Mac-Source 1994 July/Mac-Source_July_1994.iso/Information/info mac digest v12/infomacv12-042.txt

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 23:19:36 PST
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #42
To: info-mac-list


Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 14 Mar 94       Volume 12 : Issue 42

Today's Topics:

      [!] Power Macintosh Specs, Upgrades & Pricing
      [*] Belgian PostCards 2.4.hqx part 1
      [*] C.S.M.P. Digest, Issue 3
      [*] Demo of CrossPro(tm)
      [*] Fetch 2.1.2 (680x0 + PowerPC)
      [*] first-class-text-picture-112.hqx
      [*] fmpro-DayPlan-201.hqx <A Daily Planner>
      [*] geography-challenge-052-hc.hqx
      [*] LineLink144eModem.faq.1.3.2
      [*] mirage-3d.hqx
      [*] More Beavis & Butt-Head sounds...
      [*] pentris11.hqx
      [*] PixelCat 1.6.5
      [*] Poly-Tile - a new Poly-series game
      [*] resubmission- Conflict Catcher II 2.0.2 Demo
      [*] resubmission- Shanghai II 1.05 updater
      [*] RSI Newsletter 16 .sit
      [*] RSI Newsletter Full Archive .SEA
      [*] System Error Patch version 1.1b
      (?) Unix utilities lex and yacc on the mac?
      Accelerating a Mac Classic
      Accessing Extra RAM in Classic?
      accounting software
      A homesick Quadra - really!
      Apple Computer Info & PR
      AppleScript & WordPerfect 3.0
      CD caddy write protect [Q]
      Changing MacTCP and Network Settings at Boot Time (Q)
      ClarisWorks 2.1 updater
      CU-SeeMe Video Conferencing Software
      Deneba After Sales Service :-(
      Details about the Power Macintosh, take 2
      Font from Hell (was TT Font Won't Trash (A)) (C)
      Formatting/Partition Software (C)
      Heizer software
      help with ethernet server on internet
      High-speed Settings
      Hofstra Helping Hand?
      Info-Mac Digest V12 #39
      installing textures (Q)
      KeyFinder (2 msgs)
      Mac Aquarium, trying to find. (A)
      Mac Quarium
      MacSea Info
      MacTCP with Sys 7.1 Pro (Q)
      Motherboards from PowerPC Upgrades? <Q>
      MS Word & xtra line feeds
      Newsgroups
      PC? (*** FLAME ***)
      PPC: From the Trenches. . .
      receiving files
      Running F/A-18 on a PowerBook??? (Q)
      SCSI tape drive for DC 6150
      SCSI tape drive for DC6150 (A)
      Stella and other System modellers (A)
      ThrustMaster
      time used with different applications - SW needed
      ZTerm and Kermit (C)

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Date: 14 Mar 1994 14:28:31 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Brian Bechtel)
Subject: [!] Power Macintosh Specs, Upgrades & Pricing

    [ source: AppleLink.  I know nothing further.   Please contact
    [ your local authorized Apple dealer for additional information. ]



Monday, March 14, 1994

      Power Macintosh Product Specifications, Upgrades & Pricing

*  Power Macintosh 6100/60

The most affordable Power Macintosh(tm) computer runs at 60-MHz, offers
full storage and expansion features (including one 7" NuBus(tm) slot
and an optional built-in CD-ROM) in a slim-line design.  The base
model, equipped with 8MB of DRAM and 160MB hard disk, has an Apple
price of $1,819.

Apple Price/CPU Only
8/160                           $1,819.00
8/250CD                         $2,289.00
8/250CD/AV/2MB VRAM $2,599.00
16/250/SoftWindows      $2,519.00


*  Power Macintosh 7100/66

Running at 66-MHz, this is ideal for general business computing. Based
on Apple's Macintosh Quadra( 650 design, it offers greater expansion
(three NuBus slots) and support for more colors and larger displays.
The Apple price for a configuration with 8MB of DRAM, 250MB hard disk,
and 1MB of VRAM starts at $2,899.

Apple Price/CPU Only
8/250/1MB VRAM                          $2899.00
8/250CD/1MB VRAM                        $3179.00
8/500/CD/AV/2MB VRAM            $3989.00
16/250/SoftWindows/1MB VRAM $3379.00


*  Power Macintosh 8100/80

Based on the familiar Macintosh Quadra 800 mini-tower design and
running at 80-MHz, this is the highest-performance Power Macintosh
model with the most flexibility.  It accommodates three NuBus expansion
slots, built-in video support for up to 16.7 million colors, extensive
storage options, dual-channel SCSI and Level 2 cache memory.  A
configuration with 8MB of DRAM, 250MB hard disk, and 2MB of VRAM starts
at $4,249.

Apple Price/CPU Only
8/250/2MB VRAM                          $4249.00
8/250CD/2MB VRAM                        $4519.00
16/500CD/AV/2MB VRAM            $5659.00
16/1000CD/2MB VRAM              $6159.00
16/500/SoftWindows/2MB VRAM $5309.00


*  Configuration Details

All models come equipped with:

- built-in floating-point math coprocessor
- on-board Ethernet
- 16-bit, CD-quality stereo sound
- connections for the Apple GeoPort(tm) Telecom Adapter

   In addition, there are separate configurations of each Power
Macintosh model to support a CD-ROM drive, SoftWindows, and Apple AV(tm)
Technologies--speech, telecommunications, and advanced video
capabilities.  PlainTalk(tm) speech-recognition and text-to-speech
software comes standard with AV systems, and is also sold separately
for all models.
   In addition to Apple's existing family of LocalTalk, Ethernet, and
Token-Ring products, Apple plans to offer a high performance, 7"
Token-Ring card for all NuBus-based Macintosh systems.  The new card
includes driver software that supports Novell Inc's Netware protocols
when used in conjunction with Insignia Solutions' SoftWindows product.
This new driver is planned to be included with version 1.4.4 of Apple's
Network Software Installer disk and will provide performance
enhancements and Netware support for the existing Apple Token-Ring 4/16
NB card.


*  PowerPC 601 Processor Upgrades

Apple announced it has begun shipping a range of logic board and
processor upgrades based on the PowerPC 601 chip for many current
Macintosh systems.  Logic board upgrades, which provide existing
Macintosh models with the full functionality of PowerPC technology, are
available for the Macintosh Quadra 840AV, 800, 660AV, 650, and 610
models; the Macintosh Centris(tm) 660AV, 650, and 610 computers; the
Macintosh IIvx and IIvi, and Performa 600 products.

Lower-cost processor upgrade cards are now available for the Macintosh
Quadra 950, 900, 800, 700, 650, and 610 models, as well as the
Macintosh Centris 650 and 610 computers.  The processor upgrade card
takes advantage of the processor-direct slot (PDS).

Additionally, Apple Business Systems will provide PowerPC
microprocessor upgrades to customers of Apple's Workgroup Server 60 and
80 models.  These PowerPC processor upgrades will allow customers of
Motorola 68000 server systems to upgrade to servers running Macintosh
System 7 on PowerPC.

In the future, Apple plans to provide PowerPC technology upgrade
products for the Macintosh Quadra 605; LC 550, 575, and 520; and the
Performa 550.  Apple also plans to continue to work on upgrades for
other Macintosh models.  In addition, Apple is working in conjunction
with third-party developers to provide an array of options for
customers to upgrade to PowerPC technology.

  Apple Price
  Power Macintosh Upgrade Card                  $699.00
  Power Macintosh 6100/60 Logic Board Upgrade   $999.00
  8MB DRAM
  Power Macintosh 6100/60AV Logic Board Upgrade $1399.00
  8MB DRAM/2MB VRAM
  Power Macintosh 7100/66 Logic Board Upgrade   $1499.00
  8MB DRAM/1MB VRAM
  Power Macintosh 7100/66AV Logic Board Upgrade $1699.00
  8MB DRAM/2MB VRAM
  Power Macintosh 8100/80 Logic Board Upgrade   $1899.00
  8MB DRAM/2MB VRAM, 256K Cache
  Power Macintosh 8100/80AV Logic Board Upgrade $1999.00
  8MB DRAM/2MB VRAM, 256K Cache


*  Power Macintosh Accessories

  Power Macintosh 6100/60 NuBus Adapter Card    $99
  Power Macintosh 256K Cache Card               $299
  (for the 6100/60 & 7100/66)
  Power Macintosh Display Adapter               $29


--Brian Bechtel     [e-mail]     "My opinion, not Apple's"

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 11:34:45 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: [*] Belgian PostCards 2.4.hqx part 1

Belgian Postcards is a TeachText replacement application which features
full font & style support, pictures, icons, sounds and lots more. Belgian
Postcards can also be used to create Teachtext files with pictures in an
easy way (cfr. TeachTextMaker in the past).

Belgian PostCards is now in version 2.4 and is available in its complete
form in this package. This is not a demo, but the full application(s).

Reviewed in 1992 MacUser ("Does all the things TeachText can't...")

