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With regards to what you wrote, how does one "adjust for room dynamics
and stuff like that"? I asked a professor that question just
last week and he didn't really know himself. Since pink noise is believed
to be due to surface states (say, the surface of the Silicon where there's
a lack of a covalent bond) that act as "traps" to nearby elecrons, and since
this happens at low frequencies (because at high frequencies they aren't
able to "trap" electrons), how do you compensate for that? It seems to me
that you wouldn't be able to compensate for pink noise. I have seen the
"pink noise" feature, however, on many EQs, and I was wondering
how they are suppose to compensate for noise when pink noise is not due to
"man made noise" like power lines, crosstalks, coupling, etc. If you have
any information about this, it would be appreciated. Hope this didn't sound
too drawn out. Thanx. | 3 |
1,474 | For sale : Red Honda Scooter (150cc)
Need m/c license
Max speed - 63 mph
Gas mileage - 74 mpg
Max wt - 250 lbs
Odo. reading - 3000 miles
- it has only been out of the factory for 3 years
- very low mileage
Original Owner - all paperwork available
Very thorough tune-ups quarterly
Year - 1986
Body - Not a scratch, garaged and covered always
Cover and 2 helmets included
Good for student or light commuter or for fun :)
$1300 or best offer
e-mail or call in evenings
Susan Hodapp
(919)833-8431 | 3 |
6,633 | For Sale 1989 Kawasaki TS (650) Tandum seating
Color: White with Blue and Red.
Jet Ski runs great and looks good.
Ziemans Trailer with locking Utility Box.
Color: Black
Ziemans Trailer is less than a year old.
Both have been garaged kept and well maintained.
$4200.00 for both
(To be sold as a set only) | 3 |
232 | There is a bancrupcy sale coming up soon, and I wonder if anyone
know about these printers: Olivetti PG-306, Canon LBp-8R,
Nec silentwriter 2 S60, Kyocera Laser F3000.
Which of the above, if any, has Postscript, and an appletalk interface builtin.
Please reply by E-mail.
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Tommy Nordgren "What is a woman that you forsake her
Royal Institute of Technology and the hearth fire,
Stockholm and the home acre,
f85-tno@nada.kth.se to go with the old grey widow maker." | 3 |
2,049 |
Performa 405 = LCII 4/80 with Monitor, modem and software.
Performa 430 = LCII 4/120 w/ Monitor, modem and software.
Performa 450 = LCIII with Monitor, modem and software.
Do we detect a trend here people...
The Performas are made to be low-cost, widely distributed (sold at
Sears) home machines, not business machines. They were developed to
compete with the retail outlet home computer market.
Sears is probably going to have the best price around, most of the
time, based on the number they can purchase and stuff like that.
Not really. The newer Peformas (405, 430, 450) come with what is
really a third party monitor that Apple has put their name on and
called it the Performa Plus display. Essentially it is a VGA monitor,
quite cheap. | 3 |
5,366 | {Gladman Aviv} said
"Re: Blue LED's"
to <All> on 04-24-93 01:51
GA> In order to emit blue light, a semiconductor must have a band gap
GA> energy within the region of 2.6 to 2.8 electron Volts. According to my
GA> physical electronics prof, you can't get an LED with that band gap.
GA> That's why you don't find blue LEDs or, for that matter, some other
GA> colour of LEDs. That is not to say that blue LEDs can't be found. I've
GA> seen 'blue' LEDs sold, but they were just your typical visible light
GA> LED in a blue plastic covering. They didn't emit very much light...
This is not true they have and do make blue LED's they are
about 2.80 in digikey. 470nm wavelength by the way
Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
Mangled on Sun 04-25-1993 at 13:33:46 | 3 |
2,402 | Hi folks,
subject line says it all: which accelerators can you recommend for
a Mac LC II? Sorry, if this a FAQ.
cheers | 3 |
3,999 |
I have the same question for any tools for the 6502 derivative processor
the 65C816 processor (designed by Western Design Center).
Thanks,
Oscar.
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Oscar R. Mitchell
IBM Advanced Workstations and Systems Division
RISC System/6000(tm) - Future Systems Hardware Architecture and Design Group
Mail Stop: ZIP 9461
11400 Burnet Road
Austin, Texas 78758 USA Phone: (512)823-0000
IBM Tieline: 678-8513 USA "FAX": (512)838-8561
IBM VNet: OSCAR at AUSVM6
IBM InterNet: oscar@oscar.austin.ibm.com
USA InterNet: oscar@austin.ibm.com
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7,170 | it's
with
cars;
I wonder if you could focus the RFI "gun" so the cops wouldn't have this
problem??? | 3 |
4,848 | I'm looking for any and all information regarding packet radio
implementation on the PC. Software, hardware, whatever.
Please e-mail any info to koberg@spot.colorado.edu. | 3 |
1,748 |
Bad system disk. (possibly too new a version for your historical
curiosity^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFat Mac)
| 3 |
2,012 | The 486 at the same CLOCK is NOT as fast as the 040 at the same
clock speed. The '040 also has much better floating point unit.
Now the DX2-66 is faster than the '040 at 33Mhz. But for your
reference the 486 at 33 mhz gets ~14MIPS while the '040 at
33mhz gets ~20MIPS.
| 3 |
6,085 | Hi,
I own a IIsi and I'm considering buying a Powerbook. Can
anyone give me a listing of all the models and tell me what I'm looking for,
i.e. passive matrix vs. active, memory sizes, upgradeability, internal modems,
disk size. If you could provide some prices too that would help. I'm not
informed enough on Powerbooks to know how well they operate.
I have been following the posts on some of the problems that have been
encountered such as the trackball not working in the horizontal.
I would appreciate the list as well as any advice you may have. | 3 |
2,449 | HP 9872B 4 pen plotter. $150
Fujistu M2451E 130 meg SCSI tape drive $150
Sony 40 meg SCSI disk drive (sticks once in a while) $50
Dead Maxtor XT4380E 338 meg ESDI drive $100
Dead Miniscribe 20 meg SCSI drive $10
Adaptac SCSI to ST-412 interface board $20
Daughter boards from tape drives ?QIC-02 - QIC-36? $20
Twist Terms (VT100 terms that the head twists on for 80x25 or 80x72) $150
14" Analog RGB color monitor (15.7 Khz works nice with amiga's) $100
Spool with 90+ feet of 50 conductor ribbon cable $75
All prices are or best offer. Prices do not include UPS shipping. All items
working except those stated as Dead. | 3 |
2,744 | I have for sale a Hayes 2400 Personal Modem (External) for the Macintosh.
Really nice small think. Plugs directly into a power plug ands has two
long cables, for to the phone and the other to your macintosh. Get back
to me if you are interested with an offer. Thanks in advance. | 3 |
4,247 |
Pink noise is a random signal with more low-frequency components
than white noise.
If you look at the frequency spectrum of white noise at a frequency
analyzer, you will find that the spectrum power density is flat, which
means that every frequency is present in the noise signal.
Often pink noise is obtained from white noise by integrating of low-pass
filtering a white noise signal. Therefore pink noise contains much more
low-frequency components.
The effect of pink noise is sometimes used to simulate thunder or roaring
animals. An additional low-pass filter with variable cutoff frequency will
explain you why.
Enjoy it. | 3 |
3,061 | You might want to get a disposible flash camera, shoot the roll of film,
then take it apart (they're snapped together). We used a bunch of them
at my wedding, but instead of sending the whole camera in, I just took
the film out (it's a standard 35mm canister), and kept the batteries
(they use one AA battery). Sorry, I didn't keep any of the flash electronics. | 3 |
1,964 | This inelegant device started life as a 175 watt security lamp, until
i smashed off the outer glass to liberate the nasty rays, It works a
treat, weighs a heap (due to the ballast) , and NO - i wont ship it !!
cheers
Mike.
| 3 |
3,780 | Look for Spice or PSpice
| 3 |
5,337 | Moving Sale
~ Large table $25
~ Four-drawer dresser $29
~ Five-shelf book case $19
~ Chair $19
~ 15-speed Bicycle (KHS brand) $69
~ Microwave oven $59 | 3 |
962 | The following comics are for auction. The highest bid takes them!
New stuff added!! (Cyberrad, Marvel Presents, Spiderman Special, etc..)
TITLE Minimum/Current
--------------------------------------------------------------
Alpha Flight 51 (Jim Lee's first work at Marvel) $ 5.00
Aliens 1 (1st app Aliens in comics, 1st prnt, May 1988) $20.00/KrisM./SOLD
Amazing Spider-Man 136 (Intro new Green Goblin) $20.00
Amazing Spider-Man 238 (1st appearance Hobgoblin) $50.00
Archer and Armstrong 1 (Frank Miller/Smith/Layton) $ 7.50
Avengers 263 (1st appearance X-factor) $ 3.50
Bloodshot 1 (Chromium cover, BWSmith Cover/Poster) $ 5.00/SamE/TWICE
CyberRad 1 (Reintro CyberRad, Prestige silver edition) $15.00
Daredevil 158 (Frank Miller art begins) $35.00
Dark Horse Presents 1 (1st app Concrete, 1st printing) $ 7.50
Detective 657 (Azrael appears, Intro Cypher) $ 5.00
Detective 658 (Azrael appears) $ 4.00
Harbinger 10 (1st appearance H.A.R.D. Corps) $ 7.00/B.Matthey/SOLD
H.A.R.D. Corps 1 $ 5.00
Incredible Hulk 324 (1st app Grey Hulk since #1 1962) $ 7.00
Incredible Hulk 330 (1st McFarlane issue) $15.00
Incredible Hulk 331 (Grey Hulk series begins) $11.00
Incredible Hulk 367 (1st Dale Keown art in Hulk) $15.00
Incredible Hulk 377 (1st all new hulk, 1st prnt, Keown) $15.00
Marvel Comics Presents 1 (Wolverine, Silver Surfer) $ 7.50
Marvel Presents (Charleston Chew giveaway, Sam Keith) $ 5.00
Maxx Limited Ashcan (4000 copies exist, blue cover) $33.50/BrentB/SOLD
Mr T. #1 (Signed Advance copy, 10,000 exist) $10.00
New Mutants 86 (McFarlane cover, 1st app Cable - cameo) $10.00
New Mutants 100 (1st app X-Force) $ 5.00
New Mutants Annual 5 (1st Liefeld art on New Mutants) $10.00
Omega Men 3 (1st appearance Lobo) $ 7.50
Omega Men 10 (1st full Lobo story) $ 7.50
Power Man & Iron Fist 78 (3rd appearance Sabretooth) $20.00
Power Man & Iron Fist 84 (4th appearance Sabretooth) $15.00
Simpsons Comics and Stories 1 (Polybagged special ed.) $ 7.50
Spectacular Spider-Man 147 (1st app New Hobgoblin) $12.50
Spider-Man Special (UNICEF giveaway, vs Venom) $10.00
Star Trek the Next Generation 1 (Feb 1988, DC mini) $ 7.50
Star Trek the Next Generation 1 (Oct 1989, DC comics) $ 7.50
Trianglehead #1 (Special limited edition, autographed) $ 5.00
Web of Spider-Man 29 (Hobgoblin, Wolverine appear) $10.00
Web of Spider-Man 30 (Origin Rose, Hobgoblin appears) $ 7.50
Wolverine 10 (Before claws, 1st battle with Sabretooth) $15.00
Wolverine 41 (Sabretooth claims to be Wolverine's dad) $ 5.00
Wolverine 42 (Sabretooth proven not to be his dad) $ 3.50
Wolverine 43 (Sabretooth/Wolverine saga concludes) $ 3.00
Wolverine 1 (1982 mini-series, Miller art) $20.00
Wonder Woman 267 (Return of Animal Man) $12.50
X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, X-Force card) $20.00
X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Shatterstar card) $10.00
X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Deadpool card) $10.00
X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Sunspot/Gideon) $10.00
All comics are in near mint to mint condition, are bagged in shiny
polypropylene bags, and backed with white acid free boards. Shipping is
$1.50 for one book, $3.00 for more than one book, or free if you order
a large enough amount of stuff. I am willing to haggle.
I have thousands and thousands of other comics, so please let me know what
you've been looking for, and maybe I can help. Some titles I have posted
here don't list every issue I have of that title, I tried to save space. | 3 |
3,505 | o Kenwood Audiophile Cassette Tape Deck
Asking $199.00 obo + shipping, (original price I paid - $450.00),
excellent condition, well maintained, rarely used.
