SHULMAN@slb-test.CSNET (Jeffrey Shulman) (03/15/87)
Delphi Mac Digest Sunday, March 15, 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 16
Today's Topics:
Disk Evaluations
RE: Word 3.0 (5 messages)
RE: LaserSpeed vs. new Laser Prep
4.0 startup (2 messages)
System 4.0 & Tempo 1.1 (2 messages)
MS-Basic
Memory Upgrades
RE: Memory Upgrade Opinions? (2 messages)
Hannover Faire news (2 messages)
memory map (5 messages)
Prog.Start at certein Time...
LW font request
DiskTimerII results
Re: new system/finder
Re: Re: ROMS and NuBus
RE: Carrying Case Warning
Re: Remote Mac Access
power supply/hardware problems
FX/20 and FX/40
RSG3 updates?
Dove/WARP NINE? (3 messages)
dialog items filtering (4 messages)
MW 3.0 400K disks
Word Scatology
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From: MOUSEKETEER
Subject: Disk Evaluations
Date: 7-MAR-18:32: Hardware & Peripherals
Disk Gazette, Issue #4
The Disk Gazette is a regular newsletter published by International
Datawares, Inc. containing "news and information about microdiskettes".
Each issue details the company's on-going testing of 3.5" diskettes.
From the current Issue #4:
Single Sided
Sony JVC
Rating: The Best! Rating: Excellent
Problem rate: Better than 1 in 5,000 Problem rate: Better than 1 in 4,000
Quantity tested: More than 185,000 Quantity tested: Over 50,000
Head wear: Least amount Head wear: Very good
Fujitsu Maxell
Rating: Excellent Rating: Excellent
Problem rate: Better than 1 in 3,000 Problem rate: Better than 1 in 3,000
Quantity tested: Over 15,000 Quantity tested: Over 20,000
Head wear: Very good Head wear: Very good
BASF 3M
Rating: Good Rating: Good
Problem rate: About 1 in 2,000 Problem rate: Better than 1 in 1,500
Quantity tested: 20,000 Quantity tested: Over 5,000
Head wear: Very little Head wear: Not enough tested to say.
Double Sided
Sony JVC
Rating: The Best! Rating: Excellent
Problem rate: Better than 1 in 5,000 Problem rate: Better than 1 in 4,000
Quantity tested: More than 70,000 Quantity tested: Over 25,000
Head wear: Least amount Head wear: Almost as good as Sony
Memorex
Rating: Good
Problem rate: 2 in 2,000
Quantity tested: 2,000
Head wear: Not enough tested to say.
The listings and comments in the newsletter are more complete than the
above. For a free subscription to The Diskette Gazette, send your name
and address to: The Diskette Gazette, International Datawares,Inc., 2278
Trade Zone Blvd., San Jose, CA 95131 - and tell them MUGS Online/Delphi
sent ya.
Of course, they also offer most of the diskettes for sale, at very nice
prices (i.e. Bulk Sony DS, min. 20, at $1.55 in your choice of white,
dark blue, or the new platinum), less at quantities of 50, 100, and 400.
Alf
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From: RWIGGINS
Subject: RE: Word 3.0 (Re: Msg 17889)
Date: 7-MAR-19:18: Bugs & Features
They call it a feature. In the docs they say that selecting "plain
text" returns the text to the "default" font and style.
I call it horse-hockey. This is a terrible program, and I intend to say
so in my column.
-- Robert
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From: MOUSEKETEER
Subject: RE: Word 3.0 (Re: Msg 17915)
Date: 7-MAR-22:16: Bugs & Features
Uh...let's not throw the mouse out with the Macwater, so to speak ;-).
I don't think Word 3.0 is THE WP program for all time, but it sure the
hey beats Word 1.05. I do keep bumping into things that I think could
be improved, and the overall impression is that it was programmed by a
committee which required majority rule on everything, but don't even
think of trying to get me to go back to 1.05! I'm even willing to wait a
year for the upgrade to fix some of the silliness it has within.
