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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <12797864532834@digifix.com> Date: 1 Jun 1997 03:57:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <26791865137630@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: lance@chimp.org (Lancelot Link) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT MegaPixel 17" -> Macintosh Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 16:25:10 -0500 Organization: Secret Chimp Message-ID: <lance-0106971625100001@192.163.1.5> References: <lance-3005971713230001@192.163.1.5> <EB1us2.7ov@nidat.sub.org> In article <EB1us2.7ov@nidat.sub.org>, Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de wrote: > > I'd like to hook a MegaPixel 17" to a Mac; does anyone have a pointer > > to, say, a company that makes an adapter? > > > The monochrome NeXT monitor has no own power supply. It can't be operated > apart from the NeXT system unit. My fault--I should have specified that it's the color monitor, model N4001, which has a switchable power-in and a fuse socket. So: Does anyone make a NeXt-Mac monitor cable adapter? Thanks again.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Printer for NeXT Message-ID: <EB3n7L.832@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5mq87a$rim$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 13:38:09 GMT In article <5mq87a$rim$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> parrenne@venus.ecoledoc.ibp.fr writes: > Hello, > Can i connect an LaserWriter on my "pizza box" 6840 NeXtStation, > with an Apple cable minidin<->minidin: > on the printer -> AppleTalk (mini-8-din) > on the NeXT -> Serial port A or B. > No, pinout is slightly different. You need a custom cable. Refer to the manpage on 'zs' for the actual pinout of black hardware. And the AppleTalk input of the Printer won't do either. You'd have to connect to the serial input. As a consequence the transfer of data would be about four times slower! Conclusion: can be done, but needs a soldering iron and a good knowledge of the serial line protocol. A strong set of neves would be helpful, also ;-) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Tweaking Intel display performance... Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 20:24:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970601201814.29515I-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am wondering what I can do (if anything) to improve my display performance under 4.1... I'm using a Mitsubishi DiamondPro 87TXM with a Matrox Millenium with 4MB VRAM (PCI) Configure.app shows 'Matrox MGA2064W' under 'Display' DMA channel = none Port address = none Mapped Memory = none Display mode: Height 864 Width 1152 Refresh 90MHz Colorspace: RGB 888/32 PCI location Dev:18 Func0 Bus:0 I don't know what other sys info might be helpful..... Just want to make things as 'tweaked' as possible.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: "Jeffrey S. Flowers" <dagdagh@exis.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SoundBlaster 16 PnP Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 06:46:00 +0100 Organization: EYE Productions Message-ID: <33925E18.8FB8753F@exis.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I installed NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a Micron Millenia Pro2 with an intergrated SB16 and NS can't see it. I'm using the lated drivers from the NeXT Answers section of NeXT's website. I do have PnP enabled through the EISA driver and I am using a SB16 PnP driver. I have tried both 8bit and 16 bit versions . The sound card does function properly under WIN95. Thanks, ----------------- Jeffrey S. Flowers dagdagh@exis.net There is no freedom without freedom of speech.
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Dead 68040 machine Date: 2 Jun 1997 10:54:55 GMT Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mu8pv$fof$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <87oh9ucipp.fsf@pilot.msu.edu> In article <87oh9ucipp.fsf@pilot.msu.edu> Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> writes: > Does anyone know the color coding of power supply wires? Does anyone > know how the power supply can be convinced to `turn on' when it's not > connected to a NeXT computer-monitor-keyboard-power key? I guess what > I'm asking is, how does one test a NeXT power supply? Yes. Yes. And Yes! :-) As pointed out before, look at my WWW site: http://www.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~heller/NeXT/power_supply.html There are pin-outs (in color!) of the power supply plug, repair instructions (if you are highly technically inclined), instructions on how to test the power supply without a NeXT attached to it, pointers to various sources of replacement power supplies, and even instructions on how to convert a PC power supply for a NeXT (I did it and mine is running without problems for quite a while now). I think this page should answer all your questions stated above. If you have any additional information that you think should be included on my page, just send me mail and let me know! Good luck! helmut -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Tweaking Intel display performance... Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 07:37:49 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg68396.thr-c871a00.54c5638@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970601201814.29515I-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg68396.thr-c871a00.54c5638.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> <bold>luomat@peak.org,UseNet writes:</bold> >I am wondering what I can do (if anything) to improve my display >performance under 4.1... >I'm using a Mitsubishi DiamondPro 87TXM with a Matrox Millenium with 4MB= >VRAM (PCI) >Configure.app shows 'Matrox MGA2064W' under 'Display' >DMA channel =3D none >Port address =3D none >Mapped Memory =3D none >Display mode: Height 864 Width 1152 Refresh 90MHz >Colorspace: RGB 888/32 >PCI location Dev:18 Func0 Bus:0 >I don't know what other sys info might be helpful..... = If that's a PentiumPro box, then you _definitely_ want to pick up the Omn= i PentiumPro video driver. That made a HUGE difference in the performance= of my machine. It's free and on their web site. -- = David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.middlebury.edu
From: Lee Younggab <ds1dat@ms13.hinet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: (Q)How can I use my PCMCIA modem on my NS3.3? Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 12:20:29 +0800 Organization: Hukou, TAIWAN Message-ID: <33924A0D.19E442CD@ms13.hinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Please help me!! My PCMCIA modem is recognized by NS 3.3, but how can I link it to ppp2.2? Thanks Gabriel Lee (ds1dat@ms13.hinet.net)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: jonl@absolut.foo.net (Jonathan B. Leffert) Subject: adb Message-ID: <8767vxcdjr.fsf@absolut.foo.net> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:58:00 GMT I don't understand the difference between ADB and non-ADB. What systems used which? What are the advantages of each? Also, how do I know if a system is ADB or non-ADB? Jon --- Jonathan B. Leffert <leffert@cs.uchicago.edu> "But on the serious three-and-a-half percent tip, 'B' is the second letter of the English Alphabet. You work it out." - Tone Def, "Fear of a Black Hat" finger -l leffert@cs.uchicago.edu for PGP public key
From: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Dead 68040 machine Date: 02 Jun 1997 10:14:14 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Sender: blp@thorin Message-ID: <87rael2itl.fsf@pilot.msu.edu> References: <87oh9ucipp.fsf@pilot.msu.edu> <5mu8pv$fof$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) writes: > > In article <87oh9ucipp.fsf@pilot.msu.edu> Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> > writes: > > Does anyone know the color coding of power supply wires? Does anyone > > know how the power supply can be convinced to `turn on' when it's not > > connected to a NeXT computer-monitor-keyboard-power key? I guess what > > I'm asking is, how does one test a NeXT power supply? > > Yes. Yes. And Yes! :-) > As pointed out before, look at my WWW site: > > http://www.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~heller/NeXT/power_supply.html [...] Thanks for the reply. And thanks to everyone else for their suggestions. I have now ordered a replacement power supply from Deep Space Technology <http://www.deepspacetech.com> and I anxiously await its arrival. -- Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> 12167 Airport Rd, DeWitt MI 48820, USA *Note*: New PGP key available at http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben/pgp.html
From: finton (David J. Finton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Can I use a trackball on a non-ADB turbocolor NeXT? Date: 2 Jun 1997 19:16:59 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5mv67b$kt0@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5mpnk9$dbm@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <EB3Mv1.82B@nidat.sub.org> Cc: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org In <EB3Mv1.82B@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > In article <5mpnk9$dbm@spool.cs.wisc.edu> finton@homer.cs.wisc.edu (David > Finton) writes: > > I have a non-ADB NeXT TurboColor, and am using a Logitech bus > > mouse on it. I was wondering if there are any trackball devices > > which would work with the converter which came with the Logitech? > > > Any trackball that is Microsoft Bus Mouse compatible would fall in this > class. Can you give me any examples? I've seen trackballs at Best Buy, and I don't remember any of them having the word "bus" on the packaging. Neither did any of the selections when I just connected to WWW pages for Logitech and Kensington. Thanks, David Finton finton@cs.wisc.edu
From: penrose@sfc.keio.ac.jp (Penrose Christopher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Disktab entry not recognized!! Date: 01 Jun 1997 13:47:32 GMT Organization: Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Kanagawa Japan Message-ID: <PENROSE.97Jun1224732@ccs01.sfc.keio.ac.jp> Howdy Folks! I have a Pentium system running Openstep 4.1. I have an Adaptec 2940UW scsi adaptor installed, though currently my system runs from an ide disk. I am attempting to install a QUANTUM ATLAS II XP39100W drive. I have installed the latest Adaptec 2940 driver (3.37) which supports wide disks. I have SCOURED the NeXTanswers guide for installing big disks (#1533), having created a disktab entry (see below). NeXTanswers instructed me to generate a disktab entry for this disk, and then write a new disk label to the disk using the /usr/etc/disk command. Specficially: elvis# /usr/etc/disk -t xp39100s -i /dev/rsd1a disk name: xp39100s : unknown disk type As you will see in the disktab entry, this title, xp39100s, is present. I have tried absurd types like this: disk -t BONDAGELILLY -i /dev/rsd1a disk name: BONDAGELILLY disk type: fixed_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1778120 76 20 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due to cylinder group size, using 10990 bytes per inode Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode. Warning: 280 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd1a: 1778120 sectors in 1170 cylinders of 20 tracks, 76 sectors 1820.8Mb in 74 cyl groups (16 c/g, 24.90Mb/g, 2048 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:write error: 32 wtfs: Invalid argument /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) And you notice that disk just creates its own label, as BONDAGELILLY is not in the disktab. So, this does tell me that disk is finding my entry. Perhaps there is a subtle error in my disktab? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Christopher Penrose penrose@sfc.keio.ac.jp The disktab entry: xp39100s|XP39100S-512|QUANTUM XP39100W LXY4:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#5899:nt#20:ns#152:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\ :pa#0:sa#4092900:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ :pb#4092900:sb#4092900:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#5:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\ :pc#8185800:sc#4092900:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#5:oc=time:\ :ic:tc=4.3BSD:\ :pd#12278700:sd#4092900:bd#8192:fd#1024:cd#32:dd#4096:rd#5:od=time:\ :id:td=4.3BSD:\ :pe#16371600:se#1409599:be#8192:fe#1024:ce#32:de#4096:re#5:oe=time:\ :ie:te=4.3BSD:
From: jweiss@MCS.COM (Jerry S. Weiss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 PnP Date: 2 Jun 1997 16:26:58 -0500 Organization: MCSNet, Chicagoland's finest Internet provider - 312-803-6271 Message-ID: <5mvdr2$5cj$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <33925E18.8FB8753F@exis.net> In article <33925E18.8FB8753F@exis.net>, Jeffrey S. Flowers <dagdagh@exis.net> wrote: >I installed NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a Micron Millenia Pro2 with an intergrated >SB16 and NS can't see it. I'm using the lated drivers from the NeXT >Answers section of NeXT's website. I do have PnP enabled through the >EISA driver and I am using a SB16 PnP driver. I have tried both 8bit and >16 bit versions . > >The sound card does function properly under WIN95. > I picked up an SB16pnp card the other day that turned out to be an OEM version. It wouldn't work at first under Nextstep either. What I did was do a verbose (non-GUI) boot and noted the registration number for the card during boot up. Then I when into hostconfig, chose the SB-pnp driver, switched to expert mode then added the number to the one already listed as supported. Save the configuration and rebooted and it seems to work fine for me. Your mileage may vary, use at your own risk. Jerry jweiss@mcs.com
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: adb Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 15:55:30 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970602155344.24890B-100000@kira> References: <8767vxcdjr.fsf@absolut.foo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: leffert@cs.uchicago.edu In-Reply-To: <8767vxcdjr.fsf@absolut.foo.net> This is quite an FAQ ... ADB is AppleDesktopBus meaning you can switch other ADB stuff... ADB can be recognized by the command 'bar' under the spacebar rather than two command keys search www.dejanews.com on this topic for more info TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Disktab entry not recognized!! Date: 2 Jun 1997 22:07:09 GMT Message-ID: <19970602220701.SAA01048@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <PENROSE.97Jun1224732@ccs01.sfc.keio.ac.jp> distab labels are case sensitive, space senitive, and underline senitive. also go to the control a function in the adaptec to make sure of the drive setup. we sell the quantum for $1530, and find it to work fine as a drive, but it must be low level formatted first by the adaptec. UPS/ SUN/SCSI Built to order IN Maryland home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar 800-209-5556 POWERSTAR INC.
From: carlier@pfizer.com (Claude Carlier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Any 3.5" Optical Drive known to work with Sparc 5 and OpenStep? Date: 2 Jun 1997 22:11:35 GMT Organization: Another Netscape News Server User Message-ID: <5mvgen$33h1@mascagni.pfizer.com> Hi Folks, does anyone know if any of the 640 MB 3.5" optical drives will work on a Sparc 5-110 running Openstep? My Pinnacle Tahoe 128 does not work. Please reply via e-mail. Thanks, Claude Carlier carlier@pfizer.com
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT MegaPixel 17" -> Macintosh Date: 2 Jun 1997 22:07:39 GMT Message-ID: <19970602220700.SAA01110@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <lance-0106971625100001@192.163.1.5> we have a 13w3 to vga, 13w3 to13w3, 4bnc to 13w3 and 4 bnc to vga convertor if that helps UPS/ SUN/SCSI Built to order IN Maryland home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar 800-209-5556 POWERSTAR INC.
From: Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Ethernet transfer difficulties Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:56:46 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970602224455.3230D-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: kjaeros Predicate: Whose triangle is it? I'm having a bit of difficulty using NFS between my NeXTcube and a NS 486. I have a tonne of data on OD I'd like to archive to the hard disk on the 486. Pulling all other ethernet connexions from the hub and leaving just the cube and 486 on the subnet, I get a packet every few seconds at the hub. The transfer takes hours. (>36 hrs to transfer less than 100 MB of data). This is unacceptable; I have twenty or thirty ODs to go through. FTP results in similar performance. The very first bit of the transfer (say, the first 100k) goes through at a normal rate, and then slows down to one flash of the packet indicator on the hub every few seconds for the remainder. I find this odd, because NXhosting apps between the two works at normal ethernet speeds, and the packet indicator flashes as in normal traffic. It seems to make no difference which machine is the one doing the exporting or importing; I've tried both ways. Importing from the 486 results in countless 'NFS server raskolnikov not responding' 'NFS server raskolnikov ok' messages to the console on the cube. I get no messages when importing from the cube, but performance is the same. raskolnikov is an i486-66, 64M/2G, NS 3.3 obelix is an 040 cube, 12M/2G, NS 3.3 Total loss; I don't understand. I hope someone can help me out. ok -r
From: Mike Harris <booknet@rmharris.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Jaz with Black HW Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 09:09:45 -0700 Organization: booknet/rmharris_ltd Message-ID: <339441C9.3C92@rmharris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: booknet@rmharris.com Before I go experimenting, does anyone have experience with operating a Jaz drive with a Cube or other Black hardware? How about as the boot disk (similar to the optical disk before it died)? I am currently running a Zip as an auxilary drive and sneaker net with no problems. (please cc your reply direct to me also, since I check this list rather sporadically. Thanks.) -- ************************************************************************ *** Mike Harris booknet/rmharris_ltd phone: (301) 494-0950 (410) 535-2292 fax: (410) 535-3004 e-mail: booknet@rmharris.com, r.m.harris@ieee.org, rmharris@clark.net ** http://www.abaa-booknet.com/ http://booknet-international.com ** ** The Antiquarian Booksellers Web Sites ** stuff(spam)
From: dyaeb@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (David Aston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help! NS3.3/OS4.1 will not install on new Sparc 5 Date: 3 Jun 1997 21:12:38 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5n21c6$i92$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <EB2428.F9u@novice.uwaterloo.ca> In article <EB2428.F9u@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: > NeXTSTEP/SPARC (and OS/SPARC too) support only the MicroSPARC II and > SuperSPARC CPUs. > Thanks for your response. Since the page was old (dated June '95), I was _hoping_ that this was not the problem. However, I have a reply from NextAnswers confirming that the TurboSPARC CPU is not and will not be supported. I guess I'll have to wait for Rhapsody... <Dave> PS: Anyone want to swap an old Sparc 5 for a new one? *;-) PPS: In case you missed the smiley, this is not a serious offer. -- Dave Aston......Internet: dyaeb@slac.stanford.edu; BitNet: RIP *8-( MS62 Voice: (415)926-2457; Fax: (415)926-3587 SLAC, Stanford U, and DOE are not responsible for _anything_ I say.
From: "Kyle Rollin" <klined@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: test Date: 4 Jun 1997 01:08:03 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc7082$030a5740$c5650e26@therolli> anybody get this?
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Turn a Mono 040/25 Cube into a color system ? Date: 3 Jun 1997 21:40:50 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5n2rki$e9h@slip.net> Hi, Is it possible to add a card to a Mono NeXT 040/25 into a color system by adding an additonal card in one of the motherboard slots? Are the cards specific to the Cube or can Station cards somehow be used? Thanks, Emmett
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: MetaResearch still around ? Date: 3 Jun 1997 21:43:54 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5n2rqa$eei@slip.net> References: <5n2rki$e9h@slip.net> Hi, Is MetaResearch the manufacturer of Digital Eye and Digital Ears still around? How can they be contacted? Thanks, Emmett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: hugob@tamtam.xs4all (Hugo Burm) Subject: Re: Ethernet transfer difficulties Message-ID: <EB872p.A1@tamtam.xs4all.nl> Sender: hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl (Hugo Burm) Organization: datagram References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970602224455.3230D-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 00:36:02 GMT In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.970602224455.3230D-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> writes: > > I'm having a bit of difficulty using NFS between my NeXTcube and a NS > 486. > > [.......] > > raskolnikov is an i486-66, 64M/2G, NS 3.3 > obelix is an 040 cube, 12M/2G, NS 3.3 > Sounds familiar. If raskolnikov is equipped with a 3-COM board, download the latest drivers from NextAnswers. If it has a 3-COM board, and the new drivers are not fast enough, send me an email. hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl
From: Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Finally! Etherlink XL drivers! Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:49:16 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970603234622.22055C-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: kjaeros Predicate: Whose triangle is it? In case some of you hadn't noticed, Apple's finally released 3Com EtherLink XL drivers for both 3.3 and 4.x... They are available from NeXTanswers. ok -r
Date: 4 Jun 1997 08:42:32 GMT From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) Sender: steve edwards<custservice@tulsastage.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5mm1us$l8o@news2.cais.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5mm1us$l8o@news2.cais.com> Control: cancel <5mm1us$l8o@news2.cais.com> OKLAHOMA spam cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Original Subject: oklahoma special effects Total spams this type to date: 36 Total this spam type for this user: 36 Total this spam type for this user today: 1 Originating site: cais.com Complaint addresses: noc@cais.com abuse@cais.com postmaster@webzone.net
From: leow@ufl.edu (Leo Wierzbowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NE2000 drvr f/ OpenStep/Mach 4.2??? Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 10:24:19 -0400 Organization: CIRCA - University of Florida Message-ID: <leow-0306971024190001@leo.circa.ufl.edu> Hello, Is there a driver for the NE2000 ISA ethernet card for OpenStep Mach 4.2 (prelude to Rhapsody)? I've found a couple for NextStep 3.x, but I've been told they do not work with OSM 4.2. Sincerely, Leo UF
From: Kim Chen <kim@glink.net.hk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Recommendation : Asus TX-97E or Supermicro P5MMS Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:18:24 +0800 Organization: HACTL Message-ID: <339524D0.4E4A@glink.net.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Recommendation : Asus TX-97E or Supermicro P5MMS Hi all, I really need a recommendation of motherboard for upgrading my PC. I limited the choice to 2 models : Asus Tx-97E or Supermicro P5MMS The following HWs/OS will be installed into my new system : Cpu : K6-200 RAM : 64Mb 10ns/12ns SDRAM Video card : MGA Millennium II SCSI contrl. : DPT 2042UW Sound card : Audiotrix OS : NT4.0/Solaris x86 2.5.1/NextStep 3.3 In addition, I hope I can run the system at 75Mhz/ext. , or even 83.3Mhz/ext. . Could anyone have good/bad experience on these motherboard and/or with above HW/OS ? Please advice me. Thanks a lot. regards, Kim
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Turn a Mono 040/25 Cube into a color system ? Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 04:38:09 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg68996.thr-5e00d3bc.54c5638@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <5n2rki$e9h@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg68996.thr-5e00d3bc.54c5638.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> <bold>emclean@slip.net,UseNet writes:</bold> >Is it possible to add a card to a Mono NeXT 040/25 into >a color system by adding an additonal card in one of >the motherboard slots? Yes, by purchasing a NextDimension color card. They are available from se= veral of the used black hardware vendors for about $500-600 and in most c= ases will require additional memory to be really useful. The quality of t= he resulting image is truly amazing. >Are the cards specific to the Cube or can Station >cards somehow be used? Yes, they are specific to the cube. -- = David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.middlebury.edu
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: speaking of mono cubes... Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 07:34:23 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> I have a two headed ND Cube (so not strictly a mono system). I leave the = machine running all the time and I can turn off the color monitor, but is= there any way to turn off the mono monitor? Even when I turn the brightn= ess all the way down the screen still glows just a little bit and I'd prefer to save the electricity on t= he monitors at least. I haven't found a power switch so I wonder if there= 's a keyboard combination that does this. -- = David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.middlebury.edu
From: neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: 4 Jun 1997 12:40:46 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> David Herren (herren@flannet.middlebury.edu) wrote: > I have a two headed ND Cube (so not strictly a mono system). I leave the = > machine running all the time and I can turn off the color monitor, but is= > there any way to turn off the mono monitor? Even when I turn the brightn= > ess all the way down the screen > still glows just a little bit and I'd prefer to save the electricity on t= > he monitors at least. I haven't found a power switch so I wonder if there= > 's a keyboard combination that does this. The only option is getting a Sound box. I think deepspacetech.com had a few the last time I looked. HTH, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:44:14 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg69058.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg69058.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> >> I have a two headed ND Cube (so not strictly a mono system). I leave t= he =3D >> machine running all the time and I can turn off the color monitor, but= is=3D >> there any way to turn off the mono monitor? Even when I turn the brig= htn=3D >> ess all the way down the screen >> still glows just a little bit and I'd prefer to save the electricity o= n t=3D >> he monitors at least. I haven't found a power switch so I wonder if th= ere=3D >> 's a keyboard combination that does this. >The only option is getting a Sound box. I think deepspacetech.com >had a few the last time I looked. How does this help if I still want to use the mono monitor in the two-hea= ded configuration? Does the mono monitor plug into a sound box and the so= und box have a power switch? (obviously I've never seen a soundbox) -- = David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.middlebury.edu
From: neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: 4 Jun 1997 15:07:55 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5n40cb$su5$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <msg69058.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> David Herren (herren@flannet.middlebury.edu) wrote: > How does this help if I still want to use the mono monitor in the two-hea= > ded configuration? Does the mono monitor plug into a sound box and the so= > und box have a power switch? (obviously I've never seen a soundbox) Sorry, should have been more specific. If you take a closer look at your setup, you'll notice that the keyboard plugs into the monitor - the Megapixel display contains, besides the normal video hardware, some circuitry that handles the keyboard, plays sounds etc. Hence, while you can _run_ a Cube sans monitor, you will also lose the ability to use your keyboard, which you'd probably be quite a bit unhappy with. :-) A sound box, however, contains the exact same hardware. You can therefore attach the keyboard to the sound box and get a "color monitor only" configuration for the cube. Personally, I prefer it that way, since it saves deskspace. Kind regards, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: grape@matrix.teuto.de (Timo Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Finally! Etherlink XL drivers! Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:30:09 +0200 Organization: PoP teuto.net Bielefeld Message-ID: <19970604183009529239@[192.168.0.2]> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970603234622.22055C-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> wrote: > In case some of you hadn't noticed, Apple's finally released 3Com > EtherLink XL drivers for both 3.3 and 4.x... > > They are available from NeXTanswers. > Unfortunately they don't work with a 3com Etherlink III PCI. Seems there will be no driver for it anytime soon... :-(((( Bye Timo --- Timo Hoepfner - grape@matrix.teuto.de
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:20:57 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0406971320570001@242.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <msg69058.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> > > > How does this help if I still want to use the mono monitor in the two-hea= > ded configuration? Does the mono monitor plug into a sound box and the so= > und box have a power switch? (obviously I've never seen a soundbox) > > How can you have a dual headed ND configuration without a soundbox? Is there a way to do this? Mitch
From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: 4 Jun 1997 12:37:11 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <5n45jn$kcg@umbc10.umbc.edu> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> NNTP-Posting-User: bhurle1 what does a sound box have to do with turning off the monitor? interested myself. bryan In article <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de>, Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam> wrote: >David Herren (herren@flannet.middlebury.edu) wrote: >> I have a two headed ND Cube (so not strictly a mono system). I leave the = >> machine running all the time and I can turn off the color monitor, but is= >> there any way to turn off the mono monitor? Even when I turn the brightn= >> ess all the way down the screen >> still glows just a little bit and I'd prefer to save the electricity on t= >> he monitors at least. I haven't found a power switch so I wonder if there= >> 's a keyboard combination that does this. > >The only option is getting a Sound box. I think deepspacetech.com >had a few the last time I looked. > >HTH, Chris >--
From: Buddy Cox <buddyc@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 14:17:21 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <3395BF41.45F1@ibm.net> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <msg69058.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <mitchell.allen-0406971320570001@242.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > How can you have a dual headed ND configuration without a soundbox? Is > there a way to do this? > > Mitch The mono monitor takes the place of the sound box. Color monitor goes into the ND, mono monitor into the 040 and the keyboard into the mono monitor and that's all there is to it. Buddy
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT MegaPixel 17" -> Macintosh Date: 1 Jun 1997 21:36:20 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5msq0k$2f2$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <lance-3005971713230001@192.163.1.5> <EB1us2.7ov@nidat.sub.org> <lance-0106971625100001@192.163.1.5> if it is color you have to make sure that your card supplies green-in-sync godwin Lancelot Link (lance@chimp.org) wrote: : In article <EB1us2.7ov@nidat.sub.org>, Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de wrote: : > > I'd like to hook a MegaPixel 17" to a Mac; does anyone have a pointer : > > to, say, a company that makes an adapter? : > > : > The monochrome NeXT monitor has no own power supply. It can't be operated : > apart from the NeXT system unit. : My fault--I should have specified that it's the color monitor, model : N4001, which has a switchable power-in and a fuse socket. So: Does anyone : make a NeXt-Mac monitor cable adapter? : Thanks again.
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: 4 Jun 1997 14:11:27 -0700 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5n4llv$38v@mpaque.mpaque> References: <mitchell.allen-0406971320570001@242.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> In article <mitchell.allen-0406971320570001@242.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net writes: > How can you have a dual headed ND configuration without a soundbox? Is > there a way to do this? If one of the 'heads', or monitors, is a monochrome NeXT monitor, this will work just fine. The monitor includes the same hardware found in the Sound Box, along with the CRT and video electronics. By default, the ND system will be using the color head only. You can switch on the monochrome display using the Preferences app. Click on the Monitors Preferences (looks like two overlapping monitors, only appears on Cube hardware). Click on the MegaPixel Display item, set it to 'active', and adjust your screen layout. I recommend using the ND as the main display (settable by dragging the 'login window' icon to the appropriate display). You'll need to restart the Window Server (reboot the machine is good enough) before the changes take effect. (Mac folks: this won't be needed for Rhapsody.) -- Mike Paquette (mpaque@wco.com) Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the understanding that the PR/Marketing people want to make the announcements on products, so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until after then, so what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I may say in future can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't, for the immediate future. (With apologies to Joe Straczynski)
From: Gael Foulon <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: 4 Jun 1997 21:51:13 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> Hello, I'm searching for an UPS product that mention on their ad that they support NextStep. I can't remember when I see it and where I see it (I suppose in France, but it's certainly an world-wide product). I see the document in /pub/next/documents/misc concerning the Fortress UPS but there's I think another one... If someone use or know a product supporting alert and auto-shutdown for PC running OpenStep/NextStep system, please contact me by email. Thank you for your help. Gael FOULON gfoulon@imaginet.fr
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:27:10 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0406971927100001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> References: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> In article <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr>, Gael Foulon <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm searching for an UPS product that mention on their ad > that they support NextStep. I can't remember when I see it > and where I see it (I suppose in France, but it's certainly > an world-wide product). > > I see the document in /pub/next/documents/misc concerning > the Fortress UPS but there's I think another one... > > If someone use or know a product supporting alert and > auto-shutdown for PC running OpenStep/NextStep system, > please contact me by email. > > Thank you for your help. > > Gael FOULON > gfoulon@imaginet.fr Check Tim Luoma's page. I know he has something about some NeXT capable UPS on there, but I don't remember the name or if it works on Black or white hardware. www.peak.org/~luomat Mitch e keyboard and mouse. Mitch
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: 4 Jun 1997 23:18:35 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5n4t4b$8mv$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> Note: Please include a Follow-up To: if you are going to cross-post. Timothy Luoma has some links to NextStep UPS info from his homepage: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Should get you started. --Ryan Scott
From: mbkomor@remarque.berkeley.edu (m.b.komor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Weird Failure at Boot -- Need help! Date: 4 Jun 1997 22:52:17 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <5n4rj1$ib9@agate.berkeley.edu> Please Cc: all replies to <jrudd@cygnus.com>. This morning my mon NeXTslab came up just fine, let me PPP in just fine, using Gatekeeper, and then experienced a kernel panic (about its 6th, since I've had it --about 4 months) and produced the following on reboot: Booting from SCSI target 4 lun 0 trap 5 at pc 0x4380b06, sr 0x2700 d0: 0x2000 a0: 0x4387544 d1: 0x2 a1: 0x87ffb72 d2: 0x0 a2: 0x43972c0 d3: 0x200f a3: 0x438a03c d4: 0x2 a4: 0x43972c0 d5: 0x0 a5: 0x87ff62e d6: 0x8 a6: 0x43bbf84 d7: 0x0 a7: 0x43bbf64 And there it dies. Reseating the harddrive scsi cable (at both ends), the ROM, the memory cards, *nothing* has changed this bootup failure (same message, every time). I'm not a NeXT (or any other kind of hardware) geek. John Carmack donated this machine to me four months ago because he didn't want to see it go to waste-- it's the machine he wrote the original DOOM code on, so I'd really hate for it to die like this ('sides, there's a bunch of things on it that I *need* --it's also the only machine I have that's capable of running PPP and a graphical browser at the same time ;) ). Can anybody help me get this fixed? *ThanQ!* Best, _*____* _////___ Meriday Beth & Velcro ~<:========--- & Majyk! >'=========^--- ~*~~~~* ~/~\~~>~> ---- -& little Zaphod! | | | | click here for in-lined image. ---- mbkomor@remarque.berkeley.edu | @goonsquad.spies.com & gneet@toys.fubarsys.com indigo@samsara.circus.com & umm@deeptht.armory.com & natter@nando.yak.net ambasadr@kosh.punk.net & little@reddragon.empire.net & hi@callamerica.net
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: 4 Jun 1997 23:49:28 GMT Message-ID: <19970604234901.TAA11959@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> check out the following: http://www.exide.com http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar http://www.powersource.net http://www.apcc.com http://www.upsi.com http://www.viewsonics.com http://www.sechq.com if we or they have it you will find it . these are the industry leaders. in ups UPS/ SUN/SCSI Built to order IN Maryland home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar 800-209-5556 POWERSTAR INC.