- Model KX-900
- Kenwood Audiophile Series (Kenwood highend stereo component)
- Programmable playback with Memory System (used to program the playback
order if selection. Program is stored in RAM (Random Access Memory)
System with digital display of the song # being played)
- Counter Memory Index (when this mode is selected, count '000' of the
Tape Counter can be stored in memory. This function is useful when it
is necessary to stop of restart the tape at '000' during fast forward
or rewind.
- Search Mode (Searching for a selection, skipping a selection or
repeating a selection can be preformed at a touch.)
- Time stand by switch (this is used along with an audio timer when an
unattended timer-recording or timer-playback is performed.)
- Dolby NR with MPX filter
- Bias adjustment (used to obtain optimum bias that matches the type of
type to be played)
- Tape selector switch (CrO2, FeCr, Normal, Metal)
- REC MUTE key (When recording, press this key to delete undesired portions
between programs such as announcements and commercials. When this key
is pressed, the tape runs forwards for 5 seconds to make an unrecorded
section, then the PAUSE function automatically stops the tape. To
restart recording, press PAUSE key once.)
- Flurescent PEAK PROGRAM METERS
- Rec level controls
- Phone Jack
- Mic Jacks
- Input Selector switch
- SPECS: | 3 |
4,779 |
Just a follow-up note, I have sold the receiver, so don't e-mail or call
me anymore. Sorry to dissapoint anyone. | 3 |
2,102 | I have a certificate for 2 round-trip airfares to the Bahamas.
Expiration date is one year from now.
The maximum value, depending on time and location, is estimated at
$1628. I am asking for $1500 or best offer.
For more information, call Goh at
(415) 497-0663
or send mail to
kmgoh@leland.stanford.edu | 3 |
5,249 | I'm posting this for a friend, but you can e-mail questions to me at
gyeh@cc.bellcore.com However, the best way to get your questions answered
is to call the phone number listed.
FOR SALE:
1991 Volkswagon Corrado
2+2 coupe
Low mileage: approx. 28,000 miles
5-speed manual
7 speaker factory Blaupunkt stereo system
New all-weather Yokohamas 205/50VR15
Sun roof
AC
Red
Speed activated spoiler
Extra set of tires - Pirelli P600 195VR15
** Equipped with factory Winter package - heated seats,
mirrors and nozzles.
** Alpine security system with 2 remotes.
All records - documentation, service
Pampered car, mint condition
Must sacrifice at $11,000 or best offer. | 3 |
1,179 |
Heay bud, get a life in the real world.... Do you still play with your Atari
with the paddles? Geez man, open your eyes on the technoledgy of today...
I have been quoted a price from a local dealer friend of mine, that I could get a
Motherboard (386DX/33 with 64K cache, with 1 meg base ram.) for $285 !!
Here is some friendly advice, go to your favorite book store (Walden Book's)
and pick up a Computer Shoppers Guide...
You think that was aa good price wait till you see some of the OTHER goodies they sell | 3 |
1,668 | Hi,
I have been told by a local sales that Asante has come out with this
LCIII PDS Ethernet adapter with an optional 68882 socket on the board.
My question is will the FPU performance degrade will I put the 68882
on the PDS card socket instead of on the motherboard itself? Intuitively,
the math co-processor should always be placed close to the CPU, but
I am not sure how good Apple's so-called processor-direct slot is when
it comes to throughout. Does anyone know the answer to this or have
any experience with the Asante LCIII Ethernet adapter? Thanks in advance.
Andy | 3 |
3,226 | Your Price List Price
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C Memory Management Techniques $22.00 $32.95
Len Dorfman &
Marc J. Neuberger
(Includes disk)
1993
Borland C++ Handbook $18.00 $29.95
Second Edition
(Covers version 3.0)
Chris H. Pappas &
William H. Murray, III
1992
Converting C to Turbo C++ $18.00 $29.95
Len Dorfman
(Includes disk)
1992
The Art of C $22.00 $39.95
Herbert Schildt
(Includes disk)
1991
Using Turbo C++ $12.00 $24.95
Herbert Schildt
1990
C : The Complete Reference $18.00 $28.95
Second Edition
Herbert Schildt
1990
Using C++ $12.00 $24.95
(Version 2.0)
Bruce Eckel
1989
Advanced C $9.00 $21.95
Herbert Schildt
Second Edition
1988
High Performance Interactive Graphics $8.00 $22.95
Lee Adams
(Examples done in BASIC)
1987
High Performance CAD Graphics in C $10.00 $26.95
Lee Adams
1986
PCTools the Complete Reference $15.00 $29.95
Second Edition
(Versions 7.0 and 7.1)
Hy Bender
1992
DVORAK'S Inside track to $20.00 $39.95
DOS and PC Performance
John Dvorak &
Nick Anis
1992
Advanced Quick C 2nd Edition $9.00 $22.95
(Version 2)
Werner Feibel
1989
WordPerfect : The Complete Reference $12.00 $24.95
Series 5 Edition
Karen L. Acerson
1988
Using Ventura Publisher $8.00 $24.95
QUE
1988
(This book covers the first version, but)
(it might be good for newer versions too)
Using OS/2 $8.00 $19.95
Kris Jamsa
1988
(This book is for version 1.x, obviously)
Using Generic CADD Levels 1-3 $10.00 $22.95
Ray C. Freeman III
1989
I will pay shipping.
(Only in the USA)
| 3 |
2,069 |
PSI makes an internal fax modem for the map portable (1-800-622-1722) but
asks too much for it (retail $450). I'd buy an external and save about
$350.
there is a manufacturer that still makes INTERNAL HD's for the portable,
they're listed in some of the catalog "magazines" for apple stuff you can
find at bookstores. If I see it again I'll post it. But, again, you might
want to just add a small lightweight external HD built for the
powerbooks. You'd be able to use it with a new computer some day. Any
other mac portable questions, I'll have to cry uncle.
Don't blame me. I voted for XXXXXXX.
| 3 |
3,976 |
IN ORDER to get the 15 nS response time you need, you are better off
going to an ECL slicer which can run off a single +5 or -5.2 V supply,
you just need to bias or do some level shifting perhaps to get it in the
range. Check out the ECL 10K books for a simple cheap solution. | 3 |
3,535 |
Try rec.radio.packet
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/ /______ / / Georgia State University 404-651-2390
/ ___ / / / Internet:REGMAD@GSUSGI2.GSU.EDU
/_______/ ______/ /_______/ BITNET :REGMAD@GSUVM1 PACKET:KD4FKW@W4QO | 3 |
3,554 |
How much room can 6 videotapes take up in the moving van?
Why not just take them with you?
-- | 3 |
889 |
I know for sure that the Everex Magic I/O EV-170A can be jumpered
for a printer mode, or for a general purpose bidirectional I/O mode.
Also, I know for sure that the IBM Technical Reference says the following
about the Monochrome Display & Printer Adapter and the IBM Parallel Printer
Adapter:
It is essential that the external device not try to pull these
lines [referring to the data lines] to ground.
And later:
If an external device should be driving data on these pins (in
violation of usage ground rules) at the time of an input, this
data will be `or'ed with the latch contents.
I will accept no responsibility if you incur damages of any kind
as a result of my saying, ``I DO NOT know for sure, but I think
you should be able to use a traditional parallel port as an input
port by writing 0x to the data lines, and then reading from the
data lines, while an external device drives them.'' The input
data will not be latched, so noise could make this infeasible. | 3 |
3,753 | I have a Bronica SQA medium format camera for sale. Includes 2 lenses, 1 film
back, and a view finder. $2.200.00 firm. Contact me via E-mail for info.
| 3 |
2,307 | The article was probably referring to changing the clock oscillator in a manner similar to that done on Quadra 700's and IIsi's. I haven't read a report of this actually being done on a Centris 610 but supposedly this also works on Q900,
Q950 and centris 650 machines.
| 3 |
2,985 | OK, if I post where this comes from, will people stop sending email
asking where I negotiated the deal? ;-)
The deal is from "International Computer and Networking" in CA.
(I saw the ad int he back of MacWorld and MacUser)...
phone number is 310-441-9181 and the deal may have changed since
a few weeks ago, since they change prices about every ten minutes ;-)
Alas, this is a funny system, it SOUNDS like a good deal, but this is a
Centris 650, 4MB (on the motherboard) 4MB SIMM, 80MB HD, NO ETHERNET
and NO COPROCESSOR (well, actually it's a 68LC040 instead of a 68RC040,
'just had to say that to keep people from saying "there is no such thing
as an '040 without a coprocessor, since the FPU is built into the chip")
OK, there ya have it, but if I were you, I would wait untill the cyclones
come out and buy a Quadra 800 ;-)
-nate
| 3 |
2,518 |
Sorry about following up my own article, but I wanted to continue
that what might be being missed here is that the important thing
might not be temperature differences per se, but the action of
heat sinking the battery.
Perhap someone could conduct an experiment, taking two identical
lead acid batteries, placing both on wooden shelves, but putting
one of them in a water bath designed to act as a heat sink. This
would eliminate the 'concrete floor effect', and keep both batteries
at the same ambient temperature.
I think the argument over temperatures is not pertinent, but the
one over heat conductance and removing the exothermic heat may have
some validity. | 3 |
1,852 | Newsgroup: sci.electronics
From: martin.vuille@synapse.org
Subject: Electronic Design
Does anyone know the telephone number for the circulation department
of 'Electronic Design' magazine?
MV | 3 |
4,609 |
I keep my 13" apple trinitron and IIsi on for months at a time...doesn't
seem to cause any problems.
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3,339 |
It is also much easier to scribble corrections on a hard-copy manual. | 3 |
2,956 | Novell 386dx16 motherboard with cpu, 4 megs of memory and I/O ports for
$160 + shipping / firm.
let me know if you are interested. | 3 |
4,373 | I have forsale a 486 25 slc notebook very small
INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING: CYRIX 486 25MHZ PROC. ( FAST )
MIDWEST MICRO ELITE SERIES
60 MEG HARD DRIVE (120 W/ STACKER)
1 3.5INCH DRIVE
1 SERIAL, 1 PARALLEL
2 MEGS OF RAM ( UPGRADABLE TO 8 MEGS )
64 shades of grey VGA
built in trackball
very fast machine
LOADED WITH WINDOWS,STACKER
DOS 5.0,
CARRYING CASE, AND POWER SUPPLY
bought it just 3 months ago for $1500.00 and realized
I don't need this much power in a notebook.
I was asking $1300.00... Now the first person with $1150.00 takes it. | 3 |
37 | Is there any third party video ram adapter for vewing 24 bit color on LCII?
I heard that Apple is selling it aroung 160$.
Please e-mail me.
Thanks.
Young
youyj@mace.cc.purdue.edu
| 3 |
187 |
Mostly. The Q950 does have a SCSI2 controller chip as it's SCSI
chip, but it does not have the chips to use the Wide or Fast SCSI-2
modes and therefore doesn't offer much more in the way of SCSI
performance over the Q900. It does, howrever, have a faster I/O
controller than the Q900; this is where the real speed boost comes from. | 3 |
3,541 | Claris Filemaker Pro Database Manager for sale. Still in package.
$240 or best offer.
Call (415) 824 6209, ask for Larry. | 3 |
5,278 | Acorn Software, Inc. has 3 tape drives (currently used on a VMS
system) for sale. These are all SCSI tape drives and are in
working condition.
WangDat 1300 4mm $500.00
WangDat 2600 4mm (compression) $650.00 (SALE PENDING)
Exabyte 8200 8mm $650.00 (SALE PENDING)
Plus shipping and COD. Certified checks only, please. These
units are sold as is and without warrantee. Contact me if you're
interested.
--
Dick Munroe Internet: munroe@dmc.com
Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc. UUCP: ...uunet!thehulk!munroe
267 Cox St. Office: (508) 568-1618
Hudson, Ma. FAX: (508) 562-1133 | 3 |
4,971 |
Yeah, but they probably included industries and educational institutions
that uses mostly work stations (SUNs, DEC, IBM RS600... etc etc) Which turns
monitor off if left untouched for 5 min.
- Chung Yang
| 3 |
7,478 | Ensoniq SQ-80 Cross-Wave Synthesizer:
I have an SQ-80 for sale. The SQ-80 is a powerful performance
oriented synth with a limited on-board sequencer. I bought it because
it has a very large timbral repertoire; it seems to do meaty analog
synth sounds as well as sounds that are considerably more "digital".
