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I copy relevant articles like this and post'em on local BBSes. Not
everyone has newsgroup access. ;-)
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Thomas Kelley Boylan, PowerPC, IBM Austin, kelleyb@austin.ibm.com | 3 |
4,261 | So I finally decided to risk this upgrade, FAQ in hand I've gathered the
pieces together. The only problem is that I haven't been able to find
anyone who's even heard of thermal tape/glue (which is what the FAQ
recommends for attaching the heat sink) I am just tempted to use duct
tape here.... anyone hae any ideas fo... | 3 |
5,512 | Alltronics in San Jose (408) 943-9773 sells the Votrax Sc-01 Speech Synthesis
chip for about $5.00. Also I noticed that Radio Shack sells the ISD chip which
will store small amounts of digitized speech. | 3 |
3,393 | Computer Equipment Garage Sale:
I've finally decided to clean out my closets and get rid of some of the stuff
that is broken or not being used by me. I've put together a list and
indicated what I think each item is worth. This is just my estimate, and I
am very open to any offers, including trades. I'm currently lo... | 3 |
2,866 | i need to know about the market for cellular antenna
technology today... who are the main companies in the
market.. how much are they selling them for? who are the
contact people? what are the specs?
I will mail oyou our reserach so far if youcan help us!!
| 3 |
1,023 | Hello
I recently accelerated my Mac Plus (MicroMac 25MHz accelerator)
and now I can't get my Mac to boot off of the hard disk. It boots fine
from a floppy, and I can mount the hard disk using SCSI probe, but I
cannot get it to boot from the hard drive. I installed a new driver, so I
don't think that is the probl... | 3 |
1,907 | <lots of stuff deleted>
Might depend on where you live .. I know locally, for most of the winter
the ground, and concrete floor, within sheds and garages (unheated) is
signifacantly warmer than the average air temperature. The air does get
warmer during the day, but during the night, the ground and concrete
is defin... | 3 |
7,064 |
Wrong, the CD300 (external) is just a plain ol' SCSI device.
No, multisession capability and double speed are two different thing. Its just
that the newer CD ROM drives have both capability. Multisession means that
when you put more pictures on a photo CD after the first session, the drive can
read and displ... | 3 |
4,062 | Article: 41686 of sci.electronics
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: news.nd.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!asuvax!ennews!mcdphx!schuch
From: schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch)
Subject: Food Dehydrators
Message-ID: <1993Apr19.154356.17880@phx.mcd.mot.com>
Sender:... | 3 |
3,145 | In light of the 100 letter over "What was the LISA" I thought I'd start a
new one. What was the IIvx? I hear it was some machine that predated the
main 040 line by about 6 mos, but used obsolete tech. Rumor has it that
several were sold....
| 3 |
6,002 |
You are quite correct in your understanding. The filtering is not
interpolation, as that would distort the frequency content of the signal
you are listening to. Generally, these players run the samples thru an
all-pass filter network. I have done this for ECG waveforms from a person's
heart, and the effect is rath... | 3 |
4,580 | I don't know much about phones in Germany, but this is what I know: I bought
a phone in the U.S. for my mother who lives in Bratislava, Slovakia and it
works just fine. The problem is they don't have wall jacks like we do here.
There is a wire without any jack at the end sticking out of the wall. So you
need to connect... | 3 |
2,134 | For Sale:
Minolta Master Series-C50 VHS-C Camcorder Forsale
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Multidimensional Autofocus System
6x power zoom
Charge coupled device
Dual-area autoexposure system (for backlit subjects)
High-speed digital shutter 1/1000 sec
Dual Mode Self Timer
Date/time insert
L... | 3 |
1,045 | My school is settinÿûg up a new network with bothe Macs and Apple II's. I'm
used to ethernet, and don't know muÿch about LocalTalk. Two things: first,
in MacWherehouse, btheÿy have PowerUser network connectors, and the caption
leads you to belÿûieve that you can plug them into the phone lines in the
building and hav... | 3 |
483 | I am upgrading my hard drive so I am selling this 40 M drive, it run
great, without any problem, for $90 and share the shipping. | 3 |
5,400 | :
: So what's the story here... we're all stuck with the regular
: green, red, and off yellow-orange LED's!? What gives!!??
: Anybody have a 'scoop' on FAIRLY LOW PRICED >BLUE< LED's???