From: feetweb@juno.com (George Karadimos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: RAM for Sale!! Good prices on memory! Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 12:13:17 GMT Organization: World Web Internet Message-ID: <3396ad56.90878907@news.wwisp.com> I have used (good) RAM for sale.Tons of it! All 72 pin SIMMS. 4 megabyte chips = $20 each. 8 megabyte chips = $30 each. 16 megabyte chips = $60 each. E-mail me if you're interested. thanks. feetweb@juno.com
From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: 4 Jun 1997 20:27:00 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <5n514k$27g@umbc10.umbc.edu> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <mitchell.allen-0406971320570001@242.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> <3395BF41.45F1@ibm.net> <mitchell.allen-0406971924530001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> NNTP-Posting-User: bhurle1 So if you get a soundbox and attach it to the dsp port, can you make a one board cube, no NextDimension board, and attach a second b/w monitor? bryan In article <mitchell.allen-0406971924530001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net>, <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >Duh, I guess it had never occurred to me that someone might buy a NeXT >Cube, then add a dimension and a color monitor and not purchase a >soundbox. I had gotten a cube that had the ND with it when it came, but >didn't come with a mono monitor, so naturally it had a soundbox. > >I was just curious if some color NeXT monitors don't require a soundbox in >order to connect the keyboard and mouse. > >Mitch
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 17:57:25 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970604175227.4085B-100000@kira> References: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Gael Foulon <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> In-Reply-To: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> You are looking for PowerGuardian from Benatong... Click on the icon from my web page or checkout www.benatong.com They are a great company, I highly recommend them & PowerGuardian Email info@benatong.com too.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: Mr. Kawasaki Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Anyone have problems with Dialup.app Date: 5 Jun 1997 04:32:33 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <5n5fh1$oj0@camel2.mindspring.com> Sometimes (not too often), after clicking "Connect" in Dialup.app, OPENSTEP 4.1 for Intel will simply freeze. I am forced to press the reset button. Of my experience with OPENSTEP, these are the only times where I have had any real problems. Has anyone else had this problem? BTW, I have a USR Sportster 28800 and I think this problem happens after I Disconnect, then Connect again before rebooting (not sure). -- Later, Nick Sharpe E-Mail me at Cybobob@mindspring.com NeXTMail Welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: leffert@cs.uchicago.edu (Jonathan B. Leffert) Subject: sticky mice? Message-ID: <leffert.865495569@cs.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 07:26:09 GMT My mouse seems to be kinda sitcky (ie the cursor stops at times and i cannot move it). Does anyone have any good suggestions as to how to clean it? -j -- Jonathan B. Leffert <leffert@cs.uchicago.edu> "But on the serious 3.5% tip, 'B' is the second letter of the English Alphabet. You work it out." -- Tone Def, "Fear of a Black Hat" finger -l leffert@cs.uchicago.edu for PGP Public Key
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 07:40:08 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg69192.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <msg69058.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <mitchell.allen-0406971320570001@242.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg69192.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> <bold>mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net,UseNet writes:</bold> >How can you have a dual headed ND configuration without a soundbox? Is >there a way to do this? Actually that's the "normal" way to do it. The mono monitor plugs into th= e cube motherboard's monitor connector and the color monitor plugs into t= he NextDimension. Voila! -- = David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.middlebury.edu
From: David Carpenter <dcarpent@voicenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: optical drives for Cube Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 08:39:46 -0400 Organization: none Message-ID: <3396B392.21E@voicenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone recommend a good optical backup system that works with a Cube and NeXTStep? The old, original optical drive as died, and I need a new backup system. A tape drive would be another possibility, though I would prefer an optical system. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Please reply via email to dcarpent@sju.edu Thanks again, David Carpenter
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: sticky mice? Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 05:53:37 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970605054957.26776B-100000@kira> References: <leffert.865495569@cs.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Jonathan B. Leffert" <leffert@cs.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <leffert.865495569@cs.uchicago.edu> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Jonathan B. Leffert wrote: > My mouse seems to be kinda sitcky (ie the cursor stops at times and i > cannot move it). Does anyone have any good suggestions as to how to clean > it? I assume you mean a NeXT mouse? <a href="http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1080.htmld/1080.html"> Caring for your Mouse</a> Should tell you all you need to know... I've also had good luck with a mouse cleaner (where you put a small ball covered in something like velcro inside and swirl it around.... does a very nice job of getting the guck out..... TjL, using a TrackBall now ;-) -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: garmstro@worldgate.com (Glen W. Armstrong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: swapdisk failure: how do I tell my NeXT to ignore its internal drive? Date: 5 Jun 1997 02:27:50 GMT Organization: WorldGate Inc. http://www.worldgate.com/ Message-ID: <5n5877$h4i$1@scanner.worldgate.com> Hello, I have a NeXTstation running NEXTSTEP 3.2 with an external hard drive and the old 105 MB internal drive. The internal drive was set up as my swap disk, but it appears to have failed (sigh). The computer now seems to be spending most of its time trying to overcome the failure of the internal drive. It tells me sd1 (1,0): sense key:0x4 additional sense code:0x1 SCSI Bolock in error=0 (no valid label) Target 1: HARDWARE ERROR; block OH retry ... (and so on) In my perfect world, I would like to salvage the internal drive, but I realize that that hope might be futile. I would appreciate any hints howerver. Barring that, does anyone have a suggestion on how to tell the NeXT to ignore the internal drive. A software solution is preferable, but I am willing to take a screwdriver to the old workhorse. Thanks for any advice you can give me. --glen -- Glen W. Armstrong email: garmstro@worldgate.com Edmonton, Alberta phone: (403)437-4932
From: neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: swapdisk failure: how do I tell my NeXT to ignore its internal drive? Date: 5 Jun 1997 13:57:17 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5n6gjt$5t6$2@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <5n5877$h4i$1@scanner.worldgate.com> Glen W. Armstrong (garmstro@worldgate.com) wrote: > I have a NeXTstation running NEXTSTEP 3.2 with an external hard drive > and the old 105 MB internal drive. > The internal drive was set up as my swap disk, but it appears to have > failed (sigh). If speed is an issue, this might not be the optimal setup, since the original 105ers are quite a bit slower then modern disks. Just thought I'd mention this... > sd1 (1,0): sense key:0x4 additional sense code:0x1 > SCSI Bolock in error=0 (no valid label) > Target 1: HARDWARE ERROR; block OH retry ... (and so on) Hm, round up the ususal suspects.. check the cabling etc. Perhaps try the disk with a different machine. > Barring that, does anyone have a suggestion on how to tell the NeXT to > ignore the internal drive. A software solution is preferable, but I > am willing to take a screwdriver to the old workhorse. Simply remove it, together with the cable. Make sure the external disk provides TERMPWR. A station runs fine w/out an internal disk. Will be quiter, too. ;-) Good luck. Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: ibhan@student.med.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Floppy drive? Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 09:53:19 -0400 Organization: Harvard Medical School Message-ID: <ibhan-0506970953190001@infobhan.med.harvard.edu> I have a NeXTCube (25 Mhz 040) and an external Apple CD300e. I've been trying to install OpenSTEP 4.0, but it looks like I'm going to need a floppy drive. Does anyone know where I can get one cheaply for this machine? Thanks. -- Ishir Bhan ibhan@student.med.harvard.edu http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~ibhan
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: 5 Jun 1997 14:17:02 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5n6hou$4ul$2@inet-prime.comshare.com> References: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> <mitchell.allen-0406971927100001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> Cc: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net In <mitchell.allen-0406971927100001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net wrote: > In article <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr>, Gael Foulon > <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm searching for an UPS product that mention on their ad > > that they support NextStep. I can't remember when I see it <munch> go to www.benatong.com -Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: Timm Wetzel <me@baloo.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: S3Virge driver -- mode switching error Date: 5 Jun 1997 13:46:48 GMT Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Message-ID: <5n6g08$d4s$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> Hello, does the S3Virge Driver work for anyone with non-Diamond/non-#9 cards? We try to use it with a Hercules Terminator 3D (NS3.3p1). The driver loads and recognices the card, but after the following error message > Jun 2 20:54:51 calvin mach: Display0: BIOS mode change returned 0300 (preceded by emu486 error and a register dump) the driver stops with a black screen. The selected video mode is supported by the card (e.g., with the S3Generic driver v3.33). Any ideas what this message means and how to work around it? Timm --- Timm Wetzel <twetzel@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> <twetzel@gwdg.de> Max-Planck-Institut fuer biophysikalische Chemie, Abt. 081 Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Goettingen
From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: 5 Jun 1997 11:50:24 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <5n6n80$cl6@umbc8.umbc.edu> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <mitchell.allen-0406971924530001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> <5n514k$27g@umbc10.umbc.edu> <5n6g7o$5t6$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> NNTP-Posting-User: unknown OK, so I put the soundbox in between the monitor and the cube? and still have a screen? or not? What does the soundbox do, and then what does the dsp port do? other than hooking up digitial eys/ears or a powerglove? bryan 040 25 20 100 3.2 In article <5n6g7o$5t6$1@news.th-darmstadt.de>, Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam> wrote: >hurley bryan (bhurle1@umbc.edu) wrote: >> So if you get a soundbox and attach it to the dsp port, can you make a one >> board cube, no NextDimension board, and attach a second b/w monitor? > >No. You'd wind up with a no-monitor machine, which should boot >however, hm.. interesting. Please note that the sound box does >not attach to the DSP port, it attaches to the monitor port. > >Since there's only one, and you assume no ND board, you'd not be >able to connect any monitors at all... *not* my favorite setup. :-) > >Regards, Chris >-- >// Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." >// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ >// fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: salyzyn@dpt.com (Mark Salyzyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Scanners under OPENSTEP: how? Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 21:44:10 GMT Organization: UNIX drivers'R'Us Sender: news@bohica.net Message-ID: <EB9tpM.4tG@bohica.net> References: <5m2rk2$41o$2@news.xmission.com> <EAMqJ7.B6H@cam-ani.co.uk> As I said in a previous posting, I also have the ScanFX driver working under 3.3 and 4.0(beta II). It is as shareware as I'll make it ;-> Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn (who brought you the Mux Driver for 3.2/3.3). ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) wrote: >In article <5m2rk2$41o$2@news.xmission.com> don@globalobjects.com (Don >Yacktman) writes: >> >> Has anyone got experience getting scanners to work under OPENSTEP? What >> software and drivers might be needed? >> > >NeXTStep is sadly deficient for scanner support. Hopefully Rhapsody will >improve the situation. > >Currently there is no standard driver interface :-( > >There are two shareware apps: >"ScanMaker.app is a driver for the Microtek ScanMaker, OmniMedia 6cx (A >ScanMaker 600ZS clone), and the Apple Color OneScanner." > >and "the 0.91b version of "scan", a scanner driver which >supports the UMAX Vista S-8 scanner". This comes with source, and plug in >drivers. I've looked at it briefly and it looks relativly straigh >forwards. > >CAS has software which supports Ricoh4X0, HP Scanjet, Sharp JX10(?), AGFA, >Dunord Improvision, and Dunord Fujitsu. Unfortunatly it's pretty >specialised stuff, and not really very suited to casual scanning (it's >designed for scanning 1000's of animation drawings). It's also expensive >if you just want to put a few images on your web page. > >Your best bet would be to write a new driver for "Scan", unless anyone >knows better? > >$an >(they guy who got dumped with supporting scanners at CAS)
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: swapdisk failure: how do I tell my NeXT to ignore its internal drive? Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:21:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970605091313.13279A-100000@kira> References: <5n5877$h4i$1@scanner.worldgate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Glen W. Armstrong" <garmstro@worldgate.com> In-Reply-To: <5n5877$h4i$1@scanner.worldgate.com> Caution: use only at your own risk.... If the drive is labelled 'swapdisk' then it is setup during /etc/rc.swap.... you can just comment out the necessary sections or rename the file (ie mv /etc/rc.swap /etc/rc.swap.OFF) If the disk is not loaded as the swapdisk, you should be able to login as root and it will be mounted automatically. Then you can try to reformat the drive or whatever you want to do.... > In my perfect world, I would like to salvage the internal drive, but I > realize that that hope might be futile. I would appreciate any hints > howerver. You could boot into single user mode & try to 'fsck' the disk, or try something like this: dd if=/dev/sd?a of=/dev/null bs=512 # where '?' stands for your swapdisk # that's from memory... basically you tell 'dd' to read from the HD and # write to /dev/null You might have to use '/dev/rsd?a' rather than '/dev/sd?a' That should tell you where any bad blocks are, and then you can try 'reasb' > Barring that, does anyone have a suggestion on how to tell the NeXT to > ignore the internal drive. A software solution is preferable, but I > am willing to take a screwdriver to the old workhorse. I think you will be able to tell it to ignore it long enough to login and see what you can do to it.... My guess is that you've just got a bad block, and should be able to reassign it and keep using the drive for swapspace.... however that is just a guess.... Again, be careful, fsck et al can do damage as well as repair it... as anything that interacts directly with the disk can.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 14:57:14 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg69348.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <mitchell.allen-0406971924530001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> <5n514k$27g@umbc10.umbc.edu> <5n6g7o$5t6$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <5n6n80$cl6@umbc8.umbc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg69348.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> <bold>bhurle1@umbc.edu,UseNet writes:</bold> >OK, so I put the soundbox in between the monitor and the cube? and still= >have a screen? or not? What does the soundbox do, and then what does the= >dsp port do? other than hooking up digitial eys/ears or a powerglove? If you have a mono monitor, then the soundbox is unecessary and perhaps e= ven undesireable. The sound box is essentially for people with a nextdime= nsion board and who only want a single color monitor. If they didn't conn= ect the mono monitor, then they wouldn't have any sound capabilities, or, more importantly, they wouldn't= have a place to plug in their keyboard. The DSP goes unused on my box... -- = David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.cet.middlebury.edu
From: ;laskjfsd;lj@3;asjflksad.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mailloop v3.0 Released! Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:10:47 GMT Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Message-ID: <5n76g7$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Mailloop v3.0 is an industrial strength bulk mailer. Mailloop v3.0 is a bulk mailing program for the internet. It can take a single message and broadcast it to either a listing of e-mail addresses or to a listing of newsgroups. Creates custom newsgroup lists by filtering NNTP servers. Creates custom e-mail lists by extracting them from newsgroups. Can also extract e-mail addresses or newsgroup names from other protocols. Built-in NNTP, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP, EXEC, CGI, WHOIS and FINGER clients. Anti-cancelbot feature. Automatically processes remove requests. Includes extensive on-line help. The most powerful bulk mailer available. Requires Windows 95 or NT 3.51+ and internet access. The "Program" Mailloop is only available in English. For more info goto: http://205.199.4.219 http://205.199.4.219 Using it is easy: 1) Create a message ( http://205.199.4.219/editor.htm ) ...by using the pull down menus or ...by using any editor 2) Create a newsgroups list ( http://205.199.4.219/news3.htm ) ...by filtering an NNTP server or ...by importing from any text file or ...by manually creating with any editor or ...by extracting from any FTP file or ...by extracting from any HTTP file 3) Create an e-mail list ( http://205.199.4.219/em3.htm ) ...by extracting from newsgroups or ...by importing from any text file or ...by manually creating with any editor or ...by extracting from a WHOIS response or ...by extracting from a fingering response or ...by extracting from a UNIX response or ...by extracting from any FTP file or ...by extracting from any HTTP file or 4) Broadcast the message ...to the e-mail list or ( http://205.199.4.219/embc.htm ) ...to the newsgroup list ( http://205.199.4.219/ngbc.htm ) 5) Then process the remove requests ...by using the mailbox processor ( http://205.199.4.219/pop.htm ) 6) If you want you can use the Newsletter Sever ...The Newsletter Sever will allow you to have an topic-specific newsletter that other can subscribe and unsubscribe to. ...Customizing this server response files ( http://205.199.4.219/response.htm ) ...Creating a new newsletter ( http://205.199.4.219/create.htm ) ...Creating and Updating a newsletter the actual newsletter ( http://205.199.4.219/update.htm ) For more info visit http://205.199.4.219 http://205.199.4.219
From: tj@oro.net (Thomas Ferreira) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: FS: @Society Newsletter "dedicated to the NeXT platform" Date: 5 Jun 1997 21:09:53 GMT Organization: "oronet, Penn Valley, CA" Message-ID: <tj-0506971411250001@i467.oro.net> Come visit our web pages at: http://www.oro.net/~tj Subscribe now and start out with our premiere issue scheduled for July/August 1997. Come join the fun!! TJ Ferreira @Society Magazine Newsletter
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: video problems Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:33:20 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg69381.thr-2d15ea.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg69381.thr-2d15ea.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> We are trying to bring up two Dell 2100/200s to use as Netinfo servers. A= s you may be aware, these guys have a one meg configuration of an ATI Mac= h 64 video on the motherboard. Since there are (apparently) no drivers fo= r the one meg configuration that we have been able to get to recognize the on board video circuitry, we insta= lled Number9 Imagine128 Series 2 cards in them. We are quite successfully using this card in a number of Openstep 4.1/4.1= boxes, so we know the beta driver available from nextanswers works. Here's the problem. Once the driver is installed and configured, and we r= eboot the box, it gets through all of the boot and posts "Reboot complete= " (viewing the boot in verbose mode), but never gets any further. Also, t= here is a configuration error reported when it's configuring device drivers. It loads the Imagine drive= r, reports that it sees the video card, but then it seems as if it's atte= mpting to initialize the onboard video circuitry with that configuration = and then reports the error. We have tried any number of possible configurations including plain old 640 by 48= 0 and 256/8bit. No dice. Any suggestions folks? -- = David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.cet.middlebury.edu
From: kennel@nospam.lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel (Remove 'nospam' to reply)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Ethernet transfer difficulties Date: 5 Jun 1997 22:01:54 GMT Organization: University of California at San Diego Message-ID: <slrn5pedqs.gs7.kennel@lyapunov.ucsd.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970602224455.3230D-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:56:46 -0700, Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> wrote: : :I'm having a bit of difficulty using NFS between my NeXTcube and a NS 486. :FTP results in similar performance. The very first bit of the transfer :(say, the first 100k) goes through at a normal rate, and then slows down :to one flash of the packet indicator on the hub every few seconds for the :remainder. :raskolnikov is an i486-66, 64M/2G, NS 3.3 :obelix is an 040 cube, 12M/2G, NS 3.3 : :Total loss; I don't understand. : :I hope someone can help me out. This sounds like a fault in the ethernet driver or the card on the PC's end. I saw the same thing on a Linux laptop: good performance at first, but then slows to a halt after lots of fast transfers. It was the driver, doing something screwy on some buffer overflow. What ethernet card on the PC do you have? Try changing it and using a different driver. Have you tried just tar? ok :-r : -- Matthew B. Kennel/Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD/ Don't blame me, I voted for Emperor Mollari.
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5n76g7$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:57:56 GMT Control: cancel <5n76g7$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5n76g7$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Sender: ;laskjfsd;lj@3;asjflksad.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Video cards for multi-head displays under OS or NT Date: 6 Jun 1997 01:29:38 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <5n7p62$gkj@agate.berkeley.edu> Could someone remind me on the list of PCI video cards that support multi-head displays under OPENSTEP, and whether or not the same multi-head setup works under Windows NT? I know ELSA boards support multi-headed config. What other video cards can be used multiply under OS-Mach or under NT? -- Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/
From: stephlise@telco.com (Steph&Lise.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <998b11f6.7052534@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Control: cancel <998b11f6.7052534@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Message-ID: <despam.998b11f6.7052534@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 01:00:00 -700 Cancel Spam.
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Hack Cube Question Date: 3 Jun 1997 08:04:03 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5n0j5j$mnb$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Hi there, I want to setup a dual CPU Ncube board that one would be a web server the other would be a FTP server... can this be done? I know that the connection between the two boards are done by the coax interface.. does that mean that the board in slot on cannot be connected outside via the cat 5 socket? or do we have to get one of shannon's fore fiber thingees?;-) While I am at it... does anyone have any success with 1 dim + 2 CPU combo? that isslots:[empty Dimension] [ 04(turbo or otherwise)0 030] combination? thanks godwin
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Installing 3.1 with an IDE CD-Rom Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 12:26:12 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8na3cYW00UhB01mmcT@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <3397B240.1E1A@evcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3397B240.1E1A@evcom.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 6-Jun-97 Installing 3.1 with an IDE .. by Charles Esteban Paul@evc > I just purchased NeXtStep 3.1 (still in shrink wrap) and I have been > devestated by the installation procedure which requires a SCSI CD-ROM > drive. Yep. NS 3.1 was the first version released for Intel hardware, and it had only a very limited hardware support, as you've discovered. > Is there any way to point the installation program towards the IDE drive > instead of the non-existant SCSI drive? Has this problem ever occured > before? I would appreciate any help I can get :) Your best bet would be to get a more modern version of NEXTSTEP since it supported installing from IDE drives around 3.3, as well as supporting much more hardware (and doing a better/less buggy job of that support, as well). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "Mark Smith" <mark@storagedirect.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Next is nice .... but! (+ about a thousand other newbie questions) Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 17:44:38 GMT Organization: Storage Direct Ltd. Message-ID: <01bc72a1$499a95a0$0601a8c0@mark> Well I've had a look at NextStep 3.3, and I must admit it looks nice ... but! Where can I find drivers for it ? We have lots of bits of kit here that NextStep won't recoginise such as Mylex and DPT RAID controllers 3com network cards (595's and 905's). Can anyone point me towards a site with some drivers and docs on it, as I want to see how Next fairs up to other OS's such as NT and Linux, but if I can't use networking it would be a bit pointless. Mark mark@storagedirect.com PS. If there is a FAQ where can I get it ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: "J. Kelly Cunningham" <deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu> Subject: turn-key/plug-in-and-play hardware for NEXT/OPENSTEP and W95 Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.970606141525.24121A-100000@lipschitz> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 14:24:42 -0600 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware, deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu Organization: As little as I can get away with... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello all, We're looking for vendors selling hardware with NEXT/OPENSTEP and W95 installed and ready to roll. Are there any out there? -- kc P.S. The message below notwithstanding, please Cc: deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- By US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer meets the definition of a telephone fax machine. By Sec.227(b) (1)(C), it is unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment, punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500, whichever is greater, for EACH violation. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please do not send unsolicited commercial mail to my email account. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: Charles Esteban Paul <epsas@evcom.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Installing 3.1 with an IDE CD-Rom Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 02:46:24 -0400 Organization: Evolution Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <3397B240.1E1A@evcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just purchased NeXtStep 3.1 (still in shrink wrap) and I have been devestated by the installation procedure which requires a SCSI CD-ROM drive. Is there any way to point the installation program towards the IDE drive instead of the non-existant SCSI drive? Has this problem ever occured before? I would appreciate any help I can get :)
From: Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Fun with swapfiles Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 23:17:21 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QnaB=1eSMURk0UYus0@transarc.com> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> <5mf0kh$av9$1@news2.digex.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527132840.12839C-100000@kira> <5mfm8a$nd3$1@news2.digex.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527162511.11713A-100000@kira> <5micmr$a03@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <5micmr$a03@xmission.xmission.com> I've forgotten exactly how Mach treats swapfiles, but I think you can remove it with relative impunity. A normal Unix programming paradigm is fd = open("foo", OCREAT... unlink("foo") ... ... close(fd); This gives you an "anonymous" temp file, which no one else can open or otherwise use (since it doesn't exist in any directory). Since it is open, it is still referenced, and the filesystem won't recycle the underlying data structures or storage. I believe that the same holds true for the swapfiles in Mach -- they are kept "open" by the VM system, so if you delete and recreate one, you won't see any space reclaimed until you reboot (which would reclaim space anyway, natch). I'm just not sure enough to try it myself :-)
From: b.sims@dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Ben Sims) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Promise Ultra ATA etc. Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 10:16:51 +0000 Message-ID: <19970606101651211863@sims3d.demon.co.uk> I would appreciate any feedback on the chances of running OPENSTEP/Mach 4.1 on Gateway2000 P2 /233 ATX with the following components: Hard drive: Quantum 3.2gb with a Promise Ultra ATA controller. CD-ROM: Mitsumi 12-16 IDE/ATAPI Graphics: STB ViRGE GX PCI Cheers, Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBDEsI.I2F@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 20:12:18 GMT References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <mitchell.allen-0406971924530001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> <5n514k$27g@umbc10.umbc.edu> <5n6g7o$5t6$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5n6g7o$5t6$1@news.th-darmstadt.de>, Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam> wrote: > >No. You'd wind up with a no-monitor machine, which should boot >however, hm.. interesting. I've done this when I had to use my ND board on another machine but still needed to have my cube up and net-accessable. Worked fine. I didn't try printing, though. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Hack Cube Question Date: 7 Jun 1997 00:53:27 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5nabe7$1d0c@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5n0j5j$mnb$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> >I want to setup a dual CPU Ncube board that one would be a web server the >other would be a FTP server... can this be done? I know that the >connection between the two boards are done by the coax interface.. does >that mean that the board in slot on cannot be connected outside via the >cat 5 socket? or do we have to get one of shannon's fore fiber thingees?;-) > >While I am at it... does anyone have any success with 1 dim + 2 >CPU combo? that isslots:[empty Dimension] [ 04(turbo or otherwise)0 030] >combination? You lost me there for a while, but... You can have multiple CPU boards in a cube so long as you do the backplane hack to make all the slots a CPU board is in #0. If only one of the CPU boards has an NBIC chip installed then you can also throw in a NeXTdimension board into the box and have it act as a secondary color display for that CPU. With multiple CPU's in the cube they all effectively act as separate computers sharing the same power supply. That's ALL! If you like you could have each with its own keyboard and monitor even (if the power supply can handle it) but usually the additional CPUs are headless/keyboardless and boot over the network from the main CPU board, requiring them all to be connected via ethernet. FYI - I'm 99% sure the NeXTdimension wont work if more than one CPU board has an NBIC chip on it, and 98% certain two CPU boards with NBIC chips wont work together in any case. To answer your question, yes, a CPU+CPU+ND cube will work, if you do it right. - Gareth -- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: 7 Jun 1997 01:02:53 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5nabvt$1d0c@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <msg69058.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <mitchell.allen-0406971320570001@242.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> <3395BF41.45F1@ibm.net> <mitchell.allen-0406971924530001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> >> > How can you have a dual headed ND configuration without a soundbox? Is >> > there a way to do this? >> > >> The mono monitor takes the place of the sound box. Color monitor goes >> into the ND, mono monitor into the 040 and the keyboard into the mono >> monitor and that's all there is to it. >> >I was just curious if some color NeXT monitors don't require a soundbox in >order to connect the keyboard and mouse. To make a long story short, you need _something_ to shove in the plug from the keyboard/mouse. The motherboard don't have a suitable recepticle, none of the color monitors have one either. So you need to shove it into either a soundbox or a mono monitor, which do. - Gareth -- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Support for black From: apl@kcbbs.gen.nz (Andrew Lindesay) Date: 5 Jun 97 21:06:59 GMT Message-ID: <17497155.76019.2462@kcbbs.gen.nz> Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand I'm dissapointed to hear from quite a few sources that black will no longer be supported. (deep sigh). I was wondering if we could do something like all do a mass-faxing/letter-writing effort to Apple in order for them to; (a) next>make (b) cut some CD's. Andrew (apl@kcbbs.gen.nz)
From: Buddy Cox <buddyc@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: speaking of mono cubes... Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 15:48:18 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <33987792.4610@ibm.net> References: <msg69002.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5n3noe$kvd$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <msg69058.thr-2ce02b.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <mitchell.allen-0406971320570001@242.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> <3395BF41.45F1@ibm.net> <mitchell.allen-0406971924530001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I was just curious if some color NeXT monitors don't require a soundbox in > order to connect the keyboard and mouse. > > Mitch They all require it (or a mono monitor, of course, in the ND scenario). Unlike the N4000s, the color monitors do not include this capability. Buddy
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next is nice .... but! (+ about a thousand other newbie questions) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 12:26:30 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970606122430.5154B-100000@kira> References: <01bc72a1$499a95a0$0601a8c0@mark> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mark Smith <mark@storagedirect.com> In-Reply-To: <01bc72a1$499a95a0$0601a8c0@mark> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Mark Smith wrote: > Well I've had a look at NextStep 3.3, and I must admit it looks nice ... > but! No buts allows.... > Where can I find drivers for it ? We have lots of bits of kit here that > NextStep won't recoginise such as Mylex and DPT RAID controllers 3com > network cards (595's and 905's). > Can anyone point me towards a site with some drivers and docs on it, as I > want to see how Next fairs up to other OS's such as NT and Linux, but if I > can't use networking it would be a bit pointless. Your greatest source will be http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ There is a hardware compatibility guide therein for both 3.3 and 4.x > PS. If there is a FAQ where can I get it ? Yes there is, you can find it and many many other helpful NeXTStep links at my bookmarks page, see my .sig for the URL. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Message-ID: <EBF5wn.62B.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 18:55:34 GMT NeXT uses the Berkeley Fast File System (BFFS), described in the UNIX System Manager's Manual, chapter 14. Grab a copy via the Web, Archie, or ftp, and read it through. >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 26-May-97 Re: HELP with >WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net >> Well, first, this breaks down in the case of a system with two >> partitions (like mine :) because in that situation you WILL have >> the head going over some dead space to get to the swap all the >> time... There should be no dead space. I seem to remember that the BFFS purposely spreads out the files over different heads and cylinders to protect against total loss of data if a single head or cylinder is lost. >> Hmmm, that's true... My setup is two partitions (which might be >> a worst case scenario!) and typically you can almost FEEL the darn >> heads being moved away to get to swap... However, one point to >> make...if the drive is REALLY big... Let's say 9 gigs, and you >> have 3 partitons: a being 4gb for system, b being 1gb for swap, >> and c being 4gb for files/apps... Let's say you only have 1gb of >> data on both partitions a and c. Then the heads will have to travel >> over more space than had the person made a single partition with >> all 3gb's of data situated more tightly together...no? >> >> See what I mean... >> >> |aa-aaa-aa----------------|bbbbbbbb|cc-ccc-cc--------------| >> >> |-----------max head seek distance----------| >> >> vs. >> >> |a-c-aa-c-a-c-ac-bbbbbb-a-c-a-cc-b-b-----------------------| >> >> |---------max h.seek distance------| I guess you're assuming that each new file will be allocated with the lowest block numbers available in the partition. I cannot explain why you can feel the heads moving, but this just isn't true. The BFFS places file under 1MB in a contiguous sequence of blocks, but as far away as possible from other files in the partition (I may be exaggerating a bit here). BFFS also tries to use a different head or platter for each new file - obviously in a cyclic scheme - to protect against loss of all data when a single head crashes. This overall scheme may be thwarted by SCSI drives which do not accurately report their sector, head, and cylinder count - or by drives which change the number of sectors per track between the inner and outer cylinders - but the file system still treats things this way for allocation purposes. An interesting side note about the BFFS is that files above 1MB are "pre-fragmented." In other words, they are purposely broken into 1MB chunks that are spread out across the disk. If you think about this from one point of view, it actually makes sense. There is a maximum "run" of data that can be sucked from a drive non-stop without CPU or SCSI throughput necessitating a brief pause. Also, you wouldn't plan a file system for a multi-tasking operating system without considering that huge files can not be read in their entirety without breaking the I/O request up so that other processes can run. I would assume that different hardware would have a different optimal run size. I don't know if BFFS allows this 1MB chunk size to be changed, but I assume this is the sort of thing that people adjust when tuning their file system parameters to their system (a mysterious art that I have not mastered). >Yes, you're absolutely correct that partitioning the drives in the way >you describe would decrease performance. > >Having everything be on one partition tends to cause more fragmentation, >and it prevents you from doing any kind of filesystem tuning to adjust >the filesystem parameters more appropriately for the intended usage of >the partition. > >You've clearly understood that partitioning a drive badly hurts >performance quite noticably, but you make a mistake by generalizing too >far and claiming that partitioning a drive will always hurt performance. It sounds like I've jumped into the discussion late. Although the ideas are sound, I think that some of the examples do not exactly apply to OPENSTEP, unless you both were talking about using FDISK to partition DOS formatted drives. We're not talking about a toy file system like DOS. Even though NeXT had been criticized for not having a "modern" file system (there are some out there with advantages), BFFS is a far cry better than a first hack, FAT-based file system that a certain software giant seems unwilling to move beyond. :-( -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Bellevue, WA, U.S.A. Registered NeXT/Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner BrianW@SoundS.WA.com NeXTmail welcome
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5nc9ja$d7n$1019@usenet85.supernews.com> Date: 7 Jun 1997 20:02:07 GMT Control: cancel <5nc9ja$d7n$1019@usenet85.supernews.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5nc9ja$d7n$1019@usenet85.supernews.com> Sender: jasonben@aol.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 19:52:13 -0600 From: ybco@bestweb.net Subject: NeXTSTEP on compaq presario 9500 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <865729476.29230@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Has anyone been able to install nextstep 3.1/3.2 for Mach on compaq presario series computers?? -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How to Build Disk new Boot for black? Message-ID: <EBF4Mx.A19@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <339426a6.1266278@news.mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 18:28:09 GMT In article <339426a6.1266278@news.mindspring.com> tia@nospam.internet (Thanks In Advance!) writes: > Good Morning, > I am hoping somebody can give me some advice concerning Build > Disk for Black. I have several times attempted to create a new boot > disk using my slab. I had diasy chained a scsi CD into the system, and > using a new hard drive, proceeded to Build Disk. After the task > finished, I disconnected all the drives, and reconnected only the new > drive. The system refused to boot from the new drive. I was > careful with scsi ID jumpers, so I don't think that was the problem. > Does anybody have a suggestion on how I can create a new boot drive? > Thank You! > Unfortunately, you didn't give any cosole messages you got during the boot attempts. You can only expect some very general advice, though. Black machines need the internal drive and the last external drive to be terminated properly. Correct SCSI IDs are fine but just not sufficient. Black NeXTs will always try to boot from the hard disk with the lowest ID. And a drive that is not automatically or by means of switches set to respond in asynch mode is not bootable! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: new scsi disk pricing web page Date: 8 Jun 1997 15:02:53 GMT Message-ID: <19970608150200.LAA28949@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com i am now going to publish my special scsi-UPS-Pentium pricing at the following web address, so that it can be updated daily, and weekly. please visit it. also a cool picture of the new Hornet fighter plane firing a Tomahawk missile at you. http://members.aol.com/JCarr37863/index.html UPS/ SUN/SCSI Built to order IN Maryland home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar 800-209-5556 POWERSTAR INC.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu Subject: Re: turn-key/plug-in-and-play hardware for NEXT/OPENSTEP and W95 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:39:36 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970607142507.27278C-100000@kira> References: <Pine.NXT.3.93.970606141525.24121A-100000@lipschitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "J. Kelly Cunningham" <deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.93.970606141525.24121A-100000@lipschitz> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, J. Kelly Cunningham wrote: > We're looking for vendors selling hardware with NEXT/OPENSTEP and W95 > installed and ready to roll. Are there any out there? Greetings! I would like to offer my recommendation for Bifrostworks Workstations (http://www.bifrostworks.com/). They put together a rock-solid NSFIP machine for me (ie zero panics). Although I decided not to have Win95 installed by them, I really wish I had and they could have done it for me. Jason @ Bifrost spent a lot of time with me discussing exactly what I wanted (because I didn't reallu know ;-) and the machine he put together is both exactly what I wanted. I am really impressed with them. Also FYI: when I asked the Usenet groups about getting an Intel machine, I got several emails from folks who had bought multiple workstations from them (some a few years ago) and they all spoke glowingly about their experiences with Bifrost. You can even click on the nice Bifrost icon from my NeXT page ;-) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: kyle@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kyle Hearfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: soundblaster Vibra 16 and NS/OS Date: 6 Jun 1997 14:04:39 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5n95dn$kvn@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Has anyone been able to get NeXTStep or Openstep to see the Vibra 16 audio card from Soundblaster. I have a Dell XPS133s which has this chip integrated on the motherboard. All the documentation I have seen indicates that it uses the same settings as a regular soundblaster but I cannot get NS or OS to see it. -- I don't wan't the world, I just want your half. -Unknown ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kyle D. Hearfield kyle@morgan.ucs.mun.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PGP FINGERPRINT = 8A 3C 24 C9 86 F5 E6 3C 7B 91 D2 B1 CF 32 B7 E9 **finger for public Key**
From: "Sameer Khosla" <labtec@netcom.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: remote booting Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 17:16:32 -0400 Organization: Netcom Canada Message-ID: <5nf7hf$chr@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca> Yet another silly question for you guys. If you have a Next Cube that you want to use as a server, can you connect next stations that do not have hard drives to the network and have them boot off of the server, or do they have to have hard drives? Sameer Khosla labtec@netcom.ca
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <26791865137630@digifix.com> Date: 8 Jun 1997 03:57:17 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <14012865742421@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: 8 Jun 1997 21:25:53 GMT Organization: NIEHS Message-ID: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: MAC, Rhapsody Hi, I know nearly nothing about MAC hardware. Would someone please tell me what MAC hardware should be best for running Rhapsody when it arrives? I saw a report from the WWDC saying that the first (pre-) release would only support the 8500 and 8600 machines. Are these the top-of-the-line MACs or more like a mid-level line? I think I've seen ads for a 9600, which I assume is a fancier machine, as the model number is higher. Is this true? If so, why wouldn't Rhapsody run on this machine? Do they really mean 8500 or higher? Or are they limiting it to a mid-level machine intially? I'd like to buy the top of the line, but I'd sure hate to find out that it won't run Rhapsody when it comes out. Thanks in advance for any guidance. Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] experience with pnp modem Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 07:05:54 GMT Organization: Korea Telecom Message-ID: <970608160554.359AAGhE.root@color> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII does anyone have any experience with "sound blaster 16 pnp + phone blaster 28800 pnp modem" on NEXTSTEP? Thanks, younghoon KIL ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (NeXTMail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP Q&A and info board written in Korean)
From: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: soundblaster Vibra 16 and NS/OS Date: 9 Jun 1997 13:10:00 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5ngvb8$d4$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <5n95dn$kvn@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> In-Reply-To: <5n95dn$kvn@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Hello, On 06/06/97, Kyle Hearfield wrote: >Has anyone been able to get NeXTStep or Openstep to see the Vibra 16 >audio card from Soundblaster. Yes I have. You must install the newest EISA and Soundblaster drivers. Then, after a reboot, you have to start the programme /usr/Devices/EISABus.config/PnPDump from a Terminal prompt. Search for a line like Logical Device 0: Id OPT0000 (0x3e140000) in the section describing your Sound-Card and note the number in parenthesis. You have to enter that number in the "experts option panel" in the soundblaster section of Configure.app. After another reboot it should work! Hope this helps, Dirk -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dirk Schwarzhans Email: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (MIME and NeXTMail welcome) WWW: http://pl.physik.TU-Berlin.DE/DZ/Dirk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Henry Koplien <koplien@vnet.ibm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: soundblaster Vibra 16 and NS/OS Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 08:02:12 +0200 Organization: IBM HD MicroCode Message-ID: <339B9C64.41C6@vnet.ibm.com> References: <5n95dn$kvn@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kyle Hearfield wrote: > > Has anyone been able to get NeXTStep or Openstep to see the Vibra 16 audio > card from Soundblaster. I have a Dell XPS133s which has this chip > integrated on the motherboard. All the documentation I have seen > indicates that it uses the same settings as a regular soundblaster but I > cannot get NS or OS to see it. Strange behaviour. Works fine with a Intel-Box. Henry -- ----------- http://www.ti6.tu-harburg.de/~ti6hk/index.html ------------ snail mail : Henry Koplien, Micro Code Development, IBM 71032 Boeblingen/Germany voice : +49-7031-16-3516 \|/ fax : +49-7031-16-3328 o(O O)o voice,BBS & fax : +49-7031-276113 (private) \ / ------------------ Email: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com ----ooOo---(_)---oOoo---
From: vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: remote booting Date: 9 Jun 1997 13:46:55 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5nh1gf$251$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <5nf7hf$chr@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: labtec@netcom.ca "Sameer Khosla" schrieb in comp.sys.next.hardware: > Yet another silly question for you guys. > > If you have a Next Cube that you want to use as a server, can you > connect next stations that do not have hard drives to the network and > have them boot off of the server, or do they have to have hard > drives? Sure, you can. But consider, that the clients will swap over your network and a cube is not very fast as a server in these days ... I wouldn't do that. > Sameer Khosla > labtec@netcom.ca CIAO Volker -- Volker Safran, Berlin, Germany ___________________________________ --- / Phone: +49 30 69041523 (private) volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de / +49 30 45058062 (at work) vsafran@ukrv.de (at work) / FAX : +49 30 69041524 (private) ______________________________/ +49 30 45058904 (at work)
From: dnelson@slip.net (Dru Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep Intel/Mach tips page Date: 8 Jun 1997 04:05:27 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Message-ID: <5ne3ln$jdp@slip.net> I have made a web page that has some tips for dealing with some of the Openstep install issues. You can get to it here: http://www.slip.net/~dnelson/openstep.html Basically, it describes some of the problems I have had and some of the solutions. contact me here: dnelson@slip.net
From: cayouett@bmerh189.ca.nortel.com (Daniel Cayouette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Black printer starting to smudge print-outs Date: 8 Jun 1997 16:04:18 GMT Organization: Nortel (Northern Telecom) Message-ID: <5nel62$6d1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> My black printer has recently started to print with black smears on the paper. I've tried to dust/swipe the insides without any luck. Any suggestions? Should I replace the original cartridge? Daniel PS: I bought it in '90 :) -- Messaging Systems Development Ottawa, Ontario Project Manager - Global Email Interworking Email: Daniel.Cayouette@nortel.ca or Daniel@Cayouette.com Phone: (613)763-2340 http://47.80.12.186/interop - Messaging Inter-operability Home Page
From: sboker@calliope.psych.nd.edu (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mux for 4.x ? Date: 8 Jun 1997 23:54:20 GMT Organization: University of Notre Dame Message-ID: <5nfgnc$9jq@news.nd.edu> Hi all, I need to run the MUX driver (for the Digiboard 8 port serial card) on OpenStep 4.0. It seems that Mux doesn't like to install itself on 4.0. I have it installed on an old 3.3 system at home, but this nifty new 4.0 system at the lab doesn't work the same. Anybody get MUX to work on OS 4.x? If you're interested in why, here's a quick run-down. I'm studying the nonlinear dynamics of body movements. This is a part of psychology called Perception-Action Systems. I'm working to establish serial communications with an odd "bird". This is a set of magnetic coil position trackers called a "flock of birds". Unfortunately, these people have a relatively non-standard serial interface that uses RTS to reset their electronics! Yech! I'm stuck with XON/XOFF protocol and I'm trying to synchronize a number of sensors simultaneously. Enter Digiboard and the MUX driver, right? Eight ports with 16 byte buffering, and if I'm clever, I can get enough data moving from each sensor to maintain a reasonable enough sampling rate to understand some of the low level processes in how we maintain balance and how we perform non-verbal communication. If anyone can help here, I'd be very thankful. I've been up and down and back and forth with a breakout box before I came to the inescapeable conclusion that the Flock of Birds wants to run at 57 kbaud without hardware flow control. Insane! I'm going to have to step down the speed and add more ports. All the best, Steve -- Dr. Steven M. Boker 219-631-4941 (voice) sboker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax) http://www.nd.edu/~sboker/ 219-257-2956 (home) Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5ndqnt$nm$1158@news.internetmci.com> Date: 8 Jun 1997 16:51:30 GMT Control: cancel <5ndqnt$nm$1158@news.internetmci.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5ndqnt$nm$1158@news.internetmci.com> Sender: Photorep45@ibm.net Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: richard@aphrael.csarc.otago.ac.nz (Richard Lewis-Shell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What is required of an internal scsi hd to work on a slab? Date: 8 Jun 1997 23:39:37 GMT Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ Message-ID: <5nffrp$lcb$1@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> Hello, I was wondering what needs to be set (via jumpers?) on a scsi hd to work on the internal scsi bus? I have a 500Mb disk that works fine in an external enclosure, but when I put it inside the slab (nextstation turbo), I get the following error after the 'extended scsi boot test': System test failed. Error code 65 Boot command: sd boot sd(0,0,0) SCSI Bus Hung Can anyone help? This disk boots fine when outside the slab. TIA, Richard
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 18:07:49 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608180613.2491A-100000@kira> References: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Gregg E. Dinse" <dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov> In-Reply-To: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> I believe any recent PowerPC should do it... Although personally I'd probably wait and get whatever it current at the time... If you are planning on development, yes that will be relatively soon... however, if you just want to use Rhapsody, I think they are talking late 1998... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: willadams@aol.com (WillAdams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Jaz Drive with laptop for NeXTStep Date: 9 Jun 1997 01:50:21 GMT Message-ID: <19970609015000.VAA28532@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com I'm wondering--would I be able to boot NeXTStep 3.3 (or OPENSTEP) from a Jaz drive attached to a ThinkPad via a PCMCIA SCSI Controller? If not, how much hard drive space would I need to allocate to NeXTStep for it to boot, and then use the Jaz Drive? Just trying to plan ahead on what I should purchase--any input much appreciated. William William Adams http://members.aol.com/willadams Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
From: "Sameer Khosla" <labtec@netcom.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black printer starting to smudge print-outs Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 21:46:43 -0400 Organization: Netcom Canada Message-ID: <5nfnc3$pu0@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca> References: <5nel62$6d1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> If its a thermal or laser printer, you can try a cleaning sheet. They cost about $5 and usually do the trick. If not, then you probably need a new drum. Sameer Khosla labtec@netcom.ca Daniel Cayouette wrote in article <5nel62$6d1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>... > My black printer has recently started to print with black smears on >the paper. I've tried to dust/swipe the insides without any luck. > > Any suggestions? Should I replace the original cartridge? > >Daniel > >PS: I bought it in '90 :) > >-- >Messaging Systems Development Ottawa, Ontario >Project Manager - Global Email Interworking >Email: Daniel.Cayouette@nortel.ca or Daniel@Cayouette.com Phone: (613)763-2340 >http://47.80.12.186/interop - Messaging Inter-operability Home Page >
From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What does a Black modem cable act like? Date: 8 Jun 1997 22:54:53 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <5nfr9t$msl@umbc10.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: bhurle1 Cube + cable + modem = good times ahead. So I have a pc cable, and I have a mac cable, the mac one fits, but will it work? I had thought there was some wierd thing about the pinout. True? how do I rewire it? thanks bryan 040 25 20 100 3.2
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: 8 Jun 97 23:00:00 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235> References: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Gregg E. Dinse" <dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov> It will run on 8600's (a current model) and 8500's (an older model). It may also run on 9500's and 9600's, but only if you're using an Apple video card. If I were you I'd try to get an 8600. However, last I heard Apple was about 15,000 orders behind on these machines. If you can't get the 8600 then try to get an 8500. I'd be worried about a 9500/9600 because the only quotes I've seen is that Apple will 'try' to get it so that the DR can run on these machines. I saw no guarantees. An 8500 would probably have a 604 PPC chip in it, while the 8600's will have 604e's. The 604e/200 is faster than anything Intel has out, so you should be happy with an 8600/200. (The 8500, 8600, 9500, and 9600 all use the same motherboard. However, the 8500/8600's have onboard video, while the 9500/9600's require cards. What's strange is that I seem to remember seeing these machines only selling with non-Apple video cards. Another difference is that the 8500/8600's have 3 PCI slots while the 9500/9600's have 5. I also think the 9500/9600's ship with larger L2 cache. Also, the 8500/8600 have onboard video-in/video-out while the 9500/9600 do not). Oh, BTW, it's 'Mac', not 'MAC'. A MAC is some sort of controller device. rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black printer starting to smudge print-outs Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 21:36:30 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608213530.12834A-100000@kira> References: <5nel62$6d1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> <5nfnc3$pu0@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Sameer Khosla <labtec@netcom.ca>, Daniel@Cayouette.com In-Reply-To: <5nfnc3$pu0@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca> On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Sameer Khosla wrote: > If its a thermal or laser printer, you can try a cleaning sheet. They cost > about $5 and usually do the trick. If not, then you probably need a new > drum. I tried one of these with my NeXT laser printer and it made things worse.... much worse.... I wouldn't recommend it.... YMMV TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: "Carl A. Carlson" <ccarlson@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Digital Signal Processor? Date: 8 Jun 1997 22:14:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <339B3024.6575@primenet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently bought a NeXT Mono Station (25 mhz). I understand that it has a Digital Signal Processor. What can it do? Where can I get documentation? Thanks, Carl
From: David Young <daver@jacobs.Geeks.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What does a Black modem cable act like? Date: 9 Jun 1997 23:40:23 GMT Organization: Geeks Organizations Message-ID: <5ni497$bju$1@darla.visi.com> References: <5nfr9t$msl@umbc10.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 09 Jun 1997 18:40:23 CDT hurley bryan <bhurle1@umbc.edu> wrote: > So I have a pc cable, and I have a mac cable, the mac one fits, but will > it work? I had thought there was some wierd thing about the pinout. man zs, or search the System Administrator's Guide for "Cabling". You want an 040 DIN-8 to RS-232 cable with the relevant pins in the relevant places. Various Mac cables will not work, from what I've heard. My advices to snag a LocalTalk cable as some Mac modem cables lack pins that 040s need. Then hack it up and connect the pins, and presto. This is also my advice for Newton MessagePad cables. > 040 25 20 100 3.2 Neat sig. -- :: d a v i d y o u n g ::::: smtp dwy@ace.net http www.ace.net :: :: PGP fingerprint :: 89F5 E75D 4749 3FF4 :: ED92 1B6D 9871 9B93 ::
From: j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 07:29:34 -0600 Organization: Northwestern University Message-ID: <j-norstad-0906970729340001@legume186176.nuts.nwu.edu> References: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235> In article <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235>, "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> wrote: > I'd be worried about a 9500/9600 because the only > quotes I've seen is that Apple will 'try' to get it so that the DR can run > on these machines. I saw no guarantees. Apple sent a letter to developers on May 30 stating that Rhapsody DR1 will run on the 9500 and 9600 models in addition to the 8500 and 8600 models. -- John Norstad <mailto:j-norstad@nwu.edu> <http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu/jln/>
From: John Zachary <zachary@bit.csc.lsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Syquest EZFlyer EIDE and Openstep 4.2 Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 11:28:57 -0500 Organization: LSU Robotics Research Laboratory Message-ID: <339C2F49.1AC9@bit.csc.lsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anyone have experience with the Syquest EZFlyer EIDE unit and OpenStep 4.2? I suppose it should work like a normal EIDE drive, but my suppositions have been known to be wrong. Thanks. (BTW, yes I consulted NeXTAnswers - no answer). -- John Zachary LSU Robotics Research Laboratory
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: What does a Black modem cable act like? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBIIvG.D92@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 14:28:27 GMT References: <5nfr9t$msl@umbc10.umbc.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5nfr9t$msl@umbc10.umbc.edu>, hurley bryan <bhurle1@umbc.edu> wrote: > >Cube + cable + modem = good times ahead. > Yes! >So I have a pc cable, and I have a mac cable, the mac one fits, but will >it work? I had thought there was some wierd thing about the pinout. > As I recall the Mac cable will not work. There are wiring instructions in the man page for zs. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Digital Signal Processor? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBIIx8.KHH@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 14:29:31 GMT References: <339B3024.6575@primenet.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <339B3024.6575@primenet.com>, Carl A. Carlson <ccarlson@primenet.com> wrote: >I recently bought a NeXT Mono Station (25 mhz). I understand that it >has a Digital Signal Processor. What can it do? Where can I get >documentation? It can do all sorts of DSP-related stuff. Check out the MusicKit from CCRMA (something like http://www.ccrma.stanford.edu/). If you want to write DSP assembler yourself (great fun!) you should get the DSP56001UM/AD book from Motorola. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Melissa O'Neill <NoOnSePiAlMl@cs.sfu.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Black Monitor giving out -- stretching & shrinking vertical Date: 9 Jun 1997 11:19:00 -0700 Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Message-ID: <5nhhek$ojl@alonzo.cs.sfu.ca> Yesterday, after more than six years of faithful and near continuous service, my black monochrome monitor has developed a fault. It's developed a distortion in its vertical scan, and now stretches the first twenty or so scan lines, and then moves through normal into squashing the scan lines up (at it's worst around where `Quit' is in the Terminal.app menu), and then suddenly, bing, the lower half of the screen is normal. If this is some common problem, with an easy fix, I'd be very interested. Also, if I can send my monitor away somewhere to be fixed, I'd love to hear where that would be. Finally, if I have to get a `new' monitor, I'd be interested in knowing where the best place is, and how much I'd have to pay. Hoping someone can help, Melissa. --- If you want to send e-mail replies to this posting, you'll have to remove `N O S P A M' from my e-mail address. Sorry for any inconvenience.
