Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (09/02/89)
Info-Mac Digest Fri, 1 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 156
Today's Topics:
(None)
ASLEdit+ V1.0a7
Cmdr. Dialog Problems?
Description of Mac II video utility
Hypercard Trainset poster?
Info-Mac Digest V7 #155
KaleidaGraph 2.0
Laser printer Hazards
LCD projection system
Mac Digest stack
Mac Moria Bugs
Mac Portable battery/AC connection
Modula 2 on the Mac
MS Word Postscript Headers?
NCSA Image
Problems with 2400bps modem
Problem with auto log-on in AppleShare
Red Ryder command language
ShowDialog1.4 XCMD stack
Speeding up an SE/030
TransSkel25.sit.hqx
Venda-Card Systems for Mac Output Devices
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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 89 03:45:54 GMT
From: wasatch!cs.utah.edu!caeco!i-core!clint@cs.utexas.edu (clint)
Subject: (None)
I'm trying to print Mac-generated PostScript files on a Mannesman-
Tally 910 PostScript printer which is hooked up to an IBM Novell network
(there are no Macs on the network). I can get the files converted over,
but the printer program rejects the Mac files. I _have_ been able to
get Amiga-generated PostScript files to print without any problems.
I have tried printing both with and without the LaserPrep file included,
and with output from more than one program.
Someone on the net mentioned that Apple uses a "special flavor" or
PostScript. Can I take out or add something to the file to get it to
print?
clint@i-core
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 23:14 CDT
From: Youhei Morita (Univ. of Tsukuba) <MORITA%FNAL.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: ASLEdit+ V1.0a7
Here's yet another version of ASLEdit+, a tiny text editor written by
Mr.Hiroo Yamada (SysOp of MACPRO forum in NIFTY-serve) which is capable of
handling Japanese characters. This version fixes several nasty bugs such
as system crashes in the DA version. Version included here is 1.0/a7.
Note: This is still an alpha version. English ReadMe included. Freeware.
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Youhei Morita High Energy Physics Lab, Univ. of Tsukuba
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 17:26 CST
From: <HRAMAGLI%UTMEM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Cmdr. Dialog Problems?
I tried out Cmdr. Dialog and have encountered a problem. It exists
when you are running MultiFinder. Apparently, Cmdr. Dialog somehow
inhibits screen refresh of the desktop. If you open a window over top
of something on the desktop, and then close the window the icon on the
desktop is no longer there. Also, you can get the control panel to
some real funky stuff too.
Has anyone else encountered similar problems?
Howard
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 13:20:52 EDT
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Description of Mac II video utility
Here is the description of the Mac II Video card utility which Bill posted
the other day. It is taken from the top of the Read Me file provided with
this cdev. More info on building the cable is provided in the Read Me
document.
_____________________________________
Apple Macintosh II Video Card utility
Copyright 1986-1989 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved
This unsupported utility is a "Monitors CDEV Extension" which may be of
assistance in obtaining interlaced, RS170-compatible video output signals
>From a Macintosh II-class machine equipped with the Macintosh II Video Card.
It may support 1,2,4, and 8 bits-per-pixel interlaced video. In also may
provide an optional "no flicker mode" for the 1 bit-per-pixel mode. This
mode eliminates the flickering caused by thin horizontal lines (like the
racing stripes at the tops of windows) that occurs when Macintosh video is
transferred to video tape.
Audience:
This video utility allows developers and video-knowledgeable users to obtain
medium quality video output at extremely low cost. This is not intended for
the unsophisticated user. If you don't know how to make a video cable, this
software is not for you!
Pluses:
+ Supports 1 to 8 bits per pixel RS170 video output
+ This type of video can be video-taped
+ Flicker filter improves image quality in 1 bit per pixel mode.
Minuses:
- Requires a special cable.
- Flicker filter slows the computer down 20% to 40%.
- Flicker filter uses about 48K of RAM
- Not 100% broadcast-quality RS170 signal.
Hardware Required:
% A Macintosh II-class Macintosh computer.
% An Apple-brand 640 x 480 x 4 or 8 bit Macintosh II Video Card.
% A special cable (you make) to connect the video card to your
video equipment.
Software Required:
% System 6.0.3 (or higher).
% The Monitors 4.0 Control Panel device (available with 32-Bit
QuickDraw).
% The General file accompanying 32-Bit QuickDraw
% 32-Bit QuickDraw
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1989 23:31:23 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hypercard Trainset poster?
Could the person who posted the Hypercard Trainset please contact us? I have
misplaced your address. The problem seems to be that your mailer is doing
word hyphenation.