Reviewed (Version 2.1.1) in December 1993 MacUser ("The delightfully named
Belgian PostCards...") as one of the three best low cost alternatives for
electronic publishing. Unlike DocMaker, Belgian PostCards is designed for
short (no more than 11 pages or so per document) notes to your friends,
customers or colleagues. Belgian PostCards allows you to use color text,
with unlimited styling and sizes. With PostCards you can also easily add
color or b/w pictures to your cards and even record or import an unlimited
number of sounds to attach to your documents. Add one of 50 built-in custom
icons (designed by icon hall of famer Tom Poston) to "stamp" your document!
PostCards is ideal for online correspondence and really makes a unique way
to send holiday and greetings notes to your friends! When you register
PostCards you are entitled to distribute the PostCards Viewer to
anyone-never worry again about compatability! You will also receive two
floppies chock full of sound resources, notes, instructions for how to use
our unique custom text feature, as well as how to create custom viewers for
your work group, school, LAN, BBS, or shareware business- all without
programming.

PostCards is the ideal tool for adding a little flair to your online
messaging! This is the first time we have ever uploaded a full version of
PostCards, so please honor the shareware agreement.

[Archived as /info-mac/text/belgian-postcards-24.hqx; 277K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 14:36:48 MET
From: [e-mail] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] C.S.M.P. Digest, Issue 3

C.S.M.P. Digest             Mon, 14 Mar 94       Volume 3 : Issue 3

Today's Topics:

    A4 Worlds in MPW c-c++? Is it possible?
    Documented sliders?
    How do I know if AppleTalk uses print port?
    How to convert date to seconds *correctly*?
    To Handle or not to Handle?
    When to unlock?


The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([e-mail]).

[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-3.txt; 33K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 17:49:40 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail] (Michael Phelps/Aspen Gold Software)
Subject: [*] Demo of CrossPro(tm)

CrossPro(tm) is a Macintosh-only crossword solver, published by Aspen
Gold Software.  It is designed to enhance puzzle solving by providing
the user with a wide array of features, such as four scoring options,
time limits, easy/hard clues, optional clue hints, uncertain letters,
flashing and filling difficult letters and words, preference settings,
and more.  The program conforms fully with Mac interface design
standards, so navigating around the puzzle is as simple as clicking
the mouse.  The commercial version comes with 370 commercial quality
puzzles from Stavrolex Publications, Inc.  Paper puzzles can be
entered with the Puzzle Edit feature, to expand each user's library of
puzzles.

This demo is fully featured, except that you cannot save a puzzle in
progress and you can only print a puzzle grid with answers filled in.
See the "How to Order CrossPro" file in this archive for more
information on acquiring the commercial version.

System requirements: Mac Plus or better, System 6.0.5 or later.  Color
monitor is optional.  Runs in only 384K of RAM for normal use, or in
as little as 256K if only one puzzle is open and no puzzle editing is
done.  Once started, the program will access the hard drive very
little, so it is ideal for PowerBook use.

CrossPro is copyright 1993 by Aspen Gold Software.  All rights
reserved.

The puzzles included with CrossPro are copyright 1993 by Stavrolex
Publications, Inc.  All rights reserved.  These puzzles may not be
reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder.

This demo version archive can be freely distributed, provided the
copyright notice in the archive is included.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/cross-pro-demo.hqx; 188K]

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Date: 13 Mar 94 22:47:47 EST
From: [e-mail] (James W. Matthews)
Subject: [*] Fetch 2.1.2 (680x0 + PowerPC)

Here is Fetch 2.1.2, the first "fat binary" version of Fetch, with native
code for both 680x0 and PowerPC-based Macintoshes.

Fetch is a MacTCP-based FTP client for the Mac developed by Dartmouth
College.  It is freely available for educational and  non-profit use, and
users in government and commercial settings can license a copy for $25 (see
the About box for details).  Fetch requires MacTCP and a TCP/IP network
connection (either direct or via a dial-up protocol such as SLIP, PPP, or
ARA).

Fetch 2.1.2 also features compatibility with Anarchie bookmark files (a
collection of bookmarks is included), and includes new features for copying
and pasting Universal Resource Locators (URLs).  In addition a number of bugs
were fixed and some minor features were added; they are detailed in the
Release Notes section of the Fetch Help window.

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/fetch-212.hqx; 366K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 21:54:33 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Alex Morando)
Subject: [*] first-class-text-picture-112.hqx

Attached is version 1.1.2 of FirstClass Text-Picture, a utility
that creates styled text pictures from graphics files. This allows
graphics to be viewed on FirstClass messages.

I am not the author, just a satisfied user.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/first-class-text-picture-112.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 17:41:23 -0500
From: [e-mail] (DEAL, DOUGLAS WAYNE)
Subject: [*] fmpro-DayPlan-201.hqx <A Daily Planner>

DayPlan v2.0.1 five year Daily Planner for Filmeaker Pro

This submission corrects an accident on my part.  When version 2.0
of DayPlan was released, I had a full version and a "crippled" demo
version.  For some reason I labled the archives incorrectly and released
the crippled version.  From the responses I recieved, I corrected a few
minor bugs and decided to take this oppurtunity to release the
latest version.

I recommend that this filemaker-pro template be used with the following

    1.  Filemaker Pro v2.0 or later (required).
    2.  14" color monitor (highly recommended).
    3.  A "faster" Mac, (LC III's wont cut it).

What this template does.

Besides being a a five year calendar, it has the following feature:
    1.  Full-page daily display, with time fields from 8:00-6:00 and
        a manually entered daily summary field.
    2.  Full-page weekly display, which displays six day-boxes with
        daily summary field visible.  A day may be click on with
        the mouse and that day's full page layout will appear.
    3.  Full-page yearly display, which shows one entire calendar year
        with weekly buttons that may be pressed to jump to a
        paticular week.
    4.  A special layout for printouts, so a decent hard-copy may
        be printed.  The default has been changed from all
        records being browsed to just cuurent record.  That should
        save paper :-).
    5.  Layout has been enabled for the user level password, so my
        layouts may be modified by you.
    6   Pleasing layouts which look professional yet cozy.

I appologize for themistakes on my part ealier, but this one has been tested
and it is indeed the right version this time.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/fmpro-daily-planner-201.hqx; 137K]

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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 15:47:16 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Doug Eernisse)
Subject: [*] geography-challenge-052-hc.hqx

GEOGRAPHY CHALLENGE (v. 0.52) is a simple multiple-choice
style game in the form of a HyperCard 2.x stack that will improve
your command of the world's current countries, their capitals,
and selected cities. Up to four people can play. One can
choose worldwide or regional challenges. Postcardware.

Database entry by Arie (9), programming by Doug Eernisse (dad)
This program costs a postcard for personal use
If you like it, PLEASE send Arie a postcard of your home town
(or anywhere, really) to: 1208 Olivia, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA
This software copyright 1993, 1994 by Arie Eernisse and Doug Eernisse.
It may not be sold or used commercially without permission.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/geography-challenge-052-hc.hqx; 16K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 23:39:44 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] LineLink144eModem.faq.1.3.2

This version replaces 1.3.1 which was posted to macgifts.
If it has made its way to info-mac dump it. This is also
my first attempt at sending to info-mac so be kind.

The following is version 1.3.2 of the frequently asked
questions on the Linelink144e modem. This modem is a
full 14.4K modem with compression and hardware capable
with Fax and Voice Mail. As of March 94 it was being sold
for $99, and $39 extra. Due to the low cost a large number
of people have been buying the modem. Bad news is the modem
comes with almost no manual. This FAQ is intended to partially
remedy this situation. May be of some interest to other
"generic 14.4K" modem users.


Permission is hearby given to include it on the info-mac
CD-ROM etc etc.

Probably should go in the info/comm or info/hardware
directory.
Loudon Campbell, [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/line-link-144e-faq.txt; 102K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 20:11:37 -0800
From: Michael Clifton <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] mirage-3d.hqx

Mirage is a 3D modeling and rendering program with a built-in
texture editor. It supports import and export of a text file
format for 3D scenes that is similar to nff, useful when one
is writing 3D graphics software, but doesn't have the ability
to create models in a readable format to test it on.
This version has speed and image quality improvements over the previous version
I posted.
It also includes a manual and several example files.
*** Please replace the old version Rmirage.hqxS with this version. ***
Mirage belongs in the Graphics/Utilities directory.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/mirage-3d.hqx; 467K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 01:21:31 -40962758 (MST)
From: Matthew Grossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] More Beavis & Butt-Head sounds...

Even more sounds from MTV's Beavis & Butt-Head...

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/beavis-n-butthead-grp7.hqx; 1009K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 01:27:16 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Fournier Patrick)
Subject: [*] pentris11.hqx

Pentris 1.1 should replace Pentris 1.0

Pentris is a Tetris-like game that uses pentominoes instead of tetraminoes
(that is 5-squares pieces instead of 4-squares pieces). This makes the game a
lot more challenging.
This game requires System 7 or later and Color QuickDraw. Therefore, it's not
compatible with the Macintosh Plus, SE and Classic.

