Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Jon Pugh and Lance Nakata) (09/24/88)
INFO-MAC Digest Saturday, 24 Sep 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 91
Today's Topics:
Summary responses to laboratory equipment interfaces query
Virus Conviction
MAC+ and Dot Matrix Printers
Connecting a DEC TK50 cartridge tape to a Mac (II)
New Jasmine Disk drives, tape units
MIDI interface
ChooseCDEV
MACSERVE@IRLEARN
MacKermit question
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #123
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #124
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #125
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 88 16:12 MET
From: Thomas Fruin <FRUIN%HLERUL5.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Summary responses to laboratory equipment interfaces query
Several weeks ago I asked the net about laboratory interfacing equipment
for Mac Pluses, SEs and IIs. I would like to thank those that replied:
Robert J. Brenstein, Kathy Brown, Julian Gomez, CB Lih, Hugh Murray,
Lauri S. Pirttiaho, and Tero Siili. Thanks!
I have grouped the comments and suggestions I received by manufactorer.
At the end of this article I include a list of the addresses of all
these manufactorers (plus a few of which I only have the address).
NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
====================
National Instruments seems to be the "largest". They say under hw
requirements, "Any Mac with at least 1mb memory and a hard disk.
2Mbs is recommended".
Kathy S Brown <KATHY@BROWNVM.BITNET>
The best supply of Control, Data Acquisition and Analysis hardware
and supporting software, I know, is National Instruments. For Macintosh
SE and + they offer:
- GPIB-MAC : a adapter between RS232 serial port and GPIB bus
- MacBus : an SCSI device to control GPIB bus and drive
PC AT compatible interface cards
- GPIB-SE : SE internal GPIB controller card with MC68881 FPA
"Lauri S. Pirttiaho" <SO-LP@FINOU.BITNET>
National Instruments in Austin, Texas makes GPIB interfaces. They also
market LabView, which is a nicely designed and sophisticated program
for dealing with collections of sample points. Phone numbers on the
catalog are 800/531-4742 and 512/250-9119 and FAX 512/250-0382.
julian@riacs.EDU (Dr. Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez)
National Intruments has three hardware products for Plus & SE:
- GPIB-MAC
- GPIB-SE(several versions)
- MacBUS(expansion chassis for PC/AT cards)
They may also have an expansion chassis for NuBus cards, don't know
about that. There should be an National Instruments distributor
in Netherlands.
LabVIEW is the graphics-based programming package by NI, worth checking|
Some references:
Vose M. G., Williams G.: LabVIEW: Laboratory Virtual Instrument
Engineering Workbench. Byte, Sept. 1986.
SChreier, Paul G.: Groundbreaking icon-driven language handles data
analysis, 488 interfacing. Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News,
March 1987.
Tero Siili <FYS-TS@FINHUT>
An impressive software-package for data-aquisition and -analysis. Esy to use
but you need some expensive hardware. -AND it has some silly software protec
tion sceme, with a 'key' that plugs into ADB. (I've had one failure in a middle
of an importent project).BUT it is still a very good system.
Robert J. Brenstein (618) 453-5721 x 227 GA0095 at SIUCVMB
STRAWBERRY TREE COMPUTERS
=========================
Strawberry Tree Computers does have stuff listed for SEs for analog input.
Kathy S Brown <KATHY@BROWNVM.BITNET>
Strawberry Tree Computers sells a line of A/D and D/A cards for the Mac SE. I
have not used these, but I have used their products successfully on a Mac II.
Hugh Murray (murray.xrcc-NS@Xerox.COM)
INTERNATIONAL DATA ACQUISITION + CONTROL, INC.
==============================================
A U.S. company called International Data Acquisition + Control, Inc. has
a series of front-end boxes, which are attached to the modem port. They
have four models of front ends.
Tero Siili <FYS-TS@FINHUT>
IOTECH
======
A product named MacSCSI488 provides IEE488 control via the SCSI port. It seems
to be reasonable priced, and comes with a handy DA for setting up instruments
(I have not tried it out, but will probably go for this next time). It also
ships with Parameter Manager Plus, an analysis package. This software has a
lot of features, BUT it is not very user-friendly (A ported IBM-product).