They mention the Plain Text > Default "feature" in the manual? I guess I
may need to read it...hehe.
Alf
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From: MACINTOUCH
Subject: RE: Word 3.0 (Re: Msg 17915)
Date: 9-MAR-11:40: Bugs & Features
Just heard from a MacInTouch subscriber who was converting thousands of
documents from Word 1.0 to Word 3.0. He called it "one of the buggiest"
programs he'd seen from Microsoft. Here are some examples:
- font size changes from 10pt to 12 pt on conversion from Word 1 - rapid
memory use and resulting system crashes on a 512K Mac; this happens if
you open and close a number of documents, even if they are small and
even if they aren't keep open simultaneously - printing 10 copies of a
document does them *one by one*! This is a major flaw if you're
printing on a LaserWriter, and it's murder if you're printing graphics -
Unlike Word 1, you can't put print merge fields in headers and footers -
If you're trying to preview with a LaserWriter % reduction, you have to
Print and Cancel, then go to preview, because the reduction size is in
the Print dialog, not the Page Setup dialog.
Ric Ford "MacInTouch"
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From: CHUQ
Subject: RE: Word 3.0 (Re: Msg 17990)
Date: 9-MAR-21:23: Bugs & Features
Yup. I've hung Word a few times with the multi-file botch. Open
anywhere from four to 8 Word files -- close them (don't even need to
save them!) and you can hang your machine when you quit.
Another bothc: When you use 'save as' to save something in word 1.0
format ( which you need to do if you're exporting it to anything,
including RSG3) the document is renamed 'untitled<num>' and if you then
try to close it, it asks you to save it.
foo. Word doesn't default to the old format of the file, so if you're
working with another prog that needs 1.0 format, you're either keeping
two copies around or constantly trying to use 'wave as' and working
around Words attempt to convince you to use the default format. Almost
as if they WANT to be obnoxious about non-3.0 formats.
Word 3.0 doesn't know how to open old word files -- they cahnged the
application string, so double-clicking a 1.0 format doesn't work
anymore. non-intuitive.
I still think 3.0 is neat, but I feel like I'm working with beta
software. sigh. when will word 3.0.0.0.1 be out?
chuq
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From: LAMG
Subject: RE: Word 3.0 (Re: Msg 17990)
Date: 14-MAR 02:15 Bugs & Features
Here's another one for the Word bug list: when the document window is
split in two, sometimes clicking in the "down arrow" of the LOWER part
of the window causes the text in the UPPER part of the window to scroll!
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: RE: LaserSpeed vs. new Laser Prep (Re: Msg 17876)
Date: 7-MAR-21:20: Bugs & Features
I, and a friend, are doing the same for a different reason -- both of us
made signature fonts with Fontographer. Neither one gets downloaded
with 3.3.
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From: JOSEF
Subject: 4.0 startup
Date: 7-MAR-22:25: Business Mac
I tried to create a System 4.0 startup disk with the following method:
initialize a disk; copy the system folder to it; use Fedit + to put the
boot blocks on it. Result: this disk won't boot. This method used to
work for older systems, and I find it to be a real nuisance that it
doesn't anymore. Anyone know what the problem is?
Joe
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From: JEFFS
Subject: RE: 4.0 startup (Re: Msg 17923)
Date: 7-MAR-22:58: Business Mac
When you copy the System folder (or anything containing the
Finder/System), the Finder will automatically add boot blocks, you need
not use Fedit+. Perhaps there is some incompatibility with that version
(I was told version 2.0 of Fedit+ is due out as early as the end of this
month.)
Jeff
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From: LAMG
Subject: System 4.0 & Tempo 1.1
Date: 8-MAR-00:26: Business Mac
I can't seem to get Tempo 1.1 to work with the new System software...
with Tempo installed, the Mac boots but doesn't get past the Startup
Screen.