This game has a shareware fee of 12$US, but you can send any amount (more or
less) you want.

I grant the info-mac archive administrators the right to include Pentris
on their CD-ROM.

Patrick Fournier
[e-mail].

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/pentris-11.hqx; 722K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 17:47:05 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] PixelCat 1.6.5

    Enclosed is PixelCat 1.6.5, an image viewing/cataloging program.
It can handle GIF/JPEG/PICT files as well as a bunch of Japanese formats
(G68, MAG, MAKI, Pi, PIC, and Q4).
    I am not the author, but I made a rough translation of the
documentation from Japanese to English.

Dan

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/pixel-cat-165.hqx; 86K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 12:08:07 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Poly-Tile - a new Poly-series game

  Poly-Tile is a board game with color pieces on hexagonal or square grid. It
  is easy to learn, but hard to master.
  The object of the game is to remove all the pieces except one in as few moves
  as possible. A move is a piece jumping over other piece landing on a blank
  space or another piece. Depending on your skill, you can select level and
  board, custom or built-in.
  Poly-Tile is one of Poly-series games written by S. T. Han. It should be run
  on any Macs.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/poly-tile.hqx; 197K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 22:20:07 EST
From: Alan D Earhart <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] resubmission- Conflict Catcher II 2.0.2 Demo

Here is the latest demo version of Casady & Greene, Inc's startup
 software manager, Conflict Catcher II v2.0.2.

>From the enclosed ABOUT file-

Conflict Catcher II (Demo)

The essential Macintosh Startup Software Manager and Problem Solver.

Problem Solving:
80% of the problems with your Macintosh are software related. Conflict
 Catcher II is just what you need to pinpoint your miserable startup
 software problems such as crashes, frozen screens, printing problems
 and more. We test your actual existing startup software, not merely
 consult some outdated database of problems. The tests can be logged
 for later review.

Startup Software Management:
Conflict Catcher II is also a comprehensive startup software manager
 which saves you time and memory.  Now you can:
* Enable only the startup software that you need to get a particular
   job done.
* Create sets of startup files that you use for different jobs. Sets
   can be enabled at startup with a simple keystroke.
* Link startup software that must run together, must never run together
   or that has to load in a certain order.
* Manage your fonts (under System 7.1 or later) by allowing fonts to be
   activated or deactivated, providing better memory management. Turn font
   files on and off to allow more memory and a more usable font menu.
* Generate complete system reports, including RAM requested and used by
   startup files.
* Reorder startup files without renaming them
* Load aliases of your favorite startup files to a startup RAM disk which
   saves memory and battery life on a Powerbook".
* Can show hidden startup icons, hide all startup icons, force icons to
   wrap around and even pause the startup screen showing all icons.

*****

This was archived and binhexed with StuffIt! v3.0.7. It is about 236KB
 after expansion.

Alan Earhart
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/conflict-catcher-ii-202-demo.hqx; 124K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 22:33:56 EST
From: Alan D Earhart <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] resubmission- Shanghai II 1.05 updater

I just realized that I had binhexed this file twice the first time
 I uploaded it. Here it is again (I promise I only did it once this
 time!). Sorry about the waste.

>From the README:

This archive contains these files:
*"Updater to Shanghai II 1.05" (updates earlier versions of Shanghai II to
  version 1.05)
*"Postcards ad" (displays and can print an ad/order form for "Postcards for
  Shanghai II")

BUGS FIXED IN SHANGHAI II 1.05
*After Dark, QuickMail, Eudora and SuperClock will no longer crash when they
  try to beep or play sound while Shanghai II is running.
*Version 1.0 crashed under A/UX due to sound driver incompatibilities.  Sound
  and music are now disabled under A/UX.
*Dragon`s Eye games will no longer end if a Slayer`s hand is empty and the
  Slayer still has legal moves on the board.
*Several small bugs that might have caused seemingly random crashes have been
  fixed.  This includes the occasional crashes after the fourth tournament game
  or while showing scores during a tournament on certain configurations of
  Macs.
*Sound now works with Sound Manager 3.0 (required on AV Macs)
*The program no longer crashes after the second game of a tournament on the
  MacClassic II.  The problem may have occurred on other Macs as well.

*****
This was archived and binhexed with StufffIt! v3.0.7.

Alan Earhart
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/shanghai-ii-105-updt.hqx; 247K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 14:01:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Craig O'Donnell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] RSI Newsletter 16 .sit

Attached is Issue 16's Stuffit archive file.

[Archived as /info-mac/per/rsi/rsi-network-news-16.hqx; 24K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 14:03:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Craig O'Donnell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] RSI Newsletter Full Archive .SEA

Attached is the full 16-issue archive of RSI Network Newsletters to date.
Supersedes the previous file of the same name.

[Archived as /info-mac/per/rsi/rsi-network-news-1-16.hqx; 241K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 15:38:14 -0800
From: -= Godfather Moof =- <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] System Error Patch version 1.1b

Here is release version 1.1b of System Error Patch:

System Error Patch is a system extension designed to let you override system
errors.  If a system error is encountered while System Error Patch is in RAM,
your Macintosh will beep three times and then go to the Finder.
To use System Error Patch, just plop it in your System Folder and Restart!



[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/system-error-patch-11b.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 13:44:30 -0500
From: Bev Schwartz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (?) Unix utilities lex and yacc on the mac?

I have to port a unix application which uses the UNIX utilities lex and
yacc to a macintosh.  In either the MPW or Think environments, is there
an equivalent?  Are there lexical analyzer and/or parsing tools available
for $$ or on the public domain?
I am programming in C and C++.

In addition, I'm making heavy use of the various unix str functions (strcpy,
strcmp, strspn, strtok, etc).  Are these part of the C library in either the
MPW or Think enviroments?

-Bev

 --------------------
Bev Schwartz                    BBN Corporation
[e-mail]                70 Fawcett St, MS 15/1C
617-873-2453                    Cambridge, MA 02138

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 21:06:04 CET               Message-Id: <AA05817>
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Accelerating a Mac Classic

In Info-Mac #40, Dwight Lemke wrote:

I'm thinking of accelerating my girlfriend's Classic.  I was particularly
interested in the Applied Engineering Transwarp 2300 (40Mhz).  I would
like any accelerator chosen to be able to take advantage of a couple
of 4MB SIMMS I have--no sense buying new memory.  She has just the basic
Classic with 2MB RAM and a 40MB harddrive.

Dwight, I've got a Focus Technologies 40MHZ Classic accelerator loaded
in my Classic and it, very bluntly, screams. Love it! Speedometer 3.2 says
I'm 10 times faster than a stock Classic (mo' or less). Installed it
myself, in about 1 hour including beer break, and it goes gooooood.
Requires a 4MB SIMM (72 pins, 70ns or better) to run. You gotta use
a SIMM which you load on the acclerator, the memory on the Classic
is there but I've not figured out yet how to use it. Must be a way!
Their tech support was ragged -- told me to buy a 36-pin SIMM, and then
when I got the board it was obviously wrong. But I figgered it out and
now it's worth it. Lesson: sound manager support is very poor and I
keep the sound down to zero, 'cause using the sounds seems to crash
the machine. But no mind. I can deal with it. All in all, a good
investment which has been worth the $$. Biggest problem: made me want
a faster hard disk, so now I have an APS 170MB in the Classic --
I call it my "stealth Quadra"! Write if I can tell you more.

Pete Jones

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 14:53:35 CET
From: [e-mail] (cc)
Subject: Accessing Extra RAM in Classic?

Hi! Latest adventure concerns a Mac Classic with a 68030 accelerator (Focus
Enhancements). Classic has 4MB RAM, accelerator has 4MB RAM, 8MB total..
but accelerator only sees the 4MB on the accelerator board. Is there a way
to get the card to access the remainder? Software program? Memory control
panel doesn't do it (doesn't allow virtual hard disk, either). Gotta be a
way! Any suggestions?

Pete Jones
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94  10:52:01 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: accounting software

I need a small-biz package that does G/L, POS, and Inventory.
suggestions for things that don't cost thousands (which my biz ain't
got) ?

 -- clint

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 08:11:31 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: A homesick Quadra - really!

I've been using Macs pretty heavily for the last three years, and been
the network administrator this past year or so, and THIS problem's got
me completely stumped.  I need help, so anyone got any ideas?

We have a Quadra 800 in the office; it has what I would call a standard
set of options:  built-in ethernet, 16Mb or so of ram, a Radius Color Pivot
montitor, no CD-ROM or anything like that.  Due to personnel shifts, this
computer was moved from our office spaces to another office, in a different
appletalk zone, but within the same ethernet zone.  (I work for the Navy;
we have a HUGE network of ethernet zones across the country)  The appletalk
zone in this office is connected to the ethernet zone with a FastPath.  In
the new office, there is a localtalk zone but no connection to the ethernet
>From localtalk.