Robert J. Brenstein (618) 453-5721 x 227 GA0095 at SIUCVMB
MACVEE
======
Re your posting on the above subject, are you familiar with the MacVEE
system developed at CERN, which allows Pluses and SEs (as well as Mac IIs)
to be interfaced to CAMAC and VME?
If not, I'll be happy to send you some documentation. (Is that a full
postal address in your article?).
Bruce Taylor <taylor@cernvax>
List of addresses:
National Instruments
12109 Technology Blvd
Austin, TX 78727
USA
phone 800-531-4742
or
National Instruments' Dutch sales office:
C. N. Rood B.V.
Cort v.d. Linderstraat 11-13
Postbus 42
2280 AA Rijswijk
phone: 070 996360
Fax 070 905740.
Strawberry Tree Computers
160 S. Wolfe Rd
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
USA
phone 408-736-3083
Remote Measurement Systems, Inc
2633 Eastlake Ave. E, Ste. 200
Seattle, WA 98102
USA
phone: 206-328-2255
Metaresearch, Inc
1211 SW 5th Ave, Ste. 2860
Portland, OR 97204
USA
phone 503-228-5806
IOtech, Inc
25971 Cannon Rd
Cleveland, OH 44146
USA
phone 216-439-4091
International Data Acquisition and Control, Inc.
Four Limbo Lane
P.O. Box 397
Amherst, NH 03031
USA
phone: 603-673-0765
-- Thomas Fruin
fruin@hlerul5.BITNET University of Leiden
thomas@uvabick.UUCP University of Amsterdam
hol0066.AppleLink
2:512/114.FidoNet (MacSaga Motherboard) The Netherlands
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Date: Wed 21 Sep 88 19:53:48-PDT
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@LEAR.STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: Virus Conviction
COMPUTER VIRUS CONVICTION MAY BE A FIRST
San Francisco Chronicle, 9/21/88
Fort Worth
A former programmer has been convicted of placing a computer "virus" in his
employer's system that wiped out 168,000 payroll records two days after he was
fired.
Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Davis McCown said yesterday that
he believes that he is the first prosecutor in the nation to have someone
convicted for destroying computer records using a "virus."
A virus is a computer program, often hidden in apparently normal computer
software, that instructs the computer to change or destroy information at a
given time or after a certain sequence of commands.
"We've had people stealing through computers but not this type of case,"
McCown said. "The basis for this offense is deletion."
Donald Gene Burleson, 40, was convicted Monday of charges of harmful access
to a computer, a felony that carries up to 10 years in prison and up to $5,000
in fines.
A key to the case was the fact that State District Judge John Bradshaw
allowed the computer program that deleted the files to be introduced as
evidence, McCown said. It would have been difficult to get a conviction
otherwise, he said.
The jury deliberated six hours before bringing back the first conviction
under the state's 3-year-old computer sabotage law.
Burleson planted the virus in revenge for his firing from an insurance
company, McCown said.
Jurors were told during a sometimes technically complicated three-week trial
that Burleson planted a rogue program in the computer system used to store
records at USPA and IRA Co., a Fort Worth insurance and brokerage firm.
The virus, McCown said, was activated on Sept. 21, 1985, two days after
Burleson was fired as a computer programmer because of alleged personality
conflicts with other employees.
"There were [sic] a series of programs built into the system as early as
Labor Day (1985)," McCown said. "Once he got fired, those programs went off."
The virus was discovered two days later, after it had eliminated 168,000
payroll records, holding up company paychecks for more than a month. The
virus could have caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to the
system had it continued, McCown said.
Brodie Lockard
I.ISIMO@LEAR.STANFORD.EDU
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 88 19:07 CDT
From: <8004SLB%MUCSD.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> (Sandy Berger)
Subject: MAC+ and Dot Matrix Printers
I am about to be a new MAC+ owner and have a question that hopefully is not
too stupid. Are there public domain/shareware/commercial printer drivers that
allow a Mac to print text and graphics (from programs such as MacPaint,
Pagemaker, etc.) to non-Apple printers? I already have an Okidata ML93 printer
and would like to use its graphics capabilities if possible.
Please respond directly to me as I am not currently subscribed to this list.