Anyone have better luck?
-Franklin / LAMG
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From: RIVEREAST
Subject: RE: System 4.0 & Tempo 1.1 (Re: Msg 17933)
Date: 8-MAR-23:16: Business Mac
I've used Tempo v.1.1b with the new System 4.0 for a week without any
trouble on my hard drive. I just installed Tempo 1.1b with Tempo
Installer on my new system. Yasu
Kawahigashi
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From: BVTAUCHNITZ
Subject: MS-Basic
Date: 8-MAR-07:39: Programming
Hello Does anyone know how to force the LW+ to print different fonts
from MS- Basic 3.0(Compiler 1.0)? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Bernhard
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From: FALCON1TORCH
Subject: Memory Upgrades
Date: 8-MAR-11:17: Hardware & Peripherals
I'm interested on feedback on MAC 512KE memory and SCSI port upgrades.
The new ads for Dove upgrades look interesting, at least the price is
good. Can these be user (reasonable electronics background) installed?
How many pins the port have (25 or 50)? Do you have any experience with
the product? M Macmemory appears good also? Has any one heard about
the Turbomax board? How much is it?
These obviously is rambling but hopefully it can generated a thread
with useful information in it.
Tom Darner
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From: GUSPETERS
Subject: RE: Memory Upgrade Opinions? (Re: Msg 17967)
Date: 8-MAR-22:45: Hardware & Peripherals
Dave, Dove does also have a 2 meg upgrade. The place I got mine has
they priced at about 450.00 I think. hey have good documentation and
instructions for installation also. Easy to follow.
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From: JOSEF
Subject: RE: Memory Upgrade Opinions? (Re: Msg 17972)
Date: 10-MAR 01:22 Hardware & Peripherals
I picked up a Dove upgrade at the last SF Expo to take my plus to 2
Megs(using the 256K chips). It's been working great ever since. Easy
to install too, even for a klutz like myself. Hardest part was getting
the case open and faking out the torx head screws with a regular
screwdiver. (This actually works if they're not too tight--I finally
managed to get the right size torx screwdiver after 2 trips to the
store, but then the shaft turned out to be too short!)
Joe
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From: INTECO
Subject: Hannover Faire news
Date: 8-MAR-17:06: Business Mac
Some news from the Hannover Faire (CEBIT) 1987 I have visited for 3 days
the Faire and like give a special report on Apple related news. The
Apple booth was very quite crowded as usual. A lot of people were asking
for the Macintosh II which was shown in serval units. The release date
for regular buyers will be September 87 with a standard configuration of
2 MByte Ram, 40 MByte Quantum hard disc, monochrom monitor and video
card and a price of about 18000,00 DM ($1 = 1,84 DM). The color version
will be about 2000,00 DM more. The color slide show is quite
spectacular. Not shown open in the public I found a Mac II equiped with
a high-rez (probably 1024*768 SuperMac ?) video card but the used
monitor could not display the quality expected. The Mac II color monitor
from Apple is superb. You would not notice that you use a color monitor
if there is no color apple in the upper left of the screen. The Mac SE
was available in all configurations but a lot of people I spoke did not
like the design. The Mac SE is available now and has a price of 8900,00
DM with two drives and 10900,00 DM with 20 MByte hard disc. The tape
backup and the 80 MByte hard disc were shown, too. The price of the
Macintosh Plus is lowered to 6400,00 DM which should give it better
chance in the German market place. The most remarkable piece of software
I found on the booth was the database 4th dimension, a database program
developed in France and obviously sailing now under the Apple logo (the
long awaited Silver Surfer?). It offers all layout capabilities you
could think of (like MacDraw), the database design is similiar to Reflex
from Borland and the programming language is like Pascal with over 200
procedures and functions. From the technical point you will never reach
any of the given maximal specifications but perhaps pictures which can
have the size of up to 32kBytes (well, I think of color pictures).