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 18:33:13 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0906971833140001@57.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> References: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235> <j-norstad-0906970729340001@legume186176.nuts.nwu.edu> > > Apple sent a letter to developers on May 30 stating that Rhapsody DR1 will > run on the 9500 and 9600 models in addition to the 8500 and 8600 models. > Yeah, but were they telling the truth? :-) Mitch
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:17:03 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970609191400.10150A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235> <j-norstad-0906970729340001@legume186176.nuts.nwu.edu> <mitchell.allen-0906971833140001@57.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <mitchell.allen-0906971833140001@57.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> On Mon, 9 Jun 1997 mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net wrote: > > > > > Apple sent a letter to developers on May 30 stating that Rhapsody DR1 will > > run on the 9500 and 9600 models in addition to the 8500 and 8600 models. > > > Yeah, but were they telling the truth? :-) > > Mitch > > In addition, how does one get a copy of the Rhapsody Developer Pre-release? I tried to call them and they told me it wasn't available anymore. And they weren't very nice about it: "We don't take orders anymore. Period". They said that they'd release something new in August, so they told me to call then. Any other experience? Thanks. Rudy.
From: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 3Com 3C900 or DECChip ethernet card for Openstep? Date: 9 Jun 1997 23:41:46 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ni4bq$j2l$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Which is a better choice for Openstep 4.2 on Intel: The 3Com Etherlink XL 3C900 PCI combo-10BaseT/AUI/BNC or a DECchip21040-based card such as the Cogent EM960C (which apparently is now also the Adaptec 6901/C) PCI combo-10BaseT/AUI/BNC ? I'm stuck on a 10Base2 (BNC) network, so I need the combo card. I also plan to run Linux and Win95 on the machine. -Karl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Pfleger kpfleger@cs.stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/~kpfleger/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 3Com 3C900 or DECChip ethernet card for Openstep? Date: 10 Jun 1997 00:29:05 GMT Organization: Purdue University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ni74h$hvk@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5ni4bq$j2l$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Karl Pfleger writes > Which is a better choice for Openstep 4.2 on Intel: > The 3Com Etherlink XL 3C900 PCI combo-10BaseT/AUI/BNC or a > DECchip21040-based card such as the Cogent EM960C (which apparently is now > also the Adaptec 6901/C) PCI combo-10BaseT/AUI/BNC ? Check NextAnswers (at wwww.next.com), but I'm pretty sure that a driver does not yet exist for the 3Com. -- Jon Haveman
From: Ru-tso Luo <rutsoluo@disca.utfsm.cl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: (intel) please help with Matrox Mystique !! Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 23:02:00 +0000 Organization: UTFSM Message-ID: <339C8B68.5F6@disca.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Just installing OS 4.1 on a white (and horrible, by the way) machine. Have a Mystique video board. I know itŽs not on the NeXTAnswers, the mystique seems not to be supported (thereŽs no driver for it "yet" :-) ). I just want to know which of the drivers available are the most siutable for my situation; that is, with which can I get the most screen, colors, hertz, etc. Which display is the "nearest" in technical composition as to use it for a Mystyque ..? ( I donŽt wanna live for ever with 640x480 !!! ) --> the default SVGA Driver locked or frozed on boot. --> so, booted with default config, --> set theI Millenium Driver 2048, and rebooted. --> now i can see the screen, am working in BW 640x480, kind of what i thought should be the SVGA mode. But go to the config app, and she sees the Millenium, although she doesnŽt have the correct settings (i asked for 256 color, 1074x740, etc). what the hell ?? thanks, from the other side of the world (anybody has ever heard about Chile??) Rutso
From: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 3Com 3C900 or DECChip ethernet card for Openstep? Date: 10 Jun 1997 03:45:06 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5niik2$pl3$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <5ni4bq$j2l$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5ni74h$hvk@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> In article <5ni74h$hvk@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> jon@haveman.org.nospam writes: >Karl Pfleger writes >> Which is a better choice for Openstep 4.2 on Intel: >> The 3Com Etherlink XL 3C900 PCI combo-10BaseT/AUI/BNC or a >> DECchip21040-based card such as the Cogent EM960C (which apparently is now >> also the Adaptec 6901/C) PCI combo-10BaseT/AUI/BNC ? > >Check NextAnswers (at wwww.next.com), but I'm pretty sure that a driver does >not yet exist for the 3Com. >Jon Haveman I did check. Looked like it was there but in beta status. -Karl
From: jasonben@aol.com (jasonben) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5nc9ja$d7n$1019@usenet85.supernews.com> Control: cancel <5nc9ja$d7n$1019@usenet85.supernews.com> Date: 9 Jun 1997 12:41:47 -0400 Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com/ Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <-5nc9ja$d7n$1019@usenet85.supernews.com> Please cancel this posting
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut" <webmaster@starpage.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: drive terminators Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 20:03:26 -0600 Organization: StarPage LCC Message-ID: <3390D86E.8BB@starpage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need to terminate my scsi drive, but don't have the two 10-pin terminators that came with the drive. No one locally seems to carry them. Where can I find some? Are all 10-pin terminators the same? The spec sheet for the drive doesn't say anything about them at all. thanks for help, Jesse_Hurlbut@byu.edu
From: Bald Herreman <bherrema@allserv.rug.ac.be> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Ethernet transfer difficulties Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:52:52 +0200 Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.94.970610154438.16358D-100000@allserv.rug.ac.be> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970602224455.3230D-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970602224455.3230D-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Ray Stricklin wrote: > > I'm having a bit of difficulty using NFS between my NeXTcube and a NS 486. > We are having difficulties with a Nextcube and a Pentium 166 > FTP results in similar performance. The very first bit of the transfer > (say, the first 100k) goes through at a normal rate, and then slows down > to one flash of the packet indicator on the hub every few seconds for the > remainder. exactly, If I have to transport large files I ftp them to the university ftp server(=on the other side of town), from there on to the nextcube > > It seems to make no difference which machine is the one doing the > exporting or importing; I've tried both ways. Nextcube to intel goes significantly faster (my guess is a factor 50) compared to intel >>> next Importing from the 486 > results in countless 'NFS server raskolnikov not responding' 'NFS server > raskolnikov ok' messages to the console on the cube. I get no messages > when importing from the cube, but performance is the same. Identical situation > > raskolnikov is an i486-66, 64M/2G, NS 3.3 > obelix is an 040 cube, 12M/2G, NS 3.3 > > Total loss; I don't understand. > > I hope someone can help me out. > > ok > -r > We are in this situation ever since we got our new server (Intel Pentium), I dont really now if it has been going on before since the nextcube was server only. Good luck
From: gerald@stepman.com (Gerald Erdmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: 10 Jun 1997 15:49:01 GMT Organization: STEPman OPENSTEP Consulting, Germany Message-ID: <5njt1d$s1@mimi.stepman.com> References: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235> <j-norstad-0906970729340001@legume186176.nuts.nwu.edu> <5njnbf$4vp@mimi.stepman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: gerald@stepman.com In <j-norstad-0906970729340001@legume186176.nuts.nwu.edu> John Norstad wrote: > In article <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235>, "Robert A. Decker" > <comrade@umich.edu> wrote: > > > I'd be worried about a 9500/9600 because the only > > quotes I've seen is that Apple will 'try' to get it so that the DR can run > > on these machines. I saw no guarantees. > > Apple sent a letter to developers on May 30 stating that Rhapsody DR1 will > run on the 9500 and 9600 models in addition to the 8500 and 8600 models. > There are some romours that DR1 will also be available vor Intel hardware. Gerald -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | GERALD ERDMANN (STEPman) | email: gerald @ stepman.com (NeXTmail welcome) | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin) | crypt: pgp2 public key available |
From: seanlNoSpam@carmi.cs.umd.edu (Sean Luke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Auto-Powerup for NeXTstations Date: 10 Jun 1997 16:50:57 GMT Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Message-ID: <5nk0lh$623@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'm wondering if there's any conceivable way to force a NeXTstation to not turn itself off when the power is cut; that is, if the power to a building (say) is cut, and then resupplied, the NeXTstation automatically boots without a user having to press the power key. _____________________________________________________________________________ Sean Luke Spam Must Die! "I've discovered that P==NP, but the proof is too U Maryland at College Park large to fit in the margins of this signature." seanlNoSpam@cs.umd.edu URL: http://nospam.www.cs.umd.edu/~seanl/
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 14:04:21 -0600 From: tsal@dfw.net Subject: Re: What is required of an internal scsi hd to work on a slab? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <865966619.22202@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: richard@csarc.otago.ac.nz References: <5nffrp$lcb$1@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> In article <5nffrp$lcb$1@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>, richard@csarc.otago.ac.nz wrote: > I was wondering what needs to be set (via jumpers?) on a scsi hd to work > on the internal scsi bus? I have a 500Mb disk that works fine in an > external enclosure, but when I put it inside the slab (nextstation turbo), > I get the following error after the 'extended scsi boot test': > > System test failed. Error code 65 > > Boot command: sd > boot sd(0,0,0) > SCSI Bus Hung I seem to be having the exact same problem, I have a 1.0Gbyte SCSI drive, though, but I get the exact same error... strange.. if you get a fix/solution email me back, please.. or someone else *help!* tsal@dfw.net -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Work: msoori@*genetics.bio-rad.com | ~ ~ Personal: mahesh@*value.net | This space for rent! ~ ~ Home Page: http://value.net/~mahesh/work.html | ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: liuyi@dragon-dance.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What is required of an internal scsi hd to work on a slab? Date: 10 Jun 1997 20:21:11 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <9816A0E996C79F50.07458D622AA903D0.9EA20C6B40655295@library-proxy.airnews.net> References: <5nffrp$lcb$1@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> <865966619.22202@dejanews.com> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 14:04:21 -0600, tsal@dfw.net <tsal@dfw.net> wrote: > In article <5nffrp$lcb$1@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>, > > I was wondering what needs to be set (via jumpers?) on a scsi hd to work > > on the internal scsi bus? I have a 500Mb disk that works fine in an > > external enclosure, but when I put it inside the slab (nextstation turbo), > > I get the following error after the 'extended scsi boot test': > > System test failed. Error code 65 > > Boot command: sd > > boot sd(0,0,0) > > SCSI Bus Hung > > I seem to be having the exact same problem, I have a 1.0Gbyte SCSI drive, > though, but I get the exact same error... strange.. if you get a > fix/solution > > email me back, please.. or someone else *help!* > Did you terminate the internal drive when you put it in? It has to be terminated. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@dragon-dance.com> {NeXTMail OK} Dallas,TX
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) Subject: Re: Black printer starting to smudge print-outs Message-ID: <1997Jun9.202849.1030@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: cayouett@bmerh189.ca.nortel.com Organization: Disorganization References: <5nel62$6d1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:28:49 GMT In <5nel62$6d1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> Daniel Cayouette wrote: > My black printer has recently started to print with black smears on > the paper. I've tried to dust/swipe the insides without any luck. > > Any suggestions? Should I replace the original cartridge? Yes, it is the cartridge if cleaning doesn't help. Get a new one !
From: Subir Grewal <hostmaster@trill-home.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT laser printer toner cartidge? Date: 10 Jun 1997 23:41:01 GMT Organization: Trill host selection council Message-ID: <5nkome$6ca$1@nnrp1.crl.com> I can't seem to reach peanuts.leo.org from here, so I thought I'd ask whether anyone knew what toner cartridges NeXT laser printers would take. -- hostmaster@trill-home.com + Lynx 2.7.1 + NeXT/PGP mail + www.crl.com/~subir/ Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be. __________________________________________________ > Sean Luke Spam Must Die! "I've discovered that P==NP, but the proof is too > U Maryland at College Park large to fit in the margins of this signature." > seanlNoSpam@cs.umd.edu URL: http://nospam.www.cs.umd.edu/~seanl/ > aside from UPS's to keep the juice flowing, I think late model NeXT's have a pref panel choice for auto power on after power failure. it doesn't work on mine and I don't remember the rom ver. #. perhaps it's turbos and up? it might be a faq... -- Rick Sanford Dental Records(R) dental@precipice.com NeXTMAIL welcome http://www.dentalrecords.com
From: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,alt.solaris.x86 Subject: PC vendors who know Unix (Linux, Openstep, Solaris, etc.) Date: 11 Jun 1997 00:21:04 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5nkr1g$l9t$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> After buying computers from the likes of Gateway, Dell, etc. for a while, for my most recent computer purchase I started investigating the world of smaller x86 based PC vendors who know various flavors of Unix well and can ship turn-key systems with multiboot capability and many OSes preinstalled. I was very pleasantly surprised to see a handful of really good vendors out there. Even if you don't get preinstalled OSes, they can be a great resource for buying PCs with components guaranteed to be compatible with your favorite OS, and for the most part much more appropriate for preemptive, multitasking operating systems like Unix than the components of the major high volume PC vendors. Since I was generally very impressed with both the web sites of these vendors and the interactions I had with the 3 or 4 I actually interacted with, I thought I would post here to let everyone know what is out there. I have repeatedly seen requests for lists of vendors like this, so hopefully this will be helpful to someone. Here is the list I compiled, which is almost certainly not complete: Apache Digital Corporation http://www.apache.com/ ASL Workstations http://www.aslab.com/ Bifrost Workstations http://www.bifrostworks.com/ Linux Hardware Solutions http://www.linux-hw.com/ Net Express http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ SW Technology http://www.swt.com/ VA Research http://www.varesearch.com/ All ship Linux systems (except Bifrost) and most will install Win95 or WinNT or even OS/2 as well, and some know a thing or two about other OSes as well. In particular, Bifrost concentrates on Openstep. Apache also knows Openstep well, and will sell or install it. Net Express appears to know a bit about what is compatible with it, but I'm not sure whether they will install it or sell it, or how up-to-date their knowledge of recent versions is. Net Express and possibly others also know Solaris x86. A few specific comments: - Net Express has the most informative web site I've ever seen. It's great. They also have a wonderfully simple a la carte pricing policy. Plus, their sales and tech e-mail staff are great. My e-mail interaction with them was wonderful. Even after I made it clear that i wasn't going to get my system from them, they were helpful and informative. Another point: they have great memory prices (at least for the kind I need). - Bifrost was so open and upfront that when I told them I wanted my system to be able to run Linux as well as Openstep, they referred me to Apache. I think this is spectacular, and I recommend them to anyone who wants a solely Openstep machine. - Apache had the most knowledge specifically straddling Linux and Openstep and they were great both on the phone and over e-mail. - SWT had one of the largest selections of components to choose from. More importantly, it was just about the only one of the vendors to offer a 30-day no-questions-asked money-back guarantee (not including shipping of course). This is the one thing that alarmed me most about these vendors: that they will not let you return a working system if you don't like it for some reason. Some of the vendors claimed that such 30-day return policies, which are standard in the big vendors like Dell and Gateway, are slowly changing and that more and more vendors will have a no return for working merchandise policy soon. Some rightfully claimed it as an advantage of sorts in that they guarantee never to send you pre-owned but returned parts. - ASL had really good deals (for the systems I looked at and at the time that I looked). I don't know as much about the others, but that isn't to say they are in any way inferior. I won't tell you which I actually ordered my system from since the differences between them are so small as to make any choice very situation dependent. I have a feeling that with any of these vendors you can't really go too wrong. Happy computer shopping. -Karl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Pfleger kpfleger@cs.stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/~kpfleger/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Trey or Gwen McClendon <tgm@hiwaay.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Jaz trouble with NS3.3 on Intel Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:45:54 -0500 Organization: haphazard Message-ID: <339DF542.2AFD@hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm having a bit of trouble with a Jaz drive. I built a filesystem on it a few days ago, but it 'crashed' today. The system cannot successfully install a new file system on it because it gets to many SCSI retry errors. It will die at various places. I guess it somehow made it the first time without reaching some error limit. I've tried the disktab from NeXT and the disktab off the net (skylee.com, et.al.). I've done the Format command from disk. Does anyone know what I could try next? The jaz is connected to a Pentium system (ASUS SCSI with Symbios Logic driver v3.33). There other devices, including a Zip drive that works fine, on the SCSI chain. I've removed everything but the Jaz and still have trouble. Here is the SCSI rundown: ID=0, Boot NeXT disk ID=2, Windows hard disk ID=3, jaz drive. The drive works fine in windows. I took the problem disk and did the 21 minute format and no errors were found with the disk. Thanks in advance for any tips. It is important that I get this drive to work if possible. trey
From: maria_eugenia@jump.net (Maria Eugenia Tapia) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: /dev/cufb: Permission denied Date: 10 Jun 1997 20:49:15 -0500 Organization: Jump Point Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5nl06r$f6c@serv1.jump.net> I got a new internal HDD for my NeXTStation (040, 25Mhz non-turbo) and re-loaded NS3.1. Everything went well, except that now I cannot get kermit (or pppd) to 'grab' the tty device to dial out: /dev/cufb: Permission denied Sorry, access to tty device denied As root things work OK. What would cause this, and how could I fix it. Thank you very much for any information. Maria Eugenia Tapia (maria_eugenia@jump.net) (PS. Thanks (Tim Luoma) for the info on SCSI drives)
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5nkpv0$e72@chronicle.concentric.net> Date: 11 Jun 1997 00:46:56 GMT Control: cancel <5nkpv0$e72@chronicle.concentric.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5nkpv0$e72@chronicle.concentric.net> Sender: Free Cable<larry@aol.com> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: "Kevin M. Taggart" <ktaggart@easystreet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What is required of an internal scsi hd to work on a slab? Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:56:48 -0700 Organization: Easystreet Online Services Message-ID: <339E05E0.5C15EF0E@easystreet.com> References: <5nffrp$lcb$1@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> <865966619.22202@dejanews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When the drive was in the external housing, it was not terminated, as more SCSI devices could be added to the chain. As an internal device, it will need to be terminated as it is the last device on the internal SCSI chain. Some drives (older Maxtor's, for example) are terminated via two resister packs, while others require only a jumper be set. --KT ctiveness and versatility. I would like to purchase one also. Thanks in advance, Heath Tucker heatht@mindspring.com
From: ken@kdl.sc.scruznet.com (Ken Latta) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,alt.solaris.x86 Subject: Re: PC vendors who know Unix (Linux, Openstep, Solaris, etc.) Date: 11 Jun 1997 04:55:41 GMT Organization: scruz-net Message-ID: <5nlb4d$8k0@news.scruz.net> References: <5nkr1g$l9t$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In article <5nkr1g$l9t$1@nntp.stanford.edu>, kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) writes: > After buying computers from the likes of Gateway, Dell, etc. for a while, > for my most recent computer purchase I started investigating the world of > smaller x86 based PC vendors who know various flavors of Unix well and can > ship turn-key systems with multiboot capability and many OSes preinstalled. > > Since I was generally very impressed with both the web sites of these vendors > and the interactions I had with the 3 or 4 I actually interacted with, > I thought I would post here to let everyone know what is out there. > I have repeatedly seen requests for lists of vendors like this, so hopefully > this will be helpful to someone. Here is the list I compiled, which is almost > certainly not complete: > Apache Digital Corporation http://www.apache.com/ > ASL Workstations http://www.aslab.com/ > Bifrost Workstations http://www.bifrostworks.com/ > Linux Hardware Solutions http://www.linux-hw.com/ > Net Express http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ > SW Technology http://www.swt.com/ > VA Research http://www.varesearch.com/ One more that I find very satisfying Lindsay Computer Systems http://www.jump.net/~lcs/ I have purchased a couple of workstations from VA Research and they were both good units. Recently I purchased several units from Lindsay, which unfortunately are required to run some unspeakable imitation Operating System. They are very helpful Linux literate and Caldera Resellers. -- Ken Latta ken@kdl.sc.scruznet.com **** If you're not running Linux, you paid too much. ****
From: meson1@aol.com (Meson1) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: An audio question... Date: 11 Jun 1997 06:02:10 GMT Message-ID: <19970611060200.CAA00690@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might cram a S/PDIF (coaxial or optical) signal into the DSP port on a NeXT . Anyone? Thanks, Michael
From: Photoagent@ibm.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Attention All Photographers Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 02:37:36 Organization: Internet MCI Message-ID: <5nlgvj$eqc$1101@news.internetmci.com> PHOTO PHOENIX INTERNATIONAL We are an international New York based agency representing professional and amateur photographers in the following areas: Galleries, Business and Organizations, Book Publishers, Paper Products, Consumer Publication, Newspapers & Newsletters Publication, Special Interest Publication, and Trade Publication. The images we are seeking are some of the following: Animals/Architecture/Art/Automobiles/Business/Celebrities/Documentary/ Entertainment/Erotica-Nudity/Fashion/Food/Health/History/Hobbies/ Outdoors/People/Political/Portraits/Still Lifes/Religious/Science/ Sports/Travel. Whether your work portrays conservative, experimental, stylish, or innovative themes, your project proposal should be well thought out before submitting to us. For first contact, please submit a query letter, and samples of your work. Please include SASE. Do not send entire portfolio unless we ask for it. If we are not interested, you may not hear from us because of time limitations, so please submit what does not need to be returned. If we think your work is sellable we will respond as quickly as possible. Send to: Photo Phoenix International 33-29 58 Street Woodside, New York 11377 Tele: Florida Branch-(941) 642-660
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Organization: Dental Records (R) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,alt.config Subject: cmsg cancel <5nklth$94f@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5nklth$94f@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Control: cancel <5nklth$94f@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5nklth$94f@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 06:37:59 +1 EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "Woodside" or "summary of auto-cancellations" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: Re: Auto-Powerup for NeXTstations.
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5nlgvj$eqc$1101@news.internetmci.com> Date: 11 Jun 1997 07:00:07 GMT Control: cancel <5nlgvj$eqc$1101@news.internetmci.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5nlgvj$eqc$1101@news.internetmci.com> Sender: Photoagent@ibm.net Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Auto-Powerup for NeXTstations Date: 11 Jun 1997 08:16:37 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nlmt5$8ac$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5nk0lh$623@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: seanlNoSpam@carmi.cs.umd.edu In <5nk0lh$623@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> Sean Luke wrote: > Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'm wondering if there's any conceivable way > to force a NeXTstation to not turn itself off when the power is cut; that > is, if the power to a building (say) is cut, and then resupplied, the > NeXTstation automatically boots without a user having to press the power key. It has been asked before, but I'm not sure that it is an _F_AQ.... This is only possible with some chips/ROMs/motherboards something..... check preferences.app... if you have a 'power on after power failure' or something like that, then you have the right stuff, if not, join the club... TjL ps -- Rhapsody should have this!!!! -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: bernard@cyllene.uwa.edu.au (Bernard Cena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP: IDE OpenStep 4.1 setup Date: 11 Jun 1997 08:56:28 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5nlp7s$hqv$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Hi! I've got an EIDE/Intel based OpenStep 4.1 setup with two 3 GB hard disks set up as masters on the first (Disk A) and second (Disk B) EIDE channels with an ATAPI CD-ROM set up as slave on the primary channel (such is the install requirement for 4.1). I have successfully installed OpenStep 4.1 on a partition on the disk A (Windog 95 is on there too *blush*). >>>This is what I'd like to do: I want to shift OpenStep to live on disk B (master,second EIDE channel) on a 1.5GB partition (the rest will be a Linux partition) and be able to boot it from a floppy or Linux LILO bootloader. How do I do this so everything is happy ? >>>This is what I've tried: I used the build disk gizmo to make an OpenStep partition on disk B (it copied everything there for me that I had on my partition on disk A). The problem is I cann't boot it :( I tried doing the common sense thing at boot prompt: hd(1)mach_kernel root=/dev/hd1a (and related combinations ) - I get through quite a bit of the boot procedure until it looks for the root device where it gives up saying it cann't find it :( The other thing that I thought would be obvious was to ditch drive A and set up drive B as master/primary EIDE channel with the CD-ROM as slave and re-install OpenStep from scratch on that, except for some stupid reason (oh how I love PC's! *grrr*) the BIOS won't recognise the CD-ROM in conjunction with that PARTICULAR drive (works fine with the other!) *sigh*. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Bernard Cena
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Installing 3.1 with an IDE CD-Rom Date: 7 Jun 1997 20:48:09 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5nche9$6gk$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <3397B240.1E1A@evcom.net> <8na3cYW00UhB01mmcT@andrew.cmu.edu> hmmmmm when I got my 3.1 at a surplus a while ago.. I phoned NeXT and they sent me a 3.2 which still needs SCSI BTW.. but at least it gets you one level up..=) Godwin Charles William Swiger (cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 6-Jun-97 Installing 3.1 : with an IDE .. by Charles Esteban Paul@evc : > I just purchased NeXtStep 3.1 (still in shrink wrap) and I have been : > devestated by the installation procedure which requires a SCSI CD-ROM : > drive. : Yep. NS 3.1 was the first version released for Intel hardware, and it : had only a very limited hardware support, as you've discovered. : > Is there any way to point the installation program towards the IDE drive : > instead of the non-existant SCSI drive? Has this problem ever occured : > before? I would appreciate any help I can get :) : Your best bet would be to get a more modern version of NEXTSTEP since it : supported installing from IDE drives around 3.3, as well as supporting : much more hardware (and doing a better/less buggy job of that support, : as well). : -Chuck : Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer : ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- : I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,alt.solaris.x86 Subject: Re: PC vendors who know Unix (Linux, Openstep, Solaris, etc.) Date: 11 Jun 1997 12:58:30 -0400 Organization: Department of Computer Science and Egineering, The Pennsylvania State University Message-ID: <5nmlfm$rto$1@tholian.cse.psu.edu> References: <5nkr1g$l9t$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> For Solaris x86 systems and software, you must not forget EIS http://www.eis.com/. They deserve some kudos for hosting the solaris-x86 mailing list. John groenvel@cse.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT printer:Who can repair? References: <letsch-100697082616@kit.fre.jhu.edu> Organization: University of Calgary CPSC From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Message-ID: <339e4a13.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 11 Jun 97 06:47:47 GMT In article <letsch-100697082616@kit.fre.jhu.edu>, Kitty Letsch <letsch@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> wrote: >In my university, our department has several NeXT printers in need of >cleaning and/or repair. Our computing facilities does not have much support >for NeXT. Any suggestions of a local service that might repair these >printers? In the Baltimore area? luomat@peak.org runs a web site with all kinds of useful NeXT information on it, including things like how to fix NeXT printers. Depends what's wrong with the ones you have, but with the info available any competent technician should be able to fix them The usual big problems are a stripped (plastic) gear wheel in the mechanism that spits the paper out after printing (the sheet doesn't come all the way out) and a perished rubber input roller (the machine won't feed paper in). Then there are minor problems like replacing the EPS toner unit and cleaning the various inside bits. The output problem requires replacing the little gear wheel, the input problem requires reversing the rubber sleeve on the input roller. Both involves partially dismantling the paper transport mechanism, which I am pretty sure are covered in the site above. Of course, you may have some other problem. Cheaper to buy a working used printer than to have Bell Atlantic fix it I think. Good luck. david --- -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What is required of an internal scsi hd to work on a slab? Date: 11 Jun 1997 22:33:35 GMT Message-ID: <19970611223300.SAA02075@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <5nffrp$lcb$1@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> first of all, internal and external scsi chains, or busses should be seperate, and individually terminated, with known good terminators. second, make sure the scsi id matches what next wants. next on a pc, turn off ide, then call for help. UPS/ SUN/SCSI Built to order in Maryland PowerStar Inc. home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar NEW: Special pricing at: http://members.aol.com/JCarr37863/index.html 800-209-5556
From: marco@marcorp.win.net (Marco C. Mason) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,alt.solaris.x86 Subject: Re: PC vendors who know Unix (Linux, Openstep, Solaris, etc.) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:47:06 GMT Organization: For Personal Use Message-ID: <5nmdes$hs8@news.win.net> References: <5nkr1g$l9t$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5nlb4d$8k0@news.scruz.net> If you're interested in Solaris x86, I've found EIS to be a very good company to deal with. (They maintain a nice mailing list for Sol x86, and configure desktop & laptop computers.) Check 'em out at: www.eis.com --Marco It appears that ken@kdl.sc.scruznet.com (Ken Latta) said: >In article <5nkr1g$l9t$1@nntp.stanford.edu>, > kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) writes: >> After buying computers from the likes of Gateway, Dell, etc. for a while, >> for my most recent computer purchase I started investigating the world of >> smaller x86 based PC vendors who know various flavors of Unix well and can >> ship turn-key systems with multiboot capability and many OSes preinstalled. >> >> Since I was generally very impressed with both the web sites of these vendors >> and the interactions I had with the 3 or 4 I actually interacted with, >> I thought I would post here to let everyone know what is out there. >> I have repeatedly seen requests for lists of vendors like this, so hopefully >> this will be helpful to someone. Here is the list I compiled, which is almost >> certainly not complete: >> Apache Digital Corporation http://www.apache.com/ >> ASL Workstations http://www.aslab.com/ >> Bifrost Workstations http://www.bifrostworks.com/ >> Linux Hardware Solutions http://www.linux-hw.com/ >> Net Express http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ >> SW Technology http://www.swt.com/ >> VA Research http://www.varesearch.com/ >One more that I find very satisfying > Lindsay Computer Systems http://www.jump.net/~lcs/ > >I have purchased a couple of workstations from VA Research and they were >both good units. Recently I purchased several units from Lindsay, which >unfortunately are required to run some unspeakable imitation Operating >System. They are very helpful Linux literate and Caldera Resellers. >-- > Ken Latta > ken@kdl.sc.scruznet.com > **** If you're not running Linux, you paid too much. ****
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: /dev/cufb: Permission denied Date: 11 Jun 1997 22:37:55 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nn9c3$jcv$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5nl06r$f6c@serv1.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: maria_eugenia@jump.net In <5nl06r$f6c@serv1.jump.net> Maria Eugenia Tapia wrote: > I got a new internal HDD for my NeXTStation (040, 25Mhz non-turbo) > and re-loaded NS3.1. Everything went well, except that now I cannot > get kermit (or pppd) to 'grab' the tty device to dial out: > > /dev/cufb: Permission denied > Sorry, access to tty device denied This is a basic UNIX setting, so that common users cannot get access to the modem lines.... if you look at it in terminal.app or in 'Listing' mode in WM crw------- 1 root wheel 7, 160 Jun 11 00:20 /dev/cufa The "crw-------" are the permissions for the file. You can read all about them by typing 'man chmod' in Terminal.app. For now a quick overview: Permissions are a set of 4 "fields", the first letter is its own field, and then there are 3 fields each with three letters in it. So from our example above: 1 2 3 4 c rw- --- --- Field #1 tells you what type of file or directory this is. "c" is a special character, you won't see that one very often. Usually it will be a "-" (for a normal file) or a "d" for a directory, or a "l" for a link. Field #2 describes the access for the "OWNER" of the file (in our example it is the user "root". The "r" : The "r" means that root can "read" the file, that is, whoever is logged in as "root" can read that file... (for this example it does not make as much sense as if this was just a plain ASCII file) The "w" : The "w" means that root can "write" the file, that is, whoever is logged in as root can alter the file The "-" : The "-" after the "w" means that the file is NOT executable. If it was executable, you would see an "x" there instead. Field #3 is exactly the same as Field #2, except that it describes the access permissions for other members of the "GROUP", which in this case is "wheel". GROUPs in UNIX are setup to give certain people access to files/directories which you do not want everyone to be able to read, but more than just the OWNER. Note: in terminal.app when you do 'ls -l somefile' you will not see the group listed there. To do that you have to use the "-g" flag, as in this example: # without the -g flag, 'ls' does not show the group % /bin/ls -l /usr/local/bin/someprogram -rwxr-xr-- 1 luomat 13593 Jun 11 17:39 /usr/local/bin/someprogram # with the -g flag, the group is shown % /bin/ls -lg /usr/local/bin/someprogram -rwxr-xr-- 1 luomat wheel 13593 Jun 11 17:39 /usr/local/bin/someprogram Field #4 : Field #4 is the same as #2 and #3, except that it refers to "OTHER" users. OTHER users are defined as users who are not the owner, and not members of the same group So in this example: % /bin/ls -lg /usr/local/bin/someprogram -rwxr-xr-- 1 luomat wheel 13593 Jun 11 17:39 /usr/local/bin/someprogram "-" = we see it is a normal file (ie not a link or directory) "rwx" = the OWNER (here it is "luomat") has READ, WRITE, and EXECUTE permissions "r-x" = other members of the GROUP (here "wheel") can both READ and EXECUTE the file. They cannot WRITE (there is no "w" there, instead we see a "-") "r--" = Users who are NOT luomat and who are NOT in the group "wheel" can read this file, but they cannot write or execute it [this is often used if you want to show someone a program but not let them run it] > As root things work OK. What would cause this, and how could I fix it. Well, assuming /dev/cufa is "crw-------" you now know why it works as root and as no one else, correct? If you would like others to have access to this, you need to tell the file who should be able to access it. Only the owner of the file (root) can change the permissions. [Note: root can change any permissions to an file, of course] If you just want other members of the group to be able to access it, you need to give them "read" access with the "chmod" command (like "attrib" in DOS") chmod g+r /dev/cufa that says to ADD (the "+") READ permissions (the "r") for members of the GROUP (the "g") Now you might want people not in the group AKA "other". You can do that like this: chmod o+r /dev/cufa Or you could do them both at the same time! chmod go+r /dev/cufa I'm not sure, but for /dev/cufa you might have to give them WRITE access too (usually you DO NOT want to give people WRITE permission if you don't HAVE to) to give GROUP members write access: chmod g+w /dev/cufa OTHER members: chmod o+w /dev/cufa BOTH chmod go+w /dev/cufa AND IF you really wanted to you could do this ALL AT ONCE: chmod go+rw /dev/cufa See 'man chmod' for full details..... > (PS. Thanks (Tim Luoma) for the info on SCSI drives) Don't thank me, I heard it from Bifrost! TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
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From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: thoughts and Daydreams Date: 11 Jun 1997 20:23:55 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <5nnfir$fmp@umbc9.umbc.edu> References: <339e13b0.2991831@news.mindspring.com> <5nn3ts$713@nntp02.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-User: bhurle1 The real question about these that I have is: If Apple decides to support the older 68k macs, and you use this "little tan box", will you be able to run rhapsody on black? bryan In article <5nn3ts$713@nntp02.primenet.com>, Robert Worne <see-url@bottom> wrote: >In <339e13b0.2991831@news.mindspring.com> Heath Tucker wrote: >> I am hoping that someone can answer a few questions I have about Quix >> (I think?) Daydreams, Mac rom boards for NeXTs. >> >> 1. Were many manufactured? > >This I don't know, but they were available new up until recently. I *do* >know that QUIX stopped further development of the NeXT version of it >(via an E-mail from QUIX). > >> 2. Are they NeXTbus cards similar to the NeXTdimension with >> regards to how they are installed? > >No, it's a tan case approximately the size of a pack of playing cards that >has a ribbon cable which plugs into the NeXT DSP port. > >> 3. Has anyone seen one for sale recently (within the last year?) > >I have seen them for sale, comp.sys.next.marketplace. They can fetch up to >$500-600 in some cases. > >> 4. Will they work with NeXTdimension equiped cubes? > >Yes they will, and probably with the best results. They run so-so on Color >slabs due to improper handling of certain colors. QUIX told me that a >Dimension >does not have any of these problems. > >> If anyone has an answer to any of these, or has experience using a >> Daydream please email me with comments on their effectiveness and >> versatility. I would like to purchase one also. > >Unfortunately, I have no idea where to pick one up now... > >The most current version (known to me) is: ROMBox REV 1.31 and kernel >v2.11 > >-- >Robert Worne [mail to me with the URL below:] >Mail: http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/email.html >//-----------------------------------------------------------------// >Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows I'd rather starve!" >//-----------------------------------------------------------------// >Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/ >
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From: cayouett@bmerh189.ca.nortel.com (Daniel Cayouette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black printer starting to smudge print-outs Date: 12 Jun 1997 02:00:16 GMT Organization: Nortel (Northern Telecom) Message-ID: <5nnl7g$5f4@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> References: <5nel62$6d1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> <1997Jun9.202849.1030@gamelan.shnet.org> Is there anything special with a cartridge for a black printer? Or can I just get any Canon compatible cartridge? Thanks, Daniel In article <1997Jun9.202849.1030@gamelan.shnet.org>, Thomas F. Unke <thf@iname.com> wrote: >In <5nel62$6d1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> Daniel Cayouette wrote: >> My black printer has recently started to print with black smears on >> the paper. I've tried to dust/swipe the insides without any luck. >> >> Any suggestions? Should I replace the original cartridge? > > >Yes, it is the cartridge if cleaning doesn't help. Get a new one ! > > -- Messaging Systems Development Ottawa, Ontario Project Manager - Global Email Interworking Email: Daniel.Cayouette@nortel.ca or Daniel@Cayouette.com Phone: (613)763-2340 http://47.80.12.186/interop - Messaging Inter-operability Home Page
From: heatht@mindspring.com (Heath Tucker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT printer feed problem Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 02:40:56 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <339f5dac.1353228@news.mindspring.com> References: <letsch-100697082616@kit.fre.jhu.edu> <339e4a13.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) wrote: >The usual big problems are a stripped (plastic) gear wheel in the mechanism >that spits the paper out after printing (the sheet doesn't come all the way >out) and a perished rubber input roller (the machine won't feed paper in). > >The output problem requires replacing the little gear wheel, the input >problem requires reversing the rubber sleeve on the input roller. Both >involves partially dismantling the paper transport mechanism, which I am >pretty sure are covered in the site above. > >Of course, you may have some other problem. Cheaper to buy a working >used printer than to have Bell Atlantic fix it I think. > >Good luck. > >david >-- >David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more >Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. >hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) >http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television! This message falls at a good time for me. I just took ownership of a black next 400dpi printer and it has a problem feeding paper into itself. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what they think of these symptoms and behaviors: The printer tries to print. It pulls the paper very quickly about 1 inch in, and then pauses. It is at this point that it usually jams. The paper simply doesn't move anymore even though I can hear the gears inside the printer working away. The interesting part is this. If I pop the cover for a second and close it, it makes a clunking noise, warms up for a second and then pulls the paper the rest of the way in and prints perfectly, except that the text is not centered vertically, it appears nearly at the bottom of the page with a huge top margin. As a side note, I can make it pull in the paper every time if I use the slider in the the paper tray to force the stack of paper to actually stick up over the end and out of the tray. This literally forces the stack into the printer's mouth when I shove the tray back in. The additional push that forcing the paper in gives at feed time allows the printer to pull the entire page in, but it is still horribly off skew towards the bottom. My question (you knew I had to have one in here somewhere): I do not have an original NeXT paper tray. I am using what I think is a HP tray (it is black, but I was told that it isnt a NeXT tray by the guy who I got it from, there is no writing on the tray). Should I try to get an original NeXT tray and see if this feeds the paper correctly to the machine and all is well (for about $20)? Could an improper tray cause this problem? I have enver seen a NeXT printer tray before so I don't know if the trays are nonstandard. Or, should I try to disassemble the printer and flip the intake roller as described above? Does anyone have any experience doing this and if so, are my symptoms like yours were before the fix? The rubber on the roller seems to be in decent shape and it will feed somewhat. Well, I hope someone can give me some details on what a working NeXT laser does if nothing else :) Is the rapid feeding and then a pause normal? Is a clunk after opening the cover normal etc.? If you have read this far, thanks in advance, Heath Tucker
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT laser printer toner cartidge? References: <5nkome$6ca$1@nnrp1.crl.com> Organization: University of Calgary CPSC From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Message-ID: <339e4aa6.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 11 Jun 97 06:50:14 GMT In article <5nkome$6ca$1@nnrp1.crl.com>, Subir Grewal <hostmaster@trill-home.com> wrote: >I can't seem to reach peanuts.leo.org from here, so I thought I'd ask >whether anyone knew what toner cartridges NeXT laser printers would >take. > >-- >hostmaster@trill-home.com + Lynx 2.7.1 + NeXT/PGP mail + www.crl.com/~subir/ >Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be. It takes a standard EPS toner cartridge (same as Apple laser writer) david --- -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: An audio question... Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBM9tL.4K8@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:03:21 GMT References: <19970611060200.CAA00690@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <19970611060200.CAA00690@ladder02.news.aol.com>, Meson1 <meson1@aol.com> wrote: >I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might cram a S/PDIF (coaxial or >optical) signal into the DSP port on a NeXT . > As I recall the Ariel box will do this, but for some reason I can't recall what it's called. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: An audio question... Date: 12 Jun 1997 03:58:47 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5nns5n$plh$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> References: <19970611060200.CAA00690@ladder02.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: meson1@aol.com In <19970611060200.CAA00690@ladder02.news.aol.com> Meson1 wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might cram a S/PDIF (coaxial or > optical) signal into the DSP port on a NeXT . > > Anyone? > > > Thanks, > > Michael > On an original NeXT, you need an S/PDIF convertor box like the Singular Solutions A/D64x which I think is still being made, alternatively, the Stealth DAI2400 or the Ariel ProDAT devices did the same thing, but AFAIK both are no longer available. All come with a port which interfaces with the NeXT DSP port. I have a 64x which has an advantage of having balanced Microphone and Line inputs to ADCs as well as S/PDIF I/O. With a loopback connector on the back it can operate as a standalone ADC. The disadvantage it is expensive ~US$950. I actually run mine through an iLink i56 board in a PC, but that is no longer the best way to go for PC users unless you want to use the MusicKit or Synthbuilder. There is now a driver for an AdB Multiwav sound card which has S/PDIF & AES/EBU connectors on the back of the ISA board. -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-9380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME) "Home pages are the pet rock of the 90s. We all have them, we all think they're very cute. But in a few years we're going to look back and be pretty embarrassed." -- Tony Shepps <toad@pond.com> "Why wait?" -- Peter Langston
From: clueit@willowtech.com (Gary Clueit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: QLogic SCSI Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 04:19:26 GMT Organization: Willow Technology, Inc. Message-ID: <33a0784d.47002488@news.wco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Anyone know of a driver (4.2/intel) for QLogic SCSI controllers? Have a few of them I would like to use. TIA. _______________________ Gary Clueit Willow Technology, Inc. clueit@willowtech.com _______________________
From: ihate@spammers.com (bf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Monitor Sync Problems! Ack! Date: 12 Jun 1997 03:45:34 GMT Organization: Crack Whores of America Message-ID: <5nnrcu$nr6$1@brokaw.wa.com> I have a Colorstation ADB running NS 3.3/3.2 on it with a 17" megapixel std. next color monitor. For some reason, upon boot up the colorstation cant seem to sync with the monitor and ends up getting a jumbled image. It usually takes 5-6 power-ons before it can finally sync up. Whats going on here?? -b -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- Email: larryf at halcyon dot com ----------------------------------------------------- --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- --------------------------------------------------------------------
From: lappe@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Markus Lappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adaptec 2940 AU Date: 12 Jun 1997 05:28:23 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5no1dn$sqm$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hi there, we just got a new Pentium computer on which we wanted to install Nextstep 3.3. Unfortunately, it seems that the driver for the SCSI Adapter does not work. The Adapter is a new Adaptec 2940AU. We are using the driver version 3.37, downloaded from Nextanswers several weeks ago. During install, we receive an error message saying "Cannot get config space, no SCSI adapter found". Any help would be appreciated. Markus
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT printer:Who can repair? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:45:21 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970612084221.4716D-100000@cc344191-a> References: <letsch-100697082616@kit.fre.jhu.edu> <339e4a13.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <339e4a13.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> On 11 Jun 1997, David Hill wrote: > luomat@peak.org runs a web site with all kinds of useful NeXT information > on it, including things like how to fix NeXT printers. Thanks for the pointer..... As much as I'd like to believe that everyone knows the URL, I'll give it again anyway ;-) http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ <click on the nice icon of the NeXTPrinter, or goto http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/printerinfo.html TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black printer starting to smudge print-outs Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:56:53 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970612085546.4915A-100000@cc344191-a> References: <5nel62$6d1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> <1997Jun9.202849.1030@gamelan.shnet.org> <5nnl7g$5f4@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Daniel Cayouette <cayouett@bmerh189.ca.nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <5nnl7g$5f4@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> On 12 Jun 1997, Daniel Cayouette wrote: > Is there anything special with a cartridge for a black printer? Or can > I just get any Canon compatible cartridge? Searching dejanews for the word 'toner' in this newsgroup should bring up about 85,000 posts.... Toner cartridge for HP Laserjet II, IID,III, IID HP ref : HP 92295A (that is what you will see on the box) There are others, this is the easiest one to find (Staples, Sam's, Office Depot).... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HP JetDirect Printer on NS3.0 -- can it be done? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:54:06 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970612093540.262A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm wondering if I can hook up an HP printer with a JetDirect ethernet interface to an old black station running 3.0. Has anyone done it? Clearly it's not standard. What are my options? Thanks. Robert
From: skwong@mae.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai-kee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Is the U-SCSI, SCSI-3 HD compatible in black NeXTcube turbo ? Date: 12 Jun 1997 16:51:10 GMT Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK Message-ID: <5np9du$9tf@eng-ser1.erg.cuhk.edu.hk> My Fujitsu 1GB HD was damaged (it hang me around for over 1 yr). I sourced some drives in HK: Quantum TM3200S Fireball Series Ultra SCSI 3.2GB US$327 Segate ST-52160N Medalist Series U-SCSI 2.1GB US$248 Segate ST-51080N Medalist Series SCSI-2 1GB US$200 I found there are many terms like Ultra-Wide SCSI, SCSI-3, ... Are the new technologies compatible with NeXTcube ? It seems the Segate 2.1GB is far cost effective than the 1GB but does it work with the NeXT ? Do I just plug in, select the correct ID, boot up and answer 'initialize' from the dialog box, then I can mount and use it ? Thanks in advance. Mr.Sai-Kee Wong
From: Mike Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,alt.solaris.x86 Subject: Re: PC vendors who know Unix (Linux, Openstep, Solaris, etc.) Date: 12 Jun 1997 12:39:39 -0400 Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <syd8prkc6s.fsf@tiktok.cygnus.com> References: <5nkr1g$l9t$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) writes: > After buying computers from the likes of Gateway, Dell, etc. for a while, > for my most recent computer purchase I started investigating the world of > smaller x86 based PC vendors who know various flavors of Unix well and can > ship turn-key systems with multiboot capability and many OSes preinstalled. You might want to add: HiQ http://www.hiq.com Promo X http://www.promox.com -- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (East Coast) 4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA meissner@cygnus.com, 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
From: John Goggan <jgoggan@dcg.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What is the proper Soundbox text sound? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:04:47 -0400 Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd. Message-ID: <33A02C2E.6FA4@dcg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello there. I recently acquire my first color Station -- and, therefore, my first SoundBox. I've been having some sound problems and my question is this: what does the "normal" startup test sound sound like through a SoundBox? Is it different than with a mono station? I'm getting a sound that is rather high-pitched -- but maybe that is just they way the test-beep sounds on a SoundBox and I just don't know it! :) So -- if someone could try to describe the proper startup sound or, better yet, if some kind soul could send me a WAV or AU or something of what the startup test-beep sounds like coming out of a SoundBox, I would appreciate it. Actually, WAV would be preferred so that I can easily play it on my PC -- playing it on my possibly-bad-sound Station would kind of make the test a bad one, eh? :) Thanks very much. - John (Goggan)... jgoggan@dcg.com P.S. I cannot currently decode NeXTMail (at least, not very easily), so if you mail a sounds, please use a simple format such as plain UUencoding or Base64 encoding. Or a MIME attachment. Thanks. Or, better yet, if someone wants to upload the soundfile to me, just drop it at: ftp://ftp.dcg.com/incoming/ Thanks!