Below are a list of features extracted from the owner's manual:
o Eight-voice polyphonic poly-timbral synthesizer, capable of
playing eight different sounds at once, with dynamic stereo
panning for each voice
o Voice section employing Cross-Wave synthesis; combine different
attack and sustain wave segments to create complex, dynamic sounds
o 75 sampled waves (includes a drumset) serve as the sound source
o Dynamic voice allocation: each sequencer track/MIDI channel has
access to all eight voices
o A full-featured MIDI controller keyboard capable of sending eight
MIDI program and volume changes at once. Keyboard is velocity
sensitive, and transmits/receives velocity and polyphonic aftertouch.
o Powerful matrix modulation scheme allows a very wide range of
modulation sources and routings.
o A 3.5" floppy disk drive which writes/reads ordinary DS/DD disks
allows fast and reliable storage of up to 600 sequences and up to
1728 sound patches on a single floppy disk. Also has a RAM-cart slot
for patches that is compatible with ESQ-1 RAM-carts.
o Does sysex dumps to its floppy disk for any sysex capable MIDI device
o 80 character fluorescent display and user-friendly "page-driven"
programming scheme provides a fairly humane user interface
o Stereo line-outs, and stereo headphone jack for private listening
o Sound programs and sequences are upwardly compatible with the ESQ-1
so that sounds and sequences created for the ESQ-1 can be played on
the SQ-80.
This SQ-80 has been the main MIDI controller in my studio for quite a while
now. It has performed ably in that role, and has also been a heavily
used sound source at the same time. The SQ-80 seems to have been designed
with this role in mind, and it works very well with my software sequencer
(WinCake) in its multitimbral mode.
short samples (there are 75 of them) as sources, then these waves
are processed with a sophisticated DCF-DCA arrangement. The SQ-80
is capable of great things because of its 4-pole analog lowpass filter.
Simply put, it makes fabulous analog synth sounds. But unlike most
good analog synths, it has a very thorough MIDI implementation so that it
works very well with a MIDI sequencer. What I really like most about this
thing is that it is capable of making a very wide range of sounds.
This SQ-80 is about 5 years old (mfg. date 1/21/88). It does have
an 8-track sequencer, but like most on-board sequencers, it is a pain
to use so I have avoided it.
REASON FOR SALE:
I am selling my SQ-80 because I recently joined forces with another individual
here in Boston, and we have more keyboards than space to put them. I
recommend it for someone who is getting started in sequencing and needs a
powerful but economical master keyboard.
PRICING AND TERMS:
I paid $1300.00 for this synth a few years ago. I am willing to accept
$650.00 (average r.m.m.s asking price is $733.00). I will include a bunch of
patches on SQ-80 floppy disks for the buyer of this synth, as well as the
original Ensoniq SQ-80 owner's manual.
Price: Asking $650.00 (everything)
Shipping: split shipping (UPS Surface COD) anywhere in the lower 48 states
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Craig Vanderborgh Verbex Voice Systems
e-mail: craigv@rad.verbex.com 119 Russell Street
phone: (508) 486-8886 Littleton, MA 01460 | 3 |
6,967 | First you find a congenial member of the opposite sex ...
--
Thomas Clarke
Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826
(407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu | 3 |
288 | I have the following complete camera kits for sale:
Minolta with three lenses.
Ricoh with zoom lens.
Nikon 35 mm autofocus. $50.
Nikkor 50/1.8 MINT. $60. | 3 |
3,219 | I posted on here about a problem with a Datadesk 101e keyboard that
failed to rebuild the desktop with the command-option keys pressed
or to shut off inits when pressing the shift key. After absolutely
no help from Datadesk I called MacConnection tech support. They tried it out
on their Centris 610 and had the same problem. They immediately offered
to get a new keyboard, try it on their Centris and ship it to me
overnight if it worked. I could send them my keyboard back after I
got the one that worked. This is from a guy in Tech support named Dave.
It turns out that the keyboard will wrok if you wait for the smiley face
before pressing the shift key to disable inits and wait for the inits to start appearing to rebuild the desktop by pressing command-option. I really like
this keyboard so I was glad to be able to keep it. On the other hand,
Datadesks tech support sucks while MacConnection's is great!
-Terry
| 3 |
1,437 | A bunch of things i have too many of :
chips :
type new/pull price desc
AD1856 N $3.50 16 bit serial D/A converter smt like PCM56
TMS32020GBL P $12.00 TI DSP chip
MC68020RC25 P $12.00 Make your own Mac ????
Z08613/08STD N $12.00 Piggyback emulator for Z8 family
D77P20 P $12.00 NEC's EPROM version DSP chip
MK38P73 P $25.00 you gotta really want 'em !
LM213 N $30.00 Hitachi 256*64 bitmapped display
lots of others including 22V10, C22V10, 16L8,16R8
other stuff includes :
Cipher tape drives $10.00
Data I/O device programmer $60.00 dont go !
Apple Laserwriter $550.00 a beauty-only 8k page
Mac 800k int drives $40.00 | 3 |
1,516 | 3 | |
6,976 |
I just ordered my subscription today. Call MacWeek's Customer Service
Dept. at (609) 461-2100 and quote some plastic. If you forget the number,
it's included in the statement of ownership, which is on the contents
page of the copy I have. A one year subscription costs $99.00 in the U.S,
Canada, or Mexico. I was told my first issue would arrive in 4-6 weeks. | 3 |
473 | I am posting this for a friend. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS ACCOUNT!!!
If you are interested in any of the following, ask for Rob at (510) 521-3147.
Laptop PC: $1200
- 386SX 20MHz CPU
- 4 MB RAM
- 120 MB Hard Drive
- VGA Graphics (32 Greyscale) LCD
- External VGA Port
- 3.5" High Density Floppy Drive
- Removable 101-key keyboard
- External keyboard port
- 2 Serial, 1 Parallel and 1 Expansion ports
- Expansion unit available, which has 2 full-size card slots
Bernoulli Drive: $400
- Dual 20 MB Disk Drives
- 20 MB cartridges (comes with 4 disks)
- External unit
Scanner: $50
- Logitech Scanman | 3 |
1,086 | Archive-name: macintosh/general-faq
Version: 2.1.3
Last-modified: April 16, 1993
Copyright 1993, Elliotte Harold
Changes:
2.1: Where can I FTP Macintosh software?
I added the ftp site anl.anl.fr.
2.5: What is .bin? .hqx? .cpt? .image? .etc.?
Disk Doubler will decode Packit archives. Binhex 5.0
will decode MacBinary files, NOT StuffIt files as the
last version erroneously indicated.
2.7: I added the question
How can I get Binhex, StuffIt etc. from a PC?
comp.sys.mac.faq
Part 1: An Introduction to the Macintosh Newsgroups
I. Introduction
1. How do I use this document?
2. What other information is available?
3. Which newsgroup should I post to?
4. Someone just asked why the System was taking up sixteen
megabytes on their IIcx. Shouldn't I display my knowledge
to the world by posting the seventeenth response to
their question?
II. FTP
1. Where can I FTP Macintosh software?
2. Can I get shareware by E-mail?
3. Where can I find Application X?
4. Can someone mail me Application X?
5. What is .bin? .hqx? .cpt? .image? .etc.?
6. How can I get BinHex? StuffIt? etc.?
7. How can I get BinHex, StuffIt, etc. from a PC?
III. Troubleshooting. What to do when things go wrong
1. Identify the problem.
2. Read the READ ME file.
3. Check for viruses.
4. Reinstall the application and all its support files.
5. Reinstall the system software.
6. Isolate the problem.
7. Contact technical support.
IV. Preventive Maintenance
1. Trash Unneeded Files
2. Reevaluate Your Extensions
3. Rebuild the desktop.
4. Zap the PRAM and Reset the Clock
5. Resize the system heap.
6. Reinstall the system software.
7. Disk Utilities
8. Backing Up
9. Disk Defragmentation
10. Reformatting and partitioning your hard disk
Other FAQ lists currently available:
B. comp.sys.mac.system:
I. Memory
1. Why is my system using so much memory?
2. What is Mode 32? the 32-bit enabler? Do I need them?
3. Cache and Carry (How much memory should I allot to my cache?)
II. System Software
1. Why does Apple charge for System 7.1?
2. What does System 7.1 give me for my $35 that System 7.0 doesn't?
3. Where can I get System 7.1?
4. How can I use System 6 on a System 7 only Mac?
5. Non-US scripts and systems
6. What is System 7 Tuneup? Do I need it?
7. Why do my DA's disappear when I turn on MultiFinder?
8. Do I need System 7.0.1?
9. How can I get System 7.0.1 on 800K disks?
III. Hard Disks, Filesharing, and the File System
1. Help! My folder disappeared!
2. Why can't I throw this folder away?
3. Why can't I share my removable drive?
4. Why can't I eject this SyQuest cartridge? CD-ROM? etc.
5. Why can't I rename my hard disk?
IV. Miscellaneous:
1. What does System Error XXX mean?
2. What is a Type 1 error?
3. What is A/ROSE?
4. Easy Access or One Answer, Many Questions
C. comp.sys.mac.misc:
I. Viruses
1. Help! I have a virus!
2. Reporting new viruses
II. Printing and PostScript
1. How do I make a PostScript file?
2. How do I print a PostScript file?
3. Why won't my PostScript file print on my mainframe's printer?
4. Why are my PostScript files so big?
5. How can I print PostScript on a non-PostScript printer?
6. How do I make my ImageWriter II print in color?
7. Why doesn't PrintMonitor work with the ImageWriter?
8. Why did my document change when I printed it?
9. How can I preview a PostScript file?
10. How do I edit a PostScript file?
III. DOS and the Mac
1. How can I move files between a Mac and a PC?
2. How can I translate files to a DOS format?
3. Should I buy SoftPC or a real PC?
IV. Security
1. How can I prevent users from changing the contents of a folder?
2. How can I password protect my Mac?
V. No particular place to go (Miscellaneous Miscellanea)
1. Are there any good books about the Mac?
2. How do I take a picture of the screen?
3. How do I use a picture for my desktop?
4. Can I Replace the "Welcome to Macintosh" box with a picture?
5. What is AutoDoubler? SpaceSaver? More Disk Space? Are they safe?
6. How do they compare to TimesTwo, Stacker and eDisk?
7. Where did my icons go?
8. Where can I find a user group?
This work is Copyright 1993 by Elliotte M. Harold. Permission
is hereby granted to distribute this unmodified document provided
that no fee in excess of normal on-line charges is required for
such distribution. Portions of this document may be extracted and
quoted free of charge and without necessity of citation in normal
on-line communication provided only that said quotes are not
represented as the correspondent's original work. Permission for
quotation of this document in printed material and edited on-line
communication (such as the Info-Mac Digest and TidBITS) is given
subject to normal citation procedures (i.e. you have to say where
you got it).
Disclaimer: I do my best to ensure that information contained
in this document is current and accurate, but I can accept no
responsibility for actions resulting from information contained
herein. This document is provided as is and with no warranty of
any kind. Corrections and suggestions should be addressed to
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu.
Apple, Macintosh, LaserWriter, ImageWriter, Finder, HyperCard and
MultiFinder are registered trademarks and PowerBook is a trademark
of Apple Computer, Inc. Linotronic is a registered trademark of
Linotype-Hell AG, Inc. PostScript is a registered trademark and
Illustrator and Photoshop are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc.
Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
PageMaker is a registered trademark of Aldus Corp. AutoDoubler
and DiskDoubler are trademarks of Fifth Generation Systems, Inc.
StuffIt and StuffIt Deluxe are trademarks of Raymond Lau and
Aladdin Systems, Inc. StuffIt SpaceSaver is a trademark of Aladdin
Systems, Inc. More Disk Space is a trademark of Alysis Software
Corporation. TimesTwo is a trademark of Golden Triangle Computers,
Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T. All other tradenames
are trademarks of their respective manufacturers.
This is the FIRST part of the this FAQ. The second part is
posted to comp.sys.mac.system and features many questions about
system software. The third part is posted every two weeks in
comp.sys.mac.misc. Tables of contents for those two pieces are
included above. Please familiarize yourself with all three
sections of this document before posting.