Password protection, multi user capabilities and tele- communication are
some of the other features. And finally Apple is going to establish
developer support similiar to to APDA here in Germany and in Europe to
close the gap between the distribution times of developer software here
and in the States. So MPW 2.0 is announced to come very soon. - Uwe
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From: RCONGDON
Subject: RE: Hannover Faire news (Re: Msg 17959)
Date: 10-MAR 23:34 Business Mac
This is one of several mentions I've seen of MPW 2.0. Anyone have any
idea what features this update will include? Heck, MPW 1.0 just became
"official" at the MacWorld Expo in January.
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From: JOSEF
Subject: memory map
Date: 7-MAR-22:28: Programming Techniques
I seem to be unable to locate a memory map of the Mac anywhere: not in
IM, not in the Tech notes, not anywhere. So could anyone tell me what
exists at the address $F80000 (Please note the # of zeroes: this is not
in ram, but somewhere in the upper quadrant of the 68000's 16 Meg
addressable range).
Joe
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From: PEABO
Subject: RE: memory map (Re: Msg 1314)
Date: 8-MAR-15:43: Programming Techniques
That is not one of the addresses listed specifically in IM vol 3 "The
Macintosh Hardware", but the decoding of I/O references is notoriously
imprecise (which is why accesses above $00800000 freeze the mouse so
easily).
Are you having trouble with something referencing that address?
peter
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From: LOGICHACK
Subject: RE: memory map (Re: Msg 1319)
Date: 9-MAR-01:10: Programming Techniques
Joe:
$f80000 is an address Apple ROMs check for diagnostic routines. In the
128K ROMs, it looks for an $aa5555aa (or was it the other way around?)
there and if it finds it, assume the following long word is a pointer to
diagnostic code and jumps to it. That's how the HyperDrive was able to
boot itself. It is also used by Levco in their memory and processor
upgrades to patch Apple ROMs and things of that ilk.
Paul :)
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From: JOSEF
Subject: RE: memory map (Re: Msg 1328)
Date: 11-MAR 03:15 Programming Techniques
If nothing resides at $F80000, I find it rather curious that reading
that location returns a $6116. In other 68000-based systems that I have
worked with, accessing a memory location that doesn't exist either
causes a DTACK hang (a nasty problem which the Mac designers cleverly
avoided) or typically returns all F's.
Joe
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From: PEABO
Subject: RE: memory map (Re: Msg 1333)
Date: 11-MAR 10:41 Programming Techniques
It would be interesting to know if $6116 is returned on all models of
Mac or even the same from one individual machine to another! If the bus
is a tristate bus that is terminated to an intermediate voltage, then
reading an undriven bus would tend to produce one's, but with very
little noise immunity. In particular the value read back might depend
on what other data had appeared on the bus in recent instruction cycles.
I saw somewhere recently advice to precharge the bus by preceding the
instruction for reading by a dozen or so opcodes with as many ones in
them as possible (and to follow the instruction with the same opcodes to
cover the case where the instructions were being prefetched). Try that
and see what you get.
peter
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From: INTECO
Subject: Prog.Start at certein Time...
Date: 8-MAR-17:15: Programming Techniques
Is there any program existing that starts a program (telecommunication)
at a certain time. The time manager works only within a program what I
need is something that calls my program a defined time if the finder is
the running program, so the user gets only interrupted if he is idle. I
do not want to write a new finder. Any suggestions? Uwe
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From: TSTEIN
Subject: LW font request
Date: 8-MAR-21:43: Creative Pursuits
Do you know of anyone who has a LaserWriter font designed that simulates
the IBM PC character set. I am trying to print PC screen dumps, via
Word, on a LW and would not like to reimplement a PC font if one exists.
If I can't find one, it seems the only alternative is Fontographer,
which I'm not eager to dive into.