From: rmitchel@cymitar.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: built-in screensaver question... Date: 12 Jun 1997 08:24:31 -0700 Organization: None Message-ID: <5np4bf$6kj@drn.zippo.com> I noticed that like most *NIX systems, NS has a feature that automatically blacks out the monitor after a time specified within the preferences.app. I'm wondering if this only blacks out the monitor (i.e. fills the screen with black) or if it actually powers down the monitor, since the monitor doesn't have a power switch? I would like to be able to leave the machine on 24 hours a day, but if the monitor never actually powers-down or anything, I'd be a little nervous... Thanks for help! -- Mitch
Message-ID: <33A08D32.3AD5@ultranet.ca> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:58:42 -0700 From: JOHN HILLS <a1b01050@ultranet.ca> Organization: J.Hills Radiology, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: CD-R/CD-RW/UDF File system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am looking at inexpensive solutions to disk archival storage. The HP SureStor and Sony CSP-960S CD-R drives look attractive and perhaps the Ricoh MP6200S CD-RW. Can CD-R/CD-RW/UDF File system be used under NeXTstep/OpenStep/Rhapsody/whatever? John Hills jhills@ultranet.ca
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 AU Date: 12 Jun 1997 23:06:12 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5npvd4$3b3$1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <5no1dn$sqm$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> lappe@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Markus Lappe) writes: >Hi there, >we just got a new Pentium computer on which we wanted to install Nextstep >3.3. Unfortunately, it seems that the driver for the SCSI Adapter does not >work. The Adapter is a new Adaptec 2940AU. We are using the driver version >3.37, downloaded from Nextanswers several weeks ago. During install, we >receive an error message saying "Cannot get config space, no SCSI adapter >found". >Any help would be appreciated. >Markus Add 0x61789004 to the Auto Detect IDs" for the Adaptec Device. kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Cube memory setup Date: 12 Jun 1997 23:54:24 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <5nqg9g$si1@umbc9.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: bhurle1 So the board has 16 or so 30pin simm slots, what is that 72pin simm slot for? bryan 040 25 20 100 3.2
From: lappe@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Markus Lappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NextStep Installation Problems Date: 13 Jun 1997 05:57:08 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5nqnfk$q61$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hi, Thanks you all for the many prompt answers I received to my question about how to get the new Adaptec 2940AU to work. Indeed, it was only necessary to add 0x61789004 to the Auto Detect IDs in the defaults.table (and in the instance0.table, too!). However, surely we got subsequently stuck with another problem. Apparently NextStep cannot make a connection to the serial (mouse) port during booting. We receive an error message saying that it cannot reserve IRQ4 and that SerialPort0 is not a valid device. Does anybody know what this might be? Thanks again, Markus
From: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: thinkpad 560 display driver Date: 12 Jun 1997 16:39:23 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5np8nr$su6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <5np6eq$rnu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I hate to follow up my own posts, but I reloaded from scratch making sure to reload core drivers and it works now. pasc In article <5np6eq$rnu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes: > I just got myself a thinkpad 560 active matrix > > pasc
From: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: thinkpad 560 display driver Date: 12 Jun 1997 16:39:42 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5np8oe$sud@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <5np6eq$rnu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I hate to follow up my own posts, but I reloaded from scratch making sure to reload core drivers and it works now. pasc
From: cue@apple.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Rendition video driver Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:14:02 -0700 Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <33A0F332.38AD501D@apple.com> References: <865729476.29230@dejanews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have a PC with an Intergraph Intense 3d Rendition board. This has the Verite processor. Does anyone know of a driver for NextStep 4.2 that will work with it? Eddy Cue cue@apple.com
From: bisjf@nihf.com Subject: fkb0-drt Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <339edef2.1@news.netzilla.net> Date: 11 Jun 97 17:22:58 GMT Organization: SEXZILLA.COM http://www.sexzilla.com x-no-archive: yes High quality web design for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Fast service, be on-line this week with your own website. For details please visit: http://205.199.2.203/saylordesign/ -------------==== Posted via Sexzilla News ====------------------ http://www.sexzilla.com Search, Read, Post to Usenet -------------==== With A Whole Lot More ====------------------ work), and hopefully for developing. But I'm wondering: What version of NS should I get? What are the differences between 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, (which I guess is the minimum I should get) and 4.x? Rhapsody is supposed to be a superset of NS, so I can develop now on black hardware and recompiling will be all that's necessary, right? Will stuff I develop in 3.3 carry over, or would I have to have 4.x? I've been looking through the www resources for OS version comparisons, but haven't found anything. If someone could point me to a resource with the answer, or just tell me, I'd appreciate it. Oh yeah, and cost is a factor. If you have NS Developer (or even User) to sell, I'll consider buying it. thanks john -- --- - ------- ------- The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative. - Kahlil Gibran jak@asu.edu http://www.public.asu.edu/~jkestner/
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:51:39 -0600 From: kafkouli@zeus.fiu.edu Subject: Epson Stylus 800 (or any inkjet) with a Nextstation Mono Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <866160980.2052@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: kafkouli@zeus.fiu.edu Hello, Has anyone succeded to print on the above inkjet printer (Epson Stylus Color 800) from a NextStation running Openstep 4.0 for Mach? What kind of cable is needed? The printer has a Mac serial mini Din 8 port and a parallel PC port. It seems that the Apple serial cable does not work. I hope someone knows about this. Regards George Kafkoulis -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill@bofh.int> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <339edef2.1@news.netzilla.net> Control: cancel <339edef2.1@news.netzilla.net> Date: 13 Jun 1997 13:44:02 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.339edef2.1@news.netzilla.net> Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Article cancelled as EMP. A report will be published shortly on news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: leffert@cs.uchicago.edu (Jonathan B. Leffert) Subject: weird lines on 17" fimi monitor Message-ID: <leffert.866004155@cs.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 04:42:35 GMT I have a 17" FIMI monitor connected to my color slab and I've noticed that there are these strange almost magnetic horizontal lines across the screen. They seem to become less visable when the brightness is reduced. Has anyone seen this before? Is there anything I can do about it? -j -- Jonathan B. Leffert <leffert@cs.uchicago.edu> "But on the serious 3.5% tip, 'B' is the second letter of the English Alphabet. You work it out." -- Tone Def, "Fear of a Black Hat" finger -l leffert@cs.uchicago.edu for PGP Public Key
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:20:41 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg70350.thr-3135bc00.54c5638@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235> <j-norstad-0906970729340001@legume186176.nuts.nwu.edu> <5njnbf$4vp@mimi.stepman.com> <5njt1d$s1@mimi.stepman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg70350.thr-3135bc00.54c5638.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> <bold>gerald@stepman.com,UseNet writes:</bold> >There are some romours that DR1 will also be available vor Intel hardwar= e. = From what I have heard that is very unlikely due simply to driver problem= s. Updating each driver to the latest BSD and mach base (those which are = at the core of Rhapsody) would take about a day each. The demos at WWDC w= ere all sitting on top of the older BSD. Of course it's possible they might release it with only a handful of= drivers, but I can hear the howls now if someone had a video card that w= asn't supported... -- = David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.cet.middlebury.edu
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Tape Drives and SafetyNet Date: 13 Jun 1997 15:48:46 GMT Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated Message-ID: <5nrq4u$44t$1@news.istar.ca> I've a pressing problem that needs to be figured out quickly. I have a DAT drive and some files that need to be restored from tape. I'm having difficulty getting SafetyNet 2.1 (a tape archiving utility) to recognize when a tape is inserted into the drive. When the machine boots up, the SCSI controller does recognize the DAT drive. Also, when I do an autodetect in SafetyNet, it finds the drive. However, I can't figure out how to get SafetyNet to restore files from tape; it doesn't seem to see when new tapes are inserted. (The /etc/mtab file doesn't have an entry for the drive, so I guess tapes are not automounted.) I'm using an Archive Python 28388 DAT drive that is unofficially supported by NeXT and officially supported by SafetyNet. Any ideas on how to get this thing to work? -- -===================================================================- Jean-Paul C. Samson -==- jsamson@istar.ca (NeXTmail & MIME welcome) -=============- http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jeanpaul -=============- -===================================================================- "Microsoft is a fact of life. They're like the air we breathe. Perhaps a better analogy is bottled water, because you have to buy it." -- Steve Jobs, Apple Computer's Worldwide Developers Conference, May 16th, 1997 -===================================================================-
From: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: thinkpad 560 display driver Date: 12 Jun 1997 16:00:26 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5np6eq$rnu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I just got myself a thinkpad 560 active matrix display. I tried the display driver from nextanswers but it does not seem to work: It detects the display adaptor (says chipversion 66) and then it gives an error "Unsupported PCI hardware" and proceeds to load the default VGA driver. Any one else have this problem? pasc
From: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Adaptec 1460A pcmcia adapter and sony prd-650 cdrom drive Date: 12 Jun 1997 16:06:51 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5np6qr$rsm@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I tried using this combination to load nextstep 3.3 and got tons of errors relating to invalid status )128) and many read failures. Enough to make sure the load did not work (finally I resorted to using an older adapter slimscsi and dec cdrom...) anyone have experiences wiht the above combo? pasc
From: Subir Grewal <hostmaster@trill-home.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT laser printer toner cartidge? Date: 13 Jun 1997 19:17:42 GMT Organization: Trill host selection council Message-ID: <5ns6cm$lvi$1@nnrp1.crl.com> References: <5nkome$6ca$1@nnrp1.crl.com> <5nnjlu$qu3$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Thanks to everybody, I bought an HP95A and it works fine. -- hostmaster@trill-home.com + Lynx 2.7.1 + NeXT/PGP mail + www.crl.com/~subir/ If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: weird lines on 17" fimi monitor Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:18:29 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <IncNo5O00iWn07BqQ0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <leffert.866004155@cs.uchicago.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 11-Jun-97 weird lines on 17" fimi mon.. by Jonathan B. Leffert@cs.u > I have a 17" FIMI monitor connected to my color slab and I've noticed that > there are these strange almost magnetic horizontal lines across the screen. > They seem to become less visable when the brightness is reduced. Has > anyone seen this before? Is there anything I can do about it? What you're seeing most likely are the thin wires used to hold the aperture grill of a Trinitron picture tube in place, and you are probably used to using monitors which use a shadow mask tube. Trinitron tubes are more expensive, and they tend to be brighter and sharper than a shadow mask design, but some people find the horizontal lines to be distracting. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: James Sentman <sentman@m1.mediaone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Compaq Hardware Compatibility - Deskpro 6000 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 17:10:07 -0500 Organization: MediaOne Message-ID: <33A1C53C.47D4@m1.mediaone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, I am doing WebObjects development for MediaOne and am looking to upgrade the box I'm running NeXT on. MicroAge has recommended a Compaq Deskpro 6000, however in speaking to NeXT tech support, they can only tell me that theoretically it should work. I've had lots of problems just using windows on Compaq due to their funky custom hardware and drivers. Is anyone using NeXT 4.1, or any other for that matter, successfully on Campaq hardware? Or can anyone recommend a different, off the shelf, system that works well. Thank you, James Sentman __________________________________________________________________ James Sentman sentman@m1.mediaone.com Internet Systems Specialist Media One http://www.mediaone.com/ http://shoga.wwa.com/~sentman/ __________________________________________________________________ To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. -Anonymous
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: why does DECchip 21140 think it's a 21040? Date: 13 Jun 1997 21:12:07 GMT Organization: NIEHS Message-ID: <5nsd37$3li$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: Cogent EM 110, DECchip 21140, DECchip 21040 Hi, I have an interesting situation. Here is the story. The fellow in the next office just bought a new Dell OptiPlex GXpro 6200 (a pentium pro 200). It came with a built-in 3Com PCI 10/100 ethernet adapter (3C90x ?). He wanted to see if OPENSTEP 4.1 ran well on this system, so I told him I'd help him check it out. I had heard that this 3Com ethernet adapter was not (yet) supported under OPENSTEP, so we disabled it in the BIOS. We loaded OPENSTEP and all went well. I had an extra Cogent EM 110 (PCI 10/100) ethernet card, which uses the DECchip 21140. This card works fine on our DEC pentium pros, so I thought we could try it in the Dell. For some reason the Dell thinks it's a DECchip 21040 rather than a 21140. If we use Configure.app to load either the Cogent EM 110 driver or the DECchip 21140 driver, we get the following message during the reboot: DECchip 21140: unsupported PCI hardware However, if we use the DECchip 21040 driver, everything seems to work. We're not really complaining, since the ethernet card works this way, but we do find it curious. Has anyone else seen this? Are we doing something wrong? We installed the card and then used Configure.app to load the driver. Do we need to reverse this (use Configure.app to load the driver and then install the card)? Also, does the card have to go in a particular PCI slot? The messages during boot look like: DECchip 21040: PCI Dev: 11 Func: 0 Bus: 1 Registering en0 DECchip 21040 based adapter at port 0xec80 irq 10 interface TP One last question. Configure.app does not mention an IRQ being used, but booting gives this message about IRQ 10. This seems strange. Any comments would be welcome. Please respond via email, as news is not too reliable at our site. Thanks in advance. Gregg =========================== Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: test@mujjahadin.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Rendition video driver Date: 13 Jun 1997 23:49:53 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5nsmb1$ro6@winter.erols.com> References: <865729476.29230@dejanews.com> <33A0F332.38AD501D@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: cue@apple.com In <33A0F332.38AD501D@apple.com> cue@apple.com wrote: > I have a PC with an Intergraph Intense 3d Rendition board. This has the > Verite processor. Does anyone know of a driver for NextStep 4.2 that > will work with it? > > Eddy Cue > cue@apple.com > > Check with Omni Development www.omnigroup.com They had a driver for the rendition3d Its not on their web page, but e-mail the people over there and they will help you. Scott Turner FirstSight Inc. http://www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: test@mujjahadin.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Zip Drive -Parallel Port Version Date: 13 Jun 1997 23:46:47 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5nsm57$ro6@winter.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Is there a way to connect the zip drive to a parallel port on NextStep For Intel version 3.3? Scott Turner FirstSightInc. http://www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut" <webmaster@starpage.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Salvage a Disk Crash Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 05:33:18 -0600 Organization: StarPage LCC Message-ID: <33A12FFD.54739A86@starpage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think I've got a pretty classic hard drive crash, but I want to make sure before I trash this thing along with the data I've got on it. Here's what I get when I try to boot up my NeXTStation: ==== checking disks Target 1: MEDIA ERROR: block 10a3c0H retry 1, 2, ...9 Sd0 (1,0): sense key: 0x3 additional sense code 0x11 SCSI Block in error=1090579; Partition a F.S. Sector 545129 /dev/rsd0a: CANNOT READ: BLK 545128 /dev/rsd0a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Reboot failed...help! Faking root mount entries ==== Is there any hope of getting it to boot up long enough for me to salvage some of my data, or is this drive toast? (How do I partition a F.S. Sector or run fsck manually, for example?) thanks, jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu
From: Andrew Minkin <archaeusds@rocketmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: OpenStep 4.2 on DOS Card Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 17:30:06 +0000 Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <33A1839E.2C39@rocketmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a Performa 6100 with a DOS Card that runs DOS (Win 95, etc.) just fine but I want to use the Mach kernal for OPenStep 4.2. when I try to install it, I cannot find any compatible SCSI drivers for the CDROM or the hard drive. Any suggestions? Andrew Minkin Director of Technology, Archaeus Software
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: cmsg cancel <5ns28e$88n$2@bashir.peak.org> Control: cancel <5ns28e$88n$2@bashir.peak.org> Date: 13 Jun 1997 18:11:33 GMT Organization: Public Electronic Access to Knowlege,Inc Message-ID: <5ns2gl$88n$3@bashir.peak.org>
From: willadams@aol.com (WillAdams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on DOS Card Date: 14 Jun 1997 02:03:54 GMT Message-ID: <19970614020300.WAA24489@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <33A1839E.2C39@rocketmail.com> You'll have to wait for, and then purchase Connectix virtual PC. The DOS cards are so named for a reason--rather than fully emulating a PC, they simply convince DOS to run, and everything runs on that--NeXTStep won't run on DOS... There were a lot of posts about this in comp.sys.next.advocacy recently. William William Adams http://members.aol.com/willadams Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Salvage a Disk Crash Date: 14 Jun 1997 02:10:34 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5nsuiq$37h$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <33A12FFD.54739A86@starpage.com> Cc: jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu In <33A12FFD.54739A86@starpage.com> "Jesse D. Hurlbut" wrote: > I think I've got a pretty classic hard drive crash, but I want to make > sure before I trash this thing along with the data I've got on it. > Here's what I get when I try to boot up my NeXTStation: > > ==== > checking disks > Target 1: MEDIA ERROR: block 10a3c0H retry 1, 2, ...9 > Sd0 (1,0): sense key: 0x3 additional sense code 0x11 > SCSI Block in error=1090579; Partition a F.S. Sector 545129 > /dev/rsd0a: CANNOT READ: BLK 545128 > /dev/rsd0a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > > Reboot failed...help! > Faking root mount entries > ==== > Is there any hope of getting it to boot up long enough for me to salvage > some of my data, or is this drive toast? (How do I partition a F.S. > Sector or run fsck manually, for example?) > > thanks, > > jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu > > First thing is that Media errors are not a good thing. (i.e. blowing the disk away and remaking the fs may result in future media errors!). If you simply want to try to recover data you can get a second disk and use that to boot from. Try to mount the damaged disk read only and save what you need. Keep an eye out for console errors and make sure to do diffs/cmp's on the copied files. You should also check out 'man reasb'. Randy rencsok at channelu dot com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: What is the proper Soundbox text sound? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBp2Et.GL4@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 03:16:05 GMT References: <33A02C2E.6FA4@dcg.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <33A02C2E.6FA4@dcg.com>, John Goggan <jgoggan@dcg.com> wrote: >Hello there. I recently acquire my first color Station -- and, >therefore, my first SoundBox. I've been having some sound problems and >my question is this: what does the "normal" startup test sound sound >like through a SoundBox? It sounds the same through my sound box as it used to through my monitor. Maybe a little more bass from the sound box. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: zlewanto@stan.donet.com (Zdzislaw H. "Stan" Lewantowicz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Any Success w ESS1868 Sound on NS3.3? Date: 14 Jun 1997 01:43:56 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <5nst0s$i70$1@usenet88.supernews.com> Has anyone had success with ESS1868 PnP soundcard on NS3.3 Intel? Am running an Award Bios PnP dual boot (W95 and NS3.3) on a 166MH Pentium. The ESS1868 card works fine on W95 - the Bios reconizes it as during boot. During NS3.3 boot I observe the console messages: Jun 13 11:22:16 stan mach: PnP: Plug and Play support enabled Jun 13 11:22:16 stan mach: PnP: Plug and Play BIOS present Jun 13 11:22:16 stan mach: PnP: read port 0x20b, max csn 1 Jun 13 11:22:16 stan mach: PnP: csn 1: ESS1868 s/n 0x00000001 Jun 13 11:22:16 stan mach: ISA/EISA bus support enabled ... Jun 13 11:22:16 stan mach: ES1x88AudioDriver: Hardware not detected at port 0x220. I have checked and rechecked all of the settings, etc. I have tried the NS4.1 version of the driver. I have upgraded the EISA driver to ver 3.37. etc - and still no sound. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Stan
From: "Stephen V. Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black Monitor giving out -- stretching & shrinking vertical Date: 14 Jun 1997 03:47:01 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bc7874$61eb95e0$1400000a@tsunami> References: <5nhhek$ojl@alonzo.cs.sfu.ca> Melissa O'Neill <NoOnSePiAlMl@cs.sfu.ca> wrote in article <5nhhek$ojl@alonzo.cs.sfu.ca>... . . > If this is some common problem, with an easy fix, I'd be very interested. > Also, if I can send my monitor away somewhere to be fixed, I'd love to > hear where that would be. Finally, if I have to get a `new' monitor, I'd > be interested in knowing where the best place is, and how much I'd have > to pay. Hi Melissa, My N4000B went dim after 40,000+ hours of use! I contacted DecisionOne (SanFransisco) 510 / 266-3000 They will exchange your monitor with another just like your model, but with a new picture tube. Non-Profit-Org Credit Card price is $389. I hope they can help you out. Steve Roller Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug
From: hanrek@infoworkshop.com (Mark Hanrek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can OPENSTEP be installed on PMac w/100MHz Pentium Card? Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 21:21:22 -0700 Organization: The Information Workshop Message-ID: <hanrek-ya023680001306972121220001@news3.cts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cache-Post-Path: optional.cts.com!unknown@at.cts.com I have Apple's Prelude to Rhapsody package which includes OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach on Intel. I wanted to try and find out if it was possible to install the system on my PowerMac 7200/90 with 12" Compatibility Card (100Mhz Pentium). The first thing that hit me in the installation is calling out the id of the SCSI drive, and I thought I'd ask since this is a hybrid machine. I do have multiple SCSI drives installed and could dedicate one to OPENSTEP, but I get the feeling that there are other problems in store because of the shared hardware environment. Any information, insight, or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Mark Hanrek The Information Workshop ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Information Workshop <http://www.infoworkshop.com/>
From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: It always pays to panic... Date: 14 Jun 1997 05:40:03 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5ntarj$l4c$2@news.inc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Woe is me. I've got a Color Turbo that is suddenly incapable of making it through an hour of operation without panicking. Uggh. I am infinitely perplexed as to what I did to percipitate this, but here's the rundown: - Original 250Mb drive died. No fsck, lowlevel format, etc would work. Kaput. Fine. - Installed spare Fujitsu 540 just fine. - Took time to clean & vacuum the inside of the pizza box. - Installed 3.3 from scratch. - Everything seemed ducky, even the patch install & "renetworking" of the machine. - Very intermittently, but at least once an hour the machine panics, even when idle. I get a big NMI window full of dex-hex-mess dump, and then usually the following message: "MMU invalid descriptor during table walk" Any idea what might be causing this behaviour? The machine worked flawlessly before the first HDD died... I am stumped as to where to even begin on this snipe hunt. I am not panicking yet... Hans Rupert -- Hans Rupert <rupert@noir.net> Direktor noir
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Salvage a Disk Crash Date: 14 Jun 1997 02:45:37 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nt0ki$qp8$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <33A12FFD.54739A86@starpage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: webmaster@starpage.com In <33A12FFD.54739A86@starpage.com> "Jesse D. Hurlbut" wrote: > Is there any hope of getting it to boot up long enough for me to salvage > some of my data, or is this drive toast? (How do I partition a F.S. > Sector or run fsck manually, for example?) fsck -n /dev/rsd0a will answer no to all the questions. I'd probably try to boot off the CD or hook this HD to another working HD, try something like dd if=/dev/rsd1a of=/dev/null (assuming the drive gets mounted at /dev/rsd1a) and see if there is a block you can reassign using the 'reasb' command) You might be able to figure that block from the fsck information you already have... I don't know that much about it.... Be careful.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Cube memory setup Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBpxp8.nAp@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 14:31:56 GMT References: <5nqg9g$si1@umbc9.umbc.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5nqg9g$si1@umbc9.umbc.edu>, hurley bryan <bhurle1@umbc.edu> wrote: > >So the board has 16 or so 30pin simm slots, what is that 72pin simm slot >for? > DSP memory expansion. You'll likely never find one of the boards that goes there. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: 3.3 or 4.x? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBqGCo.IHH@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 21:14:48 GMT References: <jak-1306970234350001@ss7-16.inre.asu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <jak-1306970234350001@ss7-16.inre.asu.edu>, John Kestner <jak@asu.edu> wrote: > >But I'm wondering: What version of NS should I get? What are the >differences between 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, (which I guess is the minimum I >should get) and 4.x? 3.2 is the bare minimum you should get, with 3.3 perferable. 4.x (4.2 preferably) should be OK on a Turbo machine as long as you put 64MB or more RAM in it. >Rhapsody is supposed to be a superset of NS, so I can develop now on black >hardware and recompiling will be all that's necessary, right? Will stuff I >develop in 3.3 carry over, or would I have to have 4.x? > Well, it's hard to say exactly what will be required in addition to a recompile. But, at a minimum, your code must be OPENSTEP-based, not NeXTSTEP-based. In that case 4.x is the only way to go. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: GehleSoftware@t-online.de (Carsten Gehle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: An audio question... Date: 11 Jun 1997 22:40:46 GMT Organization: Gehle Software Message-ID: <5nn9he$64a$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> References: <19970611060200.CAA00690@ladder02.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Meson1 <meson1@aol.com> Meson1 wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might cram a S/PDIF (coaxial or > optical) signal into the DSP port on a NeXT . > > Anyone? > > Thanks, > > Michael See the homepage of RCN, Germany: http://www.rcn.de Carste
From: Tony Scott<summer@laoffices.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Distributors Wanted NOW!! Date: 14 Jun 1997 15:06:58 GMT Organization: World Wide Pants Promotion Message-ID: <5nuc2i$84p$7659@cadmium.aware.nl> Hi, This is a Solicitation Email, we are looking for new TUFF'97 DISTRIBUTORS. TUFF'97 is a promotional concept for a prospect follow-up system called "Simple Track". Software designed for Windows 95, 3.11 and NT machines. (Macintosh users read the NOTE below(*)) Concept: The TUFF'97 software includes a copy of Simple Track, so you can use this for your own personal administration (free). However, the TUFF'97 software is designed to give you BIG TIME credits for just taking the efforts to PROMOTE it. How do I get those credits?. Easy, just distribute/promote it. How? (Give away the software for free, put it on your website/homepage and let everyone download it. Give it to your friends, attach it by email etc). With a one time $40.00 (USD) validation code purchase, YOUR name becomes part of all sofware you sent out to your customers. When your TUFF'97 software gets validated, all your personal information is automatically integrated in the software, so everyone knows how to reach you by phone/fax or email and where to sent the check/money or cash orders. Basically this is the concept. Offcourse you need the software to grasp the whole thing. Believe it, there is absolutely no marketing knowledge required, just ask for the software package, join and start promoting your own TUFF'97 line. The only thing you DO need is a PC or Mac(*) and Internet. (*) TUFF'97 is only available for MacOS users running Connectix VirtualPC or Insignia's Sofwindows 95/3.11. A true MacOS version is not available. When you're interested in becoming a TUFF'97 distributor and create your own distribution line, sent a mailto:FiReStArTeR@frodo.com and ask for your copy of the TUFF software (We'll sent you a download location and install instructions). This is a serious opportunity, so only serious responses are processed. If you're not interested, have a nice day. Best Regards, Tony Scott Worldwide Pants Promotions 24H Support/Download requests, mailto:FiReStArTeR@frodo.com voice:(+01)779 698 4655 Fax :(+01)779 698 4555
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT printer feed problem References: <letsch-100697082616@kit.fre.jhu.edu> <339e4a13.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <339f5dac.1353228@news.mindspring.com> Organization: University of Calgary CPSC From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Message-ID: <33a0dfb0.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 13 Jun 97 05:50:40 GMT In article <339f5dac.1353228@news.mindspring.com>, Heath Tucker <heatht@mindspring.com> wrote: >hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) wrote: > >>The usual big problems are a stripped (plastic) gear wheel in the mechanism >>that spits the paper out after printing (the sheet doesn't come all the way >>out) and a perished rubber input roller (the machine won't feed paper in). >> > >>The output problem requires replacing the little gear wheel, the input >>problem requires reversing the rubber sleeve on the input roller. Both >>involves partially dismantling the paper transport mechanism, which I am >>pretty sure are covered in the site above. >> >>Of course, you may have some other problem. Cheaper to buy a working >>used printer than to have Bell Atlantic fix it I think. >> >>Good luck. >> >>david > >>-- >>David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more >>Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. >>hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) >>http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television! > > >This message falls at a good time for me. I just took ownership of a >black next 400dpi printer and it has a problem feeding paper into >itself. > >I was wondering if anyone could tell me what they think of these >symptoms and behaviors: > >The printer tries to print. It pulls the paper very quickly about 1 >inch in, and then pauses. It is at this point that it usually jams. >The paper simply doesn't move anymore even though I can hear the gears >inside the printer working away. > >The interesting part is this. If I pop the cover for a second and >close it, it makes a clunking noise, warms up for a second and then >pulls the paper the rest of the way in and prints perfectly, except >that the text is not centered vertically, it appears nearly at the >bottom of the page with a huge top margin. > >As a side note, I can make it pull in the paper every time if I use >the slider in the the paper tray to force the stack of paper to >actually stick up over the end and out of the tray. This literally >forces the stack into the printer's mouth when I shove the tray back >in. The additional push that forcing the paper in gives at feed time >allows the printer to pull the entire page in, but it is still >horribly off skew towards the bottom. > >My question (you knew I had to have one in here somewhere): > >I do not have an original NeXT paper tray. I am using what I think is >a HP tray (it is black, but I was told that it isnt a NeXT tray by the >guy who I got it from, there is no writing on the tray). > >Should I try to get an original NeXT tray and see if this feeds the >paper correctly to the machine and all is well (for about $20)? Could >an improper tray cause this problem? I have enver seen a NeXT printer >tray before so I don't know if the trays are nonstandard. > >Or, should I try to disassemble the printer and flip the intake roller >as described above? Does anyone have any experience doing this and if >so, are my symptoms like yours were before the fix? The rubber on the >roller seems to be in decent shape and it will feed somewhat. > >Well, I hope someone can give me some details on what a working NeXT >laser does if nothing else :) Is the rapid feeding and then a pause >normal? Is a clunk after opening the cover normal etc.? If you have >read this far, thanks in advance, > >Heath Tucker Sounds absolutely standard perished (hardened surface) input roller. You describe the symptoms and experiments I went through. Flipping the rubber sleeve should (IMHO) fix it. The tricky part is having the skill to disassemble the bits and put them together again. It is not that hard, but can be handled badly and lead to damage. I've done two successfully. david -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help! Monitor Sync Problems! Ack! Message-ID: <EBrGo4.Bxo@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5nnrcu$nr6$1@brokaw.wa.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 10:19:16 GMT In article <5nnrcu$nr6$1@brokaw.wa.com> ihate@spammers.com (bf) writes: > I have a Colorstation ADB running NS 3.3/3.2 on it with a 17" megapixel > std. next color monitor. For some reason, upon boot up the colorstation > cant seem to sync with the monitor and ends up getting a jumbled image. > It usually takes 5-6 power-ons before it can finally sync up. Whats > going on here?? > If it ain't just a broken cable there are two possibilities. Either the synch range or signal separation in the monitor is going bad or the frame generator in the slab is dying. You could try to isolate the problem by exchanging the monitor. But this is a serious TV technician job to find out which if it ain't just something obvious (like the cable). -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: srampazzo@windnet.it (Stefano Rampazzo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: OPENSTEP on Windows95 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:20:58 +0200 Organization: ITnet Message-ID: <srampazzo-1506970120590001@kit2.swapnet.it> Hello, I've installed OPENSTEP Enterprise 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) on my Windows95 system (Pentium166 - 32MB RAM). Precisely I've installed the standard Deployment package ( directory OEDeploy ). When I try to run the demos I get an error in PBS.exe : Unhandled exception in pbs.exe (NEXTPDO.DLL) : 0xC0000005: Access Violation. What I'm missing ? Thank you very much. Best Regards. Stefano email: srampazzo@windnet.it
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 20:03:16 -0600 From: Rene Berber <rberber@spin.com.mx> Subject: Re: Jaz trouble with NS3.3 on Intel Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <866336029.8593@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News USENET Posting Service Trey McClendon wrote: > > I'm having a bit of trouble with a Jaz drive. I built a filesystem > on it a few days ago, but it 'crashed' today. The system cannot > successfully install a new file system on it because it gets to > many SCSI retry errors. It will die at various places. I guess it > somehow made it the first time without reaching some error limit. > > I've tried the disktab from NeXT and the disktab off the net > (skylee.com, et.al.). I've done the Format command from disk. > The disktab entry from NeXT works for me. > Does anyone know what I could try next? > Need more info: Did you format the Jaz disk with: disk -F /dev/rsd2h (assuming it is the third SCSI device)? Did you then make the new file system with: disk -i -lJaz -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G /dev/rsd2h (or something similar.) > The jaz is connected to a Pentium system (ASUS SCSI with Symbios > Logic driver v3.33). There other devices, including a Zip drive > that works fine, on the SCSI chain. I've removed everything but the > Jaz and still have trouble. > > Here is the SCSI rundown: > > ID=0, Boot NeXT disk > ID=2, Windows hard disk > ID=3, jaz drive. > The Jaz drive is the SCSI terminator on the chain? Either has the switch in auto-terminate or terminate position. > The drive works fine in windows. I took the problem disk and did > the 21 minute format and no errors were found with the disk. > So the disk doesn't seem to be faulty. > Thanks in advance for any tips. It is important that I get this > drive to work if possible. > --- Rene Berber rberber@spin.com.mx MIME / NeXT Mail welcomed -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: soundblaster 16 and / or 32 question - for NS 3.3 ?? Date: 15 Jun 1997 01:46:29 GMT Message-ID: <19970615014600.VAA06727@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Howdy I've got a question about Soundblasters in general and the SB16 and SB32 versions in particular for use with Nextstep - we have a Triton-based PCI 166mhz system w/ NS 3.3 and have had a variety of problems related to getting a SB 16 PnP to configure correctly - basically system just does not appear to ID it at all -- ( any suggestions or insights most welcome ) and also -- is it possible to drive a SB32 under NS 3.3 ? BTW, with respect to SBlasters, are there any great things possible under Openstep 4.2 that might help us resolve this sound blaster configuration issue? thanks in advance for any and all assistance - Bob Kurhajetz
