying in bulk i m not getting a special deal a meg is good in my book approching floppy price any questions on my source can be sent to ctr po cwru edu chris chris roberts here we go again ctr po cwru edu ctr pyrite som cwru edu roberts snowhite eeap cwru edu roberts alpha ces cwru edu well at least you know where to find me now logged in a terminal checking my mail
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mz for sale absolutely never used i have a new mhz motorola that i am willing to sell if i get a good enough offer it is still in its static free sealed package if i don t get a good enough offer i will use it to replace my lc any takers supposedly you can get one of these for however at the moment the demand is higher than the supply so i think is a good round number i will pay shipping of course all offers should be send to lewallen cis ohio state edu
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updated keyboard question for the plus i have an old mac plus a couple of years ago i bought a shiney new lc it came with apple s new keyboard with abd ports i replaced it with a mac pro plus extended keyboard which i thoroughly enjoy thank you very much well i have this extra keyboard which i would like to use on the plus but there s a little problem the plus uses an rj jack for keyboard input and the new keyboards don t i got an extra adb cable from my local apple dealer they re such nice people but they couldn t tell me the order of the wires there are four wires in the adb cables black white red tan i know one s a ground one gets the serial signal one supplies volts and i forgot what the fourth one does anyway if you hook them up wrong you ll fry a board and i really don t want to do that if any brave souls out there have done this before please e mail your experience directly to me i would greatly appreciate it especially since apple s original keyboard is not ergonomically correct btw i did take apart my new keyboard to see if i could find the correlation between the wires for the rj jack and the adb since it has both but no such luck the connections are soldered inside of little boxes oh well one more thing in case you are thinking that the abd ports on the newer models are different from the connection used on the plus you re right however you can use the telephone cable from the plus and connect the mac pro plus keyboard via its own rj jack in other words this little engineering feat i wish to do is possible it s merely a matter of finding out the correct order omt when i get this to work i definitely will post the solution so others can too thanx for the input tis the blink of an eye tis the draught of a breath from the blossoms of health to the paleness of death from the gilded saloon to the briar in the shroud o why should the spirit of mortal be proud william knox shagberg vm cmp ilstu edu
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re iisi clock upgrades i too have been watching the iisi speedup reports and plan to upgrade in the next few weeks the plan i have is to build a small board with a few different crystals on it and to be able to switch between the different speeds using a front pannel switch this way i can get the speed when i want but i can also run at slower stock speeds it i experience any compatability problems with any applications i don t expect to be able to switch clock speeds with the system running but if i can switch without any lock up problems then i could switch to mhz when needed and put it back to idle mhz when not needeed this would further reduce the wear and tear on the cpu even with a heat sink of course i would not want to run the different clock signals through the switch but use a chip or two on the board to select the frequency desired and route it directly to the mother board i haven t started probing around inside my si yet does anyone know the voltage level to power the crystal oscilators thanks tom dickens boeing computer services tpd yak ca boeing com these statements are mine and not boeing s
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re which fax modem is the best well i am using the home office i bought it for arounde it does i don t know if it s for data or fax but the feature i use is the voic mail box which i really have liked captain zod zod ncube com
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accelaratores do the accelaratores make a lot of difference as i understand there is graphics and cpu accelaration does graphics accelarator help out with the scanner and the photo shop is combination of both practical i have a mac iici what kinds of accelaratores can i use captain zod zod ncube com
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photo shop scanner i have a macc iici and a color scanner i scanned a picture at dpi when i try to print it on my hp color printer after minutes of making noise the mac hangs i would need to reboot it what does this mean do i need to buy more memory i have mb now i also have about mb of disk free and the scanned picture is about mb captain zod zod ncube com
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re mac plus is constantly rebooting on a side note has anyone ever had a mac plus smoke out on them we have had four machines that all of a sudden start emitting a thick grayish white smoke in each case it was a capacitor that had gone bad has anyone else encountered this keith cooley ee macintosh lab administrator louisiana tech university tkc engr latech edu we ve had it happen a time or two beginning students think it is pretty entertaining when it happens during a lab lecture or demonstration
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request info on floptical drives i m considering adding a floptical drive to my current system what i would like to know is which floptical drives are recommended for their quality and performance my preference would be floptical drives capable of handling both k and k floppies but handling k floppies is not a necessity so far i only know a bit about the iomega floptical and the infinity floptical drives are there any comments recommendations for either of these are there any other floptical drives that are worth looking into and where can they be purchased i e which mail order places etc thanks in advance please send replies directly to umsoroko ccu umanitoba ca mike sorokowski umsoroko ccu umanitoba ca
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for sale teleport adb bps modem w send fax i am selling my global village teleport bps modem w send fax it connects to the mac through the adb port the software for sending faxes is included i am asking however i will consider other reasonable offers please e mail me dave dave peak internet dppeak matt ksu ksu edu aol skibum
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for sale mb ns simms i have two meg simms that i am trying to sell i had them in my lc i would like to get for each one they are only three months old and have a lifetime warrenty they are ns simms i will also consider other reasonable offers please e mail me dave internet dppeak matt ksu ksu edu aol skibum
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put ex syquest in centris i remember reading a thread a few days ago that mentioned removing an external syquest drive from its case and dropping it in the internal drive of a centris i was going to do that with my but had a couple of questions my pli m syquest drive has a wire from the drive to an id switch on the outside of the case where do i connect this switch can the computer just tell with internal drives i noticed that the drive will lay over part of the motherboard i didn t look closely but i seem to recall it laying over the ram that s soldered onto the motherboard would that cause problems one last question is there anywhere to order a faceplate cover the drive s front panel is smaller than the space left in the case the drive s panel is the same size as the spotsbm clone s cases should i just cut a hole in the plastic panel that is currently holding tmpty place ans are welcomed thanks keith moffatt kmoffatt vax cstp umkc edu
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re iici q upgrade in article apr thunder mcrcim mcgill edu dudek daeron mcrcim mcgill edu gregory dudek wrote 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 actually an accelerator such as the daystar mhz is cheaper than upgrading to a q mhz the accelerator costs about whereas the upgrade costs just quoted from my dealer however the q upgrade gives you very fast built in video that supports monitors up to with bit depth and up to at bit depth with additional vram it also has a scsi port capable of a much faster throughput than the ci which makes a big difference if you have a fast hard drive if the improved video and scsi features are important to you you re better off getting the q upgrade otherwise save some money and get an accelerator paul
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quadras vram question hi there i have a question regarding quadras vram i have tried to find info on this but i could not get precise answers on one hand we have a quadra with a monitor which is capable of bit color how much vram does it have on the other hand we have a quadra with a monitor which is capable of bit color only so it must have ko of vram i would like to take vram simms for the and put them in the so that both machines have bit color capability is it possible and if yes how many vram simms should i take from the from the documentation i have the quadra must get mo vram to have bit color is that correct bonus question where do vram simms hide from the documentation they seem to be behind the power supply do i really have to take off the power supply to access the vram simms thanks for your help daniel salber user interface research team lgi imag grenoble france salber imag fr
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monitor for lciii hi folks i m planning to buy a lciii but need advice on choosing a monitor what do people recommend for a decent monitor i v looked at some ads and the spec for nec fg fge and the price is within my budget but could lciii be able to use the various resolutions available on fg specifically the x resolution does lciii only support one resolution also any recommendations for a reliable mail order place for lciii or monitors does anyone have experience with the following mail order places syex express houston tx usa flex bloomingdale il thanks jeff jeff lian lian mti sgi com or lian mips com mips technologies inc n shoreline boulevard p o box m s l