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From: BRECHER
Subject: DiskTimerII results
Date: 9-MAR-03:38: Hardware & Peripherals
These are reported results from the DiskTimerII program as of Mar. 7,
1987. DiskTimerII measures performance on large (24KB) data transfers
and on access time (seeking, head movement). The results are
independent of the file system, cache, amount of free space, System and
Finder versions, etc. There is no direct translation of these results
to perceived performance in ordinary Mac usage.
On HyperDrives, the seek test provides meaningful results only when run
from a drawer which is contiguous for more than 1MB.
Multiple results from the same drive by the same submittor which vary by
not more than 5% have been combined into one report by taking the best
result for each of the three tests. Where three or more reports from
different submittors on the same drive were available, I have omitted
those having results on all three tests which fell between the best and
worst shown below for that drive.
Additional reports are welcome.
--- time in deciseconds ---
100 24KB 100 24KB 80 1MB
Model, Vendor [Note] Reads Writes Seeks Reported by
--------------------- -------- -------- ------ ------------
AST-2000, AST Research 192 192 48 Fred Fischer
AST-2000, AST Research 192 192 48 David Rose
Bernoulli Box 20-20, Iomega 205 205 36 Panos
DataFrame 20, SuperMac [1] 146 146 69 Dan Clark/SuperMac
DataFrame 20, SuperMac [1] 147 147 61 Robert Murrow
DataFrame 20, SuperMac [1] 194 194 80 Carlos Weber
DataFrame 20, SuperMac [2] 98 98 38 David Berry
DataFrame 20, SuperMac [2] 98 99 69 Dan Clark/SuperMac
DataFrame 20, SuperMac [2] 99 99 62 Harry Conover
DataFrame 20, SuperMac [2] 99 99 80 Harry Conover
DataFrame 20, SuperMac [2] 99 98 59 SuperMac
DataFrame XP20, SuperMac 52 55 38 SuperMac
DataFrame upgrade to XP20, SuperMac 54 55 62 Brian Hall
DataFrame XP40, SuperMac 52 51 18 Dan Clark/SuperMac
DataFrame XP40, SuperMac [3] 52 70 18 Ira Rampil
Direct Drive 20, Jasmine 110 110 37 R. Lesnick
Direct Drive 80, Jasmine 129 126 20 Ric Ford
Direct Drive 80, Jasmine 127 125 21 Rob Hahn
DynaMac portable Mac 40MB internal 165 163 33 Steve Bobker
Easy Drive 20MB, DCC Systems 192 206 37 Tom Hensley
Easy Drive 30MB, DCC Systems 422 425 36 "Max"/MouseHole
Easy Drive 40MB, DCC Systems [4] 140 314 36 Tim Smith
Ehman 20HD, Ehman Engineering 579 1104 49 R. Lesnick
Hard Disk 20 (floppy port), Apple 872 996 61 Steve Bobker
Hard Disk 20 (floppy port), Apple 848 969 60 Jean Hess
HardMAC+20, CMC 285 286 36 Joseph DiGangi
HD20SC (SCSI), Apple 155 155 37 Brian Hall
HD20SC (SCSI), Apple 156 154 38 Norman Fong
HD20SC (SCSI), Apple 157 157 39 P. Williams/Apple
HyperDrive 10MB (Mac Plus), GCC 186 190 N/A Rich Goldberg
HyperDrive 10MB (Mac Plus), GCC 186 187 42 Tim Smith
HyperDrive 20MB, GCC 190 188 32 Norman Fong
HyperDrive 20MB (Mac Plus), GCC 187 187 29 Philip Kinsler
HyperDrive 20MB (512K), GCC 187 187 34 Paul Rainey
HyperDrive FX20 (SCSI), GCC 154 231 37 Brian Hall
HyperDrive FX20 (SCSI), GCC 154 218 38 Philip Kinsler
HyperDrive FX20 (SCSI), GCC 153 224 37 Michael Root