All pieces are available for anonymous ftp from
rtfm.mit.edu (18.172.1.27) in the directory
pub/usenet/news.answers/macintosh. Except for this introductory
FAQ which appears in multiple newsgroups and is stored as
general-faq.Z, the name of each file has the format of the last
part of the group name followed by "-faq.Z", e.g the FAQ for
comp.sys.mac.system is stored as system-faq.Z and the FAQ for
comp.sys.mac.misc is stored as misc-faq.Z. RTFM stores files as
compressed (.Z) BINARY files. If you leave off the .Z at the end
of the file name when "getting" the file, rtfm will automatically
decompress the file before sending it to you. You can also have
these files mailed to you by sending an E-mail message to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the line: send
pub/usenet/news.answers/macintosh/"name" in the body text where
"name" is the name of the file you want as specified above (e.g.
general-faq). You can also send this server a message with the
subject "help" for more detailed instructions.
====================
I HAVE A QUESTION... (1.0)
====================
Congratulations! You've come to the right place. Usenet is
a wonderful resource for information ranging from basic questions
(How do I lock a floppy disk?) to queries that would make Steve
Jobs himself run screaming from the room in terror. (I used
ResEdit to remove resources Init #11, WDEF 34, and nVIR 17 from my
system file and used the Hex Editor to add code string #A67B45 as a
patch to the SFGetFile routine so the Standard File Dialog Box
would be a nice shade of mauve. Everything worked fine until I
installed SuperCDevBlaster, and now when I use the Aldus driver to
print from PageMaker 5.0d4 to a Linotronic 6000 my system hangs.
P.S. I'm running System 6.0.2 on a PowerBook 170.)
Since the Macintosh newsgroups are medium to high volume, we
ask that you first peruse this FAQ list including at least the
table of contents for the other pieces of it, check any other
relevant on-line resources listed below in question 1.2, especially
the FAQ lists for the other Macintosh newsgroups, and RTFM (Read
the Friendly Manual) before posting your question. We realize that
you are personally incensed that the System is taking up fourteen
of your newly-installed twenty megs of RAM, but this question has
already made its way around the world three hundred times before,
and it's developing tired feet. Finally, before posting to any
newsgroup (Macintosh or otherwise), please familiarize yourself
with the basic etiquette of Usenet as described in the newsgroup
news.announce.newusers.
HOW DO I USE THIS DOCUMENT? WHERE CAN I GET IT? (1.1)
comp.sys.mac.faq is currently divided into multiple pieces,
a general introduction which you're reading now, and specific lists
for the newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system and comp.sys.mac.misc. FAQ
lists for comp.sys.mac.wanted, comp.sys.mac.apps and
comp.sys.mac.hardware are in development. When ready each part
will be available in its respective newsgroup. All pieces are
available via anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in the
pub/usenet/news.answers/macintosh directory. Except for this
document itself which is named general-faq.Z the pieces are named
as per the last part of the newsgroup they cover followed by
"-faq", e.g. system-faq.Z, misc-faq.Z. The .Z means the file is
stored compressed so you'll need to ftp it in binary mode and use
either MacCompress, StuffIt Deluxe, or the UNIX uncompress command
to decompress it. However if you leave off the ".Z" extension when
you "get" the file, rtfm will automatically decompress the file
before sending it to you.
This introductory document is posted to all of the concerned
newsgroups. The tables of contents for each of the specific FAQ
lists are at the beginning of this file so you should be able to
get at least some idea whether your question is answered anywhere
else in the FAQ even if you don't have the other parts at hand.
It's not always obvious, especially to newcomers, where a
particular question or comment should be posted. Please
familiarize yourself with the FAQ lists in all the major Macintosh
newsgroups before posting in any of them. Which questions appear
in which FAQs can serve as a basic guide to what posts belong
where.
To jump to a particular question search for
section-number.question-number enclosed in parentheses. For
example to find "Where can I FTP Macintosh software?" search for
the string "(2.1)". To jump to a section instead of a question
use a zero for the question number.
WHAT OTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE? (1.2)
comp.sys.mac.faq provides short answers to a number of
frequently asked questions appropriate for the Usenet newsgroup
comp.sys.mac.misc and comp.sys.mac.system. Four other files are
worthy of particular note: Daryl Spitzer maintains a FAQ list
covering Macintosh programming for the newsgroup
comp.sys.mac.programmer. It's posted to that group weekly and
available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.uoregon (128.223.8.8) in
/pub/mac. Eric Rosen maintains a frequently asked questions list
for comp.sys.mac.comm available in that newsgroup and from
rascal.ics.utexas.edu in mac/faq (where the file you're reading now
is also irregularly archived). This list answers many frequently
asked questions about networking, UNIX and the Mac,
telecommunications, and foreign file formats. Norm Walsh has
compiled an excellent FAQ for comp.fonts that answers a lot of
questions about the various kinds of fonts and cross-platform
conversion and printing. It's available in comp.fonts or by ftp
from ibis.cs.umass.edu in /pub/norm/comp.fonts/FAQ*. Finally Jim
Jagielski maintains a FAQ for comp.unix.aux covering Apple's UNIX
environment, A/UX. It's posted every 2 to 3 weeks in comp.unix.aux
and news.answers. It's available for anonymous ftp at
jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov.
WHICH NEWSGROUP SHOULD I POST TO? (1.3)
There are no stupid questions, but there are misplaced ones.
You wouldn't ask your English teacher how to do the definite
integral of ln x between zero and one, would you? So don't ask
the programmer newsgroup why your system is so slow when Microsoft
Word is in the background. Ignorance of basic netiquette is not an
excuse. If you want people to help you, you need to learn their
ways of communicating.
Posting questions to the proper newsgroup will fill your
mailbox with pearls of wisdom (and maybe a few rotten oysters too
:-) ). Posting to the wrong newsgroup often engenders a thundering
silence. For instance the most common and glaring mispost, one
that seems as incongruous to dwellers in the Macintosh regions of
Usenet as would a purple elephant to Aleuts in the Arctic, asking a
question about networking anywhere except comp.sys.mac.comm,
normally produces no useful responses. Posting the same question
to comp.sys.mac.comm ensures that your post is read and considered
by dozens of experienced network administrators and not a few
network software designers.
Please post to exactly ONE newsgroup. Do not cross-post.
If a question isn't important enough for you to take the extra
minute to figure out where it properly belongs, it's not important
enough for several thousand people to spend their time reading.
For the same reason comp.sys.mac.misc should not be used as a
catch-all newsgroup.
The breakdown of questions between different newsgroups in
this document can also serve as a reasonable guide to what belongs
where. Specifically questions about productivity applications
(software you bought your Macintosh to run, not software you bought
to make your Macintosh run better) should go to comp.sys.mac.apps
unless the application is covered in a more specific newsgroup.
Communications programs, games, HyperCard, compilers and databases
all have more topical comp.sys.mac.* newsgroups. Post questions
about non-communications hardware including questions about what
software is necessary to make particular hardware work to
comp.sys.mac.hardware. Questions about MacOS system software
belong in comp.sys.mac.system. Questions about utilities and
extensions normally belong in comp.sys.mac.misc. Questions about
A/UX go to comp.unix.aux. Detailed questions about Appletalk
belong in comp.protocols.appletalk.
Direct questions about HyperCard to comp.sys.mac.hypercard.
Non-HyperCard programming questions and questions about development
environments should go to comp.sys.mac.programmer. ResEdit
questions may be posted either to comp.sys.mac.misc,
comp.sys.mac.system, or comp.sys.mac.programmer; but generally the
netters who inhabit the darker recesses of comp.sys.mac.programmer
are considerably more practiced at the art of resource hacking.
A general exception to the above rules is that any VERY
technical question about an application that actually begins to
delve into the how's of a program as well as the what's (Recent
example: How does WriteNow which is written entirely in assembly
compare to other word processors written in high level languages?)
might be better addressed to the programmer newsgroup.
For Sale and Want to Buy posts should go to
comp.sys.mac.wanted and misc.forsale.computers.mac ONLY. We
understand that you're desperate to sell your upgraded 128K Mac to
get the $$ for a PowerBook 180; but trust me, anyone who wants to
buy it will be reading comp.sys.mac.wanted. Political and
religious questions (The Mac is better than Windows! Is not! Is
too! Is not! Is too! Hey! How 'bout the Amiga! What about it? Is
Not! Is too!) belong in comp.sys.mac.advocacy. Anything not
specifically mentioned above probably belongs in comp.sys.mac.misc.
Finally don't be so provincial as to consider only the
comp.sys.mac newsgroups the appropriate forums for your questions.
Many questions about modems in comp.sys.mac.comm are much more
thoroughly discussed in comp.dcom.modems. Questions about Mac MIDI
are often better handled in comp.music even though it's not a
Macintosh specific newsgroup. Shop around. Usenet's a big place
and not everything relevant to the Macintosh happens in
comp.sys.mac.
4. SOMEONE JUST ASKED WHY THE SYSTEM WAS TAKING UP SIXTEEN OF
THEIR TWENTY MEGABYTES OF RAM. SHOULDN'T I PUT MY BRILLIANCE AND
WIT ON DISPLAY FOR THE WORLD BY POSTING THE SEVENTEENTH RESPONSE?
No. Frequent answers are just as boring and uninteresting as
frequent questions. Unless you really have something new to add to
the traditional answers (such as the recent discovery that fonts in
System 7.1 could eat memory) private E-mail is a much better medium
for answering common questions like this one.
You might want to add a mention of this FAQ in your E-mail
response and a polite suggestion that your correspondent read it
before posting future questions. I do read all the newsgroups
covered here and have written a small script in MicroPhone II that
lets me send PWFAQ's (people with frequently asked questions) the
section of this document that answers their question with just the
click of a button so please don't feel obligated to respond to
someone who cares so little about the answer to their question they
can't be troubled to read the FAQ list to get it.
===
FTP (2.0)
===
WHERE CAN I FTP MAC SOFTWARE? (2.1)
The three major North American Internet archives of shareware,
freeware, and demo software are sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6),
mac.archive.umich.edu (141.211.165.41), and wuarchive.wustl.edu
(128.252.135.4) which mirrors the other two sites and several
others. Wuarchive often holds on to files after other sites remove
them for space concerns, and still has files that were deleted from
the formerly important site, rascal.ics.utexas.edu. Rascal was
notable for storing its files in MacBinary format rather than the
less efficient BinHex format common at the other archives. Unless
otherwise noted shareware and freeware mentioned in this document
should be available at the above sites.
To keep traffic on the Internet manageable, Scandinavians
should try connecting to ftp.funet.fi (128.214.6.100), ftp.lth.se
(130.235.20.3), or sics.se (192.16.123.90) instead. Those in
the U.K. should look first at src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.1).
Continental Europeans can try nic.switch.ch (130.59.1.40),
ezinfo.ethz.ch (129.132.2.72), and anl.anl.fr(192.54.179.1).
Australian users should try to find what they want at archie.au
(139.130.4.6) which mirrors info-mac and mac.archive. Japanese
users will find sumex mirrored at ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp
(130.69.254.254).
A fourth very important site is ftp.apple.com (130.43.2.3).
This is Apple's semi-official repository for system software,
developer tools, source code, technical notes, and other things
that come more or less straight from Apple's mouth. Some material
at this site may not be distributed outside the U.S. or by other
sites that don't have an official license to distribute Apple
system software. Please read the various README documents
available at ftp.apple.com for the detailed info if you're
connecting from outside the U.S. or if you wish to redistribute
material you find here.
CAN I GET SHAREWARE BY E-MAIL? (2.2)
The info-mac archives at sumex-aim are available by E-mail from
LISTSERV@RICEVM1.bitnet (alternately listserv@ricevm1.rice.edu).
The listserver responds to the commands $MACARCH HELP, $MACARCH
INDEX, and $MACARCH GET filename. Mac archive files are available
from mac@mac.archive.umich.edu. Send it a message containing the
words "help" and "index" (no quotes) on the first two lines of your
message for instructions on getting started and a list of the files
you may request. You can retrieve files from other sites by using
the server at ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com. For details send it a
message with just the text "help" (no quotes).
WHERE CAN I FIND APPLICATION X? (2.3)
If you can't find what you're looking for at one of the above
sites, try telnetting to your nearest archie server or sending it
an E-mail message addressed to archie with the subject "help."
Archie servers are located at archie.rutgers.edu (128.6.18.15,
America), archie.mcgill.ca (132.206.2.3, the original archie server
in Canada), archie.au (139.130.4.6, Australia), archie.funet.fi
(128.214.6.100, Scandinavia), and archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.3.7,
the U.K. and the continent). These sites index the tens of
thousands of files available for anonymous ftp. Login as "archie"
(no password is needed) and type "prog filename" to find what
you're looking for or type "help" for more detailed instructions.