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fax modem for the mac hi all thanks to you all who have responded to my request for info on various kinds of fax modem i d like to ask a few more questions what are the advantages of buying a global village teleport gold over other cheaper brands like supra zoom etc i heard that both supra and zoom use the same software why are there so many complaints about the incompatibility problems of supra what kind of incompatibility is it if i decided to buy the teleport gold is there any possibility to add a voice option in the near future has anyone heard of a possible voice option that supra will offer this coming summer a person did mention a new at t modem is it getting good reviews from various mac magazines if i want the best fastest most economically sound and possible voice option what fax modem should i buy sorry for posting so many questions but i think they re necessary i promise to repost any answers if they re not already posted by a responder thanks so much in advance regards thian
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re macs suck buy a pc this is a test erme
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se acc graphics card are there any graphics cards for the se that also have say an accelerator there seem to be plenty of accelerator graphics cards for the se but none that i ve seen for the se thanks matt madsen mmadsen ics uci edu
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adb mouse ii ergo when when is apple supposed to start bundlign the new ergonomic adb mouse ii with all cpus sold jas jeffrey a sullivan research scientist et al jas isi edu internet information sciences institute compuserve university of southern california
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help scsi woes on mac iifx i am having trouble with scsi on a mac iifx the machine is years old and i have been using the same hard drive internal maxtor lxt s for two and a half years the disk recently crashed i reformatted silverlining but during the reformat i received random write errors during testing the error message reported was like sector write error detected after testing good sector not mapped out this occurred randomly all over the hard disk which makes me suspect the diagnostic s reference to sector on the third reformat and after reinstalling the scsi read write loops i was able to get through passes and with no errors pass for some reason reported a lot of errors but still mapped out no sectors i decided to go ahead and try to resinstall system and reload my data from a backup this proceded normally however i now have sub optimal performance symptoms include o frequent crashes o instances of extremely sluggish disk access requiring a reboot to correct o instances of not finding the disk on the scsi chain on reboot if i boot from norton utl after this occurs it cannot find the disk either the only thing that fixes this is recycling the power it sometimes requires several attempts questions has anyone had this type of problem before is the problem with the fx motherboard and its non standard scsi implementation or with my maxtor disk is there some diagnostic software that would help me make this determination is it a termination problem i currently have external syquest and an external dataframe xp on the chain the xp is at the end and has internal termination so i am not using the iifx terminator i do have the scsi filter installed on the internal drive i have run with this exact steup for years with one previous disk crash requiring a reformat about a year ago i also have symptoms if i disconnect the external devices so i don t see how scsi termination would now be an issue of course who knows help would be much appreciated forrest e lumpkin iii nasa ames research center lumpkin corvus arc nasa gov
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re dsp or other cards for fft s anyone in article qjnpi bsj nz rz uni karlsruhe de ig fg rz uni karlsruhe de thomas koenig wrote we are doing heavy duty image processing with some seriously underpowered mac s mac iisi for example most of the cpu time is burned in doing fft s what cards are out there which would allow us to take away that part of the load from the cpu any dsp or i cards out there for example they d have to be callable from think pascal to replace the one and two dimensional fft s routines in an already existing program check out the national instruments nb dsp this uses the texas instruments tms c chip which is a true bit floating point dsp it s pricey however
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re high resolution adc for mac ii in article qidk innhk iskut ucs ubc ca rob douglas douglas ecc ubc ca wrote in article qhfmg hoh lll winken llnl gov charles e cunningham cec imager writes i would like to buy a bit adc card for the mac ii with digitization rate of at least khz preferably khz i would prefer one with good differential and integral linearity and dma would be a plus other than national instruments do you know of any other vendor who sells such a card instrutech corp has a nice looking bit a d and d a board that can run at the speeds you want the itc doesn t have dma but it does have a good sized fifo that can buffer your samples instrutech can be reached at or fax i don t know about the instrutech boards though i plan to check them out but you need to be very careful checking the monotonicity and s n ratio of many of the bit boards out there the ni boards are very clearly specified in terms of monotonicity s n ratio accuracy etc and the nb a and nb a have all the dyynamic range and freedom from distortion that you d expect from a good true bit converter this is not true for the spectral innovations boards for example
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iivx c upgrade question if you get teh iivx c upgrade does it include a new sticker to cover the iivx identifier with a centris indetifier jas jeffrey a sullivan research scientist et al jas isi edu internet information sciences institute compuserve university of southern california
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pds vs nubus was re lc iii nubus capable in article c kzls kkb dartvax dartmouth edu hades coos dartmouth edu brian v hughes writes mmiller garnet msen com marvin miller writes 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 the lc family of macs can only use pds cards they are not able to use nubus ah but why can some technically hip macslinger tell us what the difference is between pds and nubus is it impossible to make a gadget that plugs into pds and ends in a nubus card cage at least marvin s friend has not been able to locate one and neither have i what is the fundamental reason for this o zap bill higgins fermi national accelerator laboratory bitnet higgins fnal bitnet internet higgins fnal fnal gov span hepnet higgins
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power supplies for mac s i thnik i ll be able to pick up a piar of mac k s for nothing but their power supplies are dead anyone know where i can pick up a pair of refurbished ps s for cheap preferably mail order yes i do have uses planned fior them one will be sold to a friend who just needs a terminal to connect via modem to his e mail account the other will be used by me as a net client to run my downloads and or printing also what is the latest system software usable with these suckers
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re help duo problems chess cats ucsc edu brian vantuyl chess writes i just got a duo and i m having some difficulties if the machine is plugged in to the wall adapter put to sleep unplugged from the wall and woken up it crashes of the time there s nothing but the original system software on the machine the battery has plenty of life i think this must be a power manager problem but i don t know what to do about it also the speaker occasionally makes a high pitched hiss the noise is irregular but seems to favor sleep and restart commands i ve had my duo for a few weeks now and suffer from both of the above problems i reinstalled my system software twice in an effort to combat the problems thinking they were system software problems initially reinstalling the system seemed to help but not anymore occasionally when i try to wake up the duo i get a solid screen of horizontal lines on the screen it freezes i also get the high pitched hiss occasionally but only at startup i ve called the apple hotline sos appl three times already and finally they agreed something is astray after my duo s screen would go dim and the hard drive spun down by itselft and put itself to sleep this problem only occured twice apple sent me a box to ship my duo to be looked at in new york but the problem now is intermittent and i can t afford to be without my duo at this time anyone out there with these same problems brian cherkas bcherkas netcom com i aol brianc compuserve netcom online communication services san jose ca
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re lciii problems in article qmgjk ao 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 months from now but why take that chance if you want more detailed info on the problem please i think the other replies sum up the fact that you can place a hard drive on its side the point is this will only be sure to work on the new drives namely ht lps drives that have a smaller platter and are also more stable why should i take the chance because i ve been running a maxtor ht lps on both its side and flat for about a year and i ve had no problems with it period like i always say never trust the manufacturer just like everything else in life the right lane ends in half a mile ravi konchigeri mongoose leland stanford edu
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video cable options there was a discussion a couple of weeks ago about using different cables to achieve different resolutions on the quadra and centris series a company that sold the cables was mentioned can someone please e mail me the companies name address etc and any other info that may be relevant just like everything else in life the right lane ends in half a mile ravi konchigeri mongoose leland stanford edu
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re duo crashes aftersleep looks like apple bug this is a test