Here's the odd thing:  There were NO problems here in this office.  When the
Quadra was moved (NO software changes were made) to the new spaces, it
refused to see anything on the network outside of the room it now sits in.
Instead of the chooser window allowing zone selections, we get the "two-
window" chooser with no zone list.  File sharing can be started, and other
ethernet machines in the same room can see the Quadra, but anyone outside
that room cannot.

Okay, we thought, maybe it's just the network drop.  No, it's the same with
all the other drops in the room.  And the ethernet adapter is not the problem
either.  And when we bring the computer back to this office, it's fine again.
Exact same configuration both places:  same adapters, software, even the
same power cord.  Just a different network drop.

Well, we tried everything we know.  Completely remove and then reinstall the
system, remove/reinstall the ethernet and network software, zapping the PRAM
(including by TECHTOOL, to get ALL the PRAM), switching adapters or network
drops, deleting all prep files, starting with extensions off, changing
memory configuration, etc.  No change.

Another tidbit:  in the new location, the Quadra also will not communicate
TCP/IP, using MacTCP, or TCP/Connect II, etc.  Also, I've heard that
another Quadra here on the Navy base has had the same problem.  The only
solution they found was to leave it where it started and buy a new one.

I'm stumped.  We called Apple Tech Support, who in true fashion, put us on
hold for half an hour, then said "Oh, you need the network person", for whom
we waited another half hour, after which we were told "Oh, I couldn't find
him:  can he call you back?"  That was Friday...  Maybe he'll call today.

Can YOU experts help?  I really appreciate the collective wisdom out there;
it's nice to know that between all those users out there, somebody usually
has the answer to a problem.

Please respond directly to me; I'll summarize if there's interest.

Brandon Munday
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 18:34:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Amira <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Computer Info & PR

For those of you would would like to keep up with all the Apple PR
without having to wait for someone to post it, try this Gopher Bookmark:

Type=1
Name=Apple Computer Higher Education Gopher
Path=
Host=info.hed.apple.com
Port=70
URL: gopher://info.hed.apple.com:70/1

The gopher has all the info & PR that most people post and might even be
where they get it from. There is also alot of good info about Apple
Computers and Tech.

--Brian

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 09:54:51 -0600
From: "Desmond Mullen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleScript & WordPerfect 3.0

I found a fantastic feature in WordPerfect that appears to be undocumented...

You can execute WordPerfect 3.0 macros from AppleScript using the following
syntax in a "tell" (WordPerfect) statement:

do script "The Name of My Macro"



If anyone figures out a way to invoke specific MENU items (like 'do menu "Blah
Blah Blah..."'), please let me know!

-DM

Desmond K. Mullen - University of Minnesota, Office of Admissions
[e-mail] - 612/625-0824

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 21:47:52 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Rob Kouwenberg)
Subject: CD caddy write protect [Q]

Hello there !

While looking at the back of the CD caddy I noticed two pins. The one at
the left is labeled A, on the right B. As these are the kind to write
protect something like in tapes, I was wondering what they are for ?

Can one extra -:) write protect CD's ? What is at the B side of a CD ? What
kind of mechanisms do detect the A and B tag ?

Just wondering !

Best regards, Rob Kouwenberg

[  [e-mail],Gr.Adolfstraat86,5616BX,Eindhoven,Holland  ]

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 17:21:09 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Changing MacTCP and Network Settings at Boot Time (Q)

I have an odd problem that results from using an external hard drive that I
lug back and forth from work and home. At work, I am on ethernet and at home
I dial in to the SLIP server for the same capabilities . HOWEVER, this means
that I have to reset my IP #, gateway, NetWork Control Panel, etc. This is a
pain that is slightly reduced by using MacTCP Switcher, but I still have to do
a reboot if I forget to change setting before I shut down.

So, the question: Is there some way to make a particular Netowrk and MacTCP
setting part of the start up "inits"? The best would be if this could be
included as part of the startup set that an INIT controller could manage.

Thanks!! I'll post back any good solutions, cause I think other folks, like
PowerBook users, must have the same hassle.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 11:01:47 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Scott Lindsey)
Subject: ClarisWorks 2.1 updater

To everyone who has been sending me mail about the updater:

* At this time, there's only an updater for 2.0v1 U.S. to 2.1v2 U.S.  I
don't know if or when updaters for localized versions will be available
(this includes Canadian and British).  This is the province of the regional
divisions of Claris, not of Claris U.S.

* If your version isn't exactly like the U.S. commercial version, the
updater won't work.  Usually the first thing you'll see when trying to
update the wrong version is a warning about the BNDL resource or the BOBO
resource not matching.

* This update is for 68k Macintoshes only, not for Power Macintosh.

* I'm providing this update to the net as an individual, not as a Claris
representative.  Claris does not maintain an Internet presence for either
technical support or customer support/relations.

Contact Technical Support at:
Claris Corporation
Technical Support MS-C12
5201 Patrick Henry Drive
P.O. Box 58168
Santa Clara, California 95052-8168

Technical Support for Macintosh Applications:   408-727-9054
Hours: Monday - Thursday, 6 AM to 6 PM & Friday: 6 AM to 2 PM (Pacific
Time).

Technical Support Bulletin Board        408-987-7421

24-Hour Online Services
America Online: Keyword CLARIS
CompuServe:     Go CLARIS


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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 22:55:11 -0800
From: Donnie Williams <[e-mail]>
Subject: CU-SeeMe Video Conferencing Software

I thought this message that was posted to a newly created AV listserver would
be helpful with questions about this new software CU-SeeMe. It includes the
path and location of where to get it.

Enjoy!

Donnie Williams
 ------ Forwarded Message

Date:    Sun, 13 Mar 1994 01:38:43 -0500
Subject: Re: See you See Me software
From:    "Damien M. Miller" <[e-mail]>
To:      Multiple recipients of list MACAV-L <[e-mail]>

here is a project that i am working on using this software.  there is
also a new program out called maven that allows for mac to mac audio
transmission...

this is an invitation to participate in a networked performance art
piece on monday the 14th of march.

what you need: 1.a mac with video digitizing capabilities(spigot, AV
        technology, etc.)
           2.a network connection
           3.cuseeme, a public domain video conferencing package
        (available for anon ftp from gated.cornell.edu \pub\video)

how it works:

  cuseeme allows for black and white video transmission over the
ineternet. Currently the software does not allow for audio transmission,
but you can enter text messages that will scroll across the bottom of
the video window you are broadcasting. there are several cuseeme
reflector sites in cyberspace, and when you log onto a reflector site,
you are able to see every signal passing through that reflector site at
that time. you can log onto reflectors even if you are not broadcasting
video, so if you lack a camera you can still watch whats happening at
the reflector.

the art:
the theme for this collaboration is "Apertures".  This theme is provided
simply so that we may have a common point of departure. The idea is that
the performers will be able to react and work off of the performances of
other artists logged onto the site concurrently, but this does not mean
that you (or i) shouldnt use pre recorded/manipulated footage in our
work. (It goes without saying that there are no "rules" for this sort of
thing.)

The process:
plan a performance(loosely :)).  d/l cuseeme from the ftp site listed
above.  at 2:30 pm on monday the 14th, log on to the cuseeme reflector
at 192.77.173.2.  join in the real time action.

if you arent allowed to do performance art at work, you can still watch,
so please do.  At my site we plan to have a phone line so that people
can call us w/ feedback or as part of the piece.  We will also document
this activity extensively, so if you want screen captures/video footage
after the show, we can work it out.  Also, if you have
questions/comments regarding any details (conceptual, technical, or
whatever) about this project, please write me or the list.

 ------ End of Forwarded Message



 ------
Donnie Williams
Finley Hall 207
[phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Anger is what makes the mouth work faster than the mind.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 12:26:30 +0100
From: [e-mail] (John Williams)
Subject: Deneba After Sales Service :-(

    Just for the record, following Jeffrey Fritz's praise for Deneba's
enlightened cutomer relations policy, my copy of Canvas 3.0.6 arrived with
*one* faulty disk rendering installation impossible.  I asked service to
send me a .hqx disk image and this was refused as it would have cost (them)
too much.  Their solution was to send me a *comlete* set of disks for which
they charged me $15!!!

(.. and I'm still trying to figure out how to get a French bank to send
them this in US dollars!)



John Williams

INRA Station de Recherches Avicoles, Centre de Recherches de Tours, 37380
Nouzilly, France

Tel [phone]    Fax/telecopie (33) 47 42 77 78

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 23:10:42 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Brian Kendig)
Subject: Details about the Power Macintosh, take 2

[This is a revision of my original post -- I got Apple's press release
 and decided to roll the specifics from it into here.]


      Everything you ever wanted to know about the Power Macintosh
       (and have been itching for several months to ask)

The PowerMacs are finally available in stores!  I've scoured magazines
(especially MacWeek) and newsgroups (especially comp.sys.powerpc) over
the past few weeks to dig up all sorts of interesting tidbits of
information about them, as well as about other things you might see from
Apple in the future.  I've tried to be as accurate here as possible, but
be warned that some of this information might be completely wrong --
especially about products that haven't been released yet.  Don't rely on
what you read here; verify it first.