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Speakers for black hardware Date: 15 Jun 1997 02:54:23 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5nvlgv$ant$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Does anyone have a recommendations in regard to speakers for use with black hardware? I would like to attach a pair to my cube for use playback of music CDs and/or snd/wav/midi playback. Any recommendations? Favorites? Types or brands to avoid? Thanks in advance to any who reply... --Chris -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Speakers for black hardware Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 23:29:26 -0400 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970614230611.32496B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <5nvlgv$ant$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Christian Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net> In-Reply-To: <5nvlgv$ant$1@maryj.bitstream.net> On 15 Jun 1997, Christian Jensen wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendations in regard to speakers for use with > black hardware? I would like to attach a pair to my cube for use > playback of music CDs and/or snd/wav/midi playback. > > Any recommendations? Favorites? Types or brands to avoid? Currently I'm using Cambridge Soundworks' Model 11 system with my NeXT. (This is the really keen transportable system that dates back to 1989-ish. It's since been supplanted by the Model 12 which, as far as I can tell, is functionally identical, with only cosmetic changes to the amp unit.) In any case, I've been deleriously happy with this unit - it has served me well. It is, however a bit pricy (about $800). A quick glance at their web site (http://www.hifi.com) shows that they've got some lower-end products specifically aimed at computer users. I can't speak for the quality of these units, only that I love my Model 11. As far as stuff to avoid... well, basically anything under $150 sounds like cheap trash in my experience. If your budget is under $150, you'd probably be better off with a good pair of headphones. As for brands - avoid Labtec and Koss like the plague. Altec Lansing has some reasonable powered speakers in their mid-to-upper range, but their cheap stuff is pretty terrible. Here are a few URLs that may be helpful: Computer Shopper PC Speaker roundup: http://www8.zdnet.com/products/content/cshp/1701/cshp0166.html PC Magazine review of Cambridge Soundwork's MicroWorks system: http://www8.zdnet.com/products/content/pcmg/1601/pcmg0049.html Computer Life's How To Buy PC Speakers: http://www5.zdnet.com/products/content/clife/newrev/0506cl1.html Older PC Magazine speaker roundup: http://www5.zdnet.com/products/content/pcmg/1501/pcmg0171.html Hope this helps, -Isaac
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Next Dimension motherboard questions Date: 14 Jun 1997 20:36:38 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5nvo06$94u@slip.net> Hi, Are all ND boards either 25 or 33 MHz? (Which?) Do all ND boards take 4Meg 30 Pin SIMMS? Do all ND motherboards support color? Can one put 2 ND motherboards in a cube and get all the functionality of a dual headed system? Is there a way to view video at resolutions greater than 480 by 640? When you purchase a ND board, do you have to seek out special software to set up the dual headed feature? When ND and NBIC record video is audio captured as well? Thanks, Emmett
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <14012865742421@digifix.com> Date: 15 Jun 1997 03:57:19 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3108866347221@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: weird lines on 17" fimi monitor Date: 13 Jun 1997 20:48:02 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nsbm2$d98$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <leffert.866004155@cs.uchicago.edu> <IncNo5O00iWn07BqQ0@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In <IncNo5O00iWn07BqQ0@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > What you're seeing most likely are the thin wires used to hold the > aperture grill of a Trinitron picture tube in place, and you are > probably used to using monitors which use a shadow mask tube. > > Trinitron tubes are more expensive, and they tend to be brighter and > sharper than a shadow mask design, but some people find the horizontal > lines to be distracting. I have these with my new Mitsubishi DiamondPro. I thought about returning it when I first saw the lines. However it was a quality monitor and I thought I'd give it a try. Two things helped: I changed the background color of my Workspace to some sort of blue-ish or purple-ish thing (I think it may be the default actually.... I can't find the dwrite). I also changed the color of my Stuart.app windows. I really don't notice them all that much, and I'm usually quite bad about being distracted by such things.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: "Carl A. Carlson" <ccarlson@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 3.3 or 4.x? Date: 14 Jun 1997 13:40:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <33A2A094.56A9@primenet.com> References: <jak-1306970234350001@ss7-16.inre.asu.edu> <EBqGCo.IHH@novice.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > 3.2 is the bare minimum you should get, with 3.3 perferable. 4.x >>(4.2 preferably) should be OK on a Turbo machine as long as you put >64MB or more RAM in it. This seems too conservative. I'm running 4.1 on a 25 mhz station with 16 megs of Ram. It runs fine. Carl
From: David Young <daver@jacobs.Geeks.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next Dimension motherboard questions Date: 15 Jun 1997 07:18:37 GMT Organization: Geeks Organizations Message-ID: <5o050d$3qr$1@darla.visi.com> References: <5nvo06$94u@slip.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jun 1997 02:18:37 CDT Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net> wrote: > Are all ND boards either 25 or 33 MHz? (Which?) All NeXTdimension cards are 33MHz i860 graphics coprocessors. > Do all ND boards take 4Meg 30 Pin SIMMS? No, they take 72pin SIMMs in sizes ranging from 1 to 4MB. I understand that 8M SIMMs also work but were not officiially supported. > Do all ND motherboards support color? NeXTdimensions aren't motherboards, they are expansion boards which handle a color display. You still need a cube and its motherboard to drive the ND. > Can one put 2 ND motherboards in a cube and get > all the functionality of a dual headed system? You can put a ND and a cube motherboard in one box and have one color ND head and one greyscale standard head. You may repeat the process with up to three Dimensions. > Is there a way to view video at resolutions > greater than 480 by 640? Not that I know of. > When you purchase a ND board, do you have to > seek out special software to set up the dual > headed feature? No. Your Preferences panel should recognize the new screen and allow you to configure them appropriate. > When ND and NBIC record video is audio captured > as well? The ND doesn't record video, per se; it can capture about 6-10 fps, depending on the resolution. You can also record audio with the line input simultaneously. -- :: d a v i d y o u n g ::::: smtp dwy@ace.net http www.ace.net :: :: PGP fingerprint :: 89F5 E75D 4749 3FF4 :: ED92 1B6D 9871 9B93 ::
From: Frederic SAVOIR <fsavoir@dial.oleane.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: My original Openstep Device Drivers Disk Prerelease 4.2 is dead ! Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:20:05 +0200 Organization: Guest of OLEANE - PIPEX International Message-ID: <33A3B3C5.FE84924F@dial.oleane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I received my Openstep for Mach (Intel) 4.2 prerelease 2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) but my second floppy disk is dead which is the Openstep device drivers disk prerelease 2.... Thus I can't install the software... If some got the same disk and could send it to me by Email (in raw format) or if someone knows where to get it.. please let me know because I would like to install it as soon as possible. Sincerely, Fred -- Email: Frederic SAVOIR <fsavoir@dialup.fdn.fr>
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From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (younghoon KIL) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Matrox PowerDoc and NS 3.3 Date: 15 Jun 1997 12:20:25 GMT Organization: ppai News Message-ID: <5o0mm9$nu3$1@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Hi, I'm interesting Matrox PowerDoc than Millennium. Has anyone had experience with Matrox PowerDoc graphics card on NS3.3 Intel and OS 4.x? Matrox PowerDoc graphics card: http://www.matrox.com/mgaweb/powerdoc.htm Any help would be appreciated. younghoon KIL >From South Korea. ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (NeXTMail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP Q&A board written in Korean)
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Getting the monitor to power save Date: 15 Jun 1997 03:57:49 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nvp7t$68v$2@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii My monitor has power save features. I have enabled power save via root's Preferences.app I have dimmed my monitor to brightness = 0 How do I convince the monitor to go to power save? Thanks TjL ps -- I was disappointed that OS4.1 NSFIP only dimmed the monitor a little if I had been idle for my certain time. Using 'evs dim 300 .0' it will dim to black in 300 seconds (aka 5 minutes). evs can be found at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/evs.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: It always pays to panic... Message-ID: <EBtrqt.5vM@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5ntarj$l4c$2@news.inc.net> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:13:41 GMT In article <5ntarj$l4c$2@news.inc.net> rupert@noir.net writes: > Woe is me. > > I've got a Color Turbo that is suddenly incapable of making it > through an hour of operation without panicking. Uggh. I am > infinitely perplexed as to what I did to percipitate this, but > here's the rundown: > > - Original 250Mb drive died. No fsck, lowlevel format, etc would > work. Kaput. Fine. - Installed spare Fujitsu 540 just fine. - > Took time to clean & vacuum the inside of the pizza box. - Installed > 3.3 from scratch. - Everything seemed ducky, even the patch install > & "renetworking" of the machine. - Very intermittently, but at > least once an hour the machine panics, even when idle. > > I get a big NMI window full of dex-hex-mess dump, and then usually > the following message: > > "MMU invalid descriptor during table walk" > > Any idea what might be causing this behaviour? This is an almost 100% certain clue for a main memory defect. Just when some vital funtion hits it... > The machine worked flawlessly before the first HDD died... I am stumped > as to where to even begin on this snipe hunt. > > I am not panicking yet... > Good to hear ;-) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: rraman@osf1.gmu.edu (RAVISHANKAR RAMANATHAN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Which Fax/Modem for NeXT Black Date: 15 Jun 1997 16:51:20 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Message-ID: <5o16i8$lfn@portal.gmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all: I am planning to use my next full time and would like to get some info on which Fax Modem runs without problems under Black NeXT (running NS3.3) - I plan to do PPP and also fax documents from my machine. For the latter, is the built in Fax mechanism sufficient? Another question I have is how fast can the modems go. Them machine is a Turbo Slab. And finally, can I connect a ISDN modem to this machine - either through the serial port or a ISDN router. Thanks in advance for all the help! Ravi
From: alex@guava.phil.lehigh.edu (Alex Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next Dimension motherboard questions Date: 15 Jun 1997 18:45:38 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5o1d8i$4nm@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> References: <5o050d$3qr$1@darla.visi.com> > > Is there a way to view video at resolutions > > greater than 480 by 640? > > Not that I know of. > A very minor correction: the PAL boards support the slightly greater resolution of the European standard. Not sure that's helpful to the original poster, though. Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Getting the monitor to power save Date: 16 Jun 1997 02:24:16 GMT Organization: Dental Records (R) Message-ID: <5o284g$f2@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5nvp7t$68v$2@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: luomat@peak.org In <5nvp7t$68v$2@bashir.peak.org> Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > > My monitor has power save features. > I have enabled power save via root's Preferences.app > I have dimmed my monitor to brightness = 0 > How do I convince the monitor to go to power save? > > Thanks > > TjL > > ps -- I was disappointed that OS4.1 NSFIP only dimmed the monitor a little if > I had been idle for my certain time. Using 'evs dim 300 .0' it will dim to > black in 300 seconds (aka 5 minutes). evs can be found at: > > ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/evs.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz > anybody able to get a canon object.station to use it's monitor power saver feature to work under OPENSTEP? It worked swell under 3.2, but on 4.1 it goes to the ever delightful NeXT logo but never turns off the monitor. as much as I like the NeXT logo, sometimes I just want the monitor to save itself the effort of displaying it. (yes , I am aware of the monitor power switch) -- Rick Sanford Dental Records(R) dental@precipice.com NeXTMAIL welcome http://www.dentalrecords.com
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Speakers for black hardware Date: 16 Jun 1997 02:56:17 GMT Organization: Dental Records (R) Message-ID: <5o2a0h$f2@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5nvlgv$ant$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.970614230611.32496B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: isaac@pobox.com In <Pine.LNX.3.96.970614230611.32496B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Isaac wrote: > On 15 Jun 1997, Christian Jensen wrote: > > > Does anyone have a recommendations in regard to speakers for use with > > black hardware? I would like to attach a pair to my cube for use > > playback of music CDs and/or snd/wav/midi playback. > > > > Any recommendations? Favorites? Types or brands to avoid? > well, black ones, of course... and if you plan to place them near the monitor, shielded ones. > Currently I'm using Cambridge Soundworks' Model 11 system with my NeXT. > (This is the really keen transportable system that dates back to 1989-ish. > It's since been supplanted by the Model 12 which, as far as I can > tell, is functionally identical, with only cosmetic changes to the amp > unit.) In any case, I've been deleriously happy with this unit - it has > served me well. > > It is, however a bit pricy (about $800). A quick glance at their web site > (http://www.hifi.com) shows that they've got some lower-end products > specifically aimed at computer users. I can't speak for the quality of > these units, only that I love my Model 11. > are these the sub-woofer / satelites pair set? very cool, but yes pricey. they fit in a bag sorta like a Mac 512k shoulder bag? I did it a little different here. installing the NeXT into an already outfitted studio (small), I plugged it into a Mackie board / Hafler amp / Tannoy monitors combo (combined cost would be about $800 - 900, so similar). otherwise, I use a pair of (cheap) small "PC" speakers, AURA brand, model Aspect 10. they are over hyped, but have wooden cabinets and ported bass, and sound ok for "draft quality" 8-22k and low volume stuff. They cost me $30 so I can't complain. the imaging is ok and they serve their purpose (portable, self-powered and did I mention cheap!). they are, alas "PC" aka putty coloured... added bonus for this smaller approach, is I can take them with me if I need, to a hotel or for location monitoring with portable DAT or PMA-5 work. sometimes headphones for hours and hours at a time gives me a headache. decent headphones can be had for under $100. eg fostex series. > As far as stuff to avoid... well, basically anything under $150 sounds > like cheap trash in my experience. If your budget is under $150, you'd > probably be better off with a good pair of headphones. As for brands - > avoid Labtec and Koss like the plague. Altec Lansing has some reasonable > powered speakers in their mid-to-upper range, but their cheap stuff is > pretty terrible. > in general I agree, but for multi-media work where the output is @ 8 - 22k or draft work, eg editing, they work ok. always best to have more than one system for any serious work, so having a pair (like auratones, in the old days) is a good investment of 25-50 bux. > Hope this helps, > -Isaac > > -rick -- Rick Sanford Dental Records(R) AuralSurgery Digital Editing(tm) Filling Station Studio(tm) dental@precipice.com NeXTMAIL welcome http://www.dentalrecords.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Zip Drive -Parallel Port Version Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBtywz.9Kt@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:48:35 GMT References: <5nsm57$ro6@winter.erols.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5nsm57$ro6@winter.erols.com>, Scott Turner <test@mujjahadin.erols.com> wrote: >Is there a way to connect the zip drive to a parallel port on NextStep For >Intel version 3.3? > Not without writing a funky driver. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Next Dimension motherboard questions Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBtz0x.9ts@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:50:56 GMT References: <5nvo06$94u@slip.net> <5o050d$3qr$1@darla.visi.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5o050d$3qr$1@darla.visi.com>, David Young <daver@jacobs.Geeks.ORG> wrote: >Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net> wrote: > >> Do all ND boards take 4Meg 30 Pin SIMMS? > >No, they take 72pin SIMMs in sizes ranging from 1 to 4MB. I understand >that 8M SIMMs also work but were not officiially supported. > I have 4 8MB and 4 1MB SIMMs in my ND and they work fine. They must be 80ns or faster. >> Can one put 2 ND motherboards in a cube and get >> all the functionality of a dual headed system? > >You can put a ND and a cube motherboard in one box and have one color >ND head and one greyscale standard head. You may repeat the process with >up to three Dimensions. > ...and heat your room at the same time! ;) >> Is there a way to view video at resolutions >> greater than 480 by 640? > >Not that I know of. > No, there isn't. That's the fixed resolution of the video capture guts. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: arti@address.in.signature (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: /dev/cufb: Permission denied Date: 16 Jun 1997 07:54:59 GMT Organization: LavaNet, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5o2rgj$nfh@mochi.lava.net> References: <5nl06r$f6c@serv1.jump.net> maria_eugenia@jump.net (Maria Eugenia Tapia) wrote: > I got a new internal HDD for my NeXTStation (040, 25Mhz non-turbo) > and re-loaded NS3.1. Everything went well, except that now I cannot > get kermit (or pppd) to 'grab' the tty device to dial out: > > /dev/cufb: Permission denied > Sorry, access to tty device denied > > As root things work OK. What would cause this, and how could I fix it. > > Thank you very much for any information. kermit and pppd must run setuid root in order to access the serial port devices which are read/write for their owner, root, only. Many people seem to change the serial device permissions to read/write for everyone which makes them less secure and isn't necessary if the kermit and pppd permissions are correct: [~]% ls -lg /usr/local/bin/kermit -rwsr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 352256 Jan 6 1993 /usr/local/bin/kermit* [~]% ls -lg /usr/etc/pppd ---s--s--x 1 root daemon 87748 Sep 12 1996 /usr/etc/pppd* -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: arti at lava dot net Trego Systems (for whom I don't speak) Voice/Fax: +1 808 394 0511 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495 managed care solutions US Mail: Honolulu, HI 96825-2638
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Speakers for black hardware Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 05:13:25 -0400 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970616050013.15360A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <5nvlgv$ant$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.970614230611.32496B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> <5o2a0h$f2@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5o2a0h$f2@news1-alterdial.uu.net> On 16 Jun 1997, Rick Sanford wrote: > are these the sub-woofer / satelites pair set? very cool, but yes pricey. > they fit in a bag sorta like a Mac 512k shoulder bag? I did it a little > different here. installing the NeXT into an already outfitted studio (small), > I plugged it into a Mackie board / Hafler amp / Tannoy monitors combo > (combined cost would be about $800 - 900, so similar). The Model 11 is a satellite/sub set, yes, but with a twist. The sat units and the amp pack neatly *into* the woofer unit (aka the "Bass Case"), which looks like an ordinary hard-shell suitcase with a speaker grille in one side (Inside it's foam with cut-outs for the sats, amp, and cabling). The Model 12 (its successor) is the same. I remember reading a review of the system in MacUser circa 1989 and thinking "Wow, that's cool! Too bad I'll never be able to afford a set." Well, once the Model 11 got discontinued, I picked up a set at under half the cost ($350). Good things come to those who wait, I suppose. :) > in general I agree, but for multi-media work where the output is @ 8 - 22k or > draft work, eg editing, they work ok. always best to have more than one > system for any serious work, so having a pair (like auratones, in the old > days) is a good investment of 25-50 bux. Good point. For a long time I had been "making do" with a cheap, $20 set of Radio Shaft powered speakers. Now that I have something 100x nicer, the thought of going back to the "bad old days" makes me shudder. > added bonus for this smaller approach, is I can take them with me if I need, > to a hotel or for location monitoring with portable DAT or PMA-5 work. I've packed up the Model 11 on occasion, as it's fairly easy to do. (it can even take 12vdc directly and comes with an edison (car cigarette lighter) plug for such operation). It definately falls into the "transportable" category, though. Luggable, but not portable. -Isaac
From: iedsp@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: 16 Jun 1997 13:44:58 GMT Organization: Edmonton FreeNet, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Message-ID: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Can't find any. Are they out yet? Please respond via e-mail since I can only POST TO USENET. THANKS! Dave (iedsp@agt.gmeds.com)
From: u8222015@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Spencer Yu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can't boot my NXStation Date: 16 Jun 1997 14:43:58 GMT Organization: National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Message-ID: <5o3jfe$shf$2@news2.nctu.edu.tw> sorry this is a stupid newbie question: I just got a NeXTStation from someone, and I found I can't boot it.. This machine came with an exnternal SCSI HD (1G, SCSI no =3 set by its previous owner)...no internal HD I think....I hooked the external HD to the SCSI port, powered on, and pressed the power key.... Everything's ok...ROM Monitor show up and tried to boot with the command "b sd(0,0,0)"...after about 30min it said "No SCSI disk" and I was confronted by a command prompt...what should I do now? please reply ASAP...it's a great torture watching this beautiful black box but can't not use it.... thanx a lot!
From: stef@clickteam.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: installation failed Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 19:06:19 +0200 Organization: Corel Click & Create Message-ID: <33A5728A.AAE07C68@clickteam.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I can't install OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 on my PC. After choosing the adaptec 2940 driver for both my cdrom and my disk, I get the Mach window resetting the computer and I get this failure : WARNING : clock lost 58 days... CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2 ...and nothing more Any idea? May it comes from my motherboard with a cyrix P200+ ? Stéphane.
From: grape@matrix.teuto.de (Timo Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: It always pays to panic... Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:24:11 +0200 Organization: PoP teuto.net Bielefeld Message-ID: <1997061617241130716@[192.168.0.2]> References: <5ntarj$l4c$2@news.inc.net> <EBtrqt.5vM@nidat.sub.org> > > Any idea what might be causing this behaviour? > > This is an almost 100% certain clue for a main memory defect. Just when > some vital funtion hits it... > Sometimes pulling out the SIMMs and reseating them (after cleaning the contacts) solves memory problems... Bye Timo --- Timo Hoepfner - grape@matrix.teuto.de
From: icardena@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Ian Patrick Cardenas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Matrox PowerDoc and NS 3.3 Date: 16 Jun 1997 20:04:54 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Message-ID: <5o4696$h5$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5o0mm9$nu3$1@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (younghoon KIL) writes: >Hi, >I'm interesting Matrox PowerDoc than Millennium. >Has anyone had experience with Matrox PowerDoc graphics card on NS3.3 Intel and OS 4.x? Works great...I've been using the powerDoc edition of the millenium for a few months now. Just use the standard Millenium driver. I haven't had the oportunity to test it yet, but I believe that adding the 1800x1440 resolution to the Display.modes file (in /private/Drivers/i386/MatroxMGA2064WDisplayDriver.config) work. Any comments from people who've edited the Display.modes files with other adaptors? I'll find out for myself in about a month when I get my new monitor and WRAM :) Good luck, -- Ian P. Cardenas (icardena@uiuc.edu) CCSO Sites Technical Support "I am of the opinion that pizza and beer together are far superior to either in isolation." -James E. Quick on the Apple/NeXT merger
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From: rhellman@us.oracle.com (Rick Hellman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Need audio box for NeXT Station Color Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 22:58:40 GMT Organization: Oracle Corp. Message-ID: <33a5c4b1.364462724@newshost.us.oracle.com> Anyone, I just inherited a NSC, but the audio box is nowhere to be found. Does anyone have one for sale, or know where to get one cheap? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Rick -- rhellman@us.oracle.com
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: 17 Jun 1997 02:38:52 GMT Organization: Dental Records (R) Message-ID: <5o4tbs$gtf@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: iedsp@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca In <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> iedsp@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: > Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Can't find any. > Are they out yet? > > Please respond via e-mail since I can only POST TO USENET. > THANKS! > > Dave (iedsp@agt.gmeds.com) > > gameboy? -- Rick Sanford Dental Records(R) dental@precipice.com NeXTMAIL welcome http://www.dentalrecords.com
From: GehleSoftware@t-online.de (Carsten Gehle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD-R/CD-RW/UDF File system Date: 16 Jun 1997 01:26:59 GMT Organization: Gehle Software Message-ID: <5o24p3$suc$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> References: <33A08D32.3AD5@ultranet.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: a1b01050@ultranet.ca JOHN HILLS wrote: > > I am looking at inexpensive solutions to disk archival storage. The HP > SureStor and Sony CSP-960S CD-R drives look attractive and perhaps the > Ricoh MP6200S CD-RW. Can CD-R/CD-RW/UDF File system be used under > NeXTstep/OpenStep/Rhapsody/whatever? > > John Hills > > jhills@ultranet.ca CDDesigner V1.2 will come in a few days. See http://www.ip-service.com/gehle Carsten
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 23:12:37 -0600 From: SJLee1@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: Speakers for black hardware Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <866520070.19630@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service References: <5nvlgv$ant$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.970614230611.32496B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> <5o2a0h$f2@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.970616050013.15360A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.970616050013.15360A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu>, Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> wrote: > The Model 11 is a satellite/sub set, yes, but with a twist. The sat units > and the amp pack neatly *into* the woofer unit (aka the "Bass Case"), > which looks like an ordinary hard-shell suitcase with a speaker grille in > one side (Inside it's foam with cut-outs for the sats, amp, and cabling). > The Model 12 (its successor) is the same. I remember reading a review of > the system in MacUser circa 1989 and thinking "Wow, that's cool! Too bad > I'll never be able to afford a set." Well, once the Model 11 got > discontinued, I picked up a set at under half the cost ($350). Good things > come to those who wait, I suppose. :) > The Model 12 has cosmetic differences, three inputs, and a headphone jack. The company's "SoundWorks" is the small $220 sat/sub system that can fit into a $50 carry bag and operate on AC or 12v. The much larger "MicroWorks" (which I am listening to as I type) is a sat/sub system that is definitely not portable; it is $350. Typical sale price on the Model 12 is $699. All three sound great and all three are available in black! Hilegaarde. -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: 17 Jun 1997 03:44:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5o516o$dn0$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> <5o4tbs$gtf@news1-alterdial.uu.net> In-Reply-To: <5o4tbs$gtf@news1-alterdial.uu.net> On 06/16/97, Rick Sanford wrote: >In <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> iedsp@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: >> Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Can't find any. >> Are they out yet? >> >> Please respond via e-mail since I can only POST TO USENET. >> THANKS! >> >> Dave (iedsp@agt.gmeds.com) >> >> > >gameboy? > Nope Gameboy isn't color. Although they have some funky color cases now. The Sega 'gameboy' was color... but its long dead. I think they meant something a little more powerful and than video game though. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: root@guzzibill.cadvision.com (guzzibill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Tape Drives and SafetyNet Date: 17 Jun 1997 01:28:12 GMT Organization: CADVision Development Corp. Message-ID: <5o4p7c$33u4@elmo.cadvision.com> References: <5nrq4u$44t$1@news.istar.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jsamson@istar.ca In <5nrq4u$44t$1@news.istar.ca> Jean-Paul Samson wrote: > I've a pressing problem that needs to be figured out quickly. I have > a DAT drive and some files that need to be restored from tape. I'm > having difficulty getting SafetyNet 2.1 (a tape archiving utility) to > recognize when a tape is inserted into the drive. > > When the machine boots up, the SCSI controller does recognize the DAT > drive. Also, when I do an autodetect in SafetyNet, it finds the > drive. However, I can't figure out how to get SafetyNet to restore > files from tape; it doesn't seem to see when new tapes are inserted. > (The /etc/mtab file doesn't have an entry for the drive, so I guess > tapes are not automounted.) I'm using an Archive Python 28388 DAT > drive that is unofficially supported by NeXT and officially supported > by SafetyNet. > > Any ideas on how to get this thing to work? _____ This is basically a "rtfm" reply. The on-line help facility in SaftyNet is pretty darn good. If you have an archive of the tape's files already built, the restore should be a breeze...simply select the files you want restored in the Safety-Net browser window and click "restore" in the menu options. Safety-Net will then ask to have the proper tape mounted for the restore activity. If you do Not have an archive .... read up on how to create one, (this will ask for a tape mount too) and then the restore should be as before. Good Luck. -- Bill Scollard Calgary, Canada Scollard Holdings Ltd. "Computer Systems : Cradle-to-Grave"
From: crobato@kuentos.guam.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Trident 9680 or Cirrus 5446 device drivers Date: 17 Jun 1997 07:12:37 GMT Organization: Kuentos Distribution: world Message-ID: <5o5dd5$bvk@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> Does OpenStep for Mach 4.2 support drivers for these two video cards? Please let me know. Email would be appreciated. Rgds, Chris "Devant le comportement irrationnel de sa machine, j'ai compris que se poser en dfenseur de Windows releve de la plus profonde bassesse. J'ai honte" --- Eric Bernatchez, "La Presse" newspaper, "Cyberpresse" column, March 22, 1997, Montreal, Canada. ***crobato@kuentos.guam.net***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Optical Driver Malfunction Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBwEHs.C7F@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 02:20:16 GMT References: <33A54478.55FC@osu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <33A54478.55FC@osu.edu>, Stacy D. Coil <coil.1@osu.edu> wrote: >Does anyone know how to repair these drives? Mine won't spin up. I >cleaned it, but to know avail. Are there any schematics? > They're something of a black art, these drives. I got a dead one a while ago with the hopes of resurrecting it (it span up then made these strange clicking noises) but I never did get it to work. But I bought one last week new in the box for $140 Canadian, so I'm happy. I don't know of any schematics. I've heard rumours that the OD had a very high percentage of Crandall in it, so the schematics might be from space even if you could get them. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Martin Laurent <martin.laurent@interweb.be> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: OpenStep 4.2 on VirtualPC Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:39:57 +0200 Organization: Brussels Free Universities VUB/ULB Message-ID: <33A6778D.2C69@interweb.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I tried to install OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) on VirtualPC 1.0b6 but I didn't manage. It ask me which driver to use for the CD-ROM drive but I don't know which to choose. When I choose "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE and ATAPI Device Controllers (v4.01)" (Yes I know, it's not SCSI but it doesn't cost anything to try) it recognize the CD-ROM and begin to boot on it but crash after displaying "Power Management Enabled". I tried some of the others drivers but the others don't recognize the CD at all. Can you help me ? Martin Laurent, Limauges Software
From: Serge Smadja <serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Drivers, more Drivers are needed !! Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:33:55 +0200 Organization: EDF - DER/IMA/ICI/ODI Message-ID: <33A6A052.1A466173@der.edfgdf.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello All, I have installed OpenStep 4.1 on a G6 200XL from Gateway 2000, however my graphic adapter is a STB Virge velocity 3D and my network adapter is a 3COM Etherlink III PCI (PCI is very important) and it seems that there aren't adequate drivers on the CD or on the Next Site. Any help would be appriciated. Does anybody knows if those drivers will be available anytime soon. Thanks. -- Serge Smadja EDF - Direction des Etudes et Recherches - FRANCE Ingénieur Chercheur - Département Ingénierie de la Communication en Informatique Groupe Outils de Dialogue pour l'Informatique Tél : +33 (0)1 47 65 31 31 fax : +33 (0)1 47 65 35 23 email : serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr t@byu.edu > First you will have to fix that bad block and you may expect some data loss! In order to fix the bad block you will: 1) boot single user (-s flag) 2) run the reasb command /usr/etc/reasb /dev/rsd0h 1090579 -r 3) IF reasb did successfully reassign the block do: /usr/etc/fsck -n /dev/rsd0a AND note all the printout (files names, inodes numbers) of the inconsistencies found to decide if the files are restorable from a good backup or NEXSTEP CD. 4) Post or mail me the the result of fsck for further analysis. Note: It's better to do this on a working system with the faulty disk attached in an external disk-case (don't forget to change the SCSI address of the faulty drive), thus /dev/rsd0h would become /dev/rsd1h for the commands described above! Hope that helps! -- Fabien Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 (0)1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 (0)1 48 55 09 90 GSM: 33 (0)6 60 46 36 83
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: installation failed Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:16:57 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970617101020.5497L-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: stef@clickteam.com In-Reply-To: <33A5728A.AAE07C68@clickteam.com> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 stef@clickteam.com wrote: > After choosing the adaptec 2940 driver for both my cdrom and my disk, I get > the Mach window resetting the computer and I get this failure : > > WARNING : clock lost 58 days... CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! > Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init > Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2 > > ...and nothing more This is a very bad failure to find the necessary files to boot in /etc/. It may indicate a failed installation. (It may indicate something else as well). When the boot process starts, try entering this sd -i -s maybe that will have to be sd() -i ? Anyway, try to get it to boot with the -i flag.... and if you have IDE rather than SCSI I think it is 'hd' After the kernel starts, it will print: init program? If /usr/etc/init is still around, then you can say: init program? /usr/etc/init If that doesn't work you'll have to boot off the CD-ROM and look around and see what's missing... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: ZIP Drive connector Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:09:31 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi all, I just bought a SCSI ZIP drive for my NeXTstation. I found out that it has a connector that I have never seen before. It looks like 25 pin serial or printer connectors [it has both, male and female - for daisy-chaining]. So I just wanted to ask if that is some kind of standard SCSI connector. If so, would you know about a cheap source of a gender-bender or a cable? Or should I rather buy a cable from IOmega ($15)? Is it a reasonable price? If it is not a standard SCSI connector, I am going after IOmega, since the box says 'Mac and SCSI compatible'. Is it at least possible to connect such a cable to the Mac? I know that I might have a serious gap in education in the SCSI cables area, but the manual says that if you don't wanna use an IOmega proprietary SCSI board, you would need a gender bender. That raised my suspicion. Thanks for any hints. Good luck. Rudy blazek@stt.msu.edu
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:34:06 -0400 From: rifrain@avana.net (Jay Craft) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT ADB Keyboard on a macintosh Message-ID: <rifrain-1706971334060001@atl701.avana.net> Organization: Surreal Productions I heard that the NeXT adb keyboard works with the mac adb, and, wanting to have the coolest/oddest looking system around, I was planning to replace my broken keyboard with one. Has anyone tried this? I would be quite interested to know if the command and option keys worked (the NeXT keyboard has an ALT key which i would assume would be option?) and most importantly if the POWER key worked so i could turn my computer on if I so desired :) Thanks.
From: amaro@klein.ist.utl.pt (Amaro Rica da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: soundblaster 16 and / or 32 question - for NS 3.3 ?? Date: 17 Jun 1997 11:40:43 GMT Organization: Instituto Superior Tecnico Message-ID: <5o5t3r$rjl@ci.ist.utl.pt> References: <19970615014600.VAA06727@ladder02.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: rkurhajetz@aol.com In <19970615014600.VAA06727@ladder02.news.aol.com> Rkurhajetz wrote: > Howdy > > I've got a question about Soundblasters in general and the SB16 and SB32 > versions in particular for use with Nextstep - > we have a Triton-based PCI 166mhz system w/ NS 3.3 and have had a variety > of problems related to getting a SB 16 PnP to configure correctly - > basically system just does not appear to ID it at all -- ( any suggestions > or insights most welcome ) and also -- is it possible to drive a SB32 > under NS 3.3 ? BTW, with respect to SBlasters, are there any great things > possible under Openstep 4.2 that might help us resolve this sound blaster > configuration issue? thanks in advance for any and all assistance - > > Bob Kurhajetz > Bob, Installation of a SoundBlaster on a Pentium with NS3.3 requires that the EISA bus driver be able to recognise PnP devices. The CD-ROM EISA bus driver is superseded by a v3.35 EISAbus.pkg that you can download from www.peanuts.org, or find in NeXTanswers. Additionally, substitute the Serial port driver with v3.3 ISASerialPort ( NeXTanswer #1942). That should work. Good luck. Amaro Rica da Silva.
From: dimascio.6@osu.edu (V.P. DiMascio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: LOOKING FOR NEXT BLACK HARDWARE Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 20:39:39 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <dimascio.6.6.33A6F60B@osu.edu> anyone know where to start? thanks vince
From: colinj@taos.cs.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: ZIP Drive connector Date: 17 Jun 1997 14:31:49 -0600 Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Message-ID: <5o6s7l$51p$1@taos.cs.unm.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: >Hi all, > I just bought a SCSI ZIP drive for my NeXTstation. I found out that it >has a connector that I have never seen before. It looks like 25 pin serial >or printer connectors [it has both, male and female - for daisy-chaining]. > So I just wanted to ask if that is some kind of standard SCSI connector. >If so, would you know about a cheap source of a gender-bender or a cable? >Or should I rather buy a cable from IOmega ($15)? Is it a reasonable >price? > If it is not a standard SCSI connector, I am going after IOmega, since >the box says 'Mac and SCSI compatible'. Is it at least possible to connect >such a cable to the Mac? > > I know that I might have a serious gap in education in the SCSI cables >area, but the manual says that if you don't wanna use an IOmega >proprietary SCSI board, you would need a gender bender. That raised my >suspicion. You'll need a SCSI-2 to DB25 cable. That should work just fine. It's a pretty standard cable. You should be able to get one at a better computer supply store. -- Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ A fabulous reminder that there's more then one way to skin a groove!