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powerpc ruminations was re lciii powerpc in article pyramid pyramid com andrem pyrtech mis pyramid com andre molyneux writes in article qksuq tt hal gnu ai mit edu mirsky hal gnu ai mit edu david joshua mirsky writes hi i own an lciii and i recently heard an interesting rumor i heard that the lciii has a built in slot for a powerpc chip is this true i heard that the slot is not the same as the pds slot is that true thanks david mirsky mirsky gnu ai mit edu well i also have an lc iii popping the top revealed one socket for an additional vram simm one socket for a pin ram simm one socket for a flat pack fpu a processor direct slot pds identical to the lc lc ii but with an additional set of connetions to one side for the full bit data path that the lc lc ii lacked that s it i guess a board with a powerpc chip could be made that would fit in the pds but that s the only place so will it be possible to have a nubus or pds powerpc upgrade or will it require a logic board swap it would be interesting for apple to come out with a nubus powerpc that allowed use of the cpu s x like rocketshare but i guess that s getting a bit fantastic i was wondering since macweek reported that developers were seeded with powerpcs on a nubus card also any word on machine arrivals or estimated speed last i heard the estimates were around times the speed of a quadra in native risc mode i heard an apple employee mumble something about the arrival of powerpc machines at a much earlier date that q but i doubt it s true finally is the powerpc developer s cd mini course available i saw it advertised in the developer s university calendar and i d like to know if it s at all interesting sean seanmcd ac dal ca
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don t repair that sticky mouse button call apple x posted to comp sys mac hardware and misc consumers you ve heard about apple s great new customer support program well think again sometimes the only real support out there is what apple computer users can give to each other for another example read on in the march th issue of macweek ric ford described a two year effort by liam breck to document and bring to apple s attention a problem with certain defective mice at random the switches on these mice stick in the down position until clicked a second time apparently regardless of the machine they are used with or the system software involved most of the reported problem mice were manufactured in malaysia and have an fcc id of bcga you ll recognize this sticky button symptom immediately if you have such a mouse the problem is intermittent but it s not subtle liam breck recently gave up trying to document this problem and instead suggested that people contact apple s customer assistance center directly macweek p when i called apple on march rd and described my defective mouse i was eventually given a case number f y and told apple would replace this mouse even though it is a few months out of warranty after waiting for three weeks i called back today wondering where my new mouse was this time i was told that apple had decided the serial number on my mouse mb fc is not within the undisclosed range apple is willing to replace and there is nothing i can do about it nothing that is unless enough people complain about this problem to make it worth apple s while to fix or replace the entire lot of defective mice please if you have one of these mice i need your help don t assume you know what causes the problem there are lots of theories and start hacking around inside your hundred dollar mouse instead let apple do it please take five minutes to call apple right now at united states canada uk and europe australia japan and pacific if the number isn t toll free call collect describe the problem and ask for a replacement mouse even if they refuse insist that they register the details of your case including your mouse s serial number be firm network managers and user group leaders especially please query your user bases everyone ask your friends and colleagues please don t send mail to me or post yet another sticky button report call apple directly if enough victims take the trouble to report this well known problem apple will eventually be forced to respond if apple continues to find it easy to stone wall on this issue don t expect them to offer support when the next potentially more serious mac defect is uncovered bill sloan
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help wanted monitor problems nec d iivi hello all for few past days i ve been fighting to get my nec multisync d predecessor of fg to work properly with the internal video of mac iivi with a vga adapter as described in dale adams posting about quadra video it works only some minor interferences occur small enough not to prevent any action on screen to be visible clear but because the scanrates stuff of d are well enough for emulating apple rgb i first made an adapter then got one fron the local distributor of nec with both adapters i can get a picure which looks excellent most of the time or every now and then but with radical changes on screen opening palettes large windows etc there are major interferences in sync the picture either tilts sideways or scrables up totally even when it is clear there are some spiky interferences on horizontal line alignment when accessing pull downs etc with the self made adapter almost identical to the vga one only sense pins differ it is sometimes impossible to even boot up with a picture clear enough to shut down from menu with the adapter from nec everything is well most of the time but sometimes the picture tilts badly sideways or the sync is completely lost but not nearly as often as with the self made one i know with self made adapters there can always be interference but with the one provided by nec where s the source of this interference i ll give you the pinouts of the whole mess and i hope that you can at least someone please try figure out what could be the best pin assignment for nec d i am going to make a completely new cable with maximum shieldings and isolations as soon as someone figures out how the pins should be arranged especially syncs and groundings yes i have checked that the monitor is not defective it works perfectly well with all pc graphic adapters up to x pixels and also atari hz monochrome which i am using now with it here are the pinouts stuff pin mini d sub nec d pin d sub mac at least quadra red video red gnd green video red video blue video composite sync gnd sense gnd green video red gnd green gnd green gnd sense blue gnd nc nc blue video gnd sense gnd c sync v sync gnd nc v sync h sync blue gnd v sync h sync gnd nc h sync shell gnd shell gnd connection suggested by apple for vga svga sense pins changed to emulate apple with multisync my self made adapter multisync pin mini d sub mac pin d sub sense grounded to sync gnd connection measured from an adapter to make nec fg fg emulate apple adapter provided by nec representative nec mini mac shell gnd same as above same same same same same not connected well i am waiting for your solutions and thanks jartsu
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another res question i asked a question a week or so ago about getting more res on my monitor i have a magnavox magnascan and am wondering what video cards it supports also does anybody have magnavox s email id if there is one or maybe a phone number please reply by email as i don t read much news thanks steve steven d seeger dark netcom com string he s going to blow us out of the sky then why don t you hang your flabby behind out the window and blow him out of the sky string dom airwolf
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re adding int hard disk drive to iicx yes it is possible to add a second hard drive to a mac iicx internally this is definitely not a recommended procedure by apple but i have done the equivalent to my cx after upgrading it to a quadra the power supply is still the stock cx s and it was able to power two quantum lps drives a pli scsi accelerator a micron technologies bit video board daystar quickcache new technologies overdrive and meg of ram simultaneously i added a new mount for the drive by attaching angle brackets to the drive tower the internal scsi cable was changed to a longer flat ribbon cable onto which i added an extra connector about midway the final hd was internally terminated and the drive between the motherboard and final hd had its terminator resistor packs removed cooling has not been a problem and no scsi problems occur with either the pli scsi chain or motherboard scsi hooked into the two internal hard drives it works very well for me but proceed cautiously if you wish to do the same
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re iisi clock upgrades i have read one report of a brave soul who rewired the mhz clock and a higher speed clock oscillator s outputs through a double throw switch to allow different speeds there was no mention of any attempts to switch speeds on the fly but if the si uses timing loops anything like a quadra for accessing its floppy drive dynamic switching will wreak havoc a quadra must reboot after having its clock speed significantly changed or it will be unable to properly access its floppy drive
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mo sectors track on an iso ansi standard magneto optical disc how many sectors are there per track or disc revolution and how many tracks per disc thanks jim frazier compuserve com
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help with simm configuration can someone please help me understand the current situation regarding simms i have a iisi which i will probably keep for another years i would like to add more memory ie go from mb to mb i know that i will need x mb ns or faster simms which simms pin or pin would the simms i get today be usable in years with a newer more powerful system any insight would be appreciated thanks rob rob sprecher rcs po cwru edu
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re recommendations for removable storage media wanted in article apr kth se d jwa eufrat nada kth se jon wtte writes if you have no friends buy a mb optical huh if i buy a m optical i might lose my friends why do they smell bad and stop worrying about cartridge wear bernoulli or crashes syquest on a serious note i have heard the tales about syquest failures but i am curious about jon s comments on cartridge wear for the the bernoullis can someone elaborate is there a general consensus that the m opticals are the most reliable i am mostly concerned about media failures as opposed to drive mechanism failures julian vrieslander neurobiology behavior mudd hall cornell university ithaca ny internet eacj theory tc cornell edu bitnet eacj crnlthry uucp cornell batcomputer eacj
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re centris video problem i m having it also 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 i m having exactly the same problem again it s fine when i switch to colors or a smaller monitor my configuration is model centris with mb hd vram no cards monitor mag mx f with monitor adaptor for resolution of i just discovered the problem a little while ago after plugging in my new mag monitor it seems to appear either when scrolling through a window or when using alpha or word and i enter return my guess is bad vrams as well i really hope it isn t a design flaw is anyone at apple listening pushpinder singh push media mit edu