Bill
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Date: 1 Sep 89 15:34:10 GMT
From: intercon!amanda@uunet.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #155
In Info-Mac Digest V7 #155, John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> writes:
> I seem to remember reading a few years ago that the chemical
> used in copiers is mutagenic (in rodents no doubt).
> Anyone have any qualms about sitting next to a powered-on
> LaserWriter all day in a less-than-exuberantly ventilated
> room? (This is more curiousity than paranoia.)
Many photocopiers and larger laser printers use a drum coated with
Selenium, which is extremely nasty, and must be replaced by an official
service droid (mainly to insure that it's disposed of properly).
As far as I know, though, the Canon engines are quite safe, although toner
can be very annoying if it gets spilled :-).
--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 15:24:15 MDT
From: EPETERS%CSUGREEN@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: KaleidaGraph 2.0
This is a demo version of Synergy Software's KaleidaGraph 2.0
commercial scientific graphics application. Users of CricketGraph
will love this program, as it has all of Cricket's features and
graph types plus many more, including: 14 types of data plots
(including box plots, histograms), curve-fitting to user-defined
functions, MacDraw-like plot annotation tools, a programmable
calculator and function window (where you can make complex data
transformations in one step, rather than a step at a time) and
macros. Saving has been disabled in this demo, and printing will
add a demo banner across the page. Comes with some documentation
(including a 'Read Me' file outlining the new features of version
2.0) and some sample data files. A working copy can be obtained
through Synergy Software, 2457 Perkiomen Ave., Reading, PA 19606
(215) 779-0522, or through your favorite mail order house.
Stuffed with StuffIt and binhexed. Enjoy!
Eric L. Peters
Department of Radiology and Radiation Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
EPETERS@CSUGREEN
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Disclaimer: As usual, I am not associated with this company in any
way (most will attest that there is little sign that I EVER work
at ALL!). Although I DO come from Pennsylvania...
OK, Synergy, I posted it. Where's my two dollars?
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/info-mac/demo/kaleidagraph-part2.hqx; 162K
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Date: Fri 01 09 89 10:34 EDT
From: U009%CCIW.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Laser printer Hazards
I took a quick browse through a CD database called WHMIS (Workplace
Hazardous Material Information System) here at the shop and found
indexing 'laser' only told me about the hazards of Helium/Neon/CO2
mixtures (HA HA HA). Anyway, 'toner' gave a much more pertinant
collection of 59 records from Kodak, Cannon and Xerox Corporations
about the materials in their photocopier chemicals. Let me briefly
list the chemicals found (as reported by the manufacturer) in the
products retrieved (obviously incomplete):
Acrylic Resin (20-25%)
ALUMINUM MONOSTEARATE
Amorphous Silica (<1%)
AN ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON SIMILAR TO KEROSENE
Bisphenol A Propylene Oxide Fumarate Polymer (85-90%)
Blue Pigment; Phthalocyanine Derivative (<10%)
BUTYLATED HYDROXYTOLUENE
Carbon Black (10-15%)
chromium chelate (72869-85-3)
Copper oxide
DIVINYLBENZENE CROSSLINKED RESIN
Dye or Pigment
Ferrite
FRAGRANCE MATERIAL (SCHOENMANN INC. #91925)
Iron oxide (1309-37-1)
ISOPAR G (ISOPARAFFINIC PETROLEUM SOLVENT)
Isoparaffinic hydrocarbons
Magenta Pigment; Quinoacridine Derivative (<10%)
MIXTURE MAINLY COMPOSED OF ISOPARAFFINIC HYDROCARBON SOLVENT
MIXTURE MAINLY COMPOSED OF RESIN COATED FERRITE POWDER
PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS
Pigment
Polyester resin
Polyolefin (<5%)
POLYPROPYLENE WAX
POLYVINYL BUTYRAL RESIN
PRUSSIAN BLUE PIGMENT
Quaternary Ammonium Salt (<2%)
ROSIN MODIFIED FORMALDEHYDE RESIN
Rosin-modified resin and vinylpolymers
Salicylic acid
Styrene acrylate copolymer
STYRENE AND N-BUTYLMETHACRYLATE COPOLYMER
Styrene methacrylate copolymer
Styrene/Butadiene Copolymer (45-50%)
Titanium dioxide
VINYL TOLUENE-ACRYLATE TERPOLYMER RESIN
Vinyltoluene-Butadiene Resin (85-90%)
WAXES AND SURFACTANTS
Yellow Pigment; Acetylacetamide Derivative (<10%)
Zinc Stearate (<1%)
Obviously, not all compounds appear in all toners.
