otts@spp2.UUCP (Chuck Otts) (10/17/86)
[Eat this line eater, if you still exist] Lets travel back in time to the good'ole days of slow ROM, 16K chip memory, and disk access in 10Mb chunks. When boys were boys and Macintosh was XLisa. I am the PROUD (not that proud) owner of a Macintosh XL running Macworks 3.0 that I picked up from a friend for a song (gold record stuff). The machine has lots of out of date software and no manuals; but all seems to work just fine. What I am looking for are any and all hints, suggestions (please don't suggest a Mac+), literary references, software to make things faster, hardware to make things prettier, or anything else that might make my XL work 'just as good as the real thing'. Problems: - Sound is bad on a XL! Crash or hang on most programs with digitized sound. Am I destined to run deaf software only? - Speed (or lack there of) of disk access is very slow with 6+ Mb on disk. Anything I can do to speed the disk (MockHFS, faster drive)? Tried SuperCharger with limited success (20% increase in application start-up). - Is there really a Pixel fix? Is it worth getting? Requests: - Any suggested titles for XL documentation; hardware and Macworks? - Any papers, diagrams, or XL stuff that might be laying around not being used? Postage Guaranteed! Offer: - Any educational institutions, research groups, or such interested in donation of 1983 Lisa software (new in box) on 5 1/4" floppy. Titles include: LisaProject, LisaWrite, LisaGraph, LisaCalc and LisaList. Please do not request unless you can use it. You pay postage. - Many thanks for all information, good or bad. - Reply via E-mail so as not to bore all the owners of slick new Mac+ and I will summarize to the net (if anybody else needs this info). - chuck - "My Mac is bigger than yours..." Chuck Otts TRW One Space Park R2/2119 UUCP: ...!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!otts Redondo Beach, CA 90278 (213) 535-6166