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re duo crashes aftersleep looks like apple bug if you have a memory card installed that s not one of apple s this may be the problem for a couple of months after the release of the duo some memory manufacturers were shipping duo memory cards w improper non self refreshing chips if you have a third party card pull it and see if the sleep problem recurs tim
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re apple monitor this must be a faq from the very first days of the rgb and as for a better monitor for your well the nec fg fgx are pretty nice
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re looking for free share wares young is s u tokyo ac jp young shio hong writes i am looking for ftp sites where there are freewares or sharewares for mac it will help a lot if there are driver source codes in those ftp sites any information is appreciated f a q reference newsgroups comp sys mac apps comp sys mac misc comp sys mac system comp sys mac wanted comp sys mac hardware comp answers news answers subject introductory macintosh frequently asked questions faq sven
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for the poor owner of iisi macintosh iisi ns clock upgraded iisi works well at mhz however does not work with nubus adaptor and k disk even though it can read write k disk at mhz interestingly upgraded iisi overcomes basically the fighting between the vedio and the system so that cpu never be reduced below no mater whether the cache is on or off this is pretty useful when you use the virtual memory of system mhz mhz mhz cpu vm graf disk math fpu speedometer
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performa bundle here s what s in it i went to staples in framingham ma today and grabbed the info sheet on the bundle for a mere you get megahertz microprocessor m of ram m hard disk m floppy disk drive built in support for colors expandable to colors expansion slot keyboard and mouse display mm dot pitch for extra sharp text and graphics x pixels microphone and speaker macintosh system software for performa computers version p at ease macintosh pc exchange and quicktime software global village teleport fax modem send fax only service and support year limited warranty year of in home service toll free help line support pre installed software wordperfect works best of clickart collection touchbase datebook bestbooks the amereican heritage dictionary correct grammar apple special edition of american online with free trial membership checkfree electronic bill payment software spectre challenger scrabble editor s note the spec sheet i have list s the microprocessor as a but i corrected that didn t want to confuse anybody tim
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re quadra scsi problems noah apple com noah price writes in article qm hvinnseq shelley u washington edu tzs stein u washington edu tim smith wrote attention mac quadra owners many storage industry experts have concluded that mac quadras suffer from timing irregularities deviating from the standard scsi specification this results in silent corruption of data when used with some devices including ultra modern devices although i will not name the devices since it is not their fault that s fine but would you name the industy experts so i can try to track this down who knows i just quoted what was written in scsi director this doesn t sound right to me don t quadras use the c if so the mac has nothing to do with the scsi timing that s all handled by the chip yup that s why i m kinda curious most scsi problems i ve encountered are due to cabling i ve tried calling transoft corp about this and have either gotten the response huh to yep to nah you would expect that a damaging state ment like this would have some data to back it up anyone want transoft s phone number 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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help how to test simms hello i just got some simms at least one of which does not work i don t know if there is a software that can test simms thoroughly or i could just rely on the ram test performed by my computer during the start up when i installed a dead simm into an lc or an lc ii there would be a strange music and no display on the screen why i need your help thanks in advance yih tyng ytwu magnus acs ohio state edu
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re help need modem info for duo jmilhoan magnus acs ohio state edu jt writes hi what alternatives to the express modem do duo owners have if they want to go at least baud every place in town says they are back ordered and part of the reason i want a laptop mac is so i can use it as a remote terminal from wherever i am but i really would hate to have to wait months to get a modem in or have to settle with baud you re not going to like this but if memory serves me postings i ve read in this newsgroup and elsewhere indicate that there are no repeat no internal modems for the duo besides the express modem at any speed something having to do with the modem using the main cpu for some of its tasks and apple not releasing details on the architecture or something i m vague on the details but the gist was that there are going to be no third party internal duo modems if i m wrong somebody please correct me on this sorry to be the bearer of bad news joel joel siegel jdsiegel garnet berkeley edu jdsiegel ocf berkeley edu i myself have never been able to find out what feminism is i only know that i am called a feminist whenever i express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat rebecca west
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re questions about the centris s ram according to the seen several times postings from dale adams of apple computer both the and the require ns simms not ns only the centris requires ns simms pete i think you meant quadra but a centris probably would be a real nice machine but yeah it needs ns not ns joel joel siegel jdsiegel garnet berkeley edu jdsiegel ocf berkeley edu i myself have never been able to find out what feminism is i only know that i am called a feminist whenever i express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat rebecca west
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great deal for those of you who have ti ps laser printers if you want an envelope feeder they are now on sale direct from ti for the unbelievable price of call same for extra paper trays they have too many gray ones and want to move them out strange but true the bobmeister from planet bmug the firstclass bbs of bmug the message contained in this posting does not in any way reflect bmug s official views
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se pricing what is the value of an se hdfd david from planet bmug the firstclass bbs of bmug the message contained in this posting does not in any way reflect bmug s official views
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sony rasterops sx si for sale update hello fellow humans and other net creatures if you re at all interested in this merchandise please e mail me djk ccwf cc utexas edu i m compacting my system and moving to a single monitor system so i have two monitors and cards for sale nothing at all is wrong with these pieces i m just wanting to conserve desk space and get all of my info from one screen i d prefer to sell to people near austin and surrounding areas within driving distance like an hour away perhaps but i can ship to you if you don t live near here only problem is that i didn t keep the original boxes for the monitors but i m confident that my few months of full time service in the shipping room will enable me to safely package the monitors and flip it in your direction details mirror full page display monochrome w nubus card sold sony color monitor what s to say it got top ratings in last year s macuser report it s a sony trinitron arguably the best but i d rather not argue that point it s a great monitor in great shape but i m going to a bigger screen and although i d like to keep it finances don t justify it still selling for at macland where i bought it originally not including shipping will sell for plus shipping again make an offer if that sounds unreasonable rasterops si bit accelerated hardware zoom pan meg ram renamed the sx a few months after i bought it this board is for monitors providing accelerated bit hardware zoom pan ntsc mode you can plug it into something like the rasterops video expander and output ntsc and ram slots that use meg or meg simms for gworld ram or a ram disk software included for such functions meg of ram included meg simms selling for at bottom line without the ram add i m asking shipping included this time it s just a card original box and packaging i d actually prefer to sell the sony monitor and this card together so if you want both drop me e mail and make a bundled offer for these items cheers dan keldsen djk ccwf cc utexas edu dan keldsen are you now or have you ever been djk ccwf cc utexas edu a a berklee college student univ of texas austin b a member fan of billy death music composition mm c a max programmer m m consultant ask d a think c midi programmer
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trade mac se system for color mac ok i want to get a color mac i don t care if it is an lc or a mac ii or what but i want to go to a color machine i d prefer to trade my present mac se system plus some cash or other equipment for the color system as right now i m not full of the to buy a color system outright here s what my mac se system has mac se with internal k drive meg external external k drive imagewriter ii with color ribbon stuff that can go with it i ve got modems and i d be willing to give of the s and the with the system multitech multimodem ii data fax u s robotics sportster data microcom qx k normally will connect at only as highest but it will do faster if connected to another microcom the usr and the multitech are both brand new if interested send me e mail at dleonard wixer bga com primary judy s stamps misc topical stamps from dogs dleonard wixer bga com to cats to baseball and many many other subjects secondary for stamp information call tony leonard at dleonard wixer cactus org this is a business only number