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT ADB Keyboard on a macintosh Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:20:35 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-1706971720350001@172.chicago-036.il.dial-access.att.net> References: <rifrain-1706971334060001@atl701.avana.net> In article <rifrain-1706971334060001@atl701.avana.net>, rifrain@avana.net (Jay Craft) wrote: > I heard that the NeXT adb keyboard works with the mac adb, and, wanting to > have the coolest/oddest looking system around, I was planning to replace > my broken keyboard with one. Has anyone tried this? I would be quite > interested to know if the command and option keys worked (the NeXT > keyboard has an ALT key which i would assume would be option?) and most > importantly if the POWER key worked so i could turn my computer on if I so > desired :) > This will work. They are completely compatible. Mitch
From: brent allen clothier <bclothie@students.uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR NEXT BLACK HARDWARE Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:49:37 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970617173654.27136A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <dimascio.6.6.33A6F60B@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <dimascio.6.6.33A6F60B@osu.edu> Well, you can start by visiting comp.sys.next.marketplace. People usually post black hardware for sale there. I am also interested in purchasing older NeXT equipment (color turbo cube in particular) and during my search have found this Website helpful: www.deepspacetech.com. This is a company that sells slabs, cubes, and replacement parts (mostly refurbished although you might be able to find new peripherals, i.e., keyboards, mice, etc.). I am unsure, however, about whether or not you will get the best deal here. If anyone would like to comment on their prices/service please do. Being new to this arena, I am very open to advice, comments, and suggestions. I would really like to know what constitutes a fair price for a good condition color turbo slabs or cube. Brent On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, V.P. DiMascio wrote: > anyone know where to start? > > thanks > vince > >
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: 18 Jun 1997 00:35:53 GMT Organization: Dental Records (R) Message-ID: <5o7ah9$pci@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> <5o4tbs$gtf@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5o516o$dn0$1@news.digifix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: sanguish@digifix.com In <5o516o$dn0$1@news.digifix.com> Scott Anguish wrote: > On 06/16/97, Rick Sanford wrote: > >In <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> iedsp@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: > >> Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Can't find any. > >> Are they out yet? > >> > >> Please respond via e-mail since I can only POST TO USENET. > >> THANKS! > >> > >> Dave (iedsp@agt.gmeds.com) > >> > >> ..my lame attempt at a joke removed > I think they meant something a little more powerful and than > video game though. > > > oh yeah, well then, more seriously perhaps, WinCE devices are said to be closer to having color support than things such as (th most excellent) Newton devices. Color seems to follow along naturaly however, and as happened to Mac and NeXT, I am sure color palmtops will be around someday relatively soon. there was discussion about a VGA adapter that works with these types of devices via PCMCIA card, and while its use for using (in this case) Newton's for presentations, my understanding is that color isn't anywhere inside yet. can't remember about CE thingies. of course this is a hardware discussion, so I'll not get into what makes good or useful color, as that would be advocacy. some seem to think 8 colors is better than 8 shades of gray, for instance, while others will happily wait for (decent) 12-bit color before bothering. I guess it's all in the size of the box of crayons you have. Then again you could say that green backlighting counts as color ;-) I can't see the need for color other than as a sales gimmick (to prop up disappointing sales of CE devices) for a while. -- Rick Sanford Dental Records(R) dental@precipice.com NeXTMAIL welcome http://www.dentalrecords.com
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The statistics show that for every 100 responses you will receive from your ads, and you mail THIS SALES LETTER, you will sell five to ten reports making you $250.00 to $500.00 (U.S.). Your ad responses will vary depending on the place you advertise and the circulation of the publication. The more ads you run the more time you will need to devote to you Home Based Business. Q. Just how much money will I need to start my Home Based Business? A. $50.00! Yeah I know - you're thinking you will need money for ads and mailings. Well - I've had people start with $50.00 (U.S.) and make ten copies of the report and sold them to their associates and friends giving them $500.00 (U.S.). That gave them enough money to start running ads and buy stamps. In looking at all the money making opportunities offered in the world today I really don't think you can get started for any less than $50.00 and have a REAL LEGITIMATE money-making opportunity than the one offered in this offshore report. Q. If I have additional questions who will answer them for me? A. I will or the Parent Company will! No package of information, no matter how complete, can possibly answer every question that may come up. I do not want you to lose money seeking out the answers. I want you to succeed. You will receive a phone number in or offshore report where you can either reach me or someone from the parent company for any questions or help you need! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's a valuable bonus for ordering within 10 days.... Your's absolutely FREE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have persuaded the parent company - Offshore Financial Services, LTD. - to give you their OFS Offshore Business Journal - Volume I - FREE OF CHARGE - as a bonus for ordering our report within 10 days of the postmark on the envelope this Sales Letter came in or within ten days of receiving this e-mail. You will receive the Journal when you send in your "Certificate Of Registration" found in the report. The information in this Journal is priceless and can NOT be found anywhere but RIGHT HERE! Here's a sample of that information.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bonus #1 OFS's Offshore Business Journal * Your IRS Returns are suppose to be private - not so! * Funds through on-line computer services! * Raising capital without borrowing from the bank! * How to get medicines before they are approved by the FDA! * Airlines will handle your baggage with special care if you know the secret! * You can borrow money from your IRA. Just don't call it a loan! * How to get free subscriptions to over 69 magazines! * Establish AAA credit in 30 days! * Why Americans are mad as HELL! * Sources for quick cash loans! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bonus #2 offshore report Support Package * How to reach over 73,000,000 people for as little as 7 cents per word! * How to set up voice mail & never talk to anyone who responds to your ads! * To use or not to use a mailing list? * How to receive free names to mail to! * How to mail your postcards & sales flyers "First Class" for as low as 12 cents each - includes printing! * How to collect $5.00 from people who want to receive This Sales Letter! Sincerely, Salmon G. Eddingtton PS. Your only cost is $50.00 which you will make on your FIRST sale. You have little to risk and a FORTUNE to make. Here's your chance - for only $50.00 to change your life forever. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please rush me ______ copy's of OFS's Offshore Special Report Number 5599. I understand I have Full Reprint Rights and can sell Report# 5599 for $50.00 (U.S.) keeping ALL THE MONEY. I have enclosed a MONEY ORDER for $50.00 (Money Orders only please, leave payee portion blank) Mail my report to: Your Name: _____________________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________________ City: _____________________________________________________________ State: ______________________________________________________________ Zip: ______________________________________________________________ Phone: (_____) ______ ___________ Mail this form and the money order for $50.00 ((U.S.) Leave payee portion blank)****** Salmon G. Eddingtton 5201 Kingston Pike, Suite 6146 Knoxville,TN, 37919-5026 Edding@planetc.com (423) 558-9076
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on VirtualPC Date: 18 Jun 1997 00:43:29 GMT Organization: Dental Records (R) Message-ID: <5o7avh$pci@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <33A6778D.2C69@interweb.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: martin.laurent@interweb.be In <33A6778D.2C69@interweb.be> Martin Laurent wrote: > I tried to install OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) on VirtualPC 1.0b6 > but I didn't manage. It ask me which driver to use for the CD-ROM drive > but I don't know which to choose. > When I choose "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE and ATAPI Device Controllers > (v4.01)" (Yes I know, it's not SCSI but it doesn't cost anything to try) > it recognize the CD-ROM and begin to boot on it but crash after > displaying "Power Management Enabled". I tried some of the others > drivers but the others don't recognize the CD at all. > > Can you help me ? > > Martin Laurent, > Limauges Software > since they (connectix) list OPENSTEP as a supported system on their literature, I'd give 'em a call / e-mail. someone there has it working. the flyer says they provide tech support and 30-day money back guarantee. -- Rick Sanford Dental Records(R) dental@precipice.com NeXTMAIL welcome http://www.dentalrecords.com
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need audio box for NeXT Station Color Date: 18 Jun 1997 01:04:32 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5o7c70$d54$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <33a5c4b1.364462724@newshost.us.oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <33a5c4b1.364462724@newshost.us.oracle.com> On 06/16/97, Rick Hellman wrote: >I just inherited a NSC, but the audio box is nowhere to be found. >Does anyone have one for sale, or know where to get one cheap? >Any help would be greatly appreciated. Try: www.orb.com www.deepspacetech.com -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
From: Kevin Pedersen <kpedersen@igc.apc.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 20:11:00 -0800 Organization: Technical Solutions Message-ID: <33A75FCC.3162@igc.apc.org> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> <5o4tbs$gtf@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5o516o$dn0$1@news.digifix.com> <5o7ah9$pci@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ...The closest that I can imagine is Casio's (or is it TI?) 4-color programmable graphing calculator. Optional cables are available to connect to your PC/Mac and upload files and programs downloaded from the internet. I have a monochrome HP graphing calc and, assuming that the 4-color one is comparable, it may be a possible alternative. Check it out at your local university bookstore. :)
From: steinke@ciphp01.physik.uni-freiburg.de (Lars Steinke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: PS2Mouse lockup on NS3.3 Intel Date: 18 Jun 1997 07:29:57 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Message-ID: <5o82pl$95r@n.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi everybody, I wonder if anybody has experienced PS2Mouse lockups after sucessful installation. The MS mouse used to work (and still does in DOS) in the beginning, but it seems some kind of driver conflict must have arisen in the meantime. Possibilities: 3COM Elink3 Ethernet, FAST VDOboard - none of these uses INT12 though... NCR 53c810 SCSI onboard (INT 15) in a Dell Optiplex 5100 DGX Pentium System, the keyboard is PS2 as well. Help would be greatly appreciated, - -- /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student @ ( \/ __)_ www.fmf.uni-freiburg.de, Germany ) (_____ / for PGP PKey and WWW-Page finger /___________/ steinke@mibm.ruf.uni-freiburg.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBM6eNssMnaHd2HseJAQEBbAP/aMsgR9TRgLD9mHx8qbg3oNbsMQN/zr4u 6rLptZEz6gKRL96Z27jf6etYTdLSSxzyh7Uwi23YCkvZNjfj/sAbErD1zWMY1IJC dEdOO6nYFNPQyNW4LrXjh/r9X5kbHDoCl/tc9xa95DlRtBxm+RM+xlchbUOfOdE8 LJc+PTSNLLc= =TBTv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024/761EC789 1996/07/02 Lars Steinke <steinke@ciphp01.physik.uni-freiburg.de> Lars Steinke <steinke@uni-freiburg.de> Lars S. Steinke <l.steinke@ic.ac.uk> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3i mQCNAzHY/zwAAAEEAMZhEnl5ga+kLHUAe7KXXXOWiL0pcUYyJNRxE/drgfQQjVpK hkWdSmbCD44MMEioEubVvS0WUfyQsp7YJMVSNNUX7Yz53ZflHl3zTWgj1CF/Hj3c xKmAt7LKkym2KZvBmvDsB3270IKD9h/VrMfGvI+B2MXaz1rMt8MnaHd2HseJAAUR tDVMYXJzIFN0ZWlua2UgPHN0ZWlua2VAY2lwaHAwMS5waHlzaWsudW5pLWZyZWli dXJnLmRlPokAlQIFEDM2cS/DJ2h3dh7HiQEB6CsEAIK3JDpglybMxABT/0mpCjKt u74VWTNpEXJ0ws74wmNOTqBl9sjm8h47p8BrHqtXFP8IiwLZh34E9C1XhxC3TOFJ BbX6170f6GFHpqB1RzWGSflhpQ2Gjh+HvnsiFZhdEPJXFgrZRV5rxOA1wHioQqj+ bKsVIZ+PraheHikC7cYVtCZMYXJzIFN0ZWlua2UgPHN0ZWlua2VAdW5pLWZyZWli dXJnLmRlPokAlQIFEDLbRnnDJ2h3dh7HiQEBBxAEALMGuzYTjGDXgFBangC2XAfw h/0GWNkTGshAHy9c0vyFVYXkdpbIi+Keu8a6ao6K5SINyhszZYA3DjnsMpT6OCV5 R63MsxWBpgU98rBcoAoZ6Ttl4zuvyQfmwE0vKryWFpyutjlZy29Y/UFKaCvUsTku khB+XHRkkIRwOC/Mka/stCRMYXJzIFMuIFN0ZWlua2UgPGwuc3RlaW5rZUBpYy5h Yy51az6JAHUCBRAy20Sa0dAZXId/eCUBARE4Av0ShJAh9tlVkcF7DNBK10lWtrst RVZ07pqE1CgtaT5jpa78ojdgJnEZDkk6VbvVCEzS9dxYf7kX2HVSosO0b7v/dnWA kl7W5S+7vNLP9iVIEj1f+JV3HwLM/6cu4/mVX3yJAJUDBRAx2P89wydod3Yex4kB AfHmBACG9nC/fpqnom8Pn+8sf3ff8Mums+uQA10xWvEXnZQpGwPm21gZVWqjnpHQ Ijtwu4egYKHAYNLeT9sNSzHSkLatyn2PoR5qYMZfEZA23L0HEzxeUojpIXo4wHev UWgefXxY9duyVd86/UbnLUkTTJvX8VYNjCdrb9lgtK4WwCCV1A== =sqya -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on VirtualPC Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EBxx57.Bux@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:00:43 GMT References: <33A6778D.2C69@interweb.be> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <33A6778D.2C69@interweb.be>, Martin Laurent <martin.laurent@interweb.be> wrote: >I tried to install OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) on VirtualPC 1.0b6 >but I didn't manage. It ask me which driver to use for the CD-ROM drive >but I don't know which to choose. >When I choose "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE and ATAPI Device Controllers >(v4.01)" (Yes I know, it's not SCSI but it doesn't cost anything to try) >it recognize the CD-ROM and begin to boot on it but crash after >displaying "Power Management Enabled". I tried some of the others >drivers but the others don't recognize the CD at all. > I had a similar problem trying to install 3.3 on a laptop (I eventually gave up because I couldn't get the video driver to work, but that's another story.) If I turned off power management in the BIOS it worked fine. Does VirtualPC have some kind of preferences gizmo to do this? -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR NEXT BLACK HARDWARE Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:08:37 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618085138.10489B-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <dimascio.6.6.33A6F60B@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "V.P. DiMascio" <dimascio.6@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <dimascio.6.6.33A6F60B@osu.edu> There was a man named James Moosmann who was selling NeXT hardware on csn.marketplace. Most of these units have seen a lot of hours, and last time I saw anything posted there by him he had stopped saying anything about the condition of the machines which was shortly after a dissatisfied customer posted his grievance over the quality of a machine he had received. DeepSpaceTech and Spherical both have longstanding, very good reputations, and I have heard good things about IBG and ComputerActive also. I have never bought anything from any of these folk, so you're on your own, however here are some starting links: DeepSpaceTech http://www.deepspacetech.com/Nexthardware.html Spherical Solutions http://www.orb.com/Inventory/index.html Internet Business Group http://ibgi.com/nextsale.htm computerActive http://www.computeractive.com/cAi/usedstuff/ As with any used purchase, be sure to ask more questions than you think you need to, make sure you know what is going to be inside the box when it arrives, and what is not. Make sure you know what happends if something is broken in transit. Pay extra for FedEx over UPS (UPS has a reputation of mishandling equipment, and leaving boxes at your door [which they did to me while I wsa home!]). Get the names of people you talk with and what they tell you. Fax your order, and keep a copy, or (better) have them fax you a copy of the shipping statement before anything is sent, detailing prices (inclduing shipping), specifications (ie: 'color 21" Sony monitor' rather than 'monitor' or 'color monitor' or 'Sony monitor'. That's all I can think of at the moment. If you want more sites, checkout the NeXT bookmarks file on my page. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Paul Sabatino <sabatino.9@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Termination requirements Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:21:35 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <33A7E0DE.183AA67A@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have been playing around with different internal SCSI disks on my Black NeXTstation and have been getting error code 65 with a Maxtor LXT-213sy. I know from experience with other disks that the correct termination on the internal disk is an important factor in preventing the SCSI bus from hanging. So my question is what is the termination requirements for the Slab? Does the drive supply the termination power or does the bus? TIA Paul Sabatino sabatino.9@osu.edu
From: gcl@mail.sojourn.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Michigan(517): Single Guy ISO Lovely Lady for Love and Romance Date: 17 Jun 1997 01:14:19 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd. Message-ID: <5o4odb$srk$1@tkhut.sojourn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sincere Ad: DWM iso S/DWF in Michigan for love and romance ! (DWM iso S/DWF) I just can't find what I am looking for: an honest, moral, sweet, loving, happy, monogamous, friendly, intelligent, respectful, romantic woman that wants to settle down and enjoy an uncomplicated life of love and romance. I truly believe that there is someone that is ready to share a life like this with a nice, honest man that has all those same qualities also. I have so much to give to the right woman, and all I want in return is to be loved and respected like I will love and respect her. All I look for physically in a lady is a cuteness that I may only see, and a semi-healthy lifestyle. I am a very healthy, health conscious person, I don't over exercise (ie: not obsessed with fitness), but I eat healthy and I am in pretty good shape. The kind of love I'm looking for is the kind that lasts through thick and thin, and for better or worse. It takes a special kind of love to stick out any and all situations that may arise in life. I want a best friend to enjoy all my time with. A person that can communicate and discuss differences to come to mutually agreeable conclusion is the dream relationship. My ex-wife bailed on me when I was working a job full time and going to college at nights so that we could have a nice comfortable future, but I guess she didn't see it that way. Now that I have a degree and upwardly mobile career position with a very large international corporation; my life is ironed out and on the right track, but I have nobody to share my successes with . People usually ask me "why are you single if you sound like such a great guy"? My answer is very simple; I have a great life now, I don't play games and I feel most people tend to do that, so being single is an easy life where I don't have to deal with those problems. I know life isn't perfect, but if I have to stay single so I don't get caught up in all that mess, I guess I will stay single. Life doesn't have to be complicated, I lead a very stress-free happy life, and I'd love to find a sweetheart to share that with, and to share her life too..... I am single by choice, I get asked out once in a while, but unfortunately by women who I don't want to date. I live in Lansing Michigan, which is really a nice south central part of Michigan. In the 2 years that I have been here, I have made some good friends, but even after some dating and trying to find *her*, I haven't been lucky enough to find the sweetheart I've been looking for. I don't sleep around and I have never been unfaithful in a relationship. I'm not looking for Miss America, but I do need someone that is cute with a nice smile. I look more toward the personality, a cheerful demeanor, intelligence, and an all-around happy person. Being around someone like that makes me all the more happier and I enjoy life more then too. Honesty and trust mean everything to me, I am a very virtuous man. -If you want a man that wants to love, cherish, adore, respect, and emotionally support you forever, I'm that man. -If you want a man that spends more time away from home with his buddies, drinking and running around, I'm NOT that man. -If you want a man who would never cheat on you, no matter what, because his morals would never let him, I'm that man. -If you want an decent looking man, someone that is handsome and clean-cut, that looks a lot younger than his 35 years, I'm that man. -If you want a man with dark blond hair, blue eyes and a clear complexion, who is tall (5'11"), broad, and an average build (200#, which is about HWP for my build), I'm that man. -If you want a man that is clean and organized, picks up after himself, is a good cook, and shares the household work, I'm that man. -If you want a man that doesn't treat you like a lady, that doesn't like to kiss, hug, and show affection towards you, I'm NOT that man. -If you want a romantic, imaginative, creative man, that can give a woman the romance she needs, I'm that man. -If you want a man that will spend time with you doing the things you want to do also, because he has an interest in seeing what makes you who you are, I'm that man. -If you want someone that sits around all weekend watching sports on TV and ignoring you, I'm NOT that man. -If you want a man that is sensitive and truly cares and respects other people's feelings, I am that man. -If you want someone to spend a relaxing life of work, family, love, and fun without the anxiety, problems, and games that a lot of people put into relationships, I'm that man. -If you want a man that isn't concerned about your sexuality and doesn't care about pleasing you, I'm NOT that man. -If you are looking for a man that like cultural activities like the theatre, opera, symphony, concerts, museums, etc, I'm that man. -If you want a man who can have an intelligent conversation, who can be very funny, yet can be serious when needed, I'm that man. -If you want a man that is your best friend, that will stand next to you and support you in any endeavor, as you would support me, I'm that man. -If you want a man from a loving middle-class family background, with high morals and ethical values, I'm that man. -If you want a man who is successful at his career, loves his work, does not work too much, and is fairly stress-free, I'm that man. -If you want a man who has never been arrested or in trouble, and does not associate with such people, I'm that man. -If you want a man that goes to strip bars, gambles his money away, smokes cigarettes and drinks heavily, I am NOT that man. -If you want a man who is honest, who would always tell you the truth, and would never lie by omission, I'm that man. 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From: wongj@alumni.rpi.edu (Jasper Y. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: 18 Jun 1997 09:49:56 -0400 Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Message-ID: <5o8p24$2hrs@alumni.rpi.edu> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> <5o516o$dn0$1@news.digifix.com> <5o7ah9$pci@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <33A75FCC.3162@igc.apc.org> In article <33A75FCC.3162@igc.apc.org>, Kevin Pedersen <kpedersen@igc.apc.org> wrote: >...The closest that I can imagine is Casio's (or is it TI?) 4-color >programmable graphing calculator. Optional cables are available to >connect to your PC/Mac and upload files and programs downloaded from the >internet. I have a monochrome HP graphing calc and, assuming that the >4-color one is comparable, it may be a possible alternative. Check it >out at your local university bookstore. > >:) SHARP has a color palmtop, I believe is model M-10 (or something similar). It is being sold in Japan and supposedly available here in the US sometime during summer. It is roughly 2/3 the size of a Newton, 2 megs RAM, got a color web browser, a PCMCIA slot for an optional digital camera...etc. BTW the screen is capable of displaying 65,535 colors Jasper -- --< NeXT >--| Table Tennis | \ / | Volleyball |--< Amiga >-- | Gergely / TSP X / RITC 802 \ / Tachikara SC-5W / Mizuno | | wongj@rpi.edu, jwong@bccn.org \ / IRC: mizzle @ #unix, #next | --< Homepage forever under .... \/ .... construction >NeXTMail>--
From: Dan Moore <mgrdcm@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Multiple 030 or 040 boards in one cube? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:52:45 -0500 Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970610140058.13860B-100000@deneb.cs.rose-hulman.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm looking for information on how to get multiple 030 or 040 boards to work in a single NeXT cube. If you know how, or know where I can learn how, please let me know. Along those lines, is there any place to get information on NeXT clustering/distributed processing software (I believe one was called "Zilla", and yes I do know about PVM). Thanks! (respond by e-mail if possible) Dan Moore - - - - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, WCC Asst UNIX Manager mgrdcm@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Getting the monitor to power save Date: 18 Jun 1997 13:51:03 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jun16100522@slave.doubleu.com> References: <5nvp7t$68v$2@bashir.peak.org> In-reply-to: luomat@peak.org's message of 15 Jun 1997 03:57:49 GMT In article <5nvp7t$68v$2@bashir.peak.org> luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) writes: My monitor has power save features. I have enabled power save via root's Preferences.app I have dimmed my monitor to brightness = 0 How do I convince the monitor to go to power save? Have you enabled various DPMS stuff in your system BIOS? Selecting the power save option on NS/OS just enables your system BIOS to accomplish some stuff, NS/OS doesn't itself really do anything. In general, the BIOS will have options like doze, sleep, suspend, and probably others. You can associate different BIOS low-power modes with different options sent to your monitor. You probably want to cycle through the monitor options to get the DPMS modes. I found that I had the best luck disabling all of my power save modes except for sleep (or perhaps suspend, I don't recall which), and setting that mode to the timeout I wanted. Also, you probably don't want to slow down the CPU in a networked environment (remote compiles on a P200 running the CPU at 1/32 normal clock speed are hardly going to set speed records). I made a rather large posting on this in these groups about six months ago. DejaNews, anyone? Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-ROM problems (NEC CDR-1400). Can't install! Date: 18 Jun 1997 14:12:30 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97May22184825@ra.one.net> References: <AFA9F32C-E0A81A@141.214.134.235> <5m24hb$mma@crl2.crl.com> In-reply-to: bny@spamdunk_cut_here_crl.com's message of 22 May 1997 11:50:19 -0700 In article <5m24hb$mma@crl2.crl.com>, bny@spamdunk_cut_here_crl.com (Brad Yearwood) writes: In article <AFA9F32C-E0A81A@141.214.134.235>, Robert A. Decker <comrade@umich.edu> wrote: >We go through the installation process with the floppies. I set >the CD-ROM to be an Adaptec SCSI driver like one of the tech >notes, with the harddrive to EIDE and that didn't work. I set the >CD-ROM and hardrive to be dual primary/secondary ATAPI/EIDE and >that didn't work. I tried just about every combination that I >could think of and none of them work. I would be inclined to blame an incompatibility with the NEC drive. Note in NeXTanswer 2265 that no NEC drives are in the supported list, and 2 NEC drives are in the Known Problems list. As would I. Last weekend I purchased a 3.1G EIDE drive and a 12x Toshiba ATAPI drive at a computer fair. No boxes, no nothing. Just for grins, pulled my SCSI card and installed NeXTSTEP on the EIDE using the ATAPI drive. Worked fine, really the only problem was that NeXT's fdisk didn't seem all that happy with such a large drive (to be safe, I used Linux to partition the drive and told NeXTSTEP to install itself in the NeXTSTEP partition). That was with NS3.3. OpenStep is easier, as it has actual support for EIDE/ATAPI, rather than crufted on support :-). The machine has two EIDE interfaces, and was originally configured with the hard disk on one, and the CD-ROM on the other. I tried to get this to work with the Dual EIDE driver option, but it would not recognize the CD drive. I'm pretty sure that you still need the ATAPI in the slave position of the primary controller. I've heard noises about this getting fixed at some point, but I've not heard that it _is_ fixed. Whichever tech note suggests specifying the CD as SCSI with an Adaptech interface, is either obsolete or a red herring. Sort of both. NS3.3 needed this, because it couldn't get anywhere without some SCSI controller running. ATAPI actually runs a protocol similar to SCSI (from what I've heard it effectively _is_ SCSI), albeit over IDE cabling. Makes you wonder why SCSI CD-ROM drives cost 2x as much at a given speed as ATAPI CD-ROM drives ... Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Any busmastering EIDE drivers? Date: 18 Jun 1997 14:12:14 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97May20123253@howard.one.net> Purchased a 3.1G EIDE drive and a 12x ATAPI CD-ROM at a computer fair this weekend. I've more-or-less got things all installed and booting and loving each other, but ... Under NeXTSTEP, my 2.1G SCSI Seagate Hawk does around 3.5MB/s, and the EIDE drive does 1.6MB/s. Heheh, glad I went with SCSI Back When. Under Linux, my 2.1G Hawk does 4.5MB/s, and the 3.1G EIDE drive does 4.2MB/s. Ho ho, looks like Linux has better drivers than NeXTSTEP. Anyone know if NeXT is going to be releasing busmastering EIDE drivers? Or does anyone else have such a driver? I like SCSI, it's easy to setup, works well with most operating systems I run, but that 2.1G Seagate drive still costs about 2x when the 3.1G Western Digital cost. That can be tough to justify for single-user workstations ... Thanks, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Two different video cards? Date: 18 Jun 1997 14:12:32 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97May22185951@ra.one.net> References: <AFA8854E-8AAB69@141.214.134.235> <EAKyxK.85@tamtam.xs4all.nl> In-reply-to: hugob@tamtam.xs4all's message of Thu, 22 May 1997 11:36:56 GMT In article <EAKyxK.85@tamtam.xs4all.nl>, hugob@tamtam.xs4all (Hugo Burm) writes: In article <AFA8854E-8AAB69@141.214.134.235>, "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> writes: > Is there any problem in using two different video cards from two > different manufacturers as long as both are listed as being > supported? If you are talking about using two PCI video boards for OpenStep/Mach in an Intel PC at the same time: yes, expect some problems. Works, no problem - assuming you've set it up right. For instance, I think you have to have the same video cards, not different types of cards. A pair of Matrox Milleniums or Number9 cards is said to work, not sure beyond that (there's a document on NeXTanswers about these things). Effectively you have two Matrox drivers running - perhaps you could have a Number9 and a Matrox with the Matrox VGA disabled, I don't know. Also not sure on resolutions and the like. I'd expect that the resolutions and memory usage of the cards would have to match, but it may not be a strict requirement. In any case, it's supposed to work just like ye olde NeXTdimension. You can drag windows from monitor to monitor, even leaving a window straddling monitors. One monitor gets to be your "main" workspace, though, with the Dock and alert panels and the like on it (don't want those alert panels popping up straddling the monitors :-). [In fact, when I get my next machine, I'm considering putting two Millenium (or perhaps Millenium Pro/II) cards in it, and getting another for my current machine, and running them through a pair of switchboxes to two monitors. So I could have both system's main desktop at once, or two monitors for either system.] Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: ZIP Drive connector Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EByEtM.LL9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:22:34 GMT References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: >Hi all, > I just bought a SCSI ZIP drive for my NeXTstation. I found out that it >has a connector that I have never seen before. It looks like 25 pin serial >or printer connectors [it has both, male and female - for daisy-chaining]. Both??? It should have two male connectors (that's what mine has) unless Iomega has done something really weird. > So I just wanted to ask if that is some kind of standard SCSI connector. >If so, would you know about a cheap source of a gender-bender or a cable? >Or should I rather buy a cable from IOmega ($15)? Is it a reasonable >price? It's the Mac Plus "standard" SCSI connector. It's common enough; even the '030-based NeXT cubes had them. $25 isn't too bad, although you should be able to find one cheaper lcoally. Ask for a Mac Plus to SCSI-2 HD-50 SCSI cable, then look at what they give you to see if it will fit. :) And, just so oyu know this is not in vain, lots of people, including me, use Zip drives on black hardware all the time. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: ***RemoveMe***harris@ifi.unizh.ch (Will Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unbootable OpenStep 4.2 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 97 16:35:46 GMT Organization: IFI, Uni Zurich Message-ID: <5o8vd1$b21@bioko.ifi.unizh.ch> I have tried to run OpenStep 4.2 "Prelude to Rhapsody" on my homebrew PC with great difficulty and very little success. My system has an Intel Triton II motherboard (AMI BIOS 1.00.04.BS0) and four IDE drives: Primary Interface ----------------- Master -> Western Digital AC2700H 720 MB Slave -> Conner CFS 1621A 1.6 GB Secondary Interface ------------------- Master -> Quantum Fireball TM3840A 3.8 GB Slave -> Goldstar CRD-8160B ATAPI 16 speed cdrom drive I intended to have OpenStep reside on a 620 MB partition at the beginning of the Quantum drive (i.e. hd(2)), and I would like to be able to leave these drives as they are currently set up, as I have 3 other operating systems and don't want to disturb them too much. I could possibly switch the Quantum and Conner drives around, but the Western Digital drive will remain the first disk no matter what. I managed to successfully install the OS by removing the two drives from the first IDE interface and putting the Quantum and Goldstar cdrom in their place. The system boots fine if nothing is connected to the secondary interface. However, if I attach those other two drives to the secondary interface, the system boots to a desktop, but is completely unresponsive. When I replace the drives back in their original configuration, I can't boot at all, even from the floppy with the installation CD in the drive and a "boot: hd(2)mach_kernel -s" command line. The drives all appear to be successfully identified during bootup, but after the "power management enabled" message, I just get lots of spurious IDE timeout and error messages. So much for a PC operating system! I have followed all the instructions and advice in NeXTanswers documents 1839, 1487, and 1933, including removing the installation "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE/ATAPI" driver and installing two normal "EIDE/ATAPI" drivers with the appropriate ports and IRQs, but I am still stuck with an unusable OpenStep system. Any help appreciated. Cheers - Will Harris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANTI-SPAMBOT NOTE: For email contact, remove the ***RemoveMe*** prefix ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I was going to be a Neo-Deconstructivist, but Mom wouldn't let me..." Institut fuer Informatik EMAIL: ***RemoveMe***harris@ifi.unizh.ch der Universitaet Zuerich WWW: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/harris.html Winterthurerstr. 190 TEL: +41-1-257-4346/4566 (office/lab) CH-8057 Zuerich +41-1-251-0135 (home) Switzerland FAX: +41-1-363-0035 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: 18 Jun 97 12:54:03 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFCD8B4F-17DDA08@141.214.134.235> References: <5o7ah9$pci@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Rick Sanford" <dental@precipice.com> nntp://news.itd.umich.edu/comp.sys.next.hardware, nntp://news.itd.umich.edu/comp.sys.sgi.hardware On Tue, Jun 17, 1997 8:35 PM, Rick Sanford <mailto:dental@precipice.com> wrote: >and while its use for using (in this case) Newton's >for presentations, my understanding is that color isn't anywhere inside yet. >can't remember about CE thingies. Actually, the Newton Quickdraw routines do support color. However, you won't see it anytime soon because color screens drain the batteries way too fast. Also, you won't be able to use a color screen outdoors in daylight. rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
From: Max Waterman <max@reading.sgi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:34:58 +0100 Organization: John 3:16 Ltd Message-ID: <33A81C42.167E@reading.sgi.com> References: <5o7ah9$pci@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <AFCD8B4F-17DDA08@141.214.134.235> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Isn't the new Psion series 5 colour? Max. Robert A. Decker wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 1997 8:35 PM, Rick Sanford <mailto:dental@precipice.com> > wrote: > >and while its use for using (in this case) Newton's > >for presentations, my understanding is that color isn't anywhere inside > yet. > >can't remember about CE thingies. > > Actually, the Newton Quickdraw routines do support color. However, you > won't see it anytime soon because color screens drain the batteries way too > fast. Also, you won't be able to use a color screen outdoors in daylight. > > rob > -- > <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> > Listen to my Realaudio > playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> > Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab > University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center > > "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." > -Chris Elliott -- Max Waterman Work : mailto:max@reading.sgi.com +44 1734 257578 Home : mailto:max@john316.u-net.com +44 1935 432643
From: hponeill@indigo.ie (Paul O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What SCSI Disks? Date: 18 Jun 1997 17:29:29 GMT Organization: Paul O'Neill Designs Message-ID: <hponeill-1806971834310001@ts11-08.dublin.indigo.ie> I am planning to upgrade my recently acquired NextStation Turbo Color (I dončt think Ičll ever get used to spelling colour that way) with an 2GB internal HD and an external CD ROM drive. Will any SCSI drives (say suitable for a Mac) do or is there other considerations? Many Thanks, Paul. -- Paul O'Neill Designs Electronic & Software Product Development email : hponeill@indigo.ie web : http://indigo.ie/~hponeill
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Michigan(517): Single Guy ISO Lovely Lady for Love and Romance Date: 18 Jun 1997 17:18:39 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5o959f$pfk$2@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <5o4odb$srk$1@tkhut.sojourn.com> gcl@mail.sojourn.com wrote: > I just can't find what I am looking for: an honest, >moral, sweet, loving, happy, monogamous, friendly, intelligent, >respectful, romantic woman that wants to settle down and enjoy >an uncomplicated life of love and romance. I truly believe that >there is someone that is ready to share a life like this with a >nice, honest man that has all those same qualities also. I have >so much to give to the right woman, and all I want in return is >to be loved and respected like I will love and respect her. This has been fixed in OPENSTEP version 4.2. Make sure you install sufficient memory though, as the shared libs eat up a lot of RAM. Kind regards, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Michigan(517): Single Guy ISO Lovely Lady for Love and Romance Date: 18 Jun 1997 17:16:46 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5o955u$pfk$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <5o4odb$srk$1@tkhut.sojourn.com> -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace From: ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de (Ingmar Camphausen) Subject: Re: ZIP Drive connector Message-ID: <1997Jun18.190803.11929@aurora.in-berlin.de> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: INDIVIDUAL NETWORK Berlin e.V. References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:08:03 GMT In comp.sys.next.hardware Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: : I just bought a SCSI ZIP drive for my NeXTstation. I found out that it : has a connector that I have never seen before. It looks like 25 pin serial : or printer connectors [it has both, male and female - for daisy-chaining]. : So I just wanted to ask if that is some kind of standard SCSI connector. : If so, would you know about a cheap source of a gender-bender or a cable? This is a SCSI connector that is/was somewhat widespread with older Mac's, I've been told. And I have even seen pictures of old '030 NeXTcubes that seemed to have that kind of SCSI connector instead of the high density 50pin connectors the newer models and the NeXTstations have. You should be able to get an appropriate "25pin-SCSI-to-50pin-High-density-SCSI" cable. (Attention: There are several *different* "high density" SCSI connector versions available; therefor I recommend to take the manual for the NeXTstation to the dealer where you want to buy the cable/adaptor.) Hope this helps, [F'up!] __ __ \_V_/ ___Y___ +-----------+ |\__/. .\ Ingmar Camphausen | USE PGP! |\ O---m /| \ \_____/| ingmar@in-berlin.de | (key via server |/`-------'\| \_U__////_/ (NeXTmail/MIME OK!) | or on request) +-----------+ Golden Key Campaign -- A supercomputer is a machine that runs an endless loop in 2 seconds
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From: roberson@ibd.nrc.ca (Walter Roberson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: 18 Jun 1997 03:32:20 GMT Organization: National Research Council Canada Message-ID: <5o7ks4$1vf$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> In article <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca>, <iedsp@agt.gmeds.com> wrote: :Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Can't find any. :Are they out yet? At the Silicon Graphics Developers Forum last week, SGI people were not even hinting on working on a laptop, let alone a palmtop. I would think they'd have serious problems in shrinking RE^2 graphics into a small-enough physical space for a palmtop. Personally I suspect that they gave up the whole idea when they realized that as soon as they stuffed a RealityMonster into one of those little palmtop cases, which the marketters would immediately colour some shade of purple, that everyone would immediately start referring to the product as "Baby Bop" (of Barney fame).