LoDOWN 20, LoDOWN 102 107 39 Bill Steinberg
Mac II internal 20SC, Apple 51 61 34 Monty Solomon
Mac SE internal 20MB, Apple 78 74 50 John Mitchell
Mac SE internal 20MB, Apple 75 73 49 Monty Solomon
MacBottom 10 (serial port), PCPC 503 846 91 Rod Paine
MacBottom 10 (serial port), PCPC 507 855 97 T. Scotta
MacBottom HD21 (SCSI), PCPC 164 162 49 Rod Paine
MacBottom HD21 (SCSI), PCPC 162 165 48 Paul Rainey
MacBottom HD21 (SCSI), PCPC 162 164 50 Bill Steinberg
MacDrive 10MB, Tecmar 717 795 59 Chip Nicolais
MacDrive 5MB removeable, Tecmar 750 784 104 Gene Madill
MacMate 20, Relax 192 197 37 M. Azarnoff
MacMate 20, Relax 194 292 37 Larry Hosmer
MacSlimLine 20 fixed, Univation 172 211 38 Robert Yellen
" 10 removeable " 305 363 107 " "
Magic20, Rabbit Industries 199 464 37 Larry Halff
Magic65, Rabbit Industries 422 425 15 Norman Fong
Magnet 20x, Mirror Technologies 173 203 38 Hoffman
Magnet 30x, Mirror Technologies 140 438 36 Hoffman
MagNet 40/40, Mirror Technologies 139 198 36 Norman Fong
MicahDrive 20 AT, MICAH 54 58 70 Fred Fischer
MicahDrive 20 AT, MICAH 55 63 68 Fred Fischer
MicahDrive 20 AT, MICAH 56 82 73 Fred Fischer
MicahDrive 20 AT, MICAH 57 72 74 Ted May
MicahDrive 20 AT, MICAH 55 78 79 David Rose
OverDrive 20, Prodigy 4, Levco [1] 79 1058 50 Kiyomasa Ono
OverDrive 20, Prodigy 4, Levco [2] 145 145 49 Kiyomasa Ono
Photon 20, Warp Nine Engineering 174 203 39 Duane Williams
Photon 30, Warp Nine Engineering 140 450 38 Bill Steinberg
PL 20, Peripheral Land 241 240 38 Steve Maller
PL 30, Peripheral Land 228 236 38 Steve Maller
Plus-30, Peak Systems 141 439 37 David Alpert
Plus-30, Peak Systems 139 438 38 Joel West
ProApp 40, ProApp 163 161 28 John Mitchell
QC 20 811 814 N/A Neal Kaforey
Relax Technologies 150MB 420 420 48 John Mitchell
Rodime 20 internal 109 108 49 Brian Hall
Rodime 20 Plus, Rodime 107 106 50 Jim Brown
Rodime 20 Plus, Rodime 108 106 49 Daniel Piette
S20+, Peachtree Technology 162 162 48 Junji Kazama
S220-s, CMS 285 286 37 Jeff Segawa
Warp 20 (in 512E), Warp Nine 443 443 42 Fred Fischer
WhisperDrive 21, Palo Alto Mic'Sys.102 212 38 Jim Hu
WhisperDrive 21, Palo Alto Mic'Sys.193 193 40 Kurt Wanfried
Notes:
[1] Old version
[2] Current version
[3] Mean of three trials
[4] 3:1 sector interleave
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From: BRECHER
Subject: Re: new system/finder
Date: 9-MAR-04:53: MUGS Online
To: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Subject: Re: new system/finder
> Okay, I've just started using 5.4/3.3 find/sys when I notice this
> beaker shaped icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Hmmm...
This is evidence that the Sticky Keys INIT is functioning. The INIT is
installed from a file, Sticky Keys, in the System Folder. It is
activated by pressing the Shift key five times in succession. Sticky
Keys enables the user (most likely a handicapped user) to use the Shift,
Option, and Cmd keys by striking them instead of holding them down
concurrently with another key. It's easier to understand the details of
its operation by experimenting in a text editor than it is to explain.