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re why hp printers rated so low egaillou etu gel ulaval ca eric gailloux writes i m about to purchase a laser printer for my mac and i read the macuser buying guide special issue all hp printers except iiisi are rated very low compared to other noname bargain priced printers why is that so on the pc hp printers are the standard amongst printer manufacturers ps my personnal favorite budgetwise would be the iiip the iiip has just been superseded by the m which is the one i am using at work the quality of the print is execellent beating dpi printers hands down in australia the price of the m is about comparable with that of the iii series so hp are trying to get people to buy the new one anthony pun anthonyp extro ucc su oz au
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re accelerator for se in article apr ifi uio no oec ifi uio no ystein christiansen says has anyone out there in netland any experience with accelerators for se i am specially interested in speed up rate or compared to e g se need for new simms speed in ns maximum ram after upgrade compatibility i am mainly using framemaker can i use an additional big b w screen to can i install the accellerator myself no soldering price where to buy i have no experience with this particular hardware but just about every month in macworld there is an add for an combined se accelerator video board this item sells for about and comes with a mhz pair eight simm slots and a grayscale monitor this accelerator plugs into the se s lone expansion port and thus no soldering you will however need a long torx wrench to get the case open but that s not really a big deal does that sound like what you were looking for jon jon carr io maine maine edu umaine ncaa champions how about those black bears m a i n e go blue
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pin map for pin din cable facing female plug end anyone recognize this it s my little layout of a eight pin female plug connector used for many mac peripherals problem problem problem printer cheap cables using this configuration switch a couple of pins between one end and the other i want to use cheap cables for an a b box anyone know which pins get reversed so i can do some creative editing on the internals of my box any help would be greatly appreciated jon jon carr io maine maine edu umaine ncaa champions how about those black bears m a i n e go blue
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si clock reports i am continuing to collect user results to produce a more comprehensive report on iisi clock oscillator upgrades i you have attempted the modification please drop me a note with details of your experience the more reports obtained the more accurate the numbers i will generate if possible please include the following top speed achieved system configuration at top mhz setting a speed rating of the cpu the last two digits printed on cpu b presence of additional heat sinks c nubus fpu cards used d floppy drive functionality on both and m disks damage incurred during modification damage due to higher speed use average length of time the cpu is on i e hours a day unusual other modifications to the usual procedure guy kuo guykuo u washington edu
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re adb mouse ii ergo when in jas apr tigger isi edu jas isi edu jeff sullivan writes when is apple supposed to start bundlign the new ergonomic adb mouse ii with all cpus sold as far as i know they did my new mac came with one yesterday and i got my ergonomic keyboard on order for three months the other day too cheers h jon w tte h nada kth se mac hacker deluxe on a clear disc you can seek forever
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duo parking hd heads when iddle the duo powerbooks seem to park the heads after a few seconds of inactivity is that builtin into the drive logic or is it being programmed via software any way to tune the iddle timeout that makes the heads park themselves i think the heads are being parked since after a few seconds of inactivity you can hear the clunk of heads parking denis
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snooper any opinions has anyone use snooper or macekg or any other similar diagnostic software any comparisons reviews on these products would be very much appreciated thanks in advance for your help cheers sir office acme gen nz be thankfull that we dont get all the government we pay for
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re help scsi woes on mac iifx according to the official documentation failure to use the iifx terminator can not only affect scsi bus performance but can also damage the bus whether this is your problem or not i don t know i have had sporadic scsi problems with my iifx since i bought it i cannot connect more than three devices fourth one causes major problems first thing to do is to try to reformat your drive on someone elses system if you continue to get errors it is probably the drive if it formats fine then i would try to format it on your system with no externals if this fails then the scsi controller on your iifx needs repair replacement hope this helps david c salmon salmon unomaha edu
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what s the difference between a mac portable and powerbook i ve been looking into getting a portable mac to do some work and i ve had my eye on the pb lately i ve been seeing people with the old portables and they re selling for less that the pb s what i want to know is what are the differences between them all i know is that the portable is heavier but the pb doesn t have an internal drive here s what i need to know does the portable support appletalk network connections what s the cpu inside a portable does the portable support system what s the maximum memory capacity of the portable can you still get ram meaning does it use special simms what kind of internal hd does it use does the portable have a better screen thanx in advance mike gaines what is your name captain jean luc picard what is your quest i seek the holy grail what is the top velocity of a bird of prey romulan or klingon i i don t know aaahhhh meg hertz njit edu graphix aol com
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re pds vs nubus was re lc iii nubus capable bill higgins beam jockey higgins fnalf fnal gov wrote in article c kzls kkb dartvax dartmouth edu hades coos dartmouth edu brian v hughes writes mmiller garnet msen com marvin miller writes 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 the lc family of macs can only use pds cards they are not able to use nubus ah but why can some technically hip macslinger tell us what the difference is between pds and nubus is it impossible to make a gadget that plugs into pds and ends in a nubus card cage at least marvin s friend has not been able to locate one and neither have i what is the fundamental reason for this i think that there do exist nubus expansion cages i m sure i ve seen them advertised occassionally but i think that the main problem is that they cost much more than the difference in price between say a lc and iivx so unless you need lots of nubus slots its not worth the bother of course it may be that these extra boxes are so expensive because no one buys them because they are so expensive nubus technology isn t a special apple proprietry thing i have this sneaky feeling that it is licensed from texas instruments so there is no problem building an expansion box the difference between nubus and pds is that nubus is a clever interface with lots of neat toys built in to make sure that lots of cards can work together on the same computer pds processor direct slot is just that here are all the connections to the processor you can do anything with this and it is as quick as it can be but there s no cooperation you may be able to get double pds slot adaptors but you try plugging video cards in and just watch them conflict of course the extra electronics in a nubus slot makes it appreciably more expensive so guess why apple doesn t put it in it s cheaper machines so yah pays yer money and yah takes yah choice bill wis liverpool ac uk
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re put ex syquest in centris i ve just installed a tape backup in my c lot of the issues are the same so to answer your questions in article apr cstp umkc edu kmoffatt cstp umkc edu writes my pli m syquest drive has a wire from the drive to an id switch on the outside of the case where do i connect this switch can the computer just tell with internal drives you probably want to hard wire the scsi id with shorting jumpers put it at a convenient number like you could cut a hole in the back of the machine to route the id switch but why go through the hassle you probably won t be needing to frequently change the id of your internal drive i noticed that the drive will lay over part of the motherboard i didn t look closely but i seem to recall it laying over the ram that s soldered onto the motherboard would that cause problems yeah when i first installed the tape drive i was a little concerned too but it s no problem the device is designed to fit just fine with the overhang it shouldn t reach back beyond the rom ram vram simms though one last question is there anywhere to order a faceplate cover the drive s front panel is smaller than the space left in the case the drive s panel is the same size as the spotsbm clone s cases should i just cut a hole in the plastic panel that is currently holding tmpty place you can special order parts to mount the device from your local apple dealer the relevant parts are blank bezel faceplate cd rom carrier i e generic device mounting bracket note apple s unfortunate choice of name for the slide in bracket to mount a device the service techs i talked to said oh sure we stock those of course they were thinking of the cd caddies to hold a cd disk when you stick it in the drive as far as i can tell apple does not sell a bezel faceplate already cut out for a standard device why not they advertise these machines as being able to accept any standard device in the bay why not provide the faceplate they do sell a cutout for their cd rom drive of course but that s of no use i m going to hack up the extra bezel i ordered to make a cutout for my tape drive which is a standard device good luck with your syquest fred