Power Macintosh excitement has really been building ever since January's
MacWorld Expo, where the "PowerPC -- Get a life" pins worn by the Apple
employees were countered by the occasional cry of "I don't want a life,
I want a PowerPC!" from the crowd.


              What It Is and What It Isn't

A Power Macintosh is basically just a Mac with a very different, very
fast new chip -- the PowerPC 601 -- as its brain.  The PowerMacs have
been designed to be 100% compatible with all other Mac hardware and
software that runs on the rest of the current Mac line.  (Whether or not
they do turn out to be this compatible remains to be seen, but the word
so far is that they do a wonderful job.)  In fact, if you put a PowerMac
6100 and a Quadra 610 side-by-side and play with them for a while, you
probably won't be able to tell which is which unless you peek at "About
This Macintosh".  The PowerMacs look the same, run System 7.1.2, and can
use NuBus cards.  They run 680x0 software at roughly the speed of a
Quadra 610 (25MHz 040) or a Powerbook 180 (33MHz 030), although I've
heard claims that their speed can range on the extremes from a IIci
(25MHz 030) to a Quadra 650 (33MHz 040).  You should be able to use all
of your existing Macintosh hardware and software on a PowerMac at a very
respectable speed without having to buy any upgrades.

The real strength of the PowerMac, however, shows when you run
"native-mode" software on it -- programs that have been recompiled to
take advantage of the PowerPC chip inside it.  PowerMacs running native
software are roughly two to four times faster than a Quadra 800.  Many
companies are offering inexpensive upgrades to PowerPC-native versions
of their software.  The PowerMacs also provide speech recognition
without requiring a DSP, and a lot of the performance-critical
components in the PowerMacs support direct memory access (DMA) for an
extra speed boost.  The mid-range and high-end models can run two
monitors at once without adding any extra hardware, and all three can be
purchased with the "AV option", giving them all the video capabilities
of the 660AV and 840AV.

SoftWindows comes bundled in with some PowerMac configurations; it runs
DOS and Windows software at speeds approximating that of a 486SX/25.
However, it only emulates a very fast 80286 chip, and therefore software
that requires a 386 or a 486 won't run on it.  (This means you won't be
able to play Doom on it, unfortunately, but X-Wing ought to work fine.)
There should be a 486 version of SoftWindows ready later this year.  I
haven't heard yet whether or not there will ever be SoundBlaster
emulation for it, but the initial version can only simulate sounds
coming out of a PC's internal speaker.

The PowerMacs do not run Unix yet (except possibly for third-party
Unixes that are available for other Macs right now).  Taligent's
object-oriented operating system, based on the PowerOpen standard, won't
be available until probably 1996.  A/UX will not be available for the
PowerMacs.  I've heard that IBM's AIX operating system is being ported
to the PowerPC's, but I don't know if that includes Apple's systems or not.

The initial batch of PowerMacs aren't compliant with the current PReP
specification.  PReP (the "PowerPC Reference Platform") is a
standardization that IBM came up with: any PC that has enough hardware
to meet the requirements outlined in PReP will be able to run any
operating system that is PReP-compliant.  This is what will allow future
IBM PowerPC's to run AIX, Windows NT, Workplace OS (OS/2), Solaris,
Taligent, and other operating systems.  However, PReP-compliant systems
will probably not appear on the market until the end of this year.  The
PowerMac can currently only run Macintosh System 7.1 and emulate DOS and
Windows 3.1, and future PowerMacs might or might not be designed to be
PReP-compliant.  The PReP specification isn't even in its final form yet
-- it's scheduled to go beta in a few days, so developers couldn't
conform to it even if they wanted to yet.  One idea I've heard was that
PReP might be modified so that this initial batch of PowerMacs are
defined as "PReP-compliant", since they're the only PPC-based systems
shipping right now (other than IBM's high-end PowerPC RS/6000 Unix
server).  We'll see what happens.

The first PowerMacs also only support NuBus, although systems to be
released next year (the "TNT" systems) will probably support PCI,
allowing them to use the same boards that PCI-equipped IBM PC's can use.

Another important thing to note is that, like all other Macs up to this
point, the PowerMacs do not offer "preemptive multitasking" and
"protected memory".  They will continue to multitask cooperatively and
run all applications in one memory space, and this might not change
until 1996.  (There's more information about this near the end of this
article.)

As with any other new computer system, I would *strongly* recommend
quelching any "first kid on the block" instinct you might have and
waiting a while before purchasing a PowerMac.  Beta-testing has proven
them to be impressively stable systems, but they need some time out in
the real world to shake out any problems that might be hiding behind the
faceplace.

Why the weird naming scheme for the PowerMacs?  Well, consider that the
only other PPC-based system available right now is IBM's RS/6000 Model
250.  Apple probably named their machines starting with "6100" to be one
up on IBM's "6000".  Go fig.  :-)


              Pricing and Upgrades

Here are the prices of the PowerMac systems, taken from Apple's press
release.  Note that these do not include a monitor or a keyboard.  All
prices given are in American dollars.

MODEL   CONFIGURATION                   PRICE
6100    8/160                           $1819
    8/250/CD                        $2289
    8/250/CD/AV/2Mb VRAM            $2599
    16/250/SoftWindows              $2519

7100    8/250/1Mb VRAM                  $2899
    8/250/CD/1Mb VRAM               $3179
    8/500/CD/AV/2Mb VRAM            $3989
    16/250/SoftWindows/1Mb VRAM     $3379

8100    8/250/2Mb VRAM                  $4249
    8/250/CD/2Mb VRAM               $4519
    16/500/CD/AV/2Mb VRAM           $5659
    16/1000/CD/2Mb VRAM             $6159
    16/500/SoftWindows/2Mb VRAM     $5309

Here are the prices for PowerMac accessories.  (I don't know if the
Display Adapter is required for AudioVision displays, or for any display
other than an AudioVision.)

    NuBus adapter card for the 6100         $99
    256k cache card for the 6100 and 7100   $299
    Display adapter                         $29

Full logic board upgrades cost between $1000 and $2000 and are available
for the IIvx, IIvi, Performa 600, and the Centris/Quadra 610, 650,
660AV, 800, and 840AV.  These will probably give you a new faceplate
(with the "PowerMac" name on it) and a new motherboard, and require you
to send your old ones back to Apple.  Here are the upgrade board prices
(remember that each one comes with 8Mb of memory on the motherboard).

    6100/60                         $ 999
    6100/60AV, 2Mb VRAM             $1399
    7100/66,   1Mb VRAM             $1499
    7100/66AV, 2Mb VRAM             $1699
    8100/80,   2Mb VRAM, 256k cache $1899
    8100/80AV, 2Mb VRAM, 256k cache $1999

A PowerPC PDS slot upgrade card for 040 Macs costs $699 and will double
the speed of your system -- put it into a 25MHz 040 Mac, for example,
and your system will effectively run at 50MHz.  However, the PDS PowerPC
card does not give your system the video options and other features that
the full PowerMacs have.  Upgrade cards are available from Apple for
040-based Macs with a full PDS slot: the Centris/Quadra 610, 650, 700,
800, 900, 950, and the Apple Workgroup Server 60 and 80.  Upgrades are
planned for the Quadra 605, the LC 550, 575, and 520 and the Performa
550.  There currently aren't any solid plans for upgrades from Apple for
other models of Macintoshes.

Third-party companies will be offering PowerPC upgrade cards for
specific Mac models, but I don't have any information on those right
now.