The following phrases occurred in some of the vendor's data sheets
and I thought you might get a kick out of some of them. None of the
products looked at appeared to be genuinely toxic, although long-term
exposure data is relatively unknown.
<QUOTE:>
INHALATION: LC50: >2.6 G/M3 (RATS) SLIGHTLY TOXIC *
INGESTION: ORAL LD50: >15.3 G/KG (RATS) PRACTICALLY NON-TOXIC
MUTAGENICITY TEST(S): AMES NONE DETECTABLE **; MICRONUCLEUS NEGATIVE
Concerning carcinogenicity, each ingredient is not listed on NTP Third Annual
Report on carcinogens, IARC Monograph or OSHA listing.
EFFECTS OF OVEREXPOSURE:
Inhalation Gasping. Do not breathe the dust.
Medical Conditions Generally Aggravated by Exposure: None when used as
described by product literature.
This material has been tested and evaluated by Xerox Corporation. When used as
intended, it does not represent a health or safety hazard.
Mutagenicity: No mutagenicity detected in Ames, WP2, Pol A+/A-, and
Micronucleus Assays.
Carcinogens: None present XEL1: 5 mg/m3 (Total Dust)
Aquatic LC50: >500 mg/l (Fathead Minnows) non-toxic
(~~~Fatheads beware of this one~~~)
POTENTIALLY IRRITATING **, NON-SENSITIZING.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: **THIS IS DUE TO THE SOLVENT
TOXICITY DATA: Negative mutagenicity (Test species: S. typhimurium)
We recommend 300 ppm maximum for 8-hour working day, 5
days week.
and my favorite:-
Inhalation of high concentration can produce central
nervous system depression which can, in turn, lead to
a loss of coordination, impaired judgement and, if
exposure is prolonged, result in stupor and
unconsciousness.
(NOW we know what's causing it...
Lets get those photocopiers and laser
printers out of our government's offices!)
If you want the complete citations, I can send netdata files to
BITNET users and Email to others (59 5-6K blocks).
Regards, Stu Beal, VE3MWM, (U009@CCIW.BITNET),
National Water Research Institute,
Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
(My opinions only... Sir?... SIR?)
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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 00:42:52 CDT
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: LCD projection system
We have Kodak DataShow and nView's MacViewFrame for about a year now.
At the time we got them there were some 6 LCD devices available and
these two were rated the best. Now there are more of them, but I
haven't seen any new ones in action, hence can't say anything about
them. Both of the ones I have work fine, although Kodak's unit is
somewhat better -- it is more true b&w, it's a bit brighter, and
seems to have better refresh rate. Both require very bright overhead
projector and are sensitive to overheating (LCD goes bananas but
we haven't had any permanent damage yet). Both are easy to use once
the video capture card is installed in the Mac (additional cards can
be bought for other Macs). The card installation is not difficult
either. The refresh rate appears to be a problem of the current
generation of LCD devices -- faster movements on the screen are
becoming jerky when projected. As far as I remember all LCD devices
sell for $1400-1700. nView has now another model which is more
advanced and works (I believe) with Mac II. Kodak's unit does not
work with Mac IIs (somebody correct me if they got a card for Mac II
by now). Overall, I do recommend Kodak Datashow.
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 15:05 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Mac Digest stack
Here is a reposting of my Mac-Digest Stack, in UnStuffed, binhexed form. It
undigestifies the Info-Mac digest, and updates the archive stack. I think the
last time I sent it it got lost in the ether.
Thanks.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/mac-digest.hqx; 98K]
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 12:19:22 EDT
From: Joe_Mullaney@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Mac Moria Bugs
RE:
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 19:27:21 CDT
>From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stan
Subject: Mac Moria Bugs
A Question: Is it possible that you are wearing a ring of Teleportation?
This is very much like carrying around a teleportation trap.
Hope this helps
-Joe
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 12:55:31 EDT
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Mac Portable battery/AC connection
> I read your summary of the Mac Portable in the info-mac digest with
> great interest. I just wondered whether the thing can be run with an
> A/C adaptor *without* having the battery in place? I'm guessing that a
> significant part of the 15 lb is in the battery, and for those of us who
> need to take a Mac on a trip, but don't need to use it on battery power,
> it would be nice if we could leave the battery behind.
>
> Paul Romaniuk,
> Biochemistry,
> University of Victoria
> PROMAN@UVVM.bitnet
Unfortunately, the battery must be place in order for the machine to run.
That is to say, you cannot run directly from the AC adaptor. You can,
however, switch batteries while the machine is on, thanks to a 9V battery
which keeps the machine up while you change the rechargeable battery.
I did not get physical specs on the battery itself, and did not handle it
either (bonehead), so I cannot give you a very good guess as to its weight.