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re help need modem info for duo jdsiegel garnet berkeley edu joel siegel writes jmilhoan magnus acs ohio state edu jt writes hi what alternatives to the express modem do duo owners have if they want to go at least baud every place in town says they are back ordered and part of the reason i want a laptop mac is so i can use it as a remote terminal from wherever i am but i really would hate to have to wait months to get a modem in or have to settle with baud if apple didn t put out such a good product i d gladly take my business to to the bit ataris i think the situation with the express modem is inexusable for any business i ve had mine on order since january apple finally called me last week to tell me that i should have it by the second week of may in the meantime i ve been stuck with my duo without the connectability i needed it for i m sure there are plenty of people who can bite back at me citing all sorts of reasons why apple is right or at least justified but i m just a crabby consumer and when i order a duo with modem that s the product i expect oh well it s not like it s limited to the computer biz remember when the miata came out what about those cabbage patch dolls well i want my toy kenneth simon dept of sociology indiana university internet kssimon indiana edu bitnet kssimon iubacs
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bit system zone a week or so ago i posted about a problem with my se i have megs or true ram yet if i set my extensions to use a large amount of memory total of all extensions then my system will crash before the finder comes up what i meant was having a large amount of fonts load or sounds or huge disk caches with a control panel other than apple s memory control panel apple s cache is at k mode is on and so is bit addressing all extensions work by themselves or with the others until i increase the memory used by some of them with methods mentioned above well here s my latest followup i ran nows system profile and got this information memory info physical ram size k logical ram size k size of low memory area k virtual memory inactive addressing mode bit mode in use bit system zone absent parity ram not capable growable system heap true temporary memory support present tempory memory support real and tracked note that bit system zone is absent could this be the problem how can i turn this on any ideas can anyone help ken
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re hongkong ku from kinau mondrian csufresno edu kin hung au date apr ku gmt organization california state university fresno ku message id c ev t g a zimmer csufresno edu newsgroups ku comp sys mac hardware ku ku in hong kong you can buy a cheap pc or based computer ku however it is very experience to buy a macintosh last winter i was ku back to hong kong i saw the price of mac classic in hong kong is same ku price to buy a lc in the u s ku ku i am not recommended to buy mac in hong kong since mac is not popular ku in hk ku ku kin hung au hello mr au i have to disagree regarding your assessment of macintosh in hong kong the mac has a sizeable share of the typesetting market as in the u s a local magazine next magazine similar to newsweek here uses the mac extensively i have seen sir speedy and other franchises in hong kong equipped with mac based systems true the discount is not as steep as here because customers in hong kong cannot buy from gray market nor are mac being sold thru mass merchandisers like apple does here with the performa lin e at this point the sale of mac is handled by one exclusive distributor on the other hand you can always get a pc clone or in the earlier days illegal clones of the apple iie your perception of the mac not being too popular in hong kong is simply because most hobbyists and users find it much cheaper to go to one of those basement stores that sell pc clones with probably illegal copies of bios than to pay for a mac similarly you cannot say lotus surely is not well accepted in hong kong because the sale is so low may be it is because of all those places in kowloon where illegal copies of lotus can be bought for and for a professional looking but illegal copies of the manuals eric choi internet eric choi p f n z fidonet org
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re specs patrickd wpi wpi edu lazer writes i d appreciate it greatly if someone could e mail me the following if you only know one that s fine specs for the esp how it compares to the pentium specs for the can fill a page book some highlights are bit address space w bit data width bit integer registers bit floating point registers k copyback capable caches way set associative typical clocks integer instruction clocks for a floating point multiply interesting aside the can multiply two bit floating point numbers in less time than it can multiply two bit integers specs for the with estimated cost release date etc more of the same but with multiple instruction dispatching figure about clocks per instruction typical my guess but the motorola guys are pretty bright it may be less i m interested in speeds systems it can run windows nt risc or whatever costs bus info register info all the technical info call motorola i m not typing it all in i am hoping that the can win yet another battle against the intel people i m predicting that both the x and x lines are reaching their ends new experimental processors have bit data pathways and can schedule up to out of instructions each clock cycle that sort of trick can t really be done with cisc architectures i finally saw some details on the pentium and was not greatly impressed they ve finally done some work on the fpu to get it up to speed but otherwise it s only going to be a x speedup and to get that they re using two integer units larger caches and a branch target buffer yes i know they re talking about mhz processors big whoop designing a mhz board is difficult and really expensive priced ns memory chips lately ray fischer convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth ray netcom com than lies friedrich nietzsche
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re x x how do they compare dhk ubbpc uucp dave kitabjian writes i m sure intel and motorola are competing neck and neck for crunch power but for a given clock speed how do we rank the following from st to th while you re at it where will the following fit into the list pentium powerpc fastest then pentium with the first versions of the powerpc somewhere in the vicinity and about clock speed does doubling the clock speed double the overall processor speed and fill in the s below mhz mhz no computer speed is only partly dependent of processor clock speed memory system speed play a large role as does video system speed and i o speed as processor clock rates go up the speed of the memory system becomes the greatest factor in the overall system speed if you have a mhz processor it can be reading another word from memory every ns sure you can put all ns memory in your computer but it will cost times as much as the slower ns simms and roughly the is twice as fast at a given clock speed as is the ray fischer convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth ray netcom com than lies friedrich nietzsche
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re pds vs nubus was re lc iii nubus capable in article c mqk f liverpool ac uk wis liverpool ac uk mr w i sellers writes bill higgins beam jockey higgins fnalf fnal gov wrote in article c kzls kkb dartvax dartmouth edu hades coos dartmouth edu brian v hughes writes mmiller garnet msen com marvin miller writes 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 the lc family of macs can only use pds cards they are not able to use nubus ah but why can some technically hip macslinger tell us what the difference is between pds and nubus is it impossible to make a gadget that plugs into pds and ends in a nubus card cage at least marvin s friend has not been able to locate one and neither have i what is the fundamental reason for this i think that there do exist nubus expansion cages i m sure i ve seen them advertised occassionally but i think that the main problem is that they cost much more than the difference in price between say a lc and iivx so unless you need lots of nubus slots its not worth the bother of course it may be that these extra boxes are so expensive because no one buys them because they are so expensive nubus technology isn t a special apple proprietry thing i have this sneaky feeling that it is licensed from texas instruments so there is no problem building an expansion box apple uses the ieee nubus standard for their bit backplane bus i got this from a technote that i reada couple of weeks ago other stuff deleted hope this helps bret chase internet bchase wpi wpi edu macintosh bellnet smile it won t kill you snailnet wpi box institute rd worcester ma
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accelerators for se the is a week backorder but they are shipping 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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mac iisi power limitations readers i own a mac iisi and am considering upgrades cards hard drive etc can you tell me what the power limitations are for the pds slot and the hard drive power feed secondly can you tell me if there is a separate limit for each or if instead there is a single limit for both combined please drop me a line if you know the answers to these questions thanks felix lin feilimau leland stanford edu
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screen death mac plus i have a very old mac k 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 thanks for any advice ethan bodin tufts university ebodin pearl tufts edu
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help e mail address of caere corporation i m looking for the e mail address of the caere corporation their address is caere corporation cooper court los gatos califonia if you know the address o have access to find it please could you send it to me my e mail address is zia uk ac ed castle thanking you in advance zia
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reseting lw iig to factory defaults i have a laserwriter iig that has disappeared completely from the network i e it s name doesn t show up in any zone you can print to it from it s serial interface tho i have seen some discussion here about changing the zone a iig is in including some ps code that lets you change the zone is there maybe some ps code you can use to have it go back to all its factory default settings i have a feeling that s what needed to heal ours jurgen botz jbotz mtholyoke edu vending machines should respond to a finger south hadley ma usa request with a list of all items currently unix is dead long live unix available for purchase rfc
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non apple mini docks available my boss is considering the purchase of a powerbook or duo he is leaning towards a because of the math coprocessor for mathematica but would get a duo if he could find a mini dock with a coprocessor have any third parties announced such a beast alan a deguzman genius is never understood in it s own time calculus mathematica disclaimer the university calvin to hobbes from can t afford my opinions the indispensible calvin and hobbes