For instance you would type "prog Disinfectant" to search for a
convenient ftp site for Disinfectant. If the initial search fails
to turn up the file you want, try variations on and substrings of
the name. For instance if you didn't find Disinfectant with "prog
Disinfectant", you might try "prog disi" instead. Substring
searches often hide the gold in a pile of dross. To avoid many
erroneous matches add a ".*\.hqx" to the end of the substring, e.g.
"prog disi.*\.hqx" Most Mac software available on the net ends in
.hqx but almost no UNIX or PC software does.
Please check the above archives and ARCHIE personally BEFORE
asking where you can find a particular piece of shareware. If you
follow the above advice, you should almost never have to ask the
net where to find a particular piece of software.
CAN SOMEONE MAIL ME APPLICATION X? (2.4)
No. Nor will anyone mail you a part of a file from
comp.binaries.mac that was corrupt or missed at your site. Please
refer to the first questions in this section to find out about
anonymous FTP, archie, and automatic E-mail servers.
WHAT IS .BIN? .HQX? .CPT? .ETC? (2.5)
Most files available by FTP are modified twice to allow them to
more easily pass through foreign computer systems. First they're
compressed to make them faster to download, and then they're
translated to either a binhex (.hqx) or MacBinary (.bin) format
that other computers can digest. (The Macintosh uses a special
two-fork filing system that chokes most other computers.) BinHex
files are 7-bit ASCII text files, while MacBinary files are pure
8-bit binary data that must always be transferred using a binary
protocol.
How a file has been translated and compressed for
transmission is indicated by its suffix. Normally a file will have
a name something like filename.xxx.yyy. .xxx indicates how it was
compressed and .yyy indicates how it was translated. To use a file
you've FTP'd and downloaded to your Mac you'll need to reverse the
process. Most files you get from the net require a two-step
decoding process. First change the binhex (.hqx) or MacBinary
(.bin) file to a double-clickable Macintosh file; then decompress
it. Which programs decode which file types is covered in the table
below. Also note that most Macintosh telecommunications programs
will automatically convert MacBinary files to regular Macintosh
files as they are downloaded.
***************************************************************************
Suffix: .sit .cpt .hqx .bin .pit .Z .image .dd .zip .uu .tar
Extractors
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
StuffIt 3.0| X X X X X
Compact Pro| X X
Packit | X
UUTool | X
MacCompress| X
SunTar | X X X X
BinHex 5.0 | X
BinHex 4.0 | X
DiskDoubler| X X
UnZip | X
DiskCopy | X
macutil | X X X X
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A few notes on the decompressors:
StuffIt is a family of products that use several different
compression schemes. The freeware StuffIt Expander will unstuff
all of them. Versions of StuffIt earlier than 3.0 (StuffIt 1.5.1,
StuffIt Classic, UnStuffIt, and StuffIt Deluxe 2.0 and 1.0) will
not unstuff the increasing number of files stuffed by StuffIt 3.0.
You need to get a more recent version of StuffIt or StuffIt
Expander.
StuffIt 3.0.5 (Lite and Deluxe) consistently makes smaller
archives than any other Macintosh compression utility. To allow
maximum space for files on the various ftp sites and to keep
net-bandwidth down, please compress all files you send to anonymous
ftp sites with StuffIt 3.0.5.
UUTool, MacCompress, and SunTar handle the popular UNIX
formats of uuencode (.uu), compress (.Z), and tar (.tar)
respectively. The UNIX versions are often more robust than the Mac
products, so use them instead when that's an option. Translators
that allow StuffIt Lite to expand uuencoded and tar files are also
available by anonymous ftp.
Macutil is dik winter's package of UNIX utilities to
decompress and debinhex files on a workstation before downloading
them to a Mac. Since UNIX stores files differently than does the
Mac, macutil creates MacBinary (.bin) files which should be
automatically converted on download. It can't decompress
everything. In particular it can't decompress the new StuffIt 3.0
archives. :-( However, if you need only one or two files out of an
archive--for instance if you want to read the README to find out if
a program does what you need it to do before you download all of
it--macutil is indispensable. It can be found at sumex-aim in the
info-mac/unix directory.
A few notes on the compression formats:
.bin: These are MacBinary files. Always use a binary file
transfer protocol when transferring them, never ASCII or text.
Most files on the net are stored as .hqx instead. Only rascal
stores most of its files in .bin format. Most communications
programs such as ZTerm and MacKermit are capable of translating
MacBinary files on the fly as they download if they know in advance
they'll be downloading MacBinary files.
.image: This format is normally used only for system software,
so that on-line users can download files that can easily be
converted into exact copies of the installer floppies. Instead of
using DiskCopy to restore the images to floppies, you can use Steve
Christensen's freeware utility MountImage to treat the images on
your hard disk as actual floppies inserted in a floppy drive.
MountImage has a reputation for being buggy, so you should have
some blank floppies and a copy of DiskCopy handy just in case.
.sea (.x, .X): .sea files don't merit a position in the above
table because they're self-extracting. They may have been created
with Compact Pro, StuffIt, or even DiskDoubler; but all should be
capable of decompressing themselves when double-clicked. For some
unknown reason Alysis has chosen not to use this industry standard
designation for self-extracting archives created with their
payware products SuperDisk! and More Disk Space. Instead they
append either .x or .X to self-extracting archives.
HOW CAN I GET BINHEX? STUFFIT? ETC.? (2.6)
By far the easiest way to get these programs is to ask a human
being to copy them onto a floppy for you. If you're at a
university there's absolutely no excuse for not finding someone to
give you a copy; and if you're anywhere less remote than McMurdo
Sound, chances are very good that someone at a computer center,
dealership, or user group can provide you with a copy of StuffIt.
Once you have StuffIt (any version) you don't need BinHex.
If you're such a computer geek that the thought of actually
asking a living, breathing human being instead of a computer
terminal for something turns you into a quivering mass of
protoplasmic jelly, you can probably download a working copy of
StuffIt from a local bulletin board system.
If you have religious objections to software gotten by any
means other than anonymous ftp, then I suppose I'll mention that
you can in fact ftp a working copy of StuffIt though this is by
far the hardest way to get it. Ftp to wuarchive.wustl.edu and
login. Type the word "binary." Hit return. Type "cd
mirrors/rascal.ics.utexas.edu/compression" and hit return. Then
"get StuffIt_Expander_1.0.1_SEA_bin" and hit return. Of course
it's always possible that by the time you read this StuffIt
Expander will have been updated and the name changed so if this
fails look for something similar. If you've ftp'd straight onto
your Mac you should now have a self-extracting archive which will
produce a working copy of StuffIt Expander when double-clicked. If
you've ftp'd to your mainframe or UNIX account first, you still
need to use a modem program to download it to your Mac. Just make
sure that the Mac is receiving in MacBinary mode and the mainframe
is sending in binary mode. If you need more details on the last
step, consult the FAQ list for comp.sys.mac.comm and the manuals
for both your mainframe and Macintosh telecommunications software.
HOW CAN I GET BINHEX, STUFFIT, ETC. FROM A PC? (2.7)
You can't. There is absolutely NO way to get an executable
Macintosh file from an ftp site onto a PC and then onto your Mac
without some software obtained by means other than anonymous ftp.
You MUST beg, borrow, or steal the necessary software such as
Binhex or StuffIt Lite from another person. I realize this may
terrify those among you who haven't left your parents' basement
since you got an Apple II+ in 1980, but eventually you're going
to need to link up with some human being other than your mother.
(though I suppose if you're this much of a nerd you could send
your mother out to get it for you.) While you're gathering
your nerves for a venture into the strange and terrifying world
of daylight, please don't bother the net by asking this question
again. There simply is no way to move executable Macintosh
programs from a PC or other non-Macintosh computer onto a
Mac without software that is not bundled with most Macs.
=================================================================
TROUBLESHOOTING: WHAT TO DO (BEFORE POSTING) WHEN THINGS GO WRONG (3.0)
=================================================================
While the various FAQ lists cover a lot of specific
problems, there are far more problems that aren't covered here.
These are a few basic techniques you should follow before asking
for help. You should probably also perform the ten-step
preventative maintenance routine described in section four,
especially rebuilding the desktop (4.3) and resizing the system
heap (4.5). Following these steps may or may not solve your
problem, but it will at least make it easier for others to
recommend solutions to you.
IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM. (3.1)
"Microsoft Word is crashing" doesn't say much. What were you
doing when it crashed? Can you repeat the actions that lead to the
crash? The more information you provide about the actions
preceding the crash the more likely it is someone can help you.
The more precisely you've identified the problem and the actions
preceding it (Step 1) the easier it will be to tell if the
following steps fix the problem. For example, "Sometimes
QuarkXPress 3.0 crashes with a coprocessor not installed error." is
not nearly as helpful as "QuarkXPress 3.0 crashes when I link two
text boxes on a master page when copies of those text boxes already
contain text." The former will leave you wondering whether the bug
remains after a given step. The latter lets you go right to the
problem and see if it's still there or not.
READ THE READ ME FILE. (3.2)
Many companies include a list of known incompatibilities and
bugs in their READ ME files. Often these aren't documented in the
manual. Read any READ ME files to see if any of the problems sound
familiar.
CHECK FOR VIRUSES. (3.3)
Run Disinfectant or another anti-viral across your disk. Virus
infections are rarer than most people think, but they do occur and
they do cause all sorts of weird problems when they do.
REINSTALL THE APPLICATION AND ALL ITS SUPPORT FILES. (3.4)
For half a dozen reasons (external magnetic fields,
improperly written software, the alignment of the planets) a file
on a disk may not contain the data it's supposed to contain. This
can cause all types of unexplained, unusual behavior. Restoring
from original masters will normally fix this.
REINSTALL THE SYSTEM SOFTWARE. (3.5)
Bits are even more likely to get twiddled in the system file
than in the application and the effects can be just as disastrous.
See question 4.6 for a detailed procedure for performing a clean
reinstall.
If the problem continues to occur after you've taken these
steps, chances are you've found either a conflict between your
application and some other software or a genuine bug in the
program. So it's time to
ISOLATE THE PROBLEM. (3.6)
You need to find the minimal system on which the problem
will assert itself. Here are the basic steps of isolating the
cause of a system or application crash:
a. Run only one application at a time. Occasionally applications do
conflict with each other. If the problem does not manifest itself
without other applications running simultaneously, you can begin
launching other applications until you find the one that causes
the crash.
b. If you're running System 6, turn off MultiFinder. If you're
running System 7, allot as much memory to the application as you
can afford. Sometimes programs just need more memory, especially
when performing complicated operations.
c. If you're running System 7, turn off virtual memory and 32-bit
addressing. There's still an awful lot of System 7 hostile
software out there including some from companies that really
have no excuse. (Can you say Microsoft Word 5.1, boys and girls?
I knew you could.) Some of this software only expresses its
incompatibilities when certain uncommon actions are taken.
d. Boot from a virgin system floppy. If the problem disappears
you likely have an init conflict. You need to progressively remove
extensions until the problem vanishes. Use a little common sense
when choosing the first extensions to remove. If the problem occurs
when you try to open a file, remove any inits that mess with the
Standard File Open procedure such as Super Boomerang first. If the
problem remains after the obvious candidates have been eliminated,
either remove the remaining extensions one at a time or, if you have
a lot of them, perform a binary search by removing half of the
extensions at a time. Once the problem disappears add half of the
most recently removed set back. Continue until you've narrowed the
conflict down to one extension. When you think you've found the
offending init restart with only that init enabled just to make
sure that it and it alone is indeed causing the problem.
CONTACT TECHNICAL SUPPORT. (3.7)
By now you should have a very good idea of when, where, and why
the conflict occurs. If a tech support number is available for the
software, call it. If you're lucky the company will have a work
around or fix available. If not, perhaps they'll at least add the
bug to their database of problems to be fixed in the next release.
======================
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE (4.0)
======================
You wouldn't drive your car 100,000 miles without giving it a
tune-up. A computer is no different. Regular tune-ups avoid a lot
of problems. Although there are Mac mechanics who'll be happy to
charge you $75 or more for the equivalent of an oil change, there's
no reason you can't change it yourself. The following nine-step
program should be performed about every three months.
TRASH UNNEEDED FILES (4.1)
Many of the operations that follow will run faster and more
smoothly the more free disk space there is to work with so spend a
little time cleaning up your hard disk. If you're at all like me,
you'll find several megabytes worth of preferences files for
applications you no longer have, archives of software you've
dearchived, shareware you tried out and didn't like, announcements
for events that have come and gone and many other files you no
longer need. If you're running System 7 you may also have several
more megabytes in your trash can alone. Throw them away and empty
the trash.