It is about 2.5" x 3" x 4.5", and did not appear to be inordinately heavy,
but I would guess that you are correct in assuming that it accounts for a
significant portion of the machine's weight.
It would be my guess that, due to the constraints of working with a lead-acid
battery as a power source, it is unlikely that we will see any third-party
products which would allow the machine to function without the battery.
However that is a relatively *wild* (and uninformed) guess. Comments
anyone? - Gregg
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Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 5482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 09:04:45 EDT
From: kim@cs.williams.edu
Subject: Modula 2 on the Mac
We have been very pleased with MetCom Modula-2 by Metropolis Computing. It
has an integrated environment (editor, compiler, linker, source-level debugger).
While not quite as friendly an environment as MacPascal or LightSpeed Pascal
our students have had no problem learning and using the system (in great
contrast to the MPW environment!). It has very good access to toolbox
routines, and they provide some modules to make it easier to do such things
as pop up windows (of various flavors) and provide character sets. We have been
running the software on Macs with hard disks (you need the space for all of the
libraries provided), but will be running it off of an (ethertalked)
network server this fall. The documentation is very complete (although
you still need Inside Macintosh to really get into the toolbox) - my students
can dig out just about anything they need from the manual. The best news
however is the support. Metropolis has been incredibly responsive to our
questions and requests. It is easy to get them on the phone and questions
are answered very rapidly. One new piece of news is that they are coming
out with a "student pack" - compiler and abbreviated documentation. I haven't
seen it to know how complete it is, but the price is right ~$40 (the full
package is substantially more).
We had tried MacModula-2 earlier. It was incredibly slow and apparently
isn't being supported anymore. We definitely would NOT recommend it.
Kim Bruce, Department of Computer Science,
Williams College
kim@cs.williams.edu
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 20:30:45 PDT
From: POTHIERS%TUVA.SAINET.MFENET@ccc.nmfecc.gov
Subject: MS Word Postscript Headers?
I think I remember reading that MS Word sends a postscript header to the
laser writer before sending a document to be printed (for setup purposes).
Is there any way of inhibiting the sending of the header?
I want to print a non-Word postscript document but I think its getting
interference.
advTHANKSance,
Steve Pothire
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 10:56 MDT
From: DSPhillips%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: NCSA Image
There was a recent Info_Mac posting by Wayne Rashband mentioning that he
had uploaded the source code to Image 1.16. I believe he is referring
to software that originates at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We
recently received their "Anonymous FTP Source Reel" which contains
source code for a program called ImageTool 1.2. ImageTool has
apparently been revamped in C and renamed Image. Although the
documentation for Image indicates that the source is in the public
domain, it was not included on the tape we received. Does NCSA plan to
release the C source code? Could someone post it to a BITNET-accessible
archive, such as the one at Rice? Thank you.
Doug S. Phillips BITNET: DSPhillips@UNCAMULT
SuperComputing Services or DSPhillips@UNCACDC
The University of Calgary
390 - 1620, 29 St. N. W. Phone: (403)-221-8907
Calgary, AB, Canada
T2N 4L7
[To clear up any confusion, the archive at Rice is a shadow of the Sumex
archive: it contains our files, and only our files. There is an automatic
program which runs every night to maintain the linkage. In order to get a
file onto the archive there, you have to send it to the regular address
here at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. The same goes for MACSERVE@PUCC and the
European IRLEARN, two other Bitnet-accessible shadows. -Bill]
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 15:06:44 EDT
From: eric%bnrmtl@iro.umontreal.ca (Eric Brunelle)
Subject: Problems with 2400bps modem
I'm trying to connect a Packard Bell 2400bps modem to my 512E Mac.
I can't even get echo from the modem when I type a command to it
>From the Mac, although the RD LED lights at every one of my keystrokes.
What's wrong with my connection?
The Mac is an original 128K (I was an early believer!) upgraded to 512
and then to 512E. I bought the cable yesterday evening from the biggest
Mac store in Canada (Micros-Boutique in Montreal), and it was supposed
to work!
I guess it's a very simple problem, but it's still frustrating!
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Eric Brunelle | "C'est la nuit qu'il est beau de croire a la lumiere."