From: gcl@mail.sojourn.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5o4odb$srk$1@tkhut.sojourn.com> Control: cancel <5o4odb$srk$1@tkhut.sojourn.com> Date: 18 Jun 1997 21:04:00 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd. Message-ID: <5o9ig0$a81$1@tkhut.sojourn.com>
From: David Young <daver@jacobs.Geeks.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ZIP Drive connector Date: 18 Jun 1997 21:54:35 GMT Organization: Geeks Organizations Message-ID: <5o9ler$h2f$1@darla.visi.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <1997Jun18.190803.11929@aurora.in-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jun 1997 16:54:36 CDT In comp.sys.next.hardware Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> wrote: > This is a SCSI connector that is/was somewhat widespread with older > Mac's, I've been told. And I have even seen pictures of old '030 > NeXTcubes that seemed to have that kind of SCSI connector instead of > the high density 50pin connectors the newer models and the > NeXTstations have. Hmm. On a related note, does anyone have one of the internal SCSI zip drives? Has anyone tried mounting one in place of the floppy in a cube case? -- :: d a v i d y o u n g ::::: smtp dwy@ace.net http www.ace.net :: :: PGP fingerprint :: 89F5 E75D 4749 3FF4 :: ED92 1B6D 9871 9B93 ::
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Clay Holden <cholden@NOSPAM.netcom.com> Subject: Help: "Can't load blk0 boot" Message-ID: <choldenEBzt3C.4HL@netcom.com> Sender: cholden@netcom.netcom.com Organization: The John Dee Publication Project Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:28:23 GMT Hope this is the proper newsgroup to post this question... I just purchased a 1991-vintage NeXTstation (25 MHz, 16 MB RAM), which I am told was working fine before being shipped out to California. Although it was previously connected to Ethernet, it was set to boot off the internal drive. No external SCSI device was ever connected. I watched it run the "Loading From Disk" sequence, finally giving the message "SCSI Error" before returning to the "Loading From Disk" message and repeating until I turned it off. Having set the boot sequence to "verbose" logging in the ROM Monitor, I now get this printout when it tries to boot: > Starting Extended Self Test... > Extended SCSI Test > System test passed. > > Boot command: sd > boot sd(0,0,0) > booting SCSI target 1, lun 0 > blk0 boot: sd()sdmach > Booting from SCSI target 1 lun 0 > READ: bad status detected in sdcmd: 0 > sd()sdmach: read error > blk0 boot: sd()sdmach > Booting from SCSI target 1 lun 0 > READ: bad status detected in sdcmd: 0 > sd()sdmach: read error > Can't load blk0 boot Is there any way to troubleshoot the boot blocks from the ROM Monitor? Or perhaps from a boot floppy (which I don't have)? I understand the system is loaded with NeXT Software Release 2.1. Is the HD perhaps complete toast? Do I need to reload the system software from scratch? Incidentally, I did not get any System Software media with this system, so am looking to purchase same. Hopefully something a bit more recent than what appears to be currently loaded. Any help will be appreciated. Clay P.S. Remove "NOSPAM" from my email address to reply off-list. Thanks. Clay Holden <cholden@netcom.com> ( - ) http://www.dnai.com/~cholden ( + ) "Super caelestes roretis aquae: __:__ Et terra fructum dabit suum." | -John Dee /^|^\
From: "Heath Tucker" <heatht@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Resolution qurstion Date: 18 Jun 1997 23:59:31 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <01bc7c42$7a82a7c0$03ac2ac0@cupertino> I just read a few posts about NeXT dimensions and their resolution of 640x480. I have to say that that does not sound very impresive at all. I have never see a ND running, so I don't know first hand but I have been forced to endure countless old wintel systems at that resolution at 24bit color in the past and I wasn't impressed. I have a few cubes running without dimensions right now. On the cubes I have always been thrilled by the relatively high resolution with which they display. I am not sure of the exact resolution but isn't it in the 1100s X 800s? (since it isnt adjustable I never really bothered to look it up) I guess my question is this: Can you actually fit enough stuff onto a ND monitor to make running one worthwhile? It seems that one decent sized image would fill the whole screen. Do the color NeXT stations have the same resolution limits as the ND or are they the same higher resolution as the mono cubes? I was thinking that their decreased color depth might allow higher resolution but again I have never seen one so ? I wanted to get some old black hardware with color support but I am crestfallen about the NDs (apparent?) shortcomings. Can anyone with experience using the color stations and NDs reply as to how they compare to each other and how they compare to the mono systems in useability for say, desktop publishing? I like to keep a few pages open at once so a big area is important. Any suggestions? Thanks, Heath Tucker
From: mpaque@yummyspam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Resolution qurstion Date: 18 Jun 1997 17:51:40 -0700 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5o9vqs$41p@mpaque.mpaque> References: <01bc7c42$7a82a7c0$03ac2ac0@cupertino> In article <01bc7c42$7a82a7c0$03ac2ac0@cupertino> "Heath Tucker" <heatht@mindspring.com> writes: > I just read a few posts about NeXT dimensions and their resolution of > 640x480. I have to say that that does not sound very impresive at all. The NeXTdimension display resolution is 1120 by 832, 24 bit color, 68 Hz vertical refresh. The 640 by 480 numbers refer to the NTSC video I/O resolution. Live video could be brought in and displayed in a window with these dimensions. There was not a hardware rescaler, so live video resolution was limited to 640 by 480, or a cropped subset. > Can you actually fit enough stuff onto a ND > monitor to make running one worthwhile? Yes.It has the exact same pixel resolution as the monochrome display, and the NeXTStation Color products, that is, 1120 by 832 pixels. > Can anyone with > experience using the color stations and NDs reply as to how they > compare to each other and how they compare to the mono systems in > useability for say, desktop publishing? I like to keep a few pages > open at once so a big area is important. Any suggestions? Well, we're talking about a 1990 hardware design here built around a 25 or 33 MHz 68040, so don't expect screamingly fast performance. That aside, an ND system works well for desktop publishing, particularly since it can run as a multiheaded system with the monochrome display and one or more NeXTdimension boards and displays. Your workspace can be spread over multiple displays, and windows can be moved between displays, so it's rather Mac-like. I use one at work as my main machine for administrative and writing tasks. -- Mike Paquette (mpaque AT wco.com ; Yank that yummyspam to reply.) Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the understanding that the PR/Marketing people want to make the announcements on products, so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until after then, so what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I may say in future can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't, for the immediate future. (With apologies to Joe Straczynski)
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on VirtualPC Date: 19 Jun 1997 00:58:40 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5oa080$jh@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <33A6778D.2C69@interweb.be> <5o7avh$pci@news1-alterdial.uu.net> dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) wrote: > Martin Laurent wrote: > > I tried to install OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) on > > VirtualPC 1.0b6 but I didn't manage. [etc] > > since they (connectix) list OPENSTEP as a supported system on > their literature, I'd give 'em a call / e-mail. someone there > has it working. the flyer says they provide tech support and > 30-day money back guarantee. It'd be a good idea to buy it first, instead of calling them about installing OpenStep on a beta-version of VirtualPC. The money-back guarantee doesn't mean much until after you have given them some money... :-) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: ZIP Drive connector Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:17:54 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618221614.26150B-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Thaks to all who replied. I got the necessary cable from Best Buy for $15. The box sais that it is intended to connect a SCSI device to the CPU, but it works the other way as well. Thanks again, and good luck. Rudy. On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Rudolf B Blazek wrote: > Hi all, > I just bought a SCSI ZIP drive for my NeXTstation. I found out that it > has a connector that I have never seen before. It looks like 25 pin serial > or printer connectors [it has both, male and female - for daisy-chaining]. > So I just wanted to ask if that is some kind of standard SCSI connector. > If so, would you know about a cheap source of a gender-bender or a cable? > Or should I rather buy a cable from IOmega ($15)? Is it a reasonable > price? > If it is not a standard SCSI connector, I am going after IOmega, since > the box says 'Mac and SCSI compatible'. Is it at least possible to connect > such a cable to the Mac? > > I know that I might have a serious gap in education in the SCSI cables > area, but the manual says that if you don't wanna use an IOmega > proprietary SCSI board, you would need a gender bender. That raised my > suspicion. > > Thanks for any hints. > > Good luck. > > Rudy > blazek@stt.msu.edu > > >
From: jon@clarke.exnext.com (Jonathan Hendry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: ZIP Drive connector Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Date: 19 Jun 1997 02:31:21 GMT Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877 Message-ID: <5oa5lp$6d6$2@ocoee.iac.net> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <EByEtM.LL9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans (dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) wrote: : In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, : Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: : >Hi all, : > I just bought a SCSI ZIP drive for my NeXTstation. I found out that it : >has a connector that I have never seen before. It looks like 25 pin serial : >or printer connectors [it has both, male and female - for daisy-chaining]. : Both??? It should have two male connectors (that's what mine has) unless : Iomega has done something really weird. Any chance it might actually be a Parallel ZIP? -- Jonathan W. Hendry jon@exnext.com
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: ZIP Drive connector Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:24:46 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618222354.26238A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Uhm, sorry for the previous post :-))) Thanks to all who replied. I got the necessary cable from Best Buy for $15. The box says that it is intended to connect a SCSI device to the CPU, but it works the other way as well. Thanks again, and good luck. Rudy. On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Rudolf B Blazek wrote: > Hi all, > I just bought a SCSI ZIP drive for my NeXTstation. I found out that it > has a connector that I have never seen before. It looks like 25 pin serial > or printer connectors [it has both, male and female - for daisy-chaining]. > So I just wanted to ask if that is some kind of standard SCSI connector. > If so, would you know about a cheap source of a gender-bender or a cable? > Or should I rather buy a cable from IOmega ($15)? Is it a reasonable > price? > If it is not a standard SCSI connector, I am going after IOmega, since > the box says 'Mac and SCSI compatible'. Is it at least possible to connect > such a cable to the Mac? > > I know that I might have a serious gap in education in the SCSI cables > area, but the manual says that if you don't wanna use an IOmega > proprietary SCSI board, you would need a gender bender. That raised my > suspicion. > > Thanks for any hints. > > Good luck. > > Rudy > blazek@stt.msu.edu > > >
Message-ID: <33A928EC.5A7C@nich-nsunet.nich.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 07:41:16 -0500 From: "Wm. Ted Mahavier" <math-wtm@nich-nsunet.nich.edu> Organization: Nicholls State University MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: math-wtm@nich-nsunet.nich.edu Subject: need help repairing a slab Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware My machine no longer boots. It was a wonderully faithful machine for 5 years (sigh). It gives the error: Exception #2 and then some address information. Won't boot off of cd, hard drive, or floppy, so it must be motherboard or power supply type problem. I would like to purchase and install the parts myself as I have done in the past, but don't know how to trouble shoot it. Can anyone help? Machine Specs follow: NextStation Turbo Slab 33Mhtz Keyboard Mouse 17" Mono Monitor 24 MB RAM 240 MB Hard Drive 14.4 Practical Peripheral Fax/Modem Next Laser Printer Next cdrom NextStep 3.3 CD and Installation Floppy E-mail math-wtm@nich-nsunet.nich.edu.
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From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: ZIP Drive connector Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:04:30 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618230306.26563A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <EByEtM.LL9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5oa5lp$6d6$2@ocoee.iac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jonathan Hendry <jon@clarke.exnext.com> In-Reply-To: <5oa5lp$6d6$2@ocoee.iac.net> On 19 Jun 1997, Jonathan Hendry wrote: > David Evans (dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) wrote: > : In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970617125643.12541A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, > : Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > : >Hi all, > : > I just bought a SCSI ZIP drive for my NeXTstation. I found out that it > : >has a connector that I have never seen before. It looks like 25 pin serial > : >or printer connectors [it has both, male and female - for daisy-chaining]. > > : Both??? It should have two male connectors (that's what mine has) unless > : Iomega has done something really weird. > > Any chance it might actually be a Parallel ZIP? > > > -- > Jonathan W. Hendry jon@exnext.com > > My mistake. They are both the same gender. Girls. :-))) Rudy.
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Installing a ND board Date: 18 Jun 1997 21:32:25 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5oacop$joa@slip.net> Hi, Is there any information available regarding how to install a NeXT Dimension extention board in a Cube? Thanks, Emmett
From: sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SUN 5 won't find parallelport Date: 19 Jun 1997 07:34:27 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5oane3$sjg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Hallo. We have got a problem here with out SUN 5 running NS3.3. During boot it displays a message like "for SUNW,bpp of class IO Parallelport _IOProbeDriver" Any attempts to activate the parallelport for a DeskJet870 fail. The system cannot find the port. Are there any newer drivers for sparc? Has sombody got an idea what to do? Thanx for any help. Sven
From: arti@address.in.signature (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Resolution qurstion Date: 19 Jun 1997 08:05:09 GMT Organization: LavaNet, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oap7l$rno@mochi.lava.net> References: <01bc7c42$7a82a7c0$03ac2ac0@cupertino> "Heath Tucker" <heatht@mindspring.com> wrote: > I just read a few posts about NeXT dimensions and their resolution of > 640x480. I have to say that that does not sound very impresive at all. That's probably the video resolution - i.e., TV input displays in a 640 x 480 window at something like 30 frames/sec within the normal 1120 x 832 screen resolution. Both grayscale and color monitors can be run simultaneously extending the workspace to either double width or double height - your choice. ND systems are VERY impressive, especially considering their vintage. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: arti at lava dot net Trego Systems (for whom I don't speak) Voice/Fax: +1 808 394 0511 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495 managed care solutions US Mail: Honolulu, HI 96825-2638
From: dwy@ace.net (David Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Installing a ND board Date: 19 Jun 1997 08:12:29 GMT Organization: 21st Century Software, New York City Sender: daver@ts1-9.nj.cnct.com Message-ID: <5oapld$cai$1@darla.visi.com> References: <5oacop$joa@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jun 1997 03:12:29 CDT Cc: emclean@slip.net In <5oacop$joa@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: > Is there any information available regarding how to > install a NeXT Dimension extention board in a Cube? Sure. 1. Open cube. 2. Slide ND board into slot 2. Looking towards the front faceplate, with the open end facing you, slot 2 is the slot immediately left of the power supply / drive cavity. 3. Close cube. 4. Connect color monitor to the large 13W3 port at the back of the ND board. And, optionally: 5. Boot cube. -- :: d a v i d y o u n g ::::: smtp dwy@ace.net http www.ace.net :: :: independant software and network guy ::::: new york, new york :: :: PGP fingerprint :: 89F5 E75D 4749 3FF4 :: ED92 1B6D 9871 9B93 ::
From: xar@pbd.net (Kelvin Muthumani) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Execption error #2 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:33:51 GMT Organization: //// destiny ? //// Message-ID: <5oaquo$rp3$1@excalibur.flash.net> Hi, Got a friend who has a next and when it boots up it gives execption error #2 and an address, can anyone give tell me what is the meaing of this error code. Thanx Kelvin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Fabien_Roy@no.spam.free.fdn.fr (Remove no.spam to reply) Subject: Help: Sound blaster PnP not working any more on 4.2 (prelude) Message-ID: <EC0JFt.39M@free.fdn.fr> Sender: news@free.fdn.fr Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant. Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 07:57:29 GMT On 3.3 i had to modify the autodetect ID fir my sound card. The 3.3 kernel reports: Plug and Play support enabled Plug and Play card 0x0e8c0070 : CTL0070 s/n 0xffffffff ^^^^^^^^^^ On 4.2 the kernel reports : Jun 18 21:35:29 p133 mach: PnP: Plug and Play support enabled Jun 18 21:35:29 p133 mach: PnP: Plug and Play BIOS present Jun 18 21:35:29 p133 mach: PnP: read port 0x20b, max csn 1 Jun 18 21:35:29 p133 mach: PnP: csn 1: CTL0070 s/n 0xffffffff May be a bug? -- Fabien Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 (0)1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 (0)1 48 55 09 90 GSM: 33 (0)6 60 46 36 83
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: need help repairing a slab Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:00:16 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970619085611.6504B-100000@cc3441910a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <33A928EC.5A7C@nich-nsunet.nich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Wm. Ted Mahavier" <math-wtm@nich-nsunet.nich.edu> In-Reply-To: <33A928EC.5A7C@nich-nsunet.nich.edu> On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Wm. Ted Mahavier wrote: > My machine no longer boots. It was a wonderully faithful > machine for 5 years (sigh). It gives the error: > Exception #2 and then some address information. Won't boot > off of cd, hard drive, or floppy, so it must be motherboard or > power supply type problem. Or Ram perhaps? Try removing some and seeing if that helps. > I would like to purchase and install the parts myself as I have > done in the past, but don't know how to trouble shoot it. Can > anyone help? I would try: Removing all memory, and reinsert 8megs, then 16 megs, then 24. See if that helps. Trying other 'known to be good' RAM would also be good. Then I'd call DeepspaceTech or Spherical Solutions and see if they had a cheap motherboard you could beg/borrow/buy to see if that works NOTE: I have seen this before with my slab, but it "went away" if power cycled (alt-command-* or power down and right back up). Rebooting is not what I mean. TjL
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Installing a ND board Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:24:53 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg71367.thr-bc522fca.54c5638@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <5oacop$joa@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg71367.thr-bc522fca.54c5638.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> <bold>emclean@slip.net,UseNet writes:</bold> >Is there any information available regarding how to >install a NeXT Dimension extention board in a Cube? Don't take this as flippant. I am relative newbie to black hardware and w= as astonished that the following worked this easily... 1-Take off the back of the cube. 2-slide the NextDimension Board into any free slot (mine is immediately a= djacent to the motherboard) 3- put the back back on the computer 4- plug in the color monitor 5-Turn on the machine 6- open preferences.app. There is now a new preference that shows two mon= itors. Adjust as needed. -- = David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.cet.middlebury.edu
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: need help repairing a slab Date: 19 Jun 1997 14:08:25 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5obegp$aun$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <33A928EC.5A7C@nich-nsunet.nich.edu> Cc: math-wtm@nich-nsunet.nich.edu In <33A928EC.5A7C@nich-nsunet.nich.edu> "Wm. Ted Mahavier" wrote: > My machine no longer boots. It was a wonderully faithful > machine for 5 years (sigh). It gives the error: > Exception #2 and then some address information. Won't boot > off of cd, hard drive, or floppy, so it must be motherboard or > power supply type problem. > > I would like to purchase and install the parts myself as I have > done in the past, but don't know how to trouble shoot it. Can > anyone help? > - Clean the board from dust (beware potential static burnout when using a vaccum cleaner) - Put out the SIMMs and clean the contacts carefully. Plug in again firmly. - Replace the lithium battery on the board. - Startup, set the boot parameters again using the 'p' command. This helps in most cases. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unbootable OpenStep 4.2 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 19 Jun 1997 14:28:00 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5obflg$300@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5o8vd1$b21@bioko.ifi.unizh.ch> Will Harris (***RemoveMe***harris@ifi.unizh.ch) wrote: : [...] : Any help appreciated. : It is necessary to adapt the 'hd' (or 'sd' in case of SCSI) entry in /etc/fstab to reflect the actual number of the disk with the root (/) filesystem - in your case i would guess /dev/hd2a where it now reads /dev/hd0a. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: "dgrant" <darren@oxford.i-way.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Syquest EZ Date: 19 Jun 97 15:08:03 GMT Organization: Posted via VBCnet GB Ltd Message-ID: <01bc7cc1$9ab951e0$6fc081c2@Darren.i-way.co.uk> A while ago in this group there was a thread about using a Syquest EZ drive with NEXTSTEP. I have installed a SCSI EZ135 in an intel machine at it opperates as a CD-ROM drive. Does anyone know where to get a driver for this drive? Thanks in advance for any replies Darren Grant
From: jbf_see_sig@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Exeception errors Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 13:07:27 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_sig-ya023580001906971307270001@news.tiac.net> References: <5oaquo$rp3$1@excalibur.flash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Someone should really discuss these for the FAQ. Exception error 2 is an external bus error, as when a SCSI transfer fails, or an internal access fault, as when the MMU can't find/access a page. Exception error 3 is a bad address. For a type 2 error, disconnect external SCSI devices and see if that helps; if it does, reconnect one at a time. In either case, power down and up. I've never seen a solid type 3 error (fingers crossed). Barney (delete that _see_sig to email me)
From: Matthias Klose <Matthias.Klose@cs.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ThinkPad 760ED drivers? Date: 19 Jun 1997 19:11:28 +0200 Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <784tauiklb.fsf@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Since NeXT has a driver for the Thinkpad 760ED display, support for the other devices should available as well; unfortunately I cannot configure the following ports correctly: Sound, Serial, Parallel, InfraRed and the internal modem. Does somebody could email me the correct config files? Many Thanks, Matthias
From: John Goggan <jgoggan@dcg.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:09:38 -0400 Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd. Message-ID: <33A975E2.420A@dcg.com> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> <5o4tbs$gtf@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5o516o$dn0$1@news.digifix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott Anguish wrote: > On 06/16/97, Rick Sanford wrote: > >In <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> iedsp@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: > >> Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Can't find any. > >> Are they out yet? > >> > >> Please respond via e-mail since I can only POST TO USENET. > >> THANKS! > >> > >> Dave (iedsp@agt.gmeds.com) > > > >gameboy? > > Nope > > Gameboy isn't color. Although they have some funky color > cases now. > > The Sega 'gameboy' was color... but its long dead. Actually, if we're being technical (and hey, I am today... :) Sega's 'gameboy' was the GameGear -- and it isn't really "dead" as this still sell it in stores. They've just got a "better" one now - the "Nomad" which is a handheld that plays all Genesis games. And, aside from that -- the best handheld video game system is the Atari Lynx anyhow. Now, granted, that one is much closer to "dead" than the others mentioned here, but just because you may be dead doesn't mean that you still can't be the best. :) - John (Goggan)... jgoggan@dcg.com
From: u8222015@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Spencer Yu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How do I use a ZIP drive on my NeXTStaion? Date: 20 Jun 1997 05:10:49 GMT Organization: National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Message-ID: <5od3cp$4ln$2@news2.nctu.edu.tw> Talk to me like I am 3 years old..I am totally clueless...do I need some driver or something, in order to use a SCSI ZIP on my NeXTStaion?
From: Joe Freeman <joe@freemansoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: object station 4100 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 23:42:51 -0400 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <33A9FC3B.735B9D03@freemansoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can an Canon Object Station 4100 be used under Windows 95 or Windows NT? Someone is selling one local at a good price but I don't want to run OPENSTEP on a 486/100. <joe> -- FreemanSoft Inc. Consulting on Intranets based on Netscape and/or OPENSTEP technologies in the Washington DC area.
From: scott@spamblocker-cacti.org (Scott Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 02:44:16 -0700 Organization: Cacti.org Message-ID: <scott-2006970244170001@sculptor.vip.best.com> References: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235> <j-norstad-0906970729340001@legume186176.nuts.nwu.edu> <mitchell.allen-0906971833140001@57.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> <Pine.SOL.3.96.970609191400.10150A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> > In addition, how does one get a copy of the Rhapsody Developer > Pre-release? I tried to call them and they told me it wasn't available > anymore. And they weren't very nice about it: "We don't take orders > anymore. Period". > > They said that they'd release something new in August, so they told me to > call then. The software you called about was called "Prelude to Rhapsody". It was free to the first couple thousand attendees to the WWDC in San Francisco. This distrubtion was just OpenStep User, Developer and Enterprise in one CD jacket (worth over $10,000 I believe). It also included WebObjects. This is extremely hard to get a hold of unless you know someone at Apple. They simply don't have enough to go around. This distrubution only runs on intel hardware, BTW. The next release will be Rhapsody Developer around August which will essentially be a port of OpenStep to Mac hardware. This should be much easier to obtain, though you still won't find it in any vending machines. ;) After that, Rhapsody Premier release will arrive December/January -- essentially a functional public beta of Rhapsody. The final shrinkwrapped (aka "unified release") is scheduled to be available in mid-98. This version will have MacOS system 7 compatibility (Blue Box). In the meantime, MacOS 8 will be the most significant upgrade to the MacOS since ver. 7 -- out mid July. Enjoy! - Scott :) Scott Stevenson http://www.cacti.org
From: scott@*cacti.org (Scott Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 03:05:04 -0700 Organization: Cacti.org Message-ID: <scott-2006970305040001@sculptor.vip.best.com> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> <5o4tbs$gtf@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5o516o$dn0$1@news.digifix.com> <33A975E2.420A@dcg.com> > And, aside from that -- the best handheld video game system is the Atari > Lynx anyhow. Now, granted, that one is much closer to "dead" than the > others mentioned here, but just because you may be dead doesn't mean > that you still can't be the best. :) I love that portable! Up to 16 linked players, awesome color, great hardware. Games were fun as well -- California games, ElectroCop, and the atari classics. It often seems that being good doesn't necessary guarantee financial success... although for me, sucess is purely based on if I like the product or not. It's the marketeers' job to tell me I don't like these things. ;) I know I'm going off the subject a bit, so about a color palmtop. How to build it yourself -- You'll need: * 1 pack of Crayola(tm) Bold Colors Fine Tip Markers * 2 Mead(tm) Assignment Book This configuration is plug-and-pray! :) - Scott -- Scott Stevenson http://www.cacti.org 100% Spam-free -- Please remove the "*" from my email address to respond - Thanks!
From: scott@*cacti.org (Scott Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: installation failed Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 03:07:55 -0700 Organization: Cacti.org Message-ID: <scott-2006970307550001@sculptor.vip.best.com> References: <33A5728A.AAE07C68@clickteam.com> > I can't install OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 on my PC. > > After choosing the adaptec 2940 driver for both my cdrom and my disk, I get > the Mach window resetting the computer and I get this failure : > > WARNING : clock lost 58 days... CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! > Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init > Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2 > > ...and nothing more Ah-ha! I just solved this problem with my Prelude to Rhapsody pack. It turns out the installer was looking for the OpenStep User CD (labeled, simply "OpenStep")... not OpenStep developer or Enterprise. I popped in the "OpenStep" CD and life was peachy. Now, if this doesn't help, perhaps it can't find the CD drive? - Scott -- Scott Stevenson http://www.cacti.org 100% Spam-free -- Please remove the "*" from my email address to respond - Thanks!
From: scott@*cacti.org (Scott Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Resolution/Bit Depth Question Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 03:17:57 -0700 Organization: Cacti.org Message-ID: <scott-2006970317570001@sculptor.vip.best.com> First off, it seems there are a lot of Mac-heads floating around. Remember, we are all guests here. Hopefully, the Next verterans welcome us with open arms. ;) Now, here's my question. I've successfully installed the "Prelude to Rhapsody" release -- essentially OpenStep 4.2 prerelease for Mach -- on my intel pc. However, I seem to be stuck in 640x480 @ 8-bit greyscale (ugh!). I have a DiamondStealth 64 Graphics 2001 card with 2mb of DRAM. I've tried many of the Stealth 64 drivers, some of which actually allow my system to boot. ;) However, not matter what settings I tweak in configure.app, I'm stuck at 640x480, 8-bit grey. I have rebooted several times. And although I'm a huge Mac fan, I'm very familiar with PC hardware and unix in general, so I don't think I'm doing anything especially stupid -- though I'm just about as novice as I could be with Next/OpenStep. Any suggestions from the pros? Please copy me via email if possible. BTW: What is the correct capitalization??: OPENSTEP or OpenStep --and -- NEXTSTEP, NextStep or NeXTStep, etc. Thanks in advance! - Scott -- Scott Stevenson http://www.cacti.org 100% Spam-free -- Please remove the "*" from my email address to respond - Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Resolution qurstion Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EC102D.5to@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 13:56:36 GMT References: <01bc7c42$7a82a7c0$03ac2ac0@cupertino> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <01bc7c42$7a82a7c0$03ac2ac0@cupertino>, Heath Tucker <heatht@mindspring.com> wrote: > I just read a few posts about NeXT dimensions and their resolution of >640x480. I have to say that that does not sound very impresive at all. That is only the resolution at which they can capture NTSC video (PAL is something different). The display itself is the usual NeXT 1120 x 832. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: John Goggan <jgoggan@dcg.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How do I use a ZIP drive on my NeXTStaion? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:23:57 -0400 Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd. Message-ID: <33AA684D.2B5@dcg.com> References: <5od3cp$4ln$2@news2.nctu.edu.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: u8222015@cc.nctu.edu.tw Spencer Yu wrote: > > Talk to me like I am 3 years old..I am totally clueless...do I need > some driver or something, in order to use a SCSI ZIP on my NeXTStaion? Hey little kiddie -- point your browser at: http://www.radical.com/TheHome/TheSolutions/RadicalSolution4.html ...and then go to bed. (Ok, so I tried -- deal with it. :) - John (Goggan)... jgoggan@dcg.com
From: martin@carlberg.org (Martin Carlberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NextStep 4.2 on a IBM Aptiva? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:13:08 +0200 Organization: DMC Message-ID: <martin-2006971413080001@192.168.135.11> Hi! Has anybody been able to install NextStep 4.2 on a IBM Aptiva 2161-462? (or any Aptiva?) The installation was no problem. The problem is the ATI Mach64 Display card inside the Aptiva. It only works in VGA mode. NextStep says "can't find ATI BIOS" ... "no display driver, trying VGA" during boot. Configure.app does find the card and points out the suitable driver. Any suggestions?? Thanks, - Martin Carlberg - DMC
From: axel@simplex.nl (Axel Roest) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on VirtualPC Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:54:51 +0200 Organization: AXEL Development & Support Message-ID: <19970620175451454215@ppp46-213.simplex.nl> References: <33A6778D.2C69@interweb.be> <5o7avh$pci@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5oa080$jh@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> wrote: > dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) wrote: > > Martin Laurent wrote: > > > I tried to install OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) on > > > VirtualPC 1.0b6 but I didn't manage. [etc] > > > > since they (connectix) list OPENSTEP as a supported system on > > their literature, I'd give 'em a call / e-mail. someone there > > has it working. the flyer says they provide tech support and > > 30-day money back guarantee. I have OPENstep running on the 1.0b6 version of VirtualPC. But I cheated: I didn't have time to install it from CD-ROM, so I just copied the entire OPENStep Virtual PC hard disc file from a colleague. It works, but it's dead slow on a PM 7600... Maybe I should finally get a wintel box??? Axel
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From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Resolution/Bit Depth Question Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:42:58 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Yneg4Wa00iWY04a=Q0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <scott-2006970317570001@sculptor.vip.best.com> In-Reply-To: <scott-2006970317570001@sculptor.vip.best.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 20-Jun-97 Resolution/Bit Depth Question by Scott Stevenson@*cacti.o > First off, it seems there are a lot of Mac-heads floating around. > Remember, we are all guests here. Hopefully, the Next verterans welcome > us with open arms. ;) That's a good way of inspiring people to help you. :-) > Now, here's my question. I've successfully installed the "Prelude to > Rhapsody" release -- essentially OpenStep 4.2 prerelease for Mach -- on my > intel pc. However, I seem to be stuck in 640x480 @ 8-bit greyscale > (ugh!). I have a DiamondStealth 64 Graphics 2001 card with 2mb of DRAM. > I've tried many of the Stealth 64 drivers, some of which actually allow my > system to boot. ;) However, not matter what settings I tweak in > configure.app, I'm stuck at 640x480, 8-bit grey. Sorry, but I'm afraid you lose (at least for the moment). From <URL=http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2256.htmld/2256.html>: "Known Problems Diamond Stealth 64 Series 2001 does not use an S3 controller, it uses the ARK Logic which is not supported." The card you have doesn't use the S3-968 video chip used by all other Stealth-64 cards, which is probably going to cause problems dealing with other OS' as well unless you can get updated drivers for that card. Go look around on NeXT's web site for where you can give feedback and ask about if/when a NEXTSTEP-specific driver for your card might become available. > BTW: What is the correct capitalization??: > > OPENSTEP or OpenStep --and -- NEXTSTEP, NextStep or NeXTStep, etc. OPENSTEP refers to a product made by Apple; OpenStep refers to an API specification which various organizations including Apple, Sun, and the GNUstep project are implementing. As for "NEXTSTEP" et al, _all_ of the capitalizations you've used have been valid at one point or another, but the all-caps version seems to be the correct spelling nowadays (plus, it's easier to type) :-). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Intel EtherExpress16 performance problems. Date: 19 Jun 1997 22:08:31 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jun19174227@slave.doubleu.com> I've been having some TCP and NFS "anomalies" between my Linux/486@150Mhz IPMasq gateway and my internal mostly-NeXTSTEP LAN. Basically, NFS mounts from the Linux box were giving me fits when writing large (>16k or so) files, and sometimes I'd have odd things happen when transfering data via rcp or ftp. In pursuit of a solution, I checked out the Ethernet HOWTO, and then got ttcp. Indeed, ttcp showed the problem well. Between any of my internal machines running NeXTSTEP, I got rates ranging from 680KB/s to 850KB/s, depending on the age of the hardware involved. I got even higher numbers on connections from the Linux box to the other boxes. Sending from my six year old NeXTstation to the Linux box, I got 650KB/s, which is reasonable. But if the transmitter were a SparcStation5 or Pentium133 (w/Intel 10/100 card), I only got 50KB/s to the Linux box! On the advice of the Ethernet HOWTO, I started playing with the window size for the route on the Linux box. If I dropped the window to 1.5k, I got 550MB/s to the Linux box. Watching my hub lights, it's easy to see that with the 1.5KB window, the lights ping back and forth, while with larger windows they burst and then pause. Similar fund happens with NFS. This doesn't seem right. The fact that I can send at high speeds with large windows but not receive does jive with buffer overruns. OTOH, the EtherExpress16 comes with 32KB or 64KB of on-board buffer space (I have 32KB), and the Ethernet HOWTO indicated that most of the problems were cards with 8K or so of buffer space. Furthermore, the window size which works seems suspiciously close to the eth0 MTU of 1500 on the Linux box. Any ideas? The driver I'm using is eexpress.c v1.13, as included with the September/October InfoMagic slackware distribution. [I don't _think_ that this is a NeXTSTEP problem, as I had the same problems when I rebooted one of the systems to Linux, but someone might have an input worth using.] Thanks, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: rasmus@mws6.biol Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: External HD for NeXTstation, Turbo Date: 20 Jun 97 13:59:23 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: fj Message-ID: <rasmus.97Jun20135923@mws6.biol> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain I am looking for an external harddisk for my NeXTstation, Turbo. I would be very happy if somebody could e-mail me information regarding this matter. Can a Mac or PC external HD be attached to a NeXTstation? What kind of driver software do I need to hook up the HD? Can you recommend any place to order the HD from? Thanks... Rasmus Nielsen (rasmus@mws4.biol.berkeley.edu)
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: object station 4100 Date: 20 Jun 1997 22:05:52 GMT Organization: Dental Records (R) Message-ID: <5oeus0$pf3@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <33A9FC3B.735B9D03@freemansoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: joe@freemansoft.com In <33A9FC3B.735B9D03@freemansoft.com> Joe Freeman wrote: > Can an Canon Object Station 4100 be used under Windows 95 or Windows > NT? Someone is selling one local at a good price but I don't want to > run OPENSTEP on a 486/100. > > <joe> > it's object.station 41, of course (unless it's a 31 or 51) I've heard people who have questioned its ability to run MS operating systems, so perhaps not. But it runs OPENSTEP fine. Remember it was designed specifically for the task, and performs more like a mid-line pentium than a 486. if the price is _very_ good, and you don't mind OPENSTEP, you might be surprised. check deja news for threads about object.station and Win95. -- Rick Sanford Dental Records(R) dental@precipice.com NeXTMAIL welcome http://www.dentalrecords.com
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: which MAC should I buy to run Rhapsody? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 19:41:08 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970620193903.14174A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <5nf811$faa$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <AFC0EA0A-104637@141.214.134.235> <j-norstad-0906970729340001@legume186176.nuts.nwu.edu> <mitchell.allen-0906971833140001@57.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> <Pine.SOL.3.96.970609191400.10150A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <scott-2006970244170001@sculptor.vip.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Scott Stevenson <scott@spamblocker-cacti.org> In-Reply-To: <scott-2006970244170001@sculptor.vip.best.com> On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Scott Stevenson wrote: > > The software you called about was called "Prelude to Rhapsody". It was > free to the first couple thousand attendees to the WWDC in San Francisco. > This distrubtion was just OpenStep User, Developer and Enterprise in one > CD jacket (worth over $10,000 I believe). It also included WebObjects. > This is extremely hard to get a hold of unless you know someone at Apple. > They simply don't have enough to go around. This distrubution only runs > on intel hardware, BTW. > I explicitely told them that I din't want this version but the real Rhapsody Developer Prerelease. > The next release will be Rhapsody Developer around August which will > essentially be a port of OpenStep to Mac hardware. This should be much > easier to obtain, though you still won't find it in any vending machines. > ;) Yeah, they told me to call in the first week of August. Thanks for the info that shed some more light on what they meant. Good luck. Rudy.
From: scott@*cacti.org (Scott Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Recommend Video Card for OPENSTEP? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:34:55 -0700 Organization: Cacti.org Message-ID: <scott-2006971734550001@sculptor.vip.best.com> After finding out that my Stealth64 2001 series card is incompatible with OPENSTEP for Mach, I've decided to guy buy another one. What's a good choice for Intel OPENSTEP? Please copy me via email if possible. Thanks in advance, - Scott -- Scott Stevenson http://www.cacti.org 100% Spam-free -- Please remove the "*" from my email address to respond - Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Installing a ND board Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EC1vv1.Kup@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 01:23:25 GMT References: <5oacop$joa@slip.net> <5oapld$cai$1@darla.visi.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5oapld$cai$1@darla.visi.com>, David Young <dwy@ace.net> wrote: > >1. Open cube. >2. Slide ND board into slot 2. Looking towards the front faceplate, with the >open end facing you, slot 2 is the slot immediately left of the power supply >/ drive cavity. >3. Close cube. >4. Connect color monitor to the large 13W3 port at the back of the ND board. > 4a. If you got rid of your monochrome monitor for some reason, replace it with the wedge-shaped Sound Box. >And, optionally: >5. Boot cube. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: NeXT ADB Keyboard on a macintosh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7x4taskgej.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: rifrain@avana.net (Jay Craft) Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) References: <rifrain-1706971334060001@atl701.avana.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:23:32 GMT >>>>> "JC" == Jay Craft <rifrain@avana.net> writes: JC> I heard that the NeXT adb keyboard works with the mac adb, JC> and, wanting to have the coolest/oddest looking system around, JC> I was planning to replace my broken keyboard with one. Has JC> anyone tried this? Yes, it works. Although some special characters might appear on different keys, but that can be dealt with by hacking the Mac's keyboards settings (somewhere in the System:System folder there are the keyboard settings - use ResEdit or Resourcerer to change it - mail me if you need more details). JC> I would be quite interested to know if the JC> [...] POWER key worked so i could turn my JC> computer on if I so desired :) Turning the computer on works, yet turning it off (as it is possible since 7.5.3) didn't work in my case (YMMV). Markus "n.s" Gloede -- My From address is a valid addess.
From: "Daniel B." <wnsup556@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: MegaPixel Display and connecting to a Mac Date: 21 Jun 1997 01:54:55 GMT Organization: WorldNet Message-ID: <01bc7de5$e85e2cc0$8422a8c0@cube154a> I'm wanting to connect a 21inch MegaPixel Color Display to a Power Mac. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find the diagram of the cables or if anyone had ideas on getting that to work Thanks, Daniel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: wirehead@netcom.com (David J Harr) Subject: Internal 4 GB HD and IDE zip drive Message-ID: <wireheadEC4CH7.JxC@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: The Programmers who say NEE! Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:17:31 GMT Sender: wirehead@netcom.netcom.com OK, I've been trying to get this to work for weeks. What is the magic incantation necessary to partition and use a 4 GB internal SCSI hard disk with and OPENSTEP/Intel system? Everytime I try to use BuildDisk, it calims it is a 61 Mbyte drive and attempts to turn it in to a swap disk. mkfs refuses to allocate more than 800 Mbytes of storage on the disk.How can I get this to work? If I have to split it into two partitions, I'd like to make each of them just under 2GB, and leave about 200 MBytes to use as a swap disk. Any pointers to the right thing to do would be appreciated... Problem, the second...I have an IDE internal zip drive installed in my machine, It would be spiffy if I could actually use it...Ocasionally, if I have a DOS disk in the drive at bootup, the disk will actually mount, but then the WorkSpace Manager thinks it is a fixed device and won't let me eject it.Any idea on how to get the system to recognize this as a removable media drive? Problem, the third. How do I keep the Workspace mamnger from attempting to mount an internal hard disk containing an NTFS partition from my other work. It is very irritating to get the "SCSI drive damaged, ignore, initialize" dialog box every time I sogn on. Is there a way to tell the WorkSpace Manager that a particular device is forever off limits? Problem, the fourth. Is ther a way to keep the damn OS from attempting to start up every SCSI device on the bus? Of course the CD-ROM players and the zip drive may or may not have anything in them. If they do not, the computer keeps waiting for the device to time out, then it tries again. Again, I would like to make it easy to just ignore whether these devices are spun up at startup, and have the OS just drive on, because it knows that a removable drive can be inserted at any time... Well, these are my peeves about MacOS/Rhapsody. We'll see if anyone can help me with them. Thanks... David
From: flickx@mindspring.com (Andre ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: WTB: Next Slab 3.5" floppy drive Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 13:15:13 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Message-ID: <5ogk3d$bl7@camel4.mindspring.com> I've got a 3.5" floppy drive that has gone bust and I'd like to purchase one. Can anyone reading this newsgroup offer me this item at a fair price?