RETHINK YOUR EXTENSIONS (4.2)
Some Macintoshes attract inits like a new suit attracts rain.
Seriously consider whether you actually need every extension
in your collection. If you don't use the functionality of an
extension at least every fifth time you boot up, you're probably
better off not storing it in your System Folder where it only takes
up memory, destabilizes your system, and slows down every startup.
For instance if you only read PC disks once a month, there's no
need to keep AccessPC loaded all the time. Cutting back on your
extension habit can really help avoid crashes.
REBUILD THE DESKTOP (4.3)
The Desktop file/database holds all the information necessary
to associate each file with the application that created it. It
lets the system know what application should be launched when you
open a given file and what icons it should display where.
Depending on its size each application has one or more
representatives in the desktop file. As applications and files
move on and off your hard disk, the Desktop file can be become
bloated and corrupt. Think of it as a Congress for your Mac.
Every so often it's necessary to throw the bums out and start with
a clean slate. Fortunately it's easier to rebuild the desktop than
to defeat an incumbent.
One warning: rebuilding the desktop will erase all comments
you've stored in the Get Info boxes. Under System 7 Maurice
Volaski's freeware init CommentKeeper will retain those comments
across a rebuild. CommentKeeper also works with System 6 but only
if Apple's Desktop Manager extension is also installed.
To rebuild the desktop restart your Mac and, as your
extensions finish loading, depress the Command and Option keys.
You'll be presented with a dialog box asking if you want to rebuild
the desktop and warning you that "This could take a few minutes."
Click OK. It will take more than a few minutes. The more files you
have the longer it will take. If you're running System 6 you may
want to turn off MultiFinder before trying to rebuild the desktop.
If you're experiencing definite problems and not just doing
preventive maintenance, you may want to use Fifth Generation's
freeware init Desktop Reset. Desktop Reset completely deletes the
Desktop file before rebuilding it, thus eliminating possibly
corrupt data structures.
ZAP THE PRAM AND RESET THE CLOCK (4.4)
All Macs from the original 128K Thin Mac to the Quadra 950
contain a small amount of battery powered RAM to hold certain
settings that properly move with the CPU rather than with the disk
such as which disk to boot from. Unfortunately this "parameter
RAM" can become corrupted and cause unexplained crashes. To reset
it under System 7 hold down the Command, Option, P, and R keys
while restarting your Mac. Under System 6 hold down the Command,
Option, and Shift keys while selecting the Control Panel from the
Apple menu. Click Yes when asked if you want to zap the parameter
RAM. Since you've erased almost all the settings in the General
Control Panel, you should now reset them to whatever you want.
The one setting that zapping the PRAM does not erase is the
date and time; but since the internal clock in the Macintosh is
notoriously inaccurate you'll probably want to take this
opportunity to reset it anyway.
RESIZE THE SYSTEM HEAP (4.5)
Even after rethinking their extensions as per step two most
people still have at least half a row of icons march across the
bottom of their screen every time they restart. All these
extensions (and most applications too) need space in a section of
memory called the System Heap. If the System Heap isn't big enough
to comfortably accommodate all the programs that want a piece of
it, they all start playing King of the Mountain on the system heap,
knocking each other off to get bigger pieces for themselves and
trying to climb back on after they get knocked off. All this
fighting amongst the programs severely degrades system performance
and almost inevitably crashes the Mac.
If you're using System 7, your Macintosh will automatically
resize the system heap as necessary; but if you're running System 6
it's important to set your system heap size large enough to manage
all your extensions and applications. By default this size is set
to 128K, way too small for most Macs with any extensions at all.
The system heap size is stored in the normally non-editable boot
blocks of every system disk. Bill Steinberg's freeware utility
BootMan not only lets you resize your system heap but even checks
how much memory your heap is already using so it can tell how much
needs to be allocated. If you're running System 6, get BootMan,
use it, and be amazed at how infrequently your Macintosh crashes.
REINSTALL THE SYSTEM SOFTWARE (4.6)
System files can become corrupt and fragmented, especially if
you've stored lots of fonts and desk accessories inside them.
Merely updating the System software will often not fix system file
corruption. I recommend doing a clean reinstall. Here's how:
1. Boot from the installer floppy of your System disks.
2. Copy any non-standard fonts and desk accessories out
of your System file into a temporary suitcase.
3. Trash the System file on your hard disk. Also trash the
Finder, MultiFinder, DA Handler, and all other standard Apple
extensions like Control Panel and Chooser. These will all be
replaced in the new installation. If you're running or
installing System 7, move everything in the Extensions,
Control Panels, and Preferences folders into the top level
of the System Folder.
4. Rename the System Folder. Any name other than System Folder
is fine.
5. Double-click the installer script on your System disk. Then
choose Customize... Select the appropriate software for your
model Mac and printer. You could do an Easy Install instead,
but that will only add a lot of extensions and code you don't
need that waste your memory and disk space.
6. Once installation is finished, move everything from the
temporary folder you created in step 4 into the new System
folder. If you're asked if you want to replace anything, you
forgot to take something out in step 3. You'll need to replace
things individually until you find the duplicate piece.
7. Reinstall any fonts or DA's you removed in step 2.
8. Reboot. You should now have a clean, defragmented System file
that takes up less memory and disk space and a much more stable
system overall.
DISK UTILITIES (4.7)
Much like system files hard disks have data structures that
occasionally become corrupted affecting performance and even
causing data loss. Apple includes Disk First Aid, a simple utility
for detecting and repairing hard disk problems, with its System
disks. It's also available for anonymous ftp from ftp.apple.com in
the directory dts/mac/sys.soft/hdsc. Even if you have an earlier
version, you should get the latest version (7.1) from ftp.apple.com
and run it on all your hard disks.
Several companies have released payware disk utilities that
detect and repair considerably more problems than Disk First Aid
though, interestingly, none of them detect and repair everything
that Disk First Aid does. The three most effective for general
work are Central Point's MacTools Deluxe 2.0, Fifth Generation's
Public Utilites, and Symantec's Norton Utilities for the Macintosh
2.0. A department or work group should have all of these as well
as Disk First Aid since none of them fix everything the others do.
For individuals MacTools ($48 street) is about half the price of
Norton ($94 street) or Public Utilities ($98 street) so, features
and ease of use being roughly equal, I recommend MacTools.
All of these products occasionally encounter problems they
can't fix. When that happens it's time to backup (4.7) and
reformat (4.9).
BACKING UP (4.8)
This is one part of preventative maintenance that should be
done a LOT more often than every three months. The simplest back
up is to merely copy all the files on your hard disk onto floppies
or other removable media. If you keep your data files separate
from your application and support files then it's easy to only back
up those folders which change frequently. Nonetheless every three
months you should do a complete backup of your hard disk.
A number of programs are available to make backing up
easier. Apple included a very basic full backup application with
System 6. With the Performas Apple ships a new Apple Backup
utility that can backup the entire disk or just the System folder
onto floppies. The previously mentioned Norton Utilities for the
Mac and MacTools Deluxe 2.0 include more powerful floppy backup
utilities that incorporate compression and incremental backups.
Finally if you're lucky enough to have a Tape Drive, network
server, or removable media device to use for backups, you should
check out the more powerful payware utilities Redux ($49 street,
doesn't support tape drives) and Diskfit Pro ($74 street). There
are NO freely available backup utilities other than the old HD
Backup from System 6.
DISK DEFRAGMENTATION (4.9)
As disks fill up it gets harder and harder to find enough free
space in the same place to write large files. Therefore the
operating system will often split larger files into pieces to be
stored in different places on your hard disk. As files become more
and more fragmented performance can degrade. There are several
ways to defragment a hard disk.
The most tedious but cheapest method is to backup all your
files, erase the hard disk (and you might as well reformat while
you're at it. See question 4.10.), and restore all the files.
A number of payware utilities including Norton Utilities for
the Mac and Mac Tools Deluxe can defragment a disk in place, i.e.
without erasing it. Although the ads for all these products brag
about their safety, once you've bought the software and opened the
shrink-wrap they all warn you to back up your disk before
defragmenting it in case something does go wrong. There are NO
freeware or shareware disk defragmenters so please don't annoy the
net by asking for one.
REFORMAT YOUR HARD DISK (4.10)
Just as a floppy disk needs to be initialized before use, so a
hard disk must be formatted before it can hold data. You don't
need to reformat every three months; but when your system is
crashing no matter what you try, reformatting is the ultimate means
of wiping the slate clean. Reformatting your hard disk may even
gain you a few extra megabytes of space. Not all hard disks are
created equal. Some can hold more data than others. To facilitate
mass production and advertising without a lot of asterisks (* 81.3
megabytes is the average formatted capacity. Your mileage may
vary.) Apple often formats drives to the lowest common denominator
of drive capacity. When you reformat there's no reason at all not
to reclaim whatever unused space Apple's left on your disk.
Unlike floppies hard disks need a special program to
initialize them. Most hard disks come with formatting software.
Apple's disks and System software ship with HD SC setup, a minimal
disk formatter which will format Apple brand hard drives ONLY.
Most other manufacturers ship appropriate formatting software with
their hard drives. Normally this will be all you need to reformat
your hard disk.
A number of general-purpose formatters are also available
which go beyond the bundled software to include features like
encryption, password protection, multiple partitioning, faster disk
access, System 7 compatibility, and even compression. Two of the
best are the payware Drive7 and Hard Disk Toolkit Personal Edition
($49 street for either). While there are one or two freeware
formatters available, none are likely to be superior to the ones
bundled with your hard disk.
PowerBook users should be sure to turn off Sleep and
processor cycling before reformatting their hard drives no matter
what software they use. Otherwise disk corruption, crashes, and
data losses are a very good possibility.
| 3 |
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| 3 |
2,093 |
What's so special about this label, that their discs are going for
upwards of $6 more than most retail outlets average prices for CDs?
| 3 |
121 |
So is there any problems putting a drive formatted vertically on
its side horizontally?
I got a drive a few years ago with the rubber feet on the side,
etc. and have used it like that since (obviously designed for that
orientation). However, it doesn't fit under any of the clever
places I can think of to place it, so I would really like to lay it
flat and put it under a low shelf.
This is probably not a "newer" drive, and it is only 70 meg, but
when I bought it, it was a large drive for an average user
(comparable to buying a 200 meg drive today). So is my old, 70 meg
drive as fragile (or not) as a new 200 meg drive?
Just curious.....
| 3 |
1,264 | Sorry Charlie...
I have a dozen, VERY blue LED's on my bench right now. They have
a clear plastic case and when lit, are absolutely BLUE. The hue
is sort of a "summer day cloudless sky blue" but make no mistake,
they are blue.
You can buy them from Digikey, Circuit Specialist, Jameco (I think),
LED-Tronics, Stanley Optoelectronics, and others. The current price
is around $2.50 each for small quantities. I will also be selling
them through my mail-order company in the near future (4 weeks).
Write for details if interested. | 3 |
6,640 | There are several programs on sumex that allow Macs with superdrives to
read and write unix tar diskettes.
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2,585 | I have replaced the osz to 66 MHz yesterday and no truble at all. My Quadra now works at 33 MHz stable for more than 14 hours. I have also tried a 70 MHz osz, but after 1/2 hour my Quadra 700 died. I am not sure what was the reason for that,
but it is to risky to run it to fast. Most of your Quadras 700 should work at 33 MHz without any problems.
But a safety tip do a backup from your harddisk befor you start to upgrade. During my 35 MHz test I damaged my harddisk and had a hardtime to get it working again. So once again do a backup befor you start!!!!!!!!!
Now the speedometer results after replacing the osz.
Speedometer Report for menes rainer. Prepared April 22, 1993.