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my iicx won t turn on anyone know what would cause my iicx to not turn on when i hit the keyboard switch the one in the back of the machine doesn t work either the only way i can turn it on is to unplug the machine for a few minutes then plug it back in and hit the power switch in the back immediately sometimes this doesn t even work for a long time i remember hearing about this problem a long time ago and that a logic board failure was mentioned as the source of the problem is this true thanks t j pilon pilon rpi edu
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upgrading pb memory i have one of the original powerbook s with mb of ram and find that mb is a drag when trying to do my work so what is the best way to get the maximum ram for this unit and what s it going to cost me i m hoping i can get the latest and best info from real users by posting to this group thanks in advance bill
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re help how to test simms ytwu magnus acs ohio state edu yih tyng wu writes hello i just got some simms at least one of which does not work i don t know if there is a software that can test simms thoroughly or i could just rely on the ram test performed by my computer during the start up when i installed a dead simm into an lc or an lc ii there would be a strange music and no display on the screen why i need your help thanks in advance yih tyng ytwu magnus acs ohio state edu there is a shareware ramchecker that i think is called ramcheck it is available at most ftp sites such as umich and sumex terry
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centris math coprocessor option sorry if this is a faq i don t normally read comp sys mac hardware i am purchasing a couple of centris s i configured the systems as follows eight mb ram ethernet mb vram math coprocessor option my purchasing agent told me about the math coprocessor option and sent me the apple summary documentation to prove it i ordered the coprocessor option but i m really not sure that we needed it i thought the chip had a math coprocessor built into it has apple had a math coprocessor chip architectured to keep up with the speed of the chip in the centris i am concerned that i may have set up a hardware bottleneck please send your responses to david anthony guevara cup portal com i will summarize if there is enough interest thanks david guevara internet david anthony guevara cup portal com
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re can i put a floppy in an se ericr solbourne com eric robison writes i ve got a mac se i ve got a spare mb floppy drive i ve seen se s ith a floppy drive can i put my floppy drive into my se and get it to ork if so how thanks eric eric robison disclaimer i claim dis ericr solbourne com get me offa this planet sure thing you ll have to get an fdhd upgrade kit from apple which includes a hd floppy drive different chips the swim chip was mentioned in another post and a different floppy drive cable get the apple kit through your dealer jim trascapoulos jtrascap nyx du edu what size id do you wear
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re specs in article rayc myqo o netcom com ray netcom com ray fischer writes patrickd wpi wpi edu lazer writes i d appreciate it greatly if someone could e mail me the following if you only know one that s fine stuff deleted have you tried the library since you go to wpi so do i go to ak and look on the first floor a professor has posted an ieee i believe spec sheet on the which is around pages long i m sure the library has the info you request it s just a matter of finding it hope this helps bret chase internet bchase wpi wpi edu macintosh bellnet smile it won t kill you snailnet wpi box institute rd worcester ma
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re my iicx won t turn on i ve changed the battery in the thing shortly after the problem first happened and i ve noticed an inordinate number of bus errors lately t j pilon pilon rpi edu
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summary zyxel strings i write i recently got a zyxel u e modem it s great but i m still having some problems figuring out what strings to use in what applications i basically need strings for z term firstclass client and telefinder client i ve been able to get firstclass and z term working by using another modem s settings in firstclass and copying them for z term however it still has problems z term for example will list error the first time i try dialing after starting the problem if i cancel and try again it works fine telefinder is even worse i can t get it to even wake up the modem so if anyone uses a zyxel for any of these programs i d greatly appreciate you sending me the setup strings you use thanks in advance yoshio cs ucla edu writes for zterm i initially did the following atz at d at w then i set my init string to atz that s it rsmith pearl tufts edu rod smith writes i can t help you with firstclass or telefinder but i ve been using zterm and a zyxel for close to two weeks now here s what i did once in zterm set hardware handshaking on and the bps rate to you ve probably already done this then i typed at d at w the first line sets the modem to ignore the dtr line necessary for hardware handshaking with most though not all mac hardware handshaking cables the second stores this setting in non volatile memory in the modem so it s the default when the modem starts in the modem preferences dialog i have the modem initialization string set to at z m which just insures that the stored setting is used useful if starting zterm after using something like the fax software or macwoof which change the settings in other ways alternatively you could leave the factory default the way it is and just set the zterm initialization string to at d m which would accomplish the same thing if the modem is always on before you start zterm and if other programs don t modify the settings or at z d m would work even if other programs modify the modem s settings i do it the way i do because i sometimes forget to turn on the modem before launching zterm and this way i m assured of having the correct dtr handling when the modem s powered up after comparing the above strings with my at commands reference guide i came up with atz l n x d s m this is entered in the initialize box on the modem preferences in zterm quick summary of each commmand z reset modem to user profile l speaker volume at fairly quiet n ring volume at fairly quiet x display connect info according to setting see manual d assume dtr computer is always on s dial speed at as fast as zyxel can handle in firstclass i used this same string with the addition of s right before the s command in the setup box this disables the auto answer function of the modem for firstclass i based my modem setting on the supra fax and just changed the above mentioned string in telefinder i based my setting on the zoom v hh setting i changed the modem initialization string to the same one i used for firstclass and everything seems to work fine sorry it took so long to get this summary out if someone wants to forward this to the info mac reports directory at sumex aim it might save other newbie zyxel users like myself the trouble of setting up their strings and also save the net some redundant messages if anyone else has something to add feel free marcus mlobbia ucsd edu marcus lobbia mlobbia sdcc ucsd edu
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how often are simms bad mail order hi everyone just the other day i ordered a vram chip for my new lciii from mac connection they sent it overnight very nice and i got it installed and we found that it didn t work properly when you put the computer in thousands mode the bottom of the screen using the new chip is all flickering and fuzzy so i called them up and i m going to return it for a new one my question is how often does such a thing happen with simm chips in general do you often find when ordering chips that a large portion are bad is this a rarity this is the first chip i ve ordered so i have no other experience in this area i m just curious if anyone else has had the same type of experience that s about it please email me and if people want i can post a summary thanks all hillel sims simsh rpi edu rensselaer polytechnic institute is rot rotated forward or backward anonymous
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tcp ip routing localtalk ethernet here is the story i have a network with macs on localtalk one of them has an ethernet card and is currently connected to a next don t laugh i got it for the price of a mac iisi the next is connected to the internet over slip running on a baud modem currently we can telnet from the mac w ethernet to the next and then telnet out again to the rest of the world what we want to know is if there is some sort of hardware that will route telnet sessions from the localtalk macs to the next via the ethernet mac from what we have heard air doesn t do the trick software solutions would be good too but my impression is that there aren t going to be any our immediate interest is to be able to get to the next and telnet out again the slip connection doesn t allow us to assign ip numbers to machines so everyone shares that number oh well thanks in advance benjamin s chuang itd css consultant university of michigan a benjamin chuang um cc umich edu consulting referals here bchuang css itd umich edu unix and long messages here
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how to boot from ext hd on power on i have an external hard drive i wish to use as startup disk problem is when i switch on the mac it boots on the internal hd but when i restart warm boot the mac it boots from the external how do i make it boot directly from the external please email replies if possible thanks in advance jerry
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simm re use nubus board anyone seen one hello i remember running across an ad in the back of mac user world a few years ago for a nubus board that had umpteen simm slots to be used to recycle your old simms when you upgraded memory i don t remember who made this board and i haven t seen it advertised in any of the latest mac magazines it mentioned that it included software to make the simms on the board act like a ram disk as someone who has simms he can t get rid of use but hates the waste this sounds to me like a majorly good idea does anyone out there know what board company i m talking about are they still in business or does anyone know where i can get a used one if they are no longer made any help would be greatly appreciated please e mail me to save net bandwidth thanks cap internet cptnerd digex com aol cptnerd compuserve consilio manuque otium cum dignitate credo quia absurdum est parturient montes nascetur ridiculus mus