            Features and Configurations

There are three models of PowerMacs.  Here is the information that
applies to all three of them:

  PowerPC 601 RISC processor, integrated math coprocessor, 32k on-chip
      cache, 32-bit internal data path, 64-bit external data path
  System bus is 64-bit
  4Mb ROM
  DRAM SIMM slots can hold 4, 8, 16, or 32Mb RAM SIMMs (72-pin)
  Built-in LocalTalk and Ethernet
  SCSI, Ethernet, audio and serial ports, and other components support DMA
      for increased speed and simultaneous operation
  Serial (printer and modem) ports support the GeoPort Telecom Adapter
  256k level 2 cache improves performance by 30% and can be purchased
      separately for 6100/7100, comes standard with 8100
  "AV option" (a PDS card) can be purchased to give the system NTSC/PAL
      video in/out and support for up to 4Mb VRAM
  Speech synthesis/recognition comes with AV models, can be purchased
      separately for other models
  SoftWindows can be purchased for DOS/Windows emulation

Here is specific information for each model:

Power Macintosh 6100/60
  Quadra 610 case
  60MHz PowerPC 601 processor
  8Mb RAM (expandable to 72Mb): 8Mb on the motherboard, 2 SIMM slots
  DRAM video (does not come with a VRAM card, see below)
  1.4MB Apple SuperDrive; 160Mb or 250Mb HD; 5.25" empty drive bay
  Expansion slot for 7" NuBus card or PDS card (like the Q610, needs adapter)
  Built-in asynchronous SCSI supports up to 7 SCSI devices connected
  Ports: 2 serial, SCSI, ADB, monitor (supports AudioVision display or
      standard monitor), stereo 16-bit sound input/output

Power Macintosh 7100/66
  Quadra 650 case
  66MHz PowerPC 601 processor
  8Mb RAM (expandable to 136Mb): 8Mb on the motherboard, 4 SIMM slots
  1Mb VRAM (video memory), upgradable to 2Mb (see below)
  1.4MB Apple SuperDrive; 250Mb or 500Mb HD; 5.25" empty drive bay
  3 NuBus expansion slots
  Built-in SCSI supports up to 7 SCSI devices connected
  Ports: 2 serial, SCSI, ADB, 2 monitor (one for AudioVision display or
      standard monitor, one for standard monitor), stereo 16-bit sound
      input/output

Power Macintosh 8100/80
  Quadra 800 case
  80MHz PowerPC 601 processor, 256k Level 2 memory cache
  8Mb RAM (expandable to 264Mb): 8Mb on the motherboard, 8 SIMM slots
  2MB VRAM (video memory), upgradable to 4Mb (see below)
  1.4Mb Apple SuperDrive; 250Mb, 500Mb, or 1Gb HD; space for 2 3.5" storage
      devices and one 5.25" storage device
  3 NuBus expansion slots
  Built-in dual-channel SCSI: external SCSI supports up to 7 SCSI devices
      connected; internal SCSI supports internal devices or disk arrays
  Ports: 2 serial, SCSI, ADB, 2 monitor (one for AudioVision display or
      standard monitor, one for standard monitor), stereo 16-bit sound
      input/output

The video options need some explaining.  In its base configuration, the
6100 has no VRAM slots, meaning that you have to run video off DRAM
(regular RAM) just like the IIsi did.  DRAM video tends to be rather
slow.  The 7100 and 8100 support DRAM video as well, but each also comes
with a VRAM card in its PDS slot with 1Mb/2Mb (respectively) of memory
on it, upgradable to 2Mb/4Mb.  This means that you can run two monitors
on a 7100 or 8100 straight out of the box.  If you purchase the AV card,
then that goes into your PDS slot on any of the three systems (replacing
the VRAM card on the 7100/8100), and gives you 2Mb VRAM (upgradable to
4Mb) and NTSC/PAL video in/out.  The DRAM video port supports an
AudioVision monitor (and "normal" monitors, too, I'd suspect); a VRAM or
an AV card will give you a second monitor port (which supports "normal"
monitors).

Here is what various amounts of video memory will support:

DRAM (using internal RAM for video):
       up to 32,768 colors on a 14" monitor or smaller
       up to 256 colors on a 16" monitor

1Mb VRAM:  up to 32,768 colors on a 16" monitor or smaller
       up to 256 colors on a 20" monitor

2Mb VRAM:  up to 16.7 million colors on a 16" monitor or smaller
       up to 32,768 colors on a 20" monitor

4Mb VRAM:  up to 16.7 million colors on a 20" monitor or smaller


I'll say it again: many of the details given above could be flat-out wrong.
Please don't make a purchasing decision based solely on what you read here!


               Future System Software

While the PowerMacs are capturing the public's attention, Apple is hard
at work on many other things.  Here are a few of them:

System 7.5 is due to ship this spring.  There will only be one kit of
it; gone will be the distinction between "System 7.1" and "System 7
Pro", and both the 68k and PPC versions of it will ship in one box.  All
of the elements of "System 7 Pro" and more will be rolled into System
7.5, and a new installer will only install the software that you have
enough memory to run (it won't try to install Quickdraw GX on a system
with only 4Mb of memory, for example).  The Finder in System 7.5 will be
fully AppleScriptable.

The Apple Guide (formerly Apple Help) will come with System 7.5.  When I
saw it at MacWorld, it reminded me vaguely of the hypertext help that
Windows and OS/2 provide, but the Apple Guide was organized *much* more
clearly and thoroughly.  Ask it how to do a task, and it will tell you
the steps you need to follow.  Ask it for more help, and it will circle
in red magic-marker on your screen the things you need to click on.  Say
you need even more help and it will use AppleEvents to automatically
guide you through the process.

I haven't found anything about this in print, but the Drag Manager will
probably also arrive with System 7.5.  It lets you select a range of
text or a graphic in any window, and drag it into place in any other
window or to the desktop (where it will appear as a "scrap").  I saw it
at MacWorld and was duly impressed by it -- imagine the text dragging
feature of Microsoft Word integrated into the system software.  I've
heard that it will allow dragging anything into anything else where that
would make sense; for example, some applications will support having
icons from the desktop dropped into their windows.

OpenDoc will probably arrive in System 7.8 later this year.  OpenDoc
does away with the concept of a document "belonging to" an application;
you'll simply have various mini-applications that can work on different
parts of your document.  Your word processor will let you edit the text
in your document, while your draw program lets you edit the graphics.
If you want a better spell checker, then just get a better spelling
checker application, and it will fit right in with the other application
modules.

The Appearance Manager will probably be part of System 7.8 too.  I
haven't seen anything about that in print either, but according to what
I've heard, it will let you customize any part of the Mac's interface to
look however you want it to look.  For example, imagine a Macintosh that
looks just like Microsoft Windows, all the way down to the menubars in
the windows.  So much for Windows users being afraid of having to learn
a new operating system, or for Motif users complaining they hate the
Mac's interface!

QuickTime 2.0 will be released this summer.  Its biggest feature is more
speed: it will playback on an LC 475 in a 320x240 window at 30 frames
per second, or in a 640x480 window at 15 frames per second (twice the
speed of QuickTime 1.6).  If you put an MPEG board in your Mac, it will
let you play MPEG movies off a CD-ROM like several CD-I systems on the
market can.  (A CD-ROM can hold up to 1 hour 14 minutes of full-screen
full-motion video and CD-quality sound.)  QuickTime 2.0 also lets you
play a movie across a network (allowing for "interactive TV"), and it
supports MIDI (for music playback) and SMPTE (to sync sound with video).

Apple's new microkernel architecture (code-namd "Gershwin") is due to
appear in 1996.  This will give the Macintosh protected memory (meaning
that when one app crashes, you can kill it and continue using your
system without a reboot) and preemptive multitasking (meaning that the
system will be more clever about partitioning its time out to
applications that are running).

The "Macintosh Application Environment" will be introduced on March 22.
It lets System 7.1 and Macintosh 68k applications run unmodified in an X
window on Sun Solaris Unix and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX systems, with
support for DEC Unix coming later.  It works with any standard X window
manager, including Motif and Open Look.


That's all the information I have for right now (is it enough to keep
you busy for a while?).  Apple is maintaining a gopher server on
"info.hed.apple.com" that contains all their press releases and will
probably also have a lot more PowerMacintosh information in the very
near future, so a watchful Mac user might want to keep an eye on it.

I'll post more information here as I get it.  Enjoy!

--
_/_/_/  Brian Kendig                              Je ne suis fait comme aucun
/_/_/  [e-mail]                 de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire
_/_/                             n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
  /  Be insatiably curious.   Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre.
 /     Ask "why" a lot.                                           -- Rousseau

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 16:23:52 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Font from Hell (was TT Font Won't Trash (A)) (C)

> >I have two TT fonts that are not in suitcases that are damaged, and I can't
> >trash them.  I keep getting the not enough memory, and close windows
> >to free up some.  I have tried resedit, the the wrong way I assume, to
> >try and get rid of it.  It must be a font from hell.  Are there any
> >suggestions that you have?  BTW - they are in the sys7 font folder.
> >
> >Mack
>
> I also had this problem. It turned out not to be the fault of the fonts.
> The solution I found was to drag the fonts folder out of the system
> folder. Then it was no longer a "special" folder, and I could trash
> things in it at will. After I cleanse up, I put it back in the Sys folder
> and all was fine.
>
> I actually had booted from a different system disk when I did this, but I
> suspect that it would work even on the boot disk.

Interesting.  It happened to me twice in the last couple of weeks.  Once
on my Quadra 950 and then again on my PowerBook 180c.  MacCheck showed
the system as damaged or corrupted.  I replaced the font that would
not trash with a backup copy in order to delete the one that would not
trash.  The font would then trash and the system showed up OK in MacCheck.

Perhaps your font is in use by the finder and it won't give it up for that
reason?  Doesn't explain my problem though, 'cause I ran MacCheck from
the Disktools disk.

--Brian Pickerill  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 21:45:35 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Formatting/Partition Software (C)


On 11 Mar 1994 "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> You're right: Apple's HD SCSI Setup will only allow you to make a single
> Macintosh partition. However, there is a shareware program that will
> allow you to use HD SCSI Setup to create more than one Mac partition. I
> think that it's called SetUpPartitions. Check in Sumex.