Machine Record Version #: 5
User Comment:
Quadra 700 33Mhz and Ram Disk
20 MByte RAM + 2 MByte VRAM
System Information:
Computer: Mac Quadra 700
CPU: MC68040
FPU: Integral FPU
MMU: Integral MMU
Color Quickdraw: 2.30 (32 Bit QD)
System Version: 7.1.6
Finder Version: D1-7.1
AppleTalk Version: 57
LaserWriter Version: D1-7.1.2
Laser Prep Version: Not Found
ImageWriter Version: D1-7.0.1
ROM Version: $067C
ROM Size: 1024
Bit Depth: 1
Horizontal DPI: 72
Vertical DPI: 72
Primary Screen Size: 832 x 624
Physical RAM: 20480K
Logical RAM: 20454K
P.R. Results (Uses Mac Classic as 1.0):
CPU: 21.625
Graphics: 30.052
Disk: 28.351 Name of Hard Disk tested: RAM Disk
Math: 135.128
Performance Rating (PR): 36.848
Benchmark Results (Uses Mac Classic as 1.0):
KWhetstones: 1500.000 205.479
Dhrystones: 26315.789 27.008
Towers: 24.960
QuickSort: 22.391
Bubble Sort: 23.823
Queens: 24.105
Puzzle: 28.804
Permutations: 26.523
Fast Fourier: 167.728
F.P. Matrix Multiply: 154.452
Integer Matrix Multiply: 30.250
Sieve: 25.602
Benchmark Average: 63.427
FPU Tests (Uses Mac II as 1.0):
@@FFPU Fast Fourier: 14.636
FPU KWhetstones: 5454.545 7.636
FPU F.P. Matrix Mult.: 14.333
FPU Test Average: 12.202
Color Tests (Uses Mac II as 1.0):
Black & White: 6.395
4 Colors: 6.773
16 Colors: 6.957
256 Colors: 7.016
Color Test Average: 6.785
Very interesting are the graphics results (Graphics 30.052) couldn't belief this, but it is true. Two points which my cause problems are the 4 MByte Ram solder on the board. The are only 80ns Rams and run at the upperlimit with 33 MHz. The next part which may cause trouble are the Video Rams. I have the orignal 100ns VRAMs from Apple in my Quadra, here you are also at the upperlimit where most of the chips running but it isn't garantied to run. Most of the other parts on the Quadra board running on there o
wn clockspeed so they wont make truble.
The most importaned question is do I neat a new heat sink. I would say NO. After running my Quadra for more than 14 hours the heat sink is really cool. A 33 MHz 486 with heat sink is mutch warmer than the 68040 in the Quadra, so I didn't see any problems. The room temperatur was 22 Celsius (72 F). If you living in a area were it is hot 100 F (45 C) and your room temperatur is not mutch below I would suggest a new heat sink with a ventilator to stay on the safe side.
Hope you will have the same success than I had,
Rainer | 3 |
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Super Turrican
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- All games include all original materials including box, manual, etc.
The first responder offering asking price is guarenteed to
get the game. Those just asking questions get no priority until
they offer to buy the game. Lower offers may be considered
assuming no other offers at asking price are made.
**********************************************************
| 3 |
1,781 | Condensers, Kimble Modern Liebig West #18003.
Jacket length 500 mm.
All glass, straight tubes.
Plastic/gasketed end caps.
Exactly like Central Scientific's 14459 series condensers.
Being sold in American Science & Surplus's April catalog for ~$20 each.
In original (old) packaging.
I have 13 of these. $15 each. Volume discounts:
Buy Discount Bonus
-------------------------------------------
3 - 8 10% Free insurance.
9 + 30% Free shipping and insurance.
For quality control, all have been opened and inspected for damage. :)
Buyer must pay for shipping/insurance unless otherwise noted.
Shipping should be about $2.00 for one or two; $3.00 for three or four; etc.
Insurance should be about $0.75 per tube. | 3 |
5,516 |
Gravity? Doesn't gravity pull down the photons and cause a doppler shift
or something?
| 3 |
5,975 | I know this is a long shot, but does anyone know what solvent I should
use to clean duct-tape adhesive from carpet?
Someone taped wires to the carpet, and now it is time to move out.
Is the solvent the same as what's used to clean up the goop in coax?
(whatever that is ... but it just barely ties this query into
sci.electronics)
Thanks for your help
Best regards,
ruck | 3 |
417 | Home speakers:
o NHT (Now Hear This Inc.) Model II floor tower speaker system.
The Model II is a pair of 3 way design with a 3/4" tweeter,
6.5" mid-range, and two 6.5" woofer for low bass.
Impedance is 8 ohms (minimum 4 ohms), the cross-over
points are 100Hz and 3.2 KHz. Frequency response is rated
at 40Hz to 22KHz +/- 3db. Rated efficiency is 87db.
Power rating is between 35 to 200 watts per channel.
Black finish. Magnetic shielded perfect for surround sound
front speakers or HiFi audio speakers.
retail $850.00 at Macys, asking $500 obo, a year old,
rarely used, excellent just like new condition.
o Bose 301 book shelf speakers, black, perfect condition, like new,
Paid $350.00, asking $220.00 firm
o B&O (Bang & Olufsen) Beovox CX100 Satellite speakers, white.
Brand new in box, paid $450.00.
$350.00 obo
o Yamaha center center
paid $125, asking $80.00 firm, just like new
o Yamaha rear channel speakers for Doby Surround Sound
paid $150, asking $99.00, just like new
Car speakers:
o Boston Acoustic 861 seperates (car audio speakers), 6" woofers
with seperate tweeters and crossovers.
Brand new in box, never been installed, $259.00 at Good Guys
Asking $199.00 firm | 3 |
2,693 | Hi-
Do any of you hardware gurus out there know what kind of memory architecture
Apple uses in the powerbook Duos? Or in the powerbook in general?
What are the factors that make the Duo 210 so slow compared to a desktop
machine running the same processor at the same speed (25MHz 68030)? How many
wait states are in the memory system, etc? What kind of a data bus does it
use? 32-bit or 16-bit?
It's still slow when plugged into a DuoDock.
Anyone know in general what kind of shortcuts notebook manufacturers take when
making notebooks? I heard of a 486DX2/66 notebook getting a "whopping" 10
MIPS rating. A similar desktop machine should be getting about 3 times that,
I guess. | 3 |
1,929 | The following books are up for sale.
All are in good to excellent condition.
Make offers.
rob@phavl.uucp ( uunet!phavl!rob )
Robert Ransbottom
General Supply & Metals, Inc.
voice: 508-999-6257
Index:
Miscellany
C
C++
Unix & Operating System
Intel Processor & MS-DOS
Miscellany:
Algorithms, 2nd Ed., Sedgewick, Hardbound
List: $41.00
Programmers at Work, Lammers
List: $10.00
Software Reliability, Musa, Iannino, Okumoto HARDBOUND
List: $51.00
The Users Guide to Small Computers, Jerry Pournelle
List: $10.00
Out of the Inner Circle, Bill Landreth
List: $10.00
Elementary Pascal, Ledgard, Singer
List: $13.00
C++ Language:
Object Oriented Program Design with Examples in C++, Mark Mullin
List: $20.00
C Language:
Variations in C, Schustack
List: $23.00
Programs and Data Structures in C, Ammeraal
List: $20.00
Turbo C Programmer's Library, Jamsa
List: $23.00
Advanced Turbo C, Hebert Schildt
List: $23.00
Understanding C, Bruce Hunter
List: $18.00
C Database Development, Al Stevens
List: $24.00
C Programmer's Library, Purdum, Leslie, Stegemotter
List: $20.00
Dr. Dobbs Toolbook of C, Dr. Dobb's Journal
List: $25.00
C with Excellence Programing Proverbs, Henry Ledgard
List: $19.00
C, the Pocket Reference, Herbert Schildt
List: $5.00
C Programming Guide, Jack Purdum, SOME WEAR
List: $25.00
C Programmer's Toolkit (w/ Disk), Jack Purdum
List: $40.00
C: Step-by-Step, Waite, Prata
List: $28.00
Unix and Operating System:
The Unix System V Environment, S. R. Bourne
List: $27.00
UNIX Papers, Michael Waite, editor
List: $27.00
UNIX for MS-DOS Programmers, Steven Mikes
List: $25.00
The Business Guide to the UNIX System, Yates, Emerson
List: $20.00
UNIX Programming on the 80286/80386, Alan Deikman
List: $25.00
UNIX The Complete Reference, Stephen Collin
List: $25.00
Unix Primer Plus, Waite, Martin, Prata
List: $20.00
UNIX for Programmers, An Introduction, Daniel Farkas
List: $23.00
Unix for Super-Users, Foxley
List: $26.00
UNIX Communications, Henderson, et al
List: $28.00
Microport System V Made Easy: Learning the UNIX O.S., O'Reilly ( SV.3.2)
List: $10.00
Understanding and Using COFF, Gintaras, O'Reilly & Assoc.
List: $22.00
Operating System Design The XINU Approach, P.C. Ed., D. Comer & Foosum, HARD
List: $53.00
Microcomputer Operating Systems, Dahmke
List: $17.00
INTEL Processor, MS-DOS:
Inside the IBM PC (w/ disk), Peter Norton
List: $30.00
Using Turbo Prolog, Robinson
List: $20.00
Using Assembly Language, Wyatt (ibm pc orientation)
List: $27.00
Compute's Quick & Easy Guide to Learning Lotus 1-2-3, Doug Wolf
List: $13.00
Advanced 80386 Programming Techniques, James Turley
List: $23.00
intel 80386 System Software Writer's Guide, Intel Corp.
List: $20.00
Performance Programming Under MS-DOS, Michael Young
List: $20.00
Programmer's Problem Solver for the IBM PC, XT & AT, R. Jourdain
List: $20.00 | 3 |
4,014 | FOR SALE!!!!
1) Sony Car Stereo Amplifier (Model XM-2040)
Rated Power 20Wx4, into 4 Ohms from 20-20,000Hz @0.5%THD
2 Ohm Stable
Short Circuit and Overload Protected
This is a great little amplifier that I picked up as a demo model at Lechmere
last spring, and never got a chance to install. It's been tested, and it
works great...a perfect amplifier for adding 4-speaker power to a system, or
for powering mids or tweets...whatever. Mounted on a board, complete with a
RS 15 Amp noise filter, with all connections made to barrier strips for easy
screw-type contacts. Lists new in Crutchfield for $129, am asking
$75 O.B.O complete
2) Sony Electronic Crossover (Model XEC-500)
Freq Response 5-100,000 Hz (+0,-3 dB)
S/N Ratio 105 dB (A wtd.)
High Pass X-Over @flat,80,120,180 Hz (12dB/octave)
Low Pas X-Over @50,80,120,180 Hz (18dB/octave)
1/2 DIN size for In-Dash Installation in many cars!
This to,l is an exceptional unit which I found extremely useful back in the
days when I had a car to put a stereo in. Two sets of RCA-type inputs (F/R), and Three sets of Outputs (F/R/Sub) Each output with seperate level control.
variable Low Boost control (+10 dB@40 Hz) for extending low bass, and seperate High and Low pass crossover points make this a great unit for anybody who's
interested in building a Sub/Satellite type system
Used with orig. box&Papers $130 O.B.O
Both units work flawlessly, and are in excellent shape cosmtically (ie No
scratches, etc.) Anyone who is interested, please respond to
coates@wpi.wpi.edu | 3 |
4,592 | I'm looking to buy the annual Playboy magazine issue featuring
girls from colleges around the US. Specificly, I want issues from
1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992. One of these features a girl I went to
high school with, so I'm curious to see how it turned out. All help
is appreciated.
| 3 |
5,433 | I am looking for a tandem bicycle, any make, any model, and any condition. I
would prefer a complete bike, but just a tandem frameset is OK, too. Please
email me if you have one for sale.
P.S. I will pay shipping from anywhere in Canada or U.S.
| 3 |
4,083 | I have a '81 DATSUN 210 HATCHBAK forsale:
It's a Blue Datsun
Two doors (three, since it's a hatchback)
69,900 miles
Automatic
Very good condition (I hate to sell it, but Phila insurance is
outrageous; I also don't need a car right now)
I am asking $800 or BO | 3 |
7,519 | Can anyone point me to a cross compiler and/or assembler for the Motorola
68008, hosted by a PC compatible. Preferable Free or Shareware.
Also does anyone know of a GNU CC port to this chip. | 3 |
6,673 |
Hmmm... how about a piece of copper wire? 0 to 5V input range, standard
TTL output, instantaneous conversion time!
[ (-: for the humor impaired ]
| 3 |
7,322 |
I think all connections in Norway can handle touchtone dialing.
The Oslo-region has one system, the rest of the country another system.
(Almost right for pulsdialing.)
Some phones have a little switch inside, so you are able to use them
all over Norway, or you can just renumber the numbers on your phone.
| 3 |
5,415 | > anybody know the difference between the Quarda 900 and Quadra 950?
> >Quarda 900 is a popular misspelling of Quadra 900, which has a 25 MHz
> 040 >processor. The 950 has a 33 MHz 040, and some local buses on the
> >motherboard run faster. The video is different also. The 950 can run a
> 13" and I believe a 16" monitor in 16 bit color without a VRAM upgrade.