BNR-Montreal | -- E. Rostand
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1989 10:40:41 EDT
From: LYONS@scri1.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Lyons)
Subject: Problem with auto log-on in AppleShare
We have been having a problem at our site with the automatic log on feature
of AppleShare. The problem is that when a user tries to set automatic log
on from the volume selection dialog box in Chooser, an alert says, "The
AppleShare Prep file needed some minor repairs. Some startup information
may be lost." The file it then creates is garbage compared to a prep file
that works; the former just has a dozen or so (non-text) bytes and the
latter has some sort of structure which includes plain-text strings for the
user name and password, the zone(s), and volume name(s). Where did we get
a prep file that works, you ask? Well, we have have Mac IIs which all have
Apple's EtherTalk board and Mac Pluses on LocalTalk; a Kinetics FastPath
bridges the two. Turns out this problem was only occurring on the IIs; on
the Plusses, it works fine. (We are using System 6.0.3, EtherTalk 1.2, and
AppleShare 2.0.1 on all machines.) Hold on, it gets wierder. Further
investigation showed that if a Mac II was switched over to LocalTalk,
AppleShare then created a good prep file! We also found you could create a
good prep file on a Plus and then copy it into the System Folder of a II on
the Ethernet, and it would work correctly; however, if you tried to change
the startup information, the prep file would be garbaged again.
The problems apparantly started when we reconfigured the server volumes.
We noticed that after the change, users who had been using the automatic
log on feature with just the name being saved would get the dialog box
during boot-up asking for their password; they would enter it, but after
boot-up, no server volume would be mounted. In looking at these prep files
we discovered, interestingly, that the prep file kept information about
previous configurations of the server; we saw in them names of test servers
we had set up briefly, and volumes that had existed some time in the past
but were no longer present.
We have reported this problem to Apple Tech Support via our local Apple
S.E. If I find out what's going on, I'll post it. In the meantime, if
anyone can corroborate this problem or has any information or ideas about
this, please let me know or post it to the net.
Jim Lyons \ Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
904/644-4274 \ Florida State University
lyons@gw.scri.fsu.edu \ Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052
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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 02:07:14 -0900
From: "DANIEL K LASOTA" <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Red Ryder command language
Hi Everyone!
Is there anyone out there who has done work with the command
language of Red Ryder 10.3?
I was interested in automating remote dial ins to a host mac.
Maybe we could post a few example com files in the archives.
Thanks
Dan
Disclaimer: Disclaimers not needed.
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 09:18:29 PDT
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: ShowDialog1.4 XCMD stack
What follows is a share ware stack with an XCMD for putting up
modeless dialogs in HyperCard. The author is Jay Hodgson.
Paul Romaniuk
PROMAN@UVVM.bitnet
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd/showdialog-14.hqx; 131K]
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Date: 1 Sep 89 10:50:00 EDT
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.ceee.nist.gov>
Subject: Speeding up an SE/030
I am considering the purchase of an SE/030 and upgrades of existing SE's to
the 030 motherboard. I believe that the SE/030 runs at 16 mhz with 120 nsec
ram, therefore needing 2 wait states on the memory. Since fast (70-80 nsec)
ram is now ~$110/meg, I am wondering if there is any way to swap the memory
on the SE/030 motherboard, install the faster ram and reduce the wait states?
If anyone has info on this I will repost replies to infomac.
Related question: The SE/030 does not come (I think) in a 2 floppy version.
If I upgrade a 2 floppy SE do I still have use of both floppies? I much
prefer 2 internal floppies and an external hard disc to a configuration with
an internal hard disc.
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 18:57:20 PDT
From: xanadu!grand-central!bob@uunet.uu.net (Bob Schumaker -- "Software-in-a-bucket")
Subject: TransSkel25.sit.hqx
In the wake of the recent rash of messages looking for modifications
to TransSkel, here is a new version of TransSkel. This version (which
is not officially blessed by Paul DuBois) is now multifinder friendly,
supports the multifinder cursor region, support pull-right menus, and
comes complete with a test program that demonstrates the new features!
This version is set up for MPW C 3.0 and has not been tested with LsC
in a looong time.
Enjoy!
Bob Schumaker The AMIX Corporation
2345 Yale, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Addresses: bob@xanadu.com, {hoptoad,uunet,apple,sun}!xanadu!bob
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/transskel-modified.hqx; 125K]
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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 09:30:21 CDT
From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Venda-Card Systems for Mac Output Devices
Howdy!!
I am looking for information on how to hook up a Venda-card system to our Mac
output devices. For those of you who don't know what this is, I shall try to
elaborate:
A Venda-Card is a small card issued from a machine that has a magnetic strip
with an ammount of money encoded on it. This card can be placed into a reader
attached to any machine that normally might take coinage (say a copy machine)
and used in place of loose change. Once the card is out of money, then you can
re-insert it into the vending machine, add a $1 or $5 bill, and have that much
credit added to the card.
I have seen a few references in the past to accademic computing sites having
this attached to their laserweriters and would like for anyone who might know
about this to send information back to me.
Thank you,
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