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 88 19:46 EDT
From: Peter Szolovits <psz@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Connecting a DEC TK50 cartridge tape to a Mac (II)
We have had the {interesting, silly, brain-dead} idea of hooking one of
our existing DEC TK50Z-FA cartridge tape drives to a Mac II as a way of
backing up/archiving large amounts of data. This is a SCSI device, and
is in fact recognized as such by various Mac utilities. We don't seem
to have, however, an appropriate driver that can make use of this tape
drive; the DataStream driver for the "standard" 40MB cart tapes (our
version came with DiskFit 1.41) certainly doesn't do it. Has anyone had
experience with this particular idea, or have any notions of where to
get useful info? Thanks. --Peter Szolovits
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Date: 23 Sep 88 00:20 EST
From: STERRITT%SDEVAX.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
Subject: New Jasmine Disk drives, tape units
Hello,
I'm just getting back to the net after a long absense, so if this
has been discussed already, please feel free to mail me pointers to what
was said.
After an EXTREMELY frustrating time getting two CMS SD60 external
drives for my plus, to replace my Jasmine 20meg, and having BOTH BREAK,
the first within three days, the second within six HOURS, I'm going to bite
the bullet, pay the extra cash, and go back to buying Jasmine.
Maybe!
These frustrations have made me wary; I understand that Jasmine
is using new types of drives and new software since I bought my 20 well
over a year ago (and let me say in passing, it's given me _perfect_ service --
NO crashes, no lost data, not even a sector lost to reformatting!).
Particularly, has anyone gotten the new 70 meg drive, and used it
extensively? That's the model I'd like to get. I'd really appreciate getting
mail about this, as I'd like to get it soon, but any info (i.e., postings,
etc.) would be very much appreciated.
I'm also thinking of getting their tape backup unit; how good is
it? Have you used one? Did it work, and work well? With what software?
Does it work with the new drives as well (or better) than the old ones?
thank you very much,
chris sterritt
sterritt%sdevax.decnet@ge-crd.arpa on arpa
c.sterritt on GEnie
csterritt on Delphi
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 88 01:10:58 EDT
From: "Robert W. Kerns" <RWK@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Subject: MIDI interface
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 88 14:37 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
...the dealer wants approx $100 for what I believe is only a cable.
Where can I find that information?
It's not just a cable. It's a small box with a power supply and a cable
which plugs into your serial port. (You will may also need a MIDI cable
to go between the interface and the synth, but probably you got one of
those with your synth, your interface, or both).
$100 is about right for the lower-end of MIDI interfaces. You can get a
bit cheaper, probably around $80 or so at Mac Connection, for example.
(I'd check, but it's midnight here). The MacConnection is definitely
better than waiting for your dealer. If you order when you get this you
can have the thing the next day.
More advanced (and expensive) MIDI interfaces provide features like
synchronizing with timing tracks on multi-track tape decks &
professional video recorders. For your setup, I would just buy the
cheapest; save your money and if you need something more advance
someday, wait until you know more about MIDI and SMPTE. (Unless you
already have a multitrack recording studio, that is).
More important than what MIDI interface you get is what software you
get. For basic MIDI communication any MIDI interface will work. But
all sequencers and all patch editor/librarians are not created equal.
You can spend up to $1000 on music editing software (I just recieved
my copy of Finale today).
For more information, you should go to the music store where you
bought your synth and have a look at their selection of MIDI basic
books. While you can usually just "plug in and go" with simple MIDI
setups like what you'll be starting with, a little more information
will give you a clearer idea of what you can and cannot do. While you're
there, tell them what price range you're interested in, and get them to
demonstrate the various Macintosh programs. If they're quite helpful
and you think they'll provide you with good support in getting started,
buy your software there. Otherwise buy it from MacConnection. Under no
circumstance buy it from a Computer Dealer; by the time you get this far
you'll know more about MIDI than most computer dealers.
Subscribe to Keyboard magazine, and perhaps also Electronic Musician.
If you're really serious, you might also want to get MIX magazine, which will
teach you a lot about recording tecyhnology, etc.
I don't know how regularly I'll be reading this list in the immediate
future, but I'm sure there are lots of other MIDI experts on this list.
Compuserve also has an entire section on MIDI. There may even be a MIDI
list floating around on this network somewhere.
This should get you started. Once you get started, you'll find it a lot
easier to find this kind of thing out. Happy MIDIng!