From: srampazzo@windnet.it (Stefano Rampazzo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SoundBlaster32PnP driver ? Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 17:00:40 +0200 Organization: ITnet Message-ID: <srampazzo-2106971700410001@kit4.swapnet.it> Hello, where is possible to find the driver for SoundBlaster 32 PnP ? Thank you Stefano
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Can't boot my NXStation Message-ID: <EC4pyv.Eqn@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5o3jfe$shf$2@news2.nctu.edu.tw> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:08:55 GMT In article <5o3jfe$shf$2@news2.nctu.edu.tw> u8222015@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Spencer Yu) writes: > sorry this is a stupid newbie question: > > I just got a NeXTStation from someone, and I found I can't boot it.. > This machine came with an exnternal SCSI HD (1G, SCSI no =3 set by > its previous owner)...no internal HD I think....I hooked the external > HD to the SCSI port, powered on, and pressed the power key.... > > Everything's ok...ROM Monitor show up and tried to boot with the command > "b sd(0,0,0)"...after about 30min it said "No SCSI disk" and I was > confronted by a command prompt...what should I do now? > From this brief description one can only tell that your SCSI bus seems to be misconfigured. Of course there are many possible reasons. First find out about the status in your slab. There is only one screw in the back to open it... Is the bus configured correctly? All cables connected, all ends terminated, all devices powered and up, the IDs set correctly? Normally the internal disk has ID 1. The drive with the lowest ID is sd0, the next one sd1, and so on. For instance, if you want to make sure the machine boots from the external drive set it to ID 0. At the prompt you could try 'bsd(1,0,0)' to try to boot from a second hard disk. Typing 'Command-~' will drop you into ROM Monitor. Now combine the elements to try things out... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: External HD for NeXTstation, Turbo Message-ID: <EC4qG4.ErE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <rasmus.97Jun20135923@mws6.biol> Distribution: fj Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:19:15 GMT In article <rasmus.97Jun20135923@mws6.biol> rasmus@mws6.biol writes: > I am looking for an external harddisk for my NeXTstation, Turbo. > I would be very happy if somebody could e-mail me information > regarding this matter. Can a Mac or PC external HD be attached > to a NeXTstation? What kind of driver software do I need to hook > up the HD? Can you recommend any place to order the HD from? > General info, possibly not newbie digestible, but there are too many influnece factors to make a mouth feed ;-) Hard drives for black machines need to run in SCSI-I, asynch mode with either 1/2kB or 1kB blocking. Any drives larger than 2GB need either an entry in /etc/disktab or the latest version of the OS since the automatic mechanism will else get an overrun. All this in mind the procedure is terrbily easy. You connect the second disk drive and switch the power on. Then you'll be asked whether you want to initialize a new disk and after answering yes all the rest is automatically done. Only when you want a fixed mount after each reboot you need to create an entry in /etc/fstab. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Printing using LocalTalk port on Black NeXTStation Message-ID: <EC4qu7.Etq@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618165509.419A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:27:43 GMT In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618165509.419A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> writes: > I'm wondering if it's possible to print directly from the serial port on > a black NeXTStation to the LocalTalk port on an HP 6MP. The cables are > physically the same, but I don't know if the hardware inside and the > software are too. If someone knows that this will or won't work I'd > appreciate knowing. Thanks. > No way! LocalTalk and serial ports are only plug compatible, all else is different. You can only have a rather slow serial connection using the appropriate cabling or a fast Ethernet connection together with an IP/Ethernet upgrade in the printer. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How do I use a ZIP drive on my NeXTStaion? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EC3vKr.2DK@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 03:12:27 GMT References: <5od3cp$4ln$2@news2.nctu.edu.tw> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5od3cp$4ln$2@news2.nctu.edu.tw>, Spencer Yu <u8222015@cc.nctu.edu.tw> wrote: >Talk to me like I am 3 years old..I am totally clueless...do I need >some driver or something, in order to use a SCSI ZIP on my NeXTStaion? > No. You get the right cable (the one that will let you plug it into the blue thing with one end and the black thing with the other) and away you go. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: christos@cris.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on VirtualPC Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 15:46:18 -0700 Organization: Concentric Internet Services Message-ID: <33AC59B0.43E4F044@cris.com> References: <33A6778D.2C69@interweb.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: Martin Laurent <martin.laurent@interweb.be> Martin Laurent wrote: > I tried to install OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) on VirtualPC > 1.0b6 > but I didn't manage. It ask me which driver to use for the CD-ROM > drive > but I don't know which to choose. > When I choose "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE and ATAPI Device > Controllers > (v4.01)" (Yes I know, it's not SCSI but it doesn't cost anything to > try) > it recognize the CD-ROM and begin to boot on it but crash after > displaying "Power Management Enabled". I tried some of the others > drivers but the others don't recognize the CD at all. > > Can you help me ? > > Martin Laurent, > Limauges Software =A0 I am experiencing the exact same problem under the same conditions.=A0= Has anyone made proress running the installer? -Chris e installer? -Chris
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From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NE2000 Ethernet adaptator Date: 22 Jun 1997 01:07:13 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5ohts1$pg8$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <AFD198099668E0D36A@macagr.equation.fr> Cc: alain_richard@equation.fr In <AFD198099668E0D36A@macagr.equation.fr> Alain RICHARD wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently testing the OpenStep 4.2 Rhapsody introduction and I am > suprise to see no support for the NE2000 compatible cards (this is the most > common model). Is there any means to use such NIC card or where may I > download the driver ? > Maybe the third party NE2000 V3.0 driver (a NS 3.3 driver) works, see ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT... -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
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From: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Two ethernet cards under OS 4.1? Date: 22 Jun 1997 02:00:32 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oi100$268i@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Can it be done? -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Recommend Video Card for OPENSTEP? Date: 21 Jun 1997 13:30:21 GMT Organization: Public Electronic Access to Knowlege,Inc Message-ID: <5ogl1d$4k4$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <scott-2006971734550001@sculptor.vip.best.com> In-Reply-To: <scott-2006971734550001@sculptor.vip.best.com> On 06/20/97, Scott Stevenson wrote: > After finding out that my Stealth64 2001 series > card is incompatible >with OPENSTEP for Mach, > I've decided to guy buy another one. What's a > >good choice for Intel OPENSTEP? I have been very happy with my Matrox Millenium. I have heard unconfirmed reports that they somehow improved performace for thos card under 4.2 as opposed to 4.1. If anyone could confirm this, it would be very nice :-) TjL -- -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <3108866347221@digifix.com> Date: 22 Jun 1997 03:57:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <10436866952022@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. 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From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SoundBlaster32PnP driver ? Date: 21 Jun 1997 22:02:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ohj0u$s93$1@news.digifix.com> References: <srampazzo-2106971700410001@kit4.swapnet.it> In-Reply-To: <srampazzo-2106971700410001@kit4.swapnet.it> On 06/21/97, Stefano Rampazzo wrote: >Hello, > >where is possible to find the driver for SoundBlaster 32 PnP ? > > >Thank you >Stefano > I've just gone through this with someone for a SoundBlaster 64AWE I've added the steps to get it working (which should be the same for the 32) on Stepwise in the FactBase at http://www2.stepwise.com/FactBase Scott Anguish http://www.stepwise.com/ -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Two ethernet cards under OS 4.1? Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:36:38 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <Anf_jK600iWl07gX40@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5oi100$268i@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 22-Jun-97 Two ethernet cards under OS.. by atl2@lehigh.edu > Can it be done? Yes, such a configuration works fine. It's not supported by NeXT, however. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Yi Zhao <yzhao@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Laptop Video Drivers Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 22:25:05 -0700 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <33ACB731.57E5@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a question about the video drivers for laptop machines. Bifrostworks has a video driver for CHIPS 6555X chip set, by reading the driver's overview it seems that the driver is developed for Tushiba laptops. CHIPS 6555X is a popular video chipset for many laptops (Hitachi, Fujitsu, and some other clones). Has anyone tried it for other CHIPS 6555X laptops? In general, is there any difference on the video driver part for these laptops using the same kind of video chipsets? Thanks. -- Yi ==================================================== Yi Zhao email: yzhao@ix.netcom.com 475 Milan Dr., #122 Tel: (408)526-0433 San Jose, CA 95134 ----------------------------------------------------
From: rwakeman@thoughtport.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Next color printer from Daydream? Date: 22 Jun 1997 13:50:16 GMT Message-ID: <5ojaio$rhe@news1-alterdial.uu.net> I've been running Daydream on my cube for a few years now and print to the Next laser printer. I also have a Next color printer attached, but have never been able to print to it via Daydream. Is there a Mac driver for the Canon Next color printer, and Has anyone had any success printing to it from Daydream? Any help would be appreciated. Robert Wakeman rwakeman@thoughtport.com
From: derek kusiak <kusiak@students.uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Next Monitor to VGA Cable? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 07:16:10 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970623071336.21825C-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello -- I recently acquired a Next monitor from a friend. I don't own a Next. I'm a borring old PC user. Is this monitor useless as a standard, PC VGA monitor? Or is there an adapter or cable of some sort that lets me plug a Next monitor into a regular PC VGA card? Thanks in adavance. -- Derek Kusiak (kusiak@students.uiuc.edu)
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From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (younghoon KIL) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Connecting Intel PC's soundcard to NeXT's soundbox Date: 22 Jun 1997 15:00:37 GMT Organization: ppai News Message-ID: <5ojeml$2e$1@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Hi, I'm wondering if anyone try connecting to NEXTSTEP/Intel PC with NeXT's soundbox? I'd like to connect sound card's mic-input and sound-output connectors at my NEXTSTEP/Intel PC to soundbox. I know, some hacking will need..... Is there any information? Has anyone have described documentation of the connectors on the soundbox(ADB and non ADB)? Any help would be appreciated. younghoon KIL ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (NeXTMail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, SGI O2 Q&A and Info board written in Korean)
From: Rich Grasso <rmg9@earthlink.not> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 12:56:52 +0000 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <33AD2114.3166@earthlink.not> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> <5o4tbs$gtf@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5o516o$dn0$1@news.digifix.com> <33A975E2.420A@dcg.com> <scott-2006970305040001@sculptor.vip.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yeah, the Lynx was a great machine. highly recommended if you can get your hands on one. I have one and wouldn't part with it for anything(well.. maybe some things...) there is also the Sega Nomad, a color handheld that plays Genesis titles. but if you want an actual computer, I think the Toshiba libretto is one of the only ones out there. it has a color screen that is about 5" diagonal and the unit itself is maybe the size of a VHS tape. all the while running a 75mhz Pentium. not sure of the price(or the specs actually) but I do know that I fell in love with it when I saw it at PC Expo the other day. Rich Grasso _ __ __ _ http://home.earthlink.net/~rmg9/ | '__/ _` | rmg9@earthlink.not | | | (_| | |Graphic Design |_| \__, | |Corporate Identity Graphics __/ | |Web Design |___/ to email: replace "not" with "net"
From: ix@xanadu.io.com (Lupo LeBoucher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Newer Versions of NeXT on a Cube Date: 23 Jun 1997 00:42:06 GMT Organization: Illuminati Online Message-ID: <5okgou$g4a$1@nntp-2.io.com> I'm wondering if there is anything to be gained by upgrading my Cube to something beyond the ancient v2.1 of the OS which is included on the thing? (I got it for free, believe it or not). Also, I noticed some information about an i860 motherboard one could install in the thing. This would be pretty neato for number crunching; does anyone know of a supplier or have any further info on this "nextGeneration" motherboard? -Lupo "In dee wiyuld, wee are primarily carneeevorous" <ix@pentagon.io.com>
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Two ethernet cards under OS 4.1? Date: 22 Jun 1997 12:19:42 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oj58u$qkn$3@bashir.peak.org> References: <5oi100$268i@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> <Anf_jK600iWl07gX40@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In <Anf_jK600iWl07gX40@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 22-Jun-97 Two ethernet > cards under OS.. by atl2@lehigh.edu > > Can it be done? > > Yes, such a configuration works fine. > It's not supported by NeXT, however. Note that it appears that NetInfo works best if connected to en0 rather than en1. I say appears because that it what it looks like from my experience. I hope to test this today and hopefully have some more details to say if things improve if I move to en0 with my connection between the two NeXTs. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: External HD for NeXTstation, Turbo Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:27:11 -0400 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970623022418.21131A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <rasmus.97Jun20135923@mws6.biol> <5ojj1d$qkn$5@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5ojj1d$qkn$5@bashir.peak.org> On 22 Jun 1997, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > Any SCSI-1 HD that supports asynch should do. > > You'll need a cable to connect to the back of the slab to the SCSI-1 > connector. I think it is called a "Centronics" connection (on the back of > the slab) but someone else will no doubt clarify that.... "Centronics" is actually the big "SCSI-1" connector. The connector on the back of the slab is an HD50 (aka "SCSI-2" or "High Density") connector. HD50 - Centronics cables are a standard item available in most any computer shop. -Isaac
From: Greg Neagle <gneagle@thegrid.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NextStep 4.2 on a IBM Aptiva? Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 21:07:00 -0700 Organization: Call America Internet Services +1 (800) 563-3271 Message-ID: <33ACA4E4.1981@thegrid.net> References: <martin-2006971413080001@192.168.135.11> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Martin Carlberg <martin@carlberg.org> Martin Carlberg wrote: > > Has anybody been able to install NextStep 4.2 on a IBM Aptiva 2161-462? > (or any Aptiva?) > > The installation was no problem. The problem is the ATI Mach64 Display > card inside the Aptiva. It only works in VGA mode. NextStep says "can't > find ATI BIOS" ... "no display driver, trying VGA" during boot. I have OpenStep 4.1 running on an Aptiva S76 (The cool black machine). It also did not like the ATI chip set until I downloaded a newer driver (ATI Rage) from http://www.next.com.NeXTanswers/ OpenStep also doesn't like the MWave sound card, but I'll live with that.
From: (DogZ Software Center) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: MS Office 97 only costs US$45?! Shopping Paradise Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 06:13:19 GMT Organization: Netvigator Message-ID: <5om0bk$rd3@imsp009a.netvigator.com> Windows 95, Visual Foxpro, MS Office 7.0, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland C++, Lotus cc:Mail Release 6, Lotus SmartSuite 97, ...... only costs US$45 for all? MS Office 97 only costs US$45! Hong Kong is the paradise in shopping. You can buy anything you want by an reasonable price. Today, by this chance, we would like to introduce to those who are interest in computing. In Hong Kong, there are five famous spots inclues: Golden Center - Sham Shui Po ; Mongkok Computer Center - Mongkok ; Sino Center - Mongkok ; 298 Computer Center - Wan Chai and Tsuen Fung Center -Tsuen Wan . In which, you can always find the most update warez includes all PC Warez, PC games, CD-Title, Shareware, Video-CD and Playstation game, etc. For Example, Inside a Installer (one CD only, Product No.: IN96112) , it contains MS Visual Foxpro 5.0, MS Windows 95 OEM Service Release, MS Money97, Lotus SmartSuite 97, Lotus cc:Mail Release 6, Symantec Cafe 1.5, Norton Your Eyes Only, Norton Smart Doctor 1.0, Quartdeck SpeedyROM 1.1, KPT BrayceAlpha 2.0, Visual dBASE Professional 4.4a, MacroMedia Animator Designer, Solitaire Antics, Almost Reality, CakeWalk Express 3.01, ClockMan95, Demo-It!2.0, MicroLogic EMAGIC, EXTRA! Version 6.2, MacroMedia Icon Designer, Infinite Disk, InfoSpy Pro, Fractal Deign Ray Dream Studio 4.1, Janna Conract Manager, Kurzweil Voice release 2.0, PC Maclan verion 6.0, NetWizard Plus Version 3.1, Organic Art, Microsoft Edition, PhotoWorks, RandoMedia, Real Oschestra, Reflection 4, RichWin, SoundForge 4.0, SignLab Pro+, Spectrum Pro CD Player, Starfish Internet Sidekick, TeleMagic, TurboCAD 3.0, MS-Visual SourceSafe 5.0, WinBye 32, Xing 3.02 Release, Zydeco Management Desktop. Good news to you today, that is, we would like to introduce all wares in VERY attractive price to you. Not only to provide over 50 warez for you to choose, but also to introduce the most suitable warez to you. We would provide a very attractive price not more than US$50. The more you buy, the more money you can save. Right? Hurry up! Don't miss this chance! Just ask what you want to know OR just decide and place your order to us. If you want some more details , you can go http://www.hkstar.com/~dogz now. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ DogZ Software Center
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From: "Lumpy" <spam@sucks.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,alt.solaris.x86 Subject: Re: PC vendors who know Unix (Linux, Openstep, Solaris, etc.) Date: 23 Jun 1997 14:08:48 GMT Organization: Lumpy against spam Message-ID: <01bc7fde$98812900$d6898acd@205.138.138.1> References: <5nkr1g$l9t$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5nlb4d$8k0@news.scruz.net> <5nmdes$hs8@news.win.net> Add gray technologies to that list! Gray Technologies timgray@lambdanet.com http:/lambdanet.com/~graytech All systems shipped with Red Hat linux or Slackware 96 Including networking and operation manuals for Linux!
From: (DogZ Software Center) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Microsoft Office 97 costs US$45 ? Shopping Paradise Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 06:08:09 GMT Organization: Netvigator Message-ID: <5om01u$ltd@imsp009a.netvigator.com> Windows 95, Visual Foxpro, MS Office 7.0, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland C++, Lotus cc:Mail Release 6, Lotus SmartSuite 97, ...... only costs US$45 for all? CorelDraw 7.0! only costs US$45? Hong Kong is the paradise in shopping. You can buy anything you want by an reasonable price. Today, by this chance, we would like to introduce to those who are interest in computing. In Hong Kong, there are five famous spots inclues: Golden Center - Sham Shui Po ; Mongkok Computer Center - Mongkok ; Sino Center - Mongkok ; 298 Computer Center - Wan Chai and Tsuen Fung Center -Tsuen Wan . In which, you can always find the most update warez includes all PC Warez, PC games, CD-Title, Shareware, Video-CD and Playstation game, etc. For Example, Inside a Installer (one CD only, Product No.: IN96112) , it contains MS Visual Foxpro 5.0, MS Windows 95 OEM Service Release, MS Money97, Lotus SmartSuite 97, Lotus cc:Mail Release 6, Symantec Cafe 1.5, Norton Your Eyes Only, Norton Smart Doctor 1.0, Quartdeck SpeedyROM 1.1, KPT BrayceAlpha 2.0, Visual dBASE Professional 4.4a, MacroMedia Animator Designer, Solitaire Antics, Almost Reality, CakeWalk Express 3.01, ClockMan95, Demo-It!2.0, MicroLogic EMAGIC, EXTRA! Version 6.2, MacroMedia Icon Designer, Infinite Disk, InfoSpy Pro, Fractal Deign Ray Dream Studio 4.1, Janna Conract Manager, Kurzweil Voice release 2.0, PC Maclan verion 6.0, NetWizard Plus Version 3.1, Organic Art, Microsoft Edition, PhotoWorks, RandoMedia, Real Oschestra, Reflection 4, RichWin, SoundForge 4.0, SignLab Pro+, Spectrum Pro CD Player, Starfish Internet Sidekick, TeleMagic, TurboCAD 3.0, MS-Visual SourceSafe 5.0, WinBye 32, Xing 3.02 Release, Zydeco Management Desktop. Good news to you today, that is, we would like to introduce all wares in VERY attractive price to you. Not only to provide over 50 warez for you to choose, but also to introduce the most suitable warez to you. We would provide a very attractive price not more than US$50. The more you buy, the more money you can save. Right? Hurry up! Don't miss this chance! Just ask what you want to know OR just decide and place your order to us. If you want some more details , you can go http://www.hkstar.com/~dogz now. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ DogZ Software Center
From: (DogZ Software Center) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: MS Office 97 only costs US$45?! Shopping Paradise Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 06:18:22 GMT Organization: Netvigator Message-ID: <5om0l4$pps@imsp009a.netvigator.com> Windows 95, Visual Foxpro, MS Office 7.0, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland C++, Lotus cc:Mail Release 6, Lotus SmartSuite 97, ...... only costs US$45 for all? MS Office 97 only costs US$45! Hong Kong is the paradise in shopping. You can buy anything you want by an reasonable price. Today, by this chance, we would like to introduce to those who are interest in computing. In Hong Kong, there are five famous spots inclues: Golden Center - Sham Shui Po ; Mongkok Computer Center - Mongkok ; Sino Center - Mongkok ; 298 Computer Center - Wan Chai and Tsuen Fung Center -Tsuen Wan . In which, you can always find the most update warez includes all PC Warez, PC games, CD-Title, Shareware, Video-CD and Playstation game, etc. For Example, Inside a Installer (one CD only, Product No.: IN96112) , it contains MS Visual Foxpro 5.0, MS Windows 95 OEM Service Release, MS Money97, Lotus SmartSuite 97, Lotus cc:Mail Release 6, Symantec Cafe 1.5, Norton Your Eyes Only, Norton Smart Doctor 1.0, Quartdeck SpeedyROM 1.1, KPT BrayceAlpha 2.0, Visual dBASE Professional 4.4a, MacroMedia Animator Designer, Solitaire Antics, Almost Reality, CakeWalk Express 3.01, ClockMan95, Demo-It!2.0, MicroLogic EMAGIC, EXTRA! Version 6.2, MacroMedia Icon Designer, Infinite Disk, InfoSpy Pro, Fractal Deign Ray Dream Studio 4.1, Janna Conract Manager, Kurzweil Voice release 2.0, PC Maclan verion 6.0, NetWizard Plus Version 3.1, Organic Art, Microsoft Edition, PhotoWorks, RandoMedia, Real Oschestra, Reflection 4, RichWin, SoundForge 4.0, SignLab Pro+, Spectrum Pro CD Player, Starfish Internet Sidekick, TeleMagic, TurboCAD 3.0, MS-Visual SourceSafe 5.0, WinBye 32, Xing 3.02 Release, Zydeco Management Desktop. Good news to you today, that is, we would like to introduce all wares in VERY attractive price to you. Not only to provide over 50 warez for you to choose, but also to introduce the most suitable warez to you. We would provide a very attractive price not more than US$50. The more you buy, the more money you can save. Right? Hurry up! Don't miss this chance! Just ask what you want to know OR just decide and place your order to us. If you want some more details , you can go http://www.hkstar.com/~dogz now. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ DogZ Software Center
From: "B. Alex King III" <king@sunphy1.phy.uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What kind of HD for Cube? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:31:45 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970623112757.12309A-100000@sunphy1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have a '040 cube that needs a new hard drive. I understand that there are a few particular specs that a Cube needs in a drive. Anyone know what they are? Thanks. bak "I hate broccoli, and yet, in a certain sense...I am broccoli" -The Tick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |*******************************|***************************************| |B. Alex King III |University of Illinois at Chicago | |email: aking@uic.edu |Department of Physics | |*******************************|***************************************| -------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Serge Smadja <serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: STB S3 Virge Driver ? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:01:17 +0200 Organization: EDF - DER/IMA/ICI/ODI Message-ID: <33AEB9ED.F55EE533@der.edfgdf.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, I repost this message just in case someone could help me. I am trying to configure a Gateway G6 200XL under OpenStep 4.1. Here is my video configuration : Graphic Adapter : STB S3 Virge Velocity 3D 8 Mo I cannot find the right drivers. It seems that the S3 Virge Driver provided by Next does work for Reality 332 (Imagine) and Diamond 3D 2000 (Diamond) but not for the STB card !! Does anyone know how I could get out of this ? Any experience would be helpful ? If people from Apple/Next Software read this, could they tell me when those drivers will be available ? Thanks in advance. -- Serge Smadja EDF - Direction des Etudes et Recherches Ingénieur Chercheur - Département Ingénierie de la Communication en Informatique Groupe Outils de Dialogue pour l'Informatique Tél : +33 (0)1 47 65 31 31 fax : +33 (0)1 47 65 35 23 email : serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr
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From: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Compaq Hardware Compatibility - Deskpro 6000 Date: 16 Jun 1997 17:10:43 GMT Organization: Systemix, Inc. Message-ID: <5o3s2j$k3i@iserver.stem.com> References: <33A1C53C.47D4@m1.mediaone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit James Sentman <sentman@m1.mediaone.com> wrote: > MicroAge has recommended a Compaq Deskpro 6000, however in speaking > to NeXT tech support, they can only tell me that theoretically it should > work. ... Is anyone using NeXT 4.1, or any other for that matter, We're running both NS 3.3 and OS 4.1 on Compaq Deskpro 6000's. (I'll be trying 4.2 this week.) You have to ignore the supplied NetFlex card and install a NeXT compatible Ethernet card. (Ditto for sound if you want it.) We used the Intel 100B Ethernet cards with the Pro 10+ driver. This combination works fine for 10MB TCP/IP stuff but we've poor results using the (correct) 100MB or 10MB driver and the Netware stuff doesn't work under 3.3 nor 4.1 (seems to work fine on our other 3.3 and 4.1 Cogent/clone machines.) - Christopher
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Hardware and Cable Modems Date: 23 Jun 1997 19:29:05 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <5omiq1$djj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, Cable modems have just been introduced in my area. I'm not much of a sysadmin, so I'm wondering if its possible to run them with a turbo slab. From what I gather, they simply plug into your ethernet port. Is there more to it than that? Anyone using one out there? thanks! -- |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Mark Trombino | J A M S o f t | | mtrombin@ix.netcom.com | Audio DSP Tools for Openstep & Rhapsody | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: External HD for NeXTstation, Turbo Date: 22 Jun 1997 16:14:37 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5ojj1d$qkn$5@bashir.peak.org> References: <rasmus.97Jun20135923@mws6.biol> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: rasmus@mws6.biol In <rasmus.97Jun20135923@mws6.biol> rasmus@mws6.biol wrote: > I am looking for an external harddisk for my > NeXTstation, Turbo. I would be very happy if > somebody could e-mail me information regarding > this matter. Can a Mac or PC external HD be > attached to a NeXTstation? What kind of driver > software do I need to hook up the HD? Can you > recommend any place to order the HD from? Any SCSI-1 HD that supports asynch should do. You'll need a cable to connect to the back of the slab to the SCSI-1 connector. I think it is called a "Centronics" connection (on the back of the slab) but someone else will no doubt clarify that.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: rwakeman@thoughtport.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Next color printer from Daydream Date: 23 Jun 1997 03:21:20 GMT Message-ID: <5okq3g$iru@news1-alterdial.uu.net> I have been running Daydream on my cube for several years and have printed to the Next laser printer with no problems. I also have a Next color printer, and wonder if there is a mac driver for it. Has anyone been able to print from Daydream directly (no network) to the Next color printer? If so, any help would be appreciated. Thanks Robert Wakeman rwakeman@thoughtport.com
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on VirtualPC Date: 20 Jun 1997 23:30:25 GMT Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <5of3qh$jjb$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <33A6778D.2C69@interweb.be> <5o7avh$pci@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5oa080$jh@usenet.rpi.edu> <19970620175451454215@ppp46-213.simplex.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: axel@simplex.nl In <19970620175451454215@ppp46-213.simplex.nl> Axel Roest wrote: > Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> wrote: > > > dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) wrote: > > > Martin Laurent wrote: > > > > I tried to install OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) on > > > > VirtualPC 1.0b6 but I didn't manage. [etc] > > > > > > since they (connectix) list OPENSTEP as a supported system on > > > their literature, I'd give 'em a call / e-mail. someone there > > > has it working. the flyer says they provide tech support and > > > 30-day money back guarantee. > > I have OPENstep running on the 1.0b6 version of VirtualPC. But I > cheated: I didn't have time to install it from CD-ROM, so I just copied > the entire OPENStep Virtual PC hard disc file from a colleague. It > works, but it's dead slow on a PM 7600... Maybe someone could go in to /NextAdmin/Configure.app and get a list of the drivers that Openstep uses on VirtualPC, and post the list? That way we all know what list of drivers and capabilities Virtual PC emulates? > Maybe I should finally get a wintel box??? > eeeew. Many of us with Nextstep/Openstep have been craving a PPC box for years, and you're trying to go the OTHER direction? icky. I'd say just wait til you can run Rhapsody natively :-) -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~jrudd =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Thought for the day: According to the supreme court, proof of innocence isn't enough to avoid execution if you've exhausted your appeals.
From: "Marinara, like the sauce" <aengus@jlc.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT architectures? Date: 24 Jun 1997 02:31:08 GMT Organization: JLC-net, Milford NH Message-ID: <01bc8046$4cfac460$7b9fc9c7@aengus.jlc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What system architextures will the NeXTStep os run on? The current version, that is. I wanted to run it on a DEC Alpha. Will it run on x86 too? I got the impression it only uses a unique architexture (Black Box?). Thanks
From: mahoney@engr.csulb.edu (Mike Mahoney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Paper Jams in NeXT Printer Date: 24 Jun 1997 03:34:25 GMT Organization: Cal State Long Beach Message-ID: <5onf81$a99@hatathli.csulb.edu> I have a relatively unused black NeXT printer which worked great till recently. Now paper always gets stuck/jammed just before it's ready to come out and I can't print even a single page. I can't see anything obstructing the path. Any help would be very much appreciated. I still love my black NeXT and want to continue using it. Thanks -mm
From: rwakeman@thoughtport.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Daydream to Next color printer Date: 24 Jun 1997 04:27:59 GMT Message-ID: <5onicf$ra9@news1-alterdial.uu.net> I have been running Daydream on my cube for several years and have printed to the Next laser printer with no problems. I also have a Next color printer, and wonder if there is a mac driver for it. Has anyone been able to print from Daydream directly (no network) to the Next color printer? If so, any help would be appreciated. Thanks Robert Wakeman rwakeman@thoughtport.com
From: rlarson@semlab5.sbs.sunysb.edu (Richard K. Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Monitors for Color NeXTs Date: 23 Jun 1997 20:28:07 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Message-ID: <5omm8n$fqm$1@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> Can anyone recommend a good 17" replacement monitor for use with an old color NeXTStation? I have such a machine whose monitor is rapidly expiring. I also have the nice monitor plug sold by Dancing Bear Inc. (RIP) that allows a color NeXTStation to be used with a non-NeXT color monitor. I simply need a recommendation for a good 17" monitor with BNC leads out the back. Any help would be appreciated. Richard Larson Linguistics Dept. SUNY - Stony Brook
From: rwakeman@thoughtport.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Daydream to Next color printer Date: 22 Jun 1997 21:37:58 GMT Message-ID: <5ok5vm$aas@news1-alterdial.uu.net> I have been running Daydream on my cube for several years and have printed to the Next laser printer with no problems. I also have a Next color printer, and wonder if there is a mac driver for it. Has anyone been able to print from Daydream directly (no network) to the Next color printer? If so, any help would be appreciated. Thanks Robert Wakeman rwakeman@thoughtport.com
From: alain_richard@equation.fr (Alain RICHARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NE2000 Ethernet adaptator Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:25:41 +0200 Organization: EQUATION SA Message-ID: <19970624122541668086@macagr.equation.fr> References: <AFD198099668E0D36A@macagr.equation.fr> <5ohts1$pg8$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> wrote: > In <AFD198099668E0D36A@macagr.equation.fr> Alain RICHARD wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am currently testing the OpenStep 4.2 Rhapsody introduction and I am > > suprise to see no support for the NE2000 compatible cards (this is the most > > common model). Is there any means to use such NIC card or where may I > > download the driver ? > > > > Maybe the third party NE2000 V3.0 driver (a NS 3.3 driver) works, see > ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT... > > -- > * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net > * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy Thank you for all people for the support here or by email. The NE2000 driver for 3.3 works fine for me under 4.2. I am just a little bit disapointed with the NextAnswer web site : there is some helpfull informations, but the search facility do not works very well (for example there is a technote speeking about the Adaptec 1510 SCSI adaptator although a search for 1510 do not give any clue). Also I haven't find any informations about the compatibility between 3.3 and 4.2 drivers or about the NE2000 NIC. It would be great if Next improves a little bit its NextAnswer site for the lot of Apple or other developpers who wants to take a look at this technology. -- Alain RICHARD <alain_richard@equation.fr> EQUATION SA
From: lemson@penguin.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Hardware and Cable Modems Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:13:13 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Message-ID: <5ooh59$7gl$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5omiq1$djj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) writes: >Hello, >Cable modems have just been introduced in my area. I'm not much of a >sysadmin, so I'm wondering if its possible to run them with a turbo slab. >From what I gather, they simply plug into your ethernet port. Is there more >to it than that? Anyone using one out there? If your provider is Time-Warner and the product is Road-Runner, then you will have a problem. They have a Windows and Mac client that contacts their firewall and lets you through once you have authenticated. Phil Karn of Qualcomm in San Diego reverse-engineered it and ported it to UNIX, so maybe you can find him and get his code. Ask your cable company if you need a PC client to use the cable modem system. If it's just a standard cable modem with no extra security, it should just work with your ethernet port. I'm using my NeXT with a Zenith cable modem - the Zenith is just a bridge.
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Two ethernet cards under OS 4.1? Date: 24 Jun 1997 14:58:49 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oonb9$8c9$3@bashir.peak.org> References: <5oi100$268i@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: atl2@lehigh.edu In <5oi100$268i@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: > Can it be done? yes ps -- my Usenet feed seems to be a little slow.... -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. *** y slower. ***
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Paper Jams in NeXT Printer Date: 24 Jun 1997 14:56:28 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5oon6s$8c9$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <5onf81$a99@hatathli.csulb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: mahoney@engr.csulb.edu In <5onf81$a99@hatathli.csulb.edu> Mike Mahoney wrote: > I have a relatively unused black NeXT printer which worked great till > recently. Now paper always gets stuck/jammed just before it's ready to > come out and I can't print even a single page. I can't see anything > obstructing the path. Any help would be very much appreciated. I still > love my black NeXT and want to continue using it. You mean like about 1" left and it gets stuck? If so you have the (in)famous 'Fuser Gear' problem. You can read all about it (including how to replace it when you have a new gear and several spare hours of calm, relaxed time and a table you can set aside for the project. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: eide problem Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:10:43 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33AFF183.46B2@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all I got a pentium pc with 2 x eide 1 gb + cd. I can't get nextstep to mount more than 2 at a time. I can have the 2 ide on primary controller, then the cd dosn't work on the secondary controller. I can have the 1 ide and cd on the primary controller, then the second ide dosn't work on the secondary controller. The secondary controller is not broke, I can see the 2 ide and the cd in windows 95 (I got 2 oses on the same machine). Any ideas? siffi@treknet.is
From: Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: No sync when NeXT Station shut down Date: 19 Jun 1997 17:35:06 GMT Organization: GENIFI Message-ID: <5obqka$ona$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> When I want to shut down the NeXT Station Turbo Color of my friend, 1) I click on the power button in the loggin window or on the restart button if I want to restart the station, and I get a panel which tell me if I realy want to shut down or restart the computer. After I click on the button and normaly the station should stop after killing all the proccess. 2) I just obtain that all panels disappear and nothing more. To stop completely the station I need to press at the same moment the right Command Key and the upper left keys of the numeric keyboard. After that I obtain a mini panel telling me if I want to Power off the computer or to restart it or stay like that. I have to press the power button or the r and after that to press simultaneously the right Cmd key and the upper left numeric key and press after the r or the power key. Normally the station stop. The problem is that when I want to power on the station it take approximatively 10 minutes to check the Hard drive (and sync it I think) and to restart completely until the loggin window. A) Is it a hardware failure or a part of the OS is broken ? B) What do I do to repair ? C) Is the checking of the HD not good for the HD' life time ?
From: Brent Clothier <bclothie@uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Monitors for Color NeXTs Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:03:59 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois Message-ID: <33B0525F.97C8CD2D@uiuc.edu> References: <5omm8n$fqm$1@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Richard K. Larson" <rlarson@semlab5.sbs.sunysb.edu> Richard: If you really want a superb (IMHO) monitor you might try the newly-released Panasonic PF70. In addition to significantly reducing raster distortion and misconvergence, it employs a new technology dubbed "PanaFlat" that provides a perfectly flat screen. As far as I know, no other monitor maker offers pure flat screens. All to some extent have minor curvature at the edges (although this is difficult to see), or as in the case of Trinitron tubes, a shallow cylindrical curvature. The PF70 also has a dot pitch of 0.24 so images will be very crisp. Panasonic has this technology currently available on their 27" and 32" TV's (which is where it was first used) and a number of manufacturers have looked at licensing the technology for use in their tubes (Mitsubishi, Toshiba, etc.). For complete info and specs, go to: http://www.panasonic.com/PCSC/PCPC/fd.html I recently purchased this monitor for use in our research group here at the University of Illinois. Some good price quotes can be obtained from Price Watch: http://www.pricewatch.com/ The quote I got was ~$770. If that is too expensive I also would also recommend the Panasonic S17. I must admit, though, that when it comes to monitors, I lean toward the high-end. A monitor is one of those few computer components that beats the typical obsolescence cycle of peripherals and acts more like an investment. I prefer to pay a little more up front and reap the benefits longer. There is nothing worse than a cheap screen to ruin the wonderful high-resolution desktop of operating systems like NeXTStep/OpenStep. Best of Luck, Brent Richard K. Larson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good 17" replacement monitor for use with an > old color > NeXTStation? I have such a machine whose monitor is rapidly > expiring. I > also have the nice monitor plug sold by Dancing Bear Inc. (RIP) that > allows > a color NeXTStation to be used with a non-NeXT color monitor. > > I simply need a recommendation for a good 17" monitor with BNC leads > out the > back. Any help would be appreciated. > > Richard Larson > Linguistics Dept. > SUNY - Stony Brook
From: "Lee, Jaeyoung A." <leej@leej.etri.re.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Does Samsung 17GLSi work with NeXTdimension? Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:31:23 +0900 Organization: ETRI Message-ID: <33B066DB.13862C8F@leej.etri.re.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently acquired almost brand new 17GLSi and in the process of purchasing NeXTdimension system. Will the 17GLSi work with ND system? Thanx.
From: "Jean R. Moreau, Jr." <moreau@fas.harvard.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: booting Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:58:05 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <33B06D1C.ADCFDD33@fas.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I shut off my NextStation, moved it over about two feet and turned it back on. Now it wants to load from the network....which does not exist. What should I do? Jean
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ZyXEL modems and init strings Date: 25 Jun 1997 02:15:47 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5opv0j$1e6$1@maryj.bitstream.net> This is only tangentially related to the NeXT world, but since ZyXEL modems are (were?) so popular among NeXT users, I thought I'd ask here first: I use a ZyXEL Omni288s with my cube. I've been very happy with it, but have had great trouble lately connecting to my ISP. One thing I've found to be of great help with USR modems at work has been using just the right init string. I am wondering if anyone out there has a recommendation regarding init strings and ZyXELS, or Omni288s's in particular. My current chat.script looks like: ABORT ERROR ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" TIMEOUT 80 "" "ATZ" OK "ATD3210363" CONNECT "" sername: "cejensen" assword: "[censored]" nnex-1 "ppp" So you can see the init string is a trifle... generic. Suggestions welcome, or recommendations about other meetings, websites, etc. that might be helpful. Many thanks! --Chris -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
From: Jennifer Cross <jcross@ecel.uwa.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:20:13 +0900 Organization: University of Western Australia Message-ID: <33B1C3CD.167E@ecel.uwa.edu.au> References: <5o3g0q$9dk$2@news.sas.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: iedsp@agt.gmeds.com iedsp@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: > > Is there a such thing as a COLOR PALMTOP? Can't find any. > Are they out yet? > > Please respond via e-mail since I can only POST TO USENET. > THANKS! > > Dave (iedsp@agt.gmeds.com) sure is!!! I saw and played with one yesterday! about the size of the old HP200lx but with 16mb ram, colour lcd screen, pent75 processor,770mb hd (yes it was running win95) the mini dock had an external monitor out (and could do 800x600x16) there was a trackpoint builtin to the side of thge screen the box is a toshiba libretto 50ct and yes.. it is that small! was amazing to play with! more info from http://www.toshiba.com/tais/csd/products/portable/libretto/overview/main.htm Anyway, yes, the game gears and stuff are neat, but in terms of what the original poster was asking... definatly YES! oh.. they are about $2,650 australian dollars ex tax yours down under -- ___ ( > /) (voice) +61 8 9362 6680 __/_/> ____ ____ o // _ __ (home) cjcross@dialix.com.au / / (__/ / <_/ / <_<_//__</_/ (_ @ Sunny Perth, Western Australia <_/ /> (work) jcross@ecel.uwa.edu.au </ (voice) +61 8 9380 3968
From: ibhan@student.med.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: OpenSTEP/Rhapsody/Intel machine Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:28:13 -0400 Organization: None Message-ID: <ibhan-2406972328140001@accs-as20-dp13.nwrk.grid.net> I'm considering getting a Pentium machine for use with OpenSTEP 4.0 (which I already have) and eventually Rhapsody. I already have a PowerMac 7100 so I figured a Intel box would complement my current setup better than another Mac (though I am keeping my mind open in this regard). I would like to know what I need to consider to get OpenSTEP to run on this machine: Dell Dimension XPS H266 - 24X Variable EIDE CD-ROM drive - Yamaha 32 Wave Table Sound - Matrox Millenium 4 MB WRAM Video Card Thoughts? -- ibhan@macconnect.com
From: "Chas. Cooper" <chas@alexandria-home.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware,misc.forsale.computers.net-hardware Subject: Links to Computer Hardware Magazines on WWW Date: 25 Jun 1997 03:33:38 GMT Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Message-ID: <01bc8118$793bed60$499b85ce@coopech.eyc_reh.com> Check out http://www.alexandria-home.com/library/directory/computerhardware.htm for links to magazines about computer hardware freely available on the Web. Example magazines include: PC Laptop Electronic Engineering Times Portability! Electronic Buyers' News Chips Hope you find some of these links of interest to you.
From: schwartz@rsn.hp.com (Adam E. Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ADB scintr program error on boot--no network Date: 25 Jun 1997 07:15:14 GMT Organization: Hewlett Packard - Convex Division, Richardson, TX USA Message-ID: <5oqgi2$d94$1@news.rsn.hp.com> hi, Has anyone encountered the following error sc: scintr program error upon booting a Station or Cube? I'm booting a Black