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mac iisi cache options readers i have found that the cache upgrade options for the mac iisi include the following ae quicksilver daystar fastcache iisi daystar combocache iisi logicache iisi k cache i d be interested in hearing opinions on any or all of these options the other alternative is to upgrade to a cpu accelerator such as the logicache mhz ideas comparisions felix lin feilimau leland stanford edu
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re iivx c upgrade question in article jas apr tigger isi edu jas isi edu jeff sullivan writes if you get teh iivx c upgrade does it include a new sticker to cover the iivx identifier with a centris indetifier i can t say for sure with the iivx c upgrade but i wondered the same thing when i ordered my lc lc iii upgrade turns out the upgrade is actually an entire cpu minus any disk drives you pull the floppy and hard drives out of the old one stick them in the new one and you ve got an lc iii the iivx c may be the same thing it might be something to look into for those people who are unhappy that apple only sells macs pre packaged with the drives of course the price is quite a bit higher without the trade in brian cherkaue ee rochester edu
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color inks for stylewriter i know that jet inc makes refills for the stylewriter and deskwriter ink jet cartridges in several colors but are pre filled cartridges in color available from anyone or do i have to use up one cartridge before i have a chance to print in color also are inks in process colors cyan magenta yellow available to refill cartridges thanks in advance
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why does apple give us a confusing message hi there does anyone know why apple has an ambiguous message for c regarding fpu in all mac price lists i ve seen every c has the message fpu optional i know from what we ve discussed in this newsgroup that all c have the fpu built in except the configuration why would they be so unclear about this issue in their price list i m planning to buy the c cd pretty soon but i m now getting confused with whether it comes with fpu or not why say optional if it s built in please anybody help me understand this game regards thian
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sony s problems info please anyone out there have a sony s i have one and it s very nice however if i run it in mode the picture won t go very big i end up with about gap either side and top bottom i suspect an internal adjustment would fix this anyone tried it another problem is sub brightness areas that are meant to be black or off the main raster are not very black the real raster is quite visible when the screen is blanked this is not too severe but it is just not as good as other trini screens i have used if i turn the brightness contrast down so that the raster is not visible the real image virtually disappears the raster size is just right if i use but dpi is a bit too much oh and i am using a rasterops xli card thanks marcus bointon marcus meridian demon co uk marcus bointon tel marcus meridian demon co uk fax i used windows for a week once but i feel better now
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re fax modem for the mac in article c llpo in news cis umn edu mbuntan staff tc umn edu writes hi all thanks to you all who have responded to my request for info on various kinds of fax modem i d like to ask a few more questions what are the advantages of buying a global village teleport gold over other cheaper brands like supra zoom etc i heard that both supra and zoom use the same software why are there so many complaints about the incompatibility problems of supra what kind of incompatibility is it if i decided to buy the teleport gold is there any possibility to add a voice option in the near future has anyone heard of a possible voice option that supra will offer this coming summer a person did mention a new at t modem is it getting good reviews from various mac magazines if i want the best fastest most economically sound and possible voice option what fax modem should i buy sorry for posting so many questions but i think they re necessary i promise to repost any answers if they re not already posted by a responder thanks so much in advance regards thian since i repost this message again for the second time i hope to hear from some folks on this topic please reply regards thian
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re centris video problem i m having it also from push media mit edu pushpinder singh subject re centris video problem i m having it also date sat apr gmt 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 i m having exactly the same problem again it s fine when i switch to colors or a smaller monitor my configuration is model centris with mb hd vram no cards monitor mag mx f with monitor adaptor for resolution of i just discovered the problem a little while ago after plugging in my new mag monitor it seems to appear either when scrolling through a window or when using alpha or word and i enter return my guess is bad vrams as well i really hope it isn t a design flaw is anyone at apple listening pushpinder singh push media mit edu try finding an init called basic color monitor this should clear up some probs with centris s and vga type monitors i know it exists somewhere i have a binhexed copy but i don t know where and never got around to installing it i have this problem on my sony a
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x x how do they compare i believe it goes or will go powerpc pentium in a resent article in one of the macmags i think a mhz accelerator was slightly slower than a mhz accel but this is using a system designed for the so it stands to reason that a system designed for an ie quadra would do better so overall i d figure or so along the same lines the new powerpc stuff is supposed to run the system at the level of a fast quadra but system or whatever will allow times the speed of a in the powerpc based systems and wait for the i think it laps the pentium pro life pro women michael ameres internet michael ameres f n z fidonet org
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need help installing a simms in quick could someone please send instructions for installing simms and vram to jmk po cwru edu he s just gotten his and wants to drop in some extra simms and vram that he has for it thanks and don t reply to me reply to jmk po cwru edu joe
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re upgrading pb memory in article apr ncar ucar edu bill lhotse hao ucar edu bill roberts wrote i have one of the original powerbook s with mb of ram and find that mb is a drag when trying to do my work so what is the best way to get the maximum ram for this unit and what s it going to cost me i m hoping i can get the latest and best info from real users by posting to this group well bill there are mb soldered on the logic board and mb in the ram expansion slot giving you mb the only thing you can do to upgrade to the maximum ram is to remove the mb expansion and install a mb expansion giving you a total of mb which is the max on a you can try calling techworks or any other memory vendors out of macweek macworld etc peter haase internet haase meediv lanl gov network manager los alamos national laboratory
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re computer engr vs computer science a professor of mine once said the difference between a computer engineer and a computer scientist is about meaning the engineer makes more than the cs seriously though the main difference is that most cs people write programs that people will use i e database graphics word processors etc while an engineer writes for machines or control systems i e the computer in your car a flight control system computer controled devices etc in other words cs writes software while cse writes firmware these are generalizations but for the most part that is what the difference is p s the is not just a joke scott for the most part this is a bunch of bunk i ve got a computer engineering degree yet i ve spent the last years writing software that people actually use moreover the salary distinctions are incorrect i received job offers upon graduation the two jobs that actually used my hardware experience were year lower my advice is to decide which classes and projects most interest you and pick the major that allows you to take them emt
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re centris video problem i m having it also i also suffer from these video artefacts my configuration is a centris mb vram with a nec fg it only happens at x in bit colour with virtual memory off during scrolling this occurs when the vram simms are installed as well as removed it seems that the does not like x does anyone not have these problems in the above mentioned conditions gersham meharg sfu canada gersham meharg meharg sfu ca sfu vancouver canada
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re high resolution adc for mac ii in article b clark elvex acns nwu edu b clark nwu edu brian clark wrote i don t know about the instrutech boards though i plan to check them out but you need to be very careful checking the monotonicity and s n ratio of many of the bit boards out there the ni boards are very clearly specified in terms of monotonicity s n ratio accuracy etc and the nb a and nb a have all the dyynamic range and freedom from distortion that you d expect from a good true bit converter this is not true for the spectral innovations boards for example to boorishly reply to myself i found i did have the instrutech information already the specs to use the term loosely are as follows a d bit converter with bit accuracy to khz bit accuracy to khz no specs for s n monotonicity linearity there are multiplexed inputs sharing the single a d so that all inputs are not samples at the same time and in the above conversion specs the all channel sample rate must be used thus for two channels you only have unknown quality bits at khz per channel this is poorer quality than the national instruments at the same sample rate d a bit converter no specs for s n monotonicity linearity each of the output channels has its own converter the price for the external converter box the itc the nubus interface board the mac plus c driver software and igor xop s is rather steep
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