If your looking for LEDs in the $.10-$.20 range, forget it. Blue LEDs just
recently became available and the mater... | 3 |
7,229 | stem
I
I've had the same experience actually. I love the Mac interface and any number
of the features, but am sorely dissapointed with the speed. I use macs daily
and am a Moc consultant for OSU Statistics department; I'm familiar with almost
every model out there, and my experience is that both the Amiga and the A... | 3 |
5,562 | completed
Why would you dispose a channel if you are going to play more
sounds soon? If you are trying to write a game, you shouldn't
be using SndPlay. Instead, make a channel and use BufferCmds
to play sounds on it. It works great. You can add CallBacks to
the channel also to let you know when the channel is getting
... | 3 |
2,934 | I am selling the following sets of comics. Listed are the guide
prices (Overstreet, or Comics Values Monthly or Wizard if I couldn't
find it in Overstreet) as well as my price.
Feel free to ask me about single items from the sets, as I often have
extra copies of some of the items in the set.
All comics are Near Mi... | 3 |
2,658 | Panasonic KX-P2124 24-pin Dot Matrix Printer
-320 cps
-1/127 in. dot diameter
-16-character LCD
-Super Quiet Mode
-Draft, Letter Quality, Super Letter Quality Fonts
-Rear, Bottom, Front, or Top paper feeding (Friction or Tractor)
-Color compatible (needs optional Color Kit)
-includes Windows 3.1 Panasonic printer dri... | 3 |
5,244 | One way Omaha to Seattle
ticket in my name [Jessamyn West]
for travel 5/9. Must be picked up at Omaha airport [or thereabouts]
on 5/6. Continental Airlines. Make me an offer. | 3 |
2,944 | Sorry, this must be a FAQ, but it's a quick fix that I need to take care of
before a demo in less than 24 hours from now! Couldn't think of a better place
for a rapid answer than comp.sys.mac.hardware.
I need to connect the Serial A of a Compac 386/20 PC to the printer port of a
Mac IIci. Does anyone have handy ... | 3 |
1,361 | Hi Netters.
For my home computer I have a humble MacLC with a 12" color monitor.
The majority of my work is writing, therefore I would love to have
a b&w portrait monotor conected to the LC. However, I sometimes do need
the color monitor.
My question is this;
Is there a good (Cheap) way to hook up two monitors to ... | 3 |
6,843 |
When will people learn!
The trouble is the ballast in the concrete and as every fool knows Ballast
resistors are used to discharge batteries. Furthermore it is very silly to
store the battery with the terminals downwards as you must have done to
contact the ballast.
Seriously: self discharge (the actual problem,... | 3 |
5,955 |
Larger drives tend to have multipule platters which can allow adjacent
bits to be read in parallel resulting in higher throughput. They also
have higher spindle speeds which leads to both increased throughput and
reduced seek times (due to reduction of rotational latency.) | 3 |
252 |
No. I recently bought an LC II with a 14" monitor. The monitor comes with
the type of power cable that plugs into the switched outlet on the back of
most larger Macs. Since the LC II doesn't have one of these outlets, there
was an extra standard power cable included with the computer for use with
the monitor. But ... | 3 |
4,582 |
Close, but no cigar. The LISA was introduced in January, 1983 (at the
same time as the Apple //e). I'll have to check to see if the Hard
Drive came bundled for the $10K. The floppy drives were 5.25"
initially (the infamous "twiggy" drives)
| 3 |
1,809 |
Nope. I keep my Mac running all the time since it also acts as a
usenet node and exchanges mail and news every half hour (I run uAccess)
and receives all my faxes.
I do turn off the monitors hooked up to it. They produce more heat
than I want - it can be warm in my garage office in the summer. I've
got one of thos... | 3 |
3,659 | I am running System 7.1 on a Centris 610. I have not been able to setup my
printer yet because when I open Chooser, I get a blank screen. I do have all
kinds of print drivers but none shows up. I even do not get a port iconn
either. It is just one big BLANK screen.
Your help is very appreciated.
BTW I did rebuild the... | 3 |
2,599 | 3 | |
5,478 |
Maybe you should contact your schools officials and make
them consider installing the necessary softwares or hardwares that
allows the Unix works stations to shuts off its monitor when
left untouched. It does save a lot of energy.
- Chung Yang | 3 |
3,496 | THe origional bit is missing but long/short follows:
The origional poster asked if he/she could use any old vga/svga
monitor with a centris (hence title).
The answer ot this question is an unqualified yes. You can use any
old vga/svga monitor with a centris. You do need an adaptor (I use a
Mac vga-q from ... | 3 |
2,475 |
The first step is to make sure that there is no DC component, intentional
or not, on the audio lines to be switched. If neither the output or
input presents an unintentional DC level (let's say they're capacitively
coupled), then putting a 22 K resistor from each input to ground, and
from the output to ground is a goo... | 3 |
327 |
Oh, yeah. This is a fine place. We haven't had the "why does concrete
kill lead-acid batteries" thread in at least six months.
The concrete simply sucks all the electrons out of the battery and drains
them into the ground.