If you don't need Sticky Keys, you can remove the file from your System
folder and thereby save some system heap memory.
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From: BRECHER
Subject: Re: Re: ROMS and NuBus
Date: 9-MAR-04:53: MUGS Online
To: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Subject: Re: Re: ROMS and NuBus
> Q: Do MacII and SE ROMS have the same content?
No. The II ROMs are an approximate superset of the SE ROMs. The II
ROMs contain, among other extras, Color QuickDraw, Color Manager, Slot
Manager, color extensions to the various user interface managers, and an
Acta file containing a detailed inventory of Jean Louis Gassee's wine
cellar. There are also differences due to different hardware, such as
in the startup code and SCSI Manager.
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From: MACINTOUCH
Subject: RE: Carrying Case Warning (Re: Msg 17392)
Date: 9-MAR-08:46: Business Mac
It seems that I'm guilty of making a judgement in haste. I just pulled
my Mac out of my MacTote, and *zzapp!* So the moral is, watch out for
static with *all* the carrying cases, and make sure you don't touch the
pins on your external disk drive, or on your Mac, when you're all
charged up.
Ric Ford "MacInTouch" newsletter
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From: MACINTOUCH
Subject: Re: Remote Mac Access (Re: Msg 17953)
Date: 9-MAR-10:20: Network Digests
To: barry@reed.UUCP (Barry Smith)
Subject: Re: Remote Mac Access
We've seen reports in InfoWorld and heard from our own subscribers that
there are bugs in the Interbridge that appear when using TOPS. That's
about as specific as I've got it, but I'm wondering about the wisdom of
investing all that money in hardware if the system isn't going to work
smoothly. Does anyone else have much experience with this setup?
Ric Ford "MacInTouch" newsletter
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From: MACINTOUCH
Subject: power supply/hardware problems
Date: 9-MAR-10:42: Hardware & Peripherals
I haven't seen anything about this online yet, so I thought I'd mention
that the March 87 issue of "MacTutor" has the first really good article
on power supply/hardware problems in the Macintosh. Well worth getting
a copy. Loy Spurlock, who runs a Mac repair center, says that the
"power supply" is really not related to the problem, that the real
problem is in early Macs, which have video "flyback transformers" that
fry themselves. Apple has apparently changed suppliers and has a better
transformer now. Loy suggests that a fan may well help prevent the older
ones from croaking.
He also says that the power supply is adequate to handle well-designed
RAM upgrades to 2MB, citing Levco as an example. He reiterates previous
advice about always adjusting the power supply voltage after a change,
but adds that you have to "balance" the 5V and 12V outputs.
Another problem, less frequent than flyback transformer failure, seems
to be cold solder joints. (A number of reports on the nets have given
examples of this as well).
I hope this short description has done justice to the article; I'd
highly recommend picking up a copy of this issue of "MacTutor" and
reading the whole thing.
Ric Ford "MacInTouch" newsletter
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From: MACINTOUCH
Subject: FX/20 and FX/40
Date: 9-MAR-16:07: Hardware & Peripherals
General Computer has lengthened the warranty on the HyperDrive FX/20
external SCSI disk to 1 year. (It was previously 90 days).
Shipment of the FX/40 has been delayed, due to problems with the disk
drive used inside which were discovered during GCC's final testing and
certification.
Ric Ford
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From: CHUQ
Subject: RSG3 updates?
Date: 9-MAR-21:26: Bugs & Features
anyone hear any rumors of Letraset doing an upgrade on RSG 3.0 to fix
some of the known bugs (and hopefully take care of some of the
misfeatures?) I was going to call adn bitch (I'm tired of crashing text
blocks) but I thought I'd check the group mind...
chuq
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From: CHUQ
Subject: Dove/WARP NINE?