According to Ric Ford's ``MacInTouch'' column in the 02.28.94 MacWEEK,

    DeFelice discovered that he could eliminate the restriction that
  prevents users from defining more than one Mac volume on a drive in HD
  SC Setup 7.2.2.  He modified the formatter's MAP resource (ID 257) at
  offset 25 hexadecimal, changing the value from 00 to 01.  According to
  Bill, this keeps the Macintosh Volume choice available even after a Mac
  partition has already been defined.
    Additional Macintosh partitions may not show up immediately on the
  desktop, but a restart should bring up an initialization dialog to
  prepare them for use.
    In some cases, a volume may be sized too small, both with this hack
  and with the previous one.  If this happens, try deleting the new
  volume in the custom partitioning mode and then dragging out a new
  volume to the desired size.


I hope this helps someone.

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94  10:53:13 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Heizer software

I need to contact Heizer software, the guys that do/did all the Excel
stuff. I used to have a catalog, but it's gone...

please reply direct:    [e-mail]

 -- clint

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 17:07:00 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: help with ethernet server on internet

Dear Macexpert

I am looking for a program which will turn our Quadra 610 into a server on the
University Ethernet and allow mail to be sent to it and then forward the mail
over the localtalk network to machines only connected to the local area
network.   If anybody knows of a package which will perform
these services, please let me know.

If that is not possible then I am interested in a package which will allow your
mac to receive mail on the TCP/IP ethernet.

my adress is [e-mail]

Thanks for your help

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 11:12:31 PST
From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey A. Hallett)
Subject: High-speed Settings

I have a question for all you telecomm gurus out there -- perhaps you
can donate some expertise...

The other day, I wanted to do some major file transfers, so I
set up my modem to go as fast as it can. For reference, I'm
running White Knight 11.x, System 7, and I'm using a TelePort
Gold from Global Village. I had set the modem to attempt
MNP and compression negotiation and also to talk to the Mac
at 38.4k (all using the appropriate AT commands described in
the AT manual that came with the modem). I configured White
Knight to go at 38.4k also.

Well, it connected just fine and the modem reported that
it had achieved MNP, no compression at 14.4k. This is ok
'cause that matches the specs on the target modem. I started
the downloads using ZMODEM (the sz utility commonly used under
UNIX).  White Knight sensed the ZMODEM and started the receive
automatically.

This is the weird part. I received a lot of transmission
errors (ususally about 40 for a 166K file). The transfers
finished ok, but the efficiency was about 10% consistently.
What can I do differently (besides lower the baud rate)
to get better performance?

Any tips are appreciated.
Thanks in advance.


Jeffrey A. Hallett, Keane, Inc. [phone]
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 20:35:26 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hofstra Helping Hand?

Folks, a long-time friend of mine (We were in Apple ///'s and switched
to Macs the same time -- '88, when the color II came out) just got a job
managing student labs at Hofstra. And he's looking for help. I told him
his first task was to get onto the internet and subscribe to I-M Digest,
but I suspect he'd appreciate a hand-hold from someone in the New York
neighborhood. Could any of you give Harry a hand? It will add to your
karma.

Thanks much.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

>I now manage three public computer labs for students of Hofstra University
>in Hempstead, Long Island, about 20 miles out of New York City.  I manage
>about 70 students, each of whom work for 12 to 15 hours a week, and we work
>with Macs, PC's and a Vax network.
>
>There are a lot of goodies to play with, like MacroMind director, and I am,
>slowly, painfully, learning how to manage students.   I am seeking on line
>contact with others involved in academic computing.
>
> My phone at work is 516-463-5223.
> Harry Baya <[e-mail]>
>

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 22:23:47 EST
From: "Hines, Daniel M." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #39

Maybe someone out there can help me out. I have a DEST PCScan
2000 sheetfeed scanner. Does anybody know if Dest still exists?
Is there anybody out there that has the latest version of Publish
Pac to support this scanner? Does anybody know of another utility
that supports this scanner. The present software came with the
scanner back in 1987 and although the scanner works fine - it takes
up to 10 minutes just to save a 5 meg tiff file - Photoshop can
do it in less than a minute. Thanks in advance.

Dan Hines

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 11:09:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wendy Farkas)
Subject: installing textures (Q)

Netters,

I've tried on several occasions to use the program Desktop Textures III
(Installer 2.1) to install desktop textures on a DuoDock 230 running System
7.1. I get the desktop graphics installed, but at a terrible price - my
hard disk locks up and I get error type 25 messages when I try to open and
close windows. Can anyone explain what's going on here?

Wendy Farkas
Va Tech

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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 94 12:30:41 EST
From: [e-mail] (James Ashton)
Subject: KeyFinder

I'm seeking an easier-to-use version of the Apple `Key Caps'
accessory.  I've seen a utility which (from memory) was called the
KeyFinder and allowed you to quickly determine the keystrokes required
to produce all manner of weird symbols.  I believe it was part of
Norton utilities.  Can anyone confirm or deny this or even suggest
shareware alternatives with equivalent functionality.
--
[e-mail] Systems Admin SysEng RSISE ANU Canberra ACT Australia

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 94 12:28:09 EST
From: [e-mail] (James Ashton)
Subject: KeyFinder

I'm seeking an easier-to-use version of the Apple `Key Caps'
accessory.  I've seen a utility which (from memory) was called the
KeyFinder and allowed you to quickly determine the keystrokes required
to produce all manner of weird symbols.  I believe it was part of
Norton utilities.  Can anyone confirm or deny this or even suggest
shareware alternatives with equivalent functionality.
--
James Ashton                                              System Administrator
VK1XJA                                       Department of Systems Engineering
Voice [phone]   Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
FAX   [phone]                            Australian National University
Email [e-mail]                      Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 10:34:40 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Anders Stegen)
Subject: Mac Aquarium, trying to find. (A)

"Pearce, Paul" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I'm looking for instructions or a kit to convert a compact type Mac into an
>aquarium. Really! I saw this at MacWorld once but don't know where to find it
>now. I've got a bunch of cases and would like to convert them to working
>aquriums.
>Paul Pearce
>Calgene Inc.

I have it at my mac at home. I'll get it and re-submit it to info-mac.

I have only read it so far. Still need my faithful SE/30. Though, the screen
has
begun to flicker lately, hm...

/Anders

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 21:12:35 CET               Message-Id: <AA05851>
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac Quarium

Paul Pearce: You were looking for instructions to to convert a Mac
into an aquarium.

Write to Andy Ihnatko ([e-mail]). Andy wrote the original
instructions for Macquarium. Funnier than hell to read, even if you
don't want to convert your Mac (I didn't). If you can't get Andy,
let me know, I've got the .SIT file here somewhere and I'll send it
to you. // Pete Jones

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 20:10:34 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Donato Zipeto)
Subject: MacSea Info

Hello!
Have any of you ever heard about a program for macintosh called "MacSea"?
It's supposed to be useful for people who own a boat!
If you have it, know it, use it, have seen it somewhere, know who sells it,
etc., or have any kind of information about it, please let me know.
My e-mail address is: [e-mail]
Thank you.

Donato

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 09:17:14 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Guy LOUIS)
Subject: MacTCP with Sys 7.1 Pro (Q)

Hello from Belgium,

I have a Mac II CI running System 7.1 Pro.
What version of MacTCP must I intall?
I have tried 1.1.1 and 2.0.4 None runs!
But the two versions run on the same machine with System 7.1.
"Is it a bug or a feature?"

Many thanks,
Guy LOUIS

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 14:15:20 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Robert Jennings)
Subject: Motherboards from PowerPC Upgrades? <Q>

Does anyone know what the fate will be of the motherboards that will be
"leftover" from the upcoming PowerPC motherboard upgrades? Will the
consumer get the motherboard back or will the motherboard be returned to
Apple/retailer for a "rebate" (kind of like turning in your old car battery
or radiator as a core.)

I am asking because I am interested in finding a Quadra/Centris 650
motherboard to swap into my IIvx (okay, okay, quit laughing...I like my
IIvx and it was a great deal after the Centris line was introduced.)

Has there been any official notice by Apple as to the fate of the replaced
motherboards?

****Bob****


--
Robert Jennings                  [e-mail]
The Ohio State University        VOICE  [phone]
Department of Industrial Design
128, N. Oval Mall, 380 Hopkins Hall, Columbus, OH 43210

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 12:49:27 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MS Word & xtra line feeds

Does anyone out there know an easy way to strip the extra hard carriage
returns from a text file downloaded from the internet? I tried using
word's replace command and strip the paragraph marks, replacing them
with non-breaking spaces, but this runs all the paras together. Doing
it one paragraph at a time is tedious on a big file.

Any help here would be appreciated. I'll be glad to summarize responses
and post atthem at a later date.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 8:28:52 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <[e-mail]>
Subject: Newsgroups

[e-mail] wrote:
>I am experiencing very poor performance with newsgroups.  I am using
>Newswatcher and it takes a ton of time to get the contents of a
>group...comp.sys.mac.comm (900) took over 10 minutes to retrieve!
>
>Any help on speeding things up?