Another explanation, implausible as it is, is that the lead-acid battery
needs to be perio... | 3 |
5,270 | o Sony Color Watchman, model FDL-310
- VHF/UHF
- 86,400 pixels; 2.7 inch (diag) screen
- dimensions 3 3/8" x 6 1/8" x 1 3/16"
- bright, vibrant colors, and very sharp (unlike the Casio pocket TVs)
- AC power adapter
- paid $300.00
Asking $150.00 obo
| 3 |
7,049 | [ ... Useful info about the Maxtor drive deleted ... ]
However, Thad, you should note that he said that he would like to
use it on a 'PC', not 'UNIX-PC'. Also note the strange cross-posting (as he
probably did not), so it is not sure exactly what sort of machine he intends
to mount it on. If it *is* a PC (or clon... | 3 |
5,371 | Acetone will likely damage the carpet. First solvent to try is denatured
alcohol. Do not waste your time with rubbing alcohol. You can use methyl
alcohol instead of denatured alcohol. If you want to have a cocktail while
you are removing the goo, use pure grain alcohol :-). If the alcohol does
not work try carbon tetra... | 3 |
4,704 | 3 | |
5,246 |
True enough, but...
Zilog SCC:
---------
RR0[7]: Break Detect
This is a very popular part, but it has a number of quirks, especially
in HDLC mode.
Signetics 68562 DUSCC:
---------------------
RSR[2]: Break Start Detect
RSR[3]: Break End Detect
Two of the bits in the Receiver Status Register. You can enable... | 3 |
3,665 |
Here's something to add to the discussion:
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: "James P. Reynolds" <jpr1@lehigh.edu>
Subject: When you're not using it, turn it off!
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 06:50:14 GMT
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Research has shown that the majority of the time that the United
States' 30 to 35 million persona... | 3 |
2,808 |
Yes, it does.
All the equipment has to have that Telekom approval number to be
legal.
What has changed is that you can buy the equipment somewhere else.
I'm pretty sure the same holds true in Sweden (at least when I read
some information on it about tweo years ago).
And BTW I do know that most of the lines in Sweden ... | 3 |
265 |
It's possible to make boards in other colors, and I have an ad
for laser light-show equipment which offers the circuit boards in your
choice of Day-Glo (tm) colors.
The usual light green color is just the natural color of Fiberglas.
The dark green or blue is the solder mask layer, and I suspect that col... | 3 |
2,460 |
Greetings. There are 3 types of warnings on (US) tapes:
1) A hologram is glued across the seam of the 2 halves of the
tape. The message usually reads, "If seal is broken, you must
buy this tape"
2) The standard "MacroVision" warning, "Copies of this tape will
be unviewable"
3) [your case] Extended m... | 3 |
2,184 | I'm currently trying to select which magneto-optical drive to purchase. I'm
primarily looking at 128MB drives, although I might consider 256MB ones.
When looking through MacWorld and MacUser ads, the prices for the 128MB drives
seem to range from just under $1000 (for the DGR 128REM Portable, Magic 128MB
Portable Fuj... | 3 |
1,758 | Have anyone dealt with "Hardware that Fits" before. I have seen
their ad in both MacWorld and MacUser and decided to try them
when I needed a new disk. The result was not satisfactory and
I was just wondering if I was just an isolated case.
I like to send a letter to the president of "Hardware that Fits".
... | 3 |
2,498 | I am not a company, thus this is not a commercial sale.
I purchased 256 T-shirts last fall for a fund raiser that fell through.
We didn't have the time to sell the shirts. I have about 175 shirts
left and I am willing to sell them to you for $5.25 a piece (more than a
dollar discount of what you would have paid th... | 3 |
3,017 |
yeah, but most of those are Big Hulking Mainframes which have no monitors.
factoid : FAbricated or Corrupted Tidbit of Ordinary Information (Diluted)
ok
dpm | 3 |
5,236 |
...
Yes, that is what it sounds like to me, too. But before I spend
da bucks, I want to make sure I'm right. I do have e-mail from
a (self-confessed :-) Apple-hater listing a few common problems
with the C610, but nothing I can't get fixed under warranty.
So, anybody else? Great or lousy? | 3 |
912 |
Anyone know if there is an updated driver for Sony DAT drives? I can't
get mine to work with our 950 (see "Sony DAT / Retrospect Problems"
posted in this group) but I'm also having problems with other new macs...
Cheers, Matt.
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4,557 |
More than Talk: From the FCC Rules: 73.4250 Subliminal Perception:
(a) See Public Notice, FCC 74-78, dated January 24, 1974, 44 FCC 2d, 1016; 39
Fr 3714, January 29, 1974.
(b) See FCC Information Bulletin, "Subliminal Projection" (sic, at least in my
rules service copy of the rules), dated November 1977.
Since I d... | 3 |
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