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 88 23:56 EDT
From: DB8Y@VAX5.CCS.CORNELL.EDU
Subject: ChooseCDEV
I believe this is a CDEV that allows one to choose the order in which CDEVs
apepar in the Control Panel. Could someone please post it or send it to
me at DB8Y@CRNLVAX5?
Thank you.
-Ross Rubin
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 88 11:16 UT+2
From: "MARKS@HDETUD53.bitnet" <MARKS%HDETUD53.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: MACSERVE@IRLEARN
Those of you in Europe who have been suffering from the lack of new files
on MACSERVE@IRLEAN for the last few months will be happy to know that it has
finally been updated.
Roger
MARKS@HDETUD53
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 88 12:07:20 CST
From: Phys300%UNLCDC3.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: MacKermit question
I am using MacKermit 0.9 to access a VMS VAX. I want to use my
Mac+ keypad for the EDT editor, but all I get are numbers - not
commands. How do I turn on the keypad for the editor? This is
standard VT100 stuff, so I must be missing something easy.
Thanks,
Glenn Sowell
PHYS300@UNLCDC.BITNET
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Date: Mon 19 Sep 88 09:30:22-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #123
Usenet Mac Digest Friday, September 16, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 123
Today's Topics:
Re: Shareware charges
Re: Syquest cartridge disk problem
When and how fast will SIMM prices fall?
Re: Syquest cartridge disk problem
Re: Shareware charges
Paul Mercer's SCSI Cdev
Re: Shareware charges (VISA/MC)
insert direction-for text. Advice please.
Re: Databases: distributed vs. monolithic file structure (was Re: FoxBase)
Re: Superpaint 2.0 vs. Canvas 2.0
Re: Where is specs for TIFF format?
Re: Mac<->D-Size Plotter interface?
Is there a MacPlus Keyboard with a Control Key?
Desktop icon mask
Smart Quote conversion DA?
Mac Expo Report (part 2 of ?)- Networking & Communications
Obtaining the BALSA-II system?
Re: Think C 3.0 Bug?
Re: Highlight "OK" buttons
Rotation of a Bit-Mapped Graphic Object
Re: LSC almost gets it right.
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Date: Mon 19 Sep 88 09:31:06-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #124
Usenet Mac Digest Friday, September 16, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 124
Today's Topics:
LSC prototypes & ANSI
Re: MIDILisp for the Mac??
Re: insert direction-for text. Advice p
Anti-glare filters?
Backup devices (150MB cassettes and DC600s)
Re: Long pause using Berkeley networking
Scheme for the Mac?
Re: Desktop icon mask
Re: editing cursor bar disapears !
A useful little desk accessory
SIMM pinout
Re: What to do for mail?
Re: LSC prototypes & ANSI
Re: Hilight "OK" buttons -- standard filter
Full screen drawing and Appleshare?
offscreen PixMaps and GDevices
Re: shareware cheques, mcsink da
Re: SUM ( HD Partition )
Re: DeskCheck and LaserWriter (was Re: Problem copying files ...)
Re: Apple price increases
CDEF's and Control Manager
MPW wish list item
fast file system?
a/ux floppy product info
NeXT & IBM (NYT 9/13/88)
Icon view vert. offset of 32 kills Finder
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Date: Mon 19 Sep 88 09:31:46-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #125
Usenet Mac Digest Friday, September 16, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 125
Today's Topics:
Astronomy Software - Request for Information
Re: Apple Gets Greedier (Read it and Weep!)
Re: Dialogs in INITS (LSC3)
List Manager in DA's
Re: CDEF's and Control Manager
Re: Parameterizable INITs (was:Dialogs in INITS (LSC3)) (2 messages)
Re: MPW wish list item
Another vote for full stack frames in LSC debugger
Re: MPW wish list item
Re: Dialogs in INITS (LSC3)
Re: Apple Gets Greedier (Read it and Weep!)
Card to connect 800K Mac Drive to IBM PC
SuperMac tape backup drives
StartupScreen to Desktop picture?
FullWrite and Theses
Re: Medical Program for Mac...
Re: SuperPaint arrowheads?
The Blue Solution to the : Apple price increase
Re: StartupScreen to Desktop picture?
Re: HD20 Advice requested
NuBus interrupts - how long of pulse?
Re: Superpaint and MicroPhone
Re: HD Partition INIT-How does it work?
Segment Loader and Related Questions (2 messages)
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