You could start by telling us what version of newswatcher you're using, what
kind of mac you're using, how you are connected with your news server, etc
etc.

         tom coradeschi <+> [e-mail] <+> DoD#413
                 Disco Still Sucks

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 13:37:47 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Michael Sullivan)
Subject: PC? (*** FLAME ***)

I couldn't believe it - an educator (I assume) sounding like a factory
manager and advocating the revised "politcally correct" dictionaries (those
with "certain" words removed) "for increasing student productivity and
keeping them on task"! We certainly wouldn't want our little darlings
exposed to the real world would we now? It's the same mentality that keeps
"Huck Finn" off some library shelves and mindless stories in our children's
readers.
(*** FLAME OFF ***)

Mike Sullivan - 609-338-4098 @ Martin-Marietta Comms Systems - Camden NJ

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 21:20:46 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (W.K. Fry)
Subject: PPC: From the Trenches. . .

Well, the first day out and I was at the store at 9:00am to pick up my
PowerMac 6100.  I thought I would share the results of my first 8 hours.

First of all, the stores I went to seem to have trouble getting ahold of
the 16 meg/SoftWindows configuration.  The demo version didn't work
either, and I was led to believe that the SoftWindows really might not
be ready.  (I could be completely wrong, but this was the speculation.)

Secondly, the MacWeek articles and Apple propoganda said that the 6100
had speech recognition and text-to-speech.  This may be true, but you
must by the software and microphone separately.  (None of our local
stores had the product or knew about it. . . I had to call Apple's
technical support to find that out.)

Practical experience. . . I've had lots of odd things happen.  Some
software spontaneous quits. . . QuickTime's occassionally wouldn't play,
and later they would. . . When I boot with Greg's buttons, the system
runs out of memory.

The good news is that some things are wonderfully faster.  Scrolling
(particularly in terminal propgrams) is, for the first time, a pleasure.
The sound and graphics are nice.

I've waited for this day for a long time (and have been saving for it,
too).  It's been a mixed blessing.  I was really counting on SoftWindows
and Speech recognition, but I'm afraid I will have to wait a little bit
longer.

                    - William K. Fry

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 16:20:08 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: receiving files

Hi!

When I receive INFO-MAC via AOL, it gets split into several parts--which is
not a problem in and of itself.  The problem comes in that I receive it @
only 2400 bd.  Real S-l-o-w.

Q:  If I receive it at my other Internet connection (dial-up) I would receive
it in one piece, but can transfer it to my machine at only Kermit's
pace--other transfer protocols not yet available.  Would this be faster?

Q2:  Under the contents, several articles are marked with an asterisk (*).
Does this mean file attached?  If so, are they in BinHex (.hqx) format?  If
they are, then I will send info on transferring my subscription to my net
connection.  I can receive files there via e-mail, but cannot do so at AOL
unless sent from another AOL (America OnLine) subscriber.

Thanx.

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 18:11:43 JST
From: Caine <[e-mail]>
Subject: Running F/A-18 on a PowerBook??? (Q)

Does anyone have any experience with running F/A-18 on a PowerBook in
anything other than B/W mode?

I've run the F/A-18 Demo on a IIci in 16 grayscale (4-bit) mode
without any problems, but it insists on resetting my Duo 210's screen
to B/W (1-bit) whenever I try to fly.

It's a great simulator, and I'd really like to get a copy.  But,
flying in B/W mode makes you feel like you're viewing the world
through a screen door...


    Mike Caine
    [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 23:01:26 MST
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Lundell)
Subject: SCSI tape drive for DC 6150

I switch an Archive Viper DC150 drive between a Sun and a Mac IIcx or Q610
with no problem. To make it easier, I put the drive in it's own box and
got an extra pass-through terminator to keep the cable that isn't connected
to the drive terminated. The only thing that differs with the cable is
what kind of connector is on the end--big old SCSI, DB25 (Mac), SCSI-2
(Sun).

I use it with Fastback for backup. No extra drivers required.

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 15:14:27 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: SCSI tape drive for DC6150 (A)

Rusty Rowell <[e-mail]> asked:
>I have what probably amounts to a lifetime supply of DC6150 tapes. What I
>can't find is a SCSI based tape drive that connects to a MAC and supports
>these tapes. I've seen the drives for Sun SCSI (there's one on my desk).
>Could this be used with a special cable? Any leads woudl be appreciated.

There ARE such drives for the Mac. I have one (in a "shoebox" case) which
includes a tape device and a 160 mB harddisk. It's a MICRONET labeled
thing, and the tape drive itself reports (in SCSI-Probe) that it's a
TANDBERG product.

I suggest you contact Micronet for info wether these tape drives are still
available. They can be reached on AppleLink: MICRONET.SLS (maybe there are
other email addresses as well).

I'd say that ANY SCSI device can be used with a Mac, if you have a SCSI
cable. Does SUN SCSI look different from Mac SCSI at the drive?

Hope this helps. Good luck, Christian.


------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 10:40:02 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Rob Forsyth)
Subject: Stella and other System modellers (A)

Thanks to all those who provided information in response to my query about
system modelling programs. The most widely recommended package was
STELLA/iTHINK, by High Performance Systems inc., 45 Lyme Road, Suite 300,
Hanover, N.H. 03755. UK Distributors are Cognitus Systems Ltd, 1 Park View,
Harrogate, Yorkshire (Tel [phone]).

There was some confusion over the relationship between Stella and iThink.
The latter is not a replacement for Stella as many informed me, but a
parallel product, with Stella aimed (as I understand it) at the academic
community, iThink for commercial/business applications. Stella offers the
opportunity to set up dynamic models incorporating quantities (or
"accumulations") and flows between them, linking relationships described by
formulae or graphically, initial conditions, conditional relationships, and
then use numerical iterative methods to follow the mdoel with time,
allowing the "solution" of systems too complex to yield to direct
analytical solutions of differential equations. Since the early versions I
have seen, Stella now includes improved interface, and the ability to make
stand alone teaching applications for self-directed learning with an
additional authoring module. It's widely used in social, economic and
environmental studies as well as the "harder" sciences. My initial
experience with it has been favourable.

Other recommendations for alternative solutions include Extend (a package
which I gather is similar in scope though I was unable to find anything
about it), the Simulab module of MatLab (again, no personal experience, but
apparently very powerful) and SIMULA. SIMULA is a complete object-oriented
programming language designed specifically for the defining and exploration
of such models, with the advantage that the compilers etc are public
domain. I have no experience of using it, but presume a certain investment
of time is involved.

UK prices for Stella version 3 (Mac/Windows) are UKP 249, authoring version
UKP 399 (or upgrade to standard version at UKP 150). Multiple licences
available.

Thanks to all who provided information.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 11:13:31 PST
From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey A. Hallett)
Subject: ThrustMaster

Am looking into getting a joystick for flight simulation play. I heard
rumors that the famous Thrustmaster joystick, popular on Intel machines,
is now available for Macintosh.

Can someone confirm or squelch this rumor?  If confirmed, anyone have
purchasing information?

Thanks

Jeffrey A. Hallett, Keane, Inc. [phone]

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 01:51:23 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Adalbert Duda)
Subject: time used with different applications - SW needed

Hi,

I'm searching for a friend of mine for some software that is used to
register to the usage of different programs or of one program for different
tasks. So if somebody works with his computer on different projects (for
different clients) and wants to count the time spent on the different jobs.
That 's about the task there is, and I'm looking for software to accomplish
that. I'm definitely sure that there exists such a software, but have no
idea how it's called. Sorry, that I can not better explain what I want,
although I think that there is a short term for that kind of software.

I even think that such a program was presented in the TidBits - magazine,
but I didn't find anything in the last issues.

Thanks for any help,

Adalbert Duda
--
Adalbert Wojciech Duda                  Student at the University of
Business

 ---------------------------------Administration & Economics, Vienna,
Austria
Email: [e-mail]
       AMDA-Link Wien ([phone]): Adalbert Duda,ALWien

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 21:47:39 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: ZTerm and Kermit (C)


On 12 Mar 94 "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I really hope I'm wrong about ZTerm, and that it *does* support Kermit.

I believe that the latest ZTerm FAQ states that the next version of
ZTerm, scheduled to be released during the first quarter, will support
Kermit.

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 10:01:18 EST
From: "Christine A. Gaca" <[e-mail]>

In response to a recent post:  CU-SeeMe0.6 is the latest version of a Mac
video conferencing software developed by Cornell U.  It is available as
freeware ftp from gated.cornell.edu.  Receiving requires only a a Mac with
a screen capable of displaying 16 grays & an Internet connection.  Sending
requires the same plus a camera & either an AV-Mac or a SuperMac VideoSpigot
board plus Quicktime & SpigotVDIG extensions added to the systems folder

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