>
Besides the faster processor, the 950 has SCSI 2, and as far as I know, faster
I/O due to separate processors handling those functions. The 950 can output 16
bit video to a 16" monitor with 1 meg of VRAM and 24 bit with 2 meg.
hope this helps
anand
armani@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca | 3 |
5,437 |
If you use MEK for your sake wear safty glasses or better still
industrial goggles. The small est drop in the eye will casue
blindness by a catalysis reaction that is non cureavble once it starts.
The results are similar to mustard gas contamination. Note MEK peroxide
is a hardner form fibreglass resins. | 3 |
3,029 |
I don't know the answer to your direct question, but if the Mac Superdrive can
read MS-DOS disks (can it??) then you can transfer files between the NeXT and
a Mac by using MS-DOS formatted disks since the NeXT *can* read/write that
format. And if you're interested in transferring files, you can also do it
over the serial port using kermit. | 3 |
927 | Once upon a time, long long ago in this news group, someone
posted a schematic for a 1-bit A/D converter. Well I just found a use
for the little monster. Anyone out there still got this text file?
It had a flip-flop, a resistor and a cap, and a comparator/op-amp I
think. I would be extremely thankful to anyone who could mail me the
schematic or post it to the news-group.
| 3 |
7,167 | [heats of formation deleted]
The major problem with this is that the reaction takes place in an ACID solution.
PbSO4 is soluble in an acid solution and will not precipitate out. Also, H2SO4
is in a water solution as 2H30+ and SO4--. Thus the heats of formation of
PbSO4 and H2SO4 are for the most part irrelevant.
As it turns out the reaction is indeed exothermic (heat producing).
(More about this later.)
What actually happens to make the battery completely useless is this:
(we're talking lead-acid batteries of course)
The battery slowly self discharges. As this discharge takes place two things
happen. -The level of Pb++ ions in the acid solution increases (i.e. the lead
and lead oxide plates are dissolved).
-The level of H30+ ions in the acid solution decreases (i.e. the solution
becomes less acidic, or more like water if you like).
Now, as the post to which I am responding correctly stated, PbSO4 will precipitate
in a WATER (non-acid) solution. When the battery dies (i.e. is fully discharged)
we end up with a high concentration of Pb++ and SO4-- in water. So PbSO4
forms in the solution and FALLS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BATTERY (of course this
happens in varying degrees, the more discharged, the more precipitate forms).
The precipitate forms a conductive layer on the bottom of the battery. If
there is enough of the lead and lead oxide plates left to touch the precipitate
(more common in a newer battery) a dead short results.
I have seen products in automotive shops to correct this condition, but they
are for the most part useless. They can dissolve the PbSO4 but cannot restore
the lead and lead oxide plates properly. You may have some success with
these products for a newer battery.
[stuff deleted]
[stuff deleted]
This stuff is just made up by the author and is completely invalid.
In fact the discharge reaction takes place at a higher rate at higher
temperatures. A logical consequence of the above argument is this:
"If you really want your car to start, lower the battery temperature to
-50 to 'pull' the reaction along." We all know from experience (at
least those of us in Canada do (it gets cold up here)) that this is
not true. If we want to start our car on a really cold day we warm
the battery.
(Besides which, there is not enough energy released through self discharge
to appreciably raise the temperature. The air would amply dissipate any
such heat, whether the bottom of the battery was insulated or not. This
is of course irrelevant, since you would WANT the battery to be cool
during storage.) | 3 |
4,476 |
KNX AM, 1070 in LA, will be unhappy to hear about this, I'm sure. :-)
(isn't KNBR in the bay area?) | 3 |
7,385 | I'd like to put internal disks in a Mac II. I understand that ones needs
a special "jumper" cable to acheive this. Does anyone know a source for
these? Thanks,
Mike Pazzani
(pazzani@ics.uci.edu)
| 3 |
6,586 | Hi there again...
I still have a few tapes left...
As before they are $2.50 each (postage paid) - Or Best Offer...
Multiple orders appreciated, but not necessary...
Package deals welcome...
Thanks...
Chris Bray
Lewis, Huey|Sports
Contains "Heart of Rock and Roll", "Heart and Soul", "Want a New
Drug", "Walking on a Thin Line", "If This is It", and more!!!
Hooters: Nervous Night
Contains: And We Danced, Day By Day, All You Zombies, Nervous Night...
Poison|Look What the Cat Dragged In
Their 1st tape. Contains "Cry Tough", "I Wont Forget You",
"Talk Dirty to Me", and more!
Hall & Oates|Big Bam Boom
Contains: "Out of Touch", "Possession Obsession", and more!
Ratt|Out of the Cellar
Contains: Wanted Man, Round and Round, and more!
Quiet Riot|Condition Critical
Contains: Mama Weer All Krazy Now
Outfield|Play Deep
Contains: Say It Isn't So, Your Love, All the Love in the World,
and more!
Plant, Robert|Shaken n' Stirred
Contains: Little By Little
Journey|Raised on Radio
Contains: Girl Cant Help It, Suzanne, Be Good to Yourself, Ill Be
Alright Without You, Why Cant This Night Go On Forever...
Monkees|Then and Now - The Best of the Monkees
Contains: All their big hits plus some...
INXS|Kick
Contains: Mediate, New Sensation, Devil Inside, Need You Tonight,
Never Tear Us Apart, Mystify, and more! GREAT TAPE....
| 3 |
1,154 |
Yes. It's called RADAR.
Depends on the environment: in a static environent such as a waveguide yes, in
a dynamic environment (with objects moving about) the multipath kills this
concept.
What is the difference between vertical and horizontal?
| 3 |
3,323 | I'm selling an assortment of goods!!
They're all in excellent shape (the amp and detector were
rarely used).
Thule rack with locks for VW GTI or Jetta (2yrs)........ $75
Silca floor bike pump (pink) ........................... 20
Uniden Radar Detector (X and K bands, orig $134) ....... 75
Blaupunkt 60W car amp (orig $150) ...................... 75
Shipping included in all prices. Interested?
Please respond by email (whsld login or sldenton@cbnewsj.cb.att.com)
or phone (201) 386-2949 office. | 3 |
369 | **********
Hitachi CD player (needs cd spin motor) $30 shipped
JoYSTICKS..
an IBM/apple joystick three fire buttons
apple joy stick (//c //e)
kraft track ball make offers..
coleco vision items:
two working Consoles w/ working controllers in great shape
one roller ball controller
two Super ACtion conrollers
one 'standard' joystick
games:
SA baseball
SA rocky
SA football
VIc 20 and C64 with powersupplies and RF modulators... make an offer
Vic20 Catridges: Raid on Fort Knox - Omega Race
******
Early 80's Epiphone Acoustic guitar
spruce top.. mohogany back, sides and neck
adjustable bridge, plays very nice
small hole in side for jack (had a pickup at one time)
$175 + shipping
******
Yamaha CS-5 ANalog synthesizer
Three octave keyboard
VCO - single oscillator range from 64' to 2'
Tone sources - Saw tooth, square, noise and external sound
VCA - can be modulated
VCF - Cut off, resonance, LFO MOD, envelope generator depth
pitch bend slider, CV in and out, trigger in and out, external
tone source in... the keyboard is in perfect working order and
is colored black and white
$150 + shipping
**********
DRUM stuff..
North heavy Duty hi hat stand $45
older stand... but definately in working shape.. could
use a little clean up. comes with clutch and felts, etc..
Pearl bass drum pedal with felt beater $20
honer cymbal stand $15 (needs some work on cymbal stem)
Zildjian 20" Ride cymbal $55
main line zildjian... older ride cymbal
Ludwig snare stand $10
okay snare stand.. NOT like a remo though ;)
shipping extra.. please email
if you have questions about anything, please email me
| 3 |
2,257 |
This is a 1950s idea. Supposedly, splicing in a frame of "Buy
popcorn" upped popcorn sales in a movie theatre. Big flap at the time.
Congress involved. Talk of making it illegal. General agreement by
networks not to do it.
A few years ago, some junior person at an advertising agency
re-invented subliminal projection and one commercial went out on tape
with single-frame messages. It aired on a few stations, but a tech
at one station, previewing the tape, noticed a flicker and looked at
the tape frame-by-frame to find the "defect". Big flap. FCC notified.
Commercial pulled. Press reports. Embarassed ad agency. You could
probably find the press reports via Dialog or Nexis if you wanted.
Now that everybody has VCRs, it's not likely that anybody could
get away with this on TV. | 3 |
1,454 | I was reading a review of the Centris 610 in this
months MacWorld and the reviewer said that for
$4 you could make an adjustment on the clock speed
of the chip and change it from 20mhz to 25mhz. I
haven't heard of this before, and I don't think that
this is the 040 chip replacement (with fpu) that I have
seen so much talk about. Anyone have any ideas?
cwera@du.edu
| 3 |
1,530 | I have the following CD's for sale for $5 each plus shipping
Body Count - (without "Cop Killer")
Yo! MTV Raps (volume 1)
Skid Row (1st album)
Bryan Adams - Waking up the Neighbours
Temple of the Dog
C + C Music Factory - gonna make you sweat
IBM PC games -
Eye of the Beholder 2 with cluebook - $25
Pools of Darkness - $18
Jet Fighter 2 - $18
Books -
Ancient Egypt, a Social History (retail $26, will sell for $8)
Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (hardcover, 283 pages) - $18
Encyclopedia of Physics (hardcover, 1371 pages, 1990) - $25
+ shipping also on books and games | 3 |
3,205 | I am trying to obtain a HI-FI copy of Guns N' Roses pay per view last
summer from Paris. If anyone has a copy they would like to sell, or
could make me a copy, please e-mail me. Thanks
| 3 |
1,858 | Not that the question is anything important, but I am still curious:
Why is that almost all printed circuit boards are green? I have seen
a few blue ones, but no red, yellow, company logo etc. Is there a
technical reason or could it be that the marketing "geniuses" have
not tought about it (yet)? | 3 |
3,508 | I heard that there will be an Apple price drop coming June 30th. Can
anyone second this rumour?
--
A motion picture major at the Brooks Institute of Photography, CA
Santa Barbara and a foreign student from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | 3 |
4,379 | ... there was a post originating from Russia advertising large quantities
of red mercury for sale - stirred up a bit of controversy at the time.
Then, this morning, NPR relates the news of a corruption scandal involving
the russian defense minister (among others), selling defense items, among
which (strangely enough), was red mercury.
you don't suppose????? | 3 |
1,893 |
Huh? Where did you get this idea from? I think you got this
backwards. The Duo's memory is faster than its equivalent desktop
machine by 5-10% (and the rest of the powerboks). I think the
explanation for this was that it can refresh faster (in 2 instead of 5
cycles I believe). Things that could affect performance would be
factors such as use of functions enhanced in the FPU (which the Duo
doesn't have undocked). Extensions and background applications can
slow your computer down too. Real life differences in speed are likely
to be influence by the software you are running, what kind of screen
depth you are running etc.
Espen | 3 |
414 | I don't know much about Hydrophones, so I'm looking for any information
that will help avoid problems I haven't thought of! I would like an
inexpensive hydrophone and amplifier with tape (line level) outputs...
something like Edmund sells for $250. They also sell just the microphone
(hydrophone) head for $24, but how does one construct the enclosure?
Any information would be greatly appreciated, Thanks! | 3 |
6,340 |
What frequency is your carrier?
Have you considered using two tones, one for 1 and another for 0?
How high is your RS-232 data rate?
Can you use more than one carrier freq?
Have you considered hiring an RF data transmission consultant? | 3 |
2,602 |
Check the station's master sync generator. You'll probably find that
it already has horizontal and vertical drive outputs that just aren't
being used. A couple of cables and you're in business.
Another possibility is to find a genlockable sync generator with HD and VD
outputs - genlock it to station sync, and then feed HD and VD to the
cameras.
If neither of these is possible, then you'll have to build a sync
separator. Look at the circuit diagrams of your existing sync generators -
they probably all include circuitry that does what you want. | 3 |
743 |
I remember a simple program that would play those chimes for you when you
clicked their respective buttons. Does anyone know where that is? This was
circa 1988, I think.
Cheers,
-e. | 3 |
5,382 | I have the following prerecorded VHS tapes for sale. All are in
great shape and are being sold since I have replaced all of them
with laserdiscs:
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Batman
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
E.T. | 3 |
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