Date: 9-MAR-21:30: SIG Business
The latest Macwrold has ads for Warp nine and Dove that show I can get a
20 Meg drive, SCSI, and 2 megabyte upgrade (all no solder) for my 512kE
for about 1100 total.
My question is: what are the track records for these prodcuts? What
kind of compatibility between these add-on's is there? Anyone get these
working together yet? Or should I go for a Mac-0Plus upgrade from Apple
and buy a normal hard disk?
chuq
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From: MACINTOUCH
Subject: RE: Dove/WARP NINE? (Re: Msg 18003)
Date: 9-MAR-22:00: SIG Business
I'd sell the 512KE, take the $1100, and try to get an SE cheap...
Ric
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From: CHUQ
Subject: RE: Dove/WARP NINE? (Re: Msg 18006)
Date: 9-MAR-22:57: SIG Business
The big win on the SE seems to be the slot, whihc I don't need. A + is
all I really want right now, because I'd rather use it for another year
or so and then buy the Mac II when I outgrow it. The SE doesn't have
enough value added for it to be worth it (to me, he emphasizes) and I
can't afford the Mac II. Yet.
Now, if I could just sell a few articles, or that novel....
(and since there is no + to SE or II upgrade path, I'm now a lot LESS
hyper about a third party upgrade, especially if it is clip compatible.)
chuq
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From: JIMH
Subject: dialog items filtering
Date: 10-MAR 00:56 Programming
I am writing a modal dialog that has several edit text items. 4 of
these items i want to accept only numbers, so i wrote a filterproc that
looks at the item number passed into the filterproc from modal dialog.
However it appears that that number is bogus most of the time. Usually
the item number i get is -1 but occasionally i do get the correct item
number. is there anyway to tell what item number the event occured in?
I also looked at findDITem from new ROMS but theeventrecord hands me
mouse position not where the keydown occured. Any guidance would be
much appreciated. thanks jim
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From: PEABO
Subject: RE: dialog items filtering (Re: Msg 18018)
Date: 11-MAR 00:07 Programming
I have a modal dialog in which I need to detect clicks in the scroll
bar. The way I do it is to do a PtInRect of the mouse coordinates in
the event record to see if it lies in the bounding rectable of the
scroll bar. (Remebering to convert to local to global the rectangle.)
I'd guess that the number you are seeing that is so frequently -1 is
being set from the previous event (a left-over number), which would
account for its being somewhat unpredictible.
I think that the itemHit parameter to your filter proc is an *output*
not an input.
peter
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From: JIMH
Subject: RE: dialog items filtering (Re: Msg 18047)
Date: 11-MAR 00:53 Programming
Peter, i am getting keyboard events in the edit text item and thus i
cant use the mouse location. I agree it appears that item hit is an
input but no reason it has to be that i can see. thanks jim
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From: PEABO
Subject: RE: dialog items filtering (Re: Msg 18052)
Date: 11-MAR 01:40 Programming
Every reference to itemHit seems to be accompanied by the statement that
you use it to return the item number to ModalDialog (pages I-415 and
416). I was thinking that you would ahve to select the text with the
mouse, which would tell you, but of course that's not necessarily the
case (you could tab into an edit item).
HOWEVER, take a look at 'editField' in DialogRecord. I think that is
what you are looking for (I-429 and somewhere in the text).
peter
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From: DSACHS
Subject: MW 3.0 400K disks
Date: 10-MAR 20:36 Bugs & Features
Apparently Microsoft is short-disking anyone who orders Word 3.0 on 400K
disks Several files seem to be present on the 800K disk version only,
the British version of the spelling dictionary and the LaserWriter
examples. Also the documentation as to the use of Word on a Mac with
400K disks is NOT included.
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From: DSACHS
Subject: Word Scatology
Date: 10-MAR 20:39 Bugs & Features
Apparently Microsoft has a completely lack of policy with regard to
certain words, that normally do not appear in print. Of 6 such words,
the spelling checker accepted 4 and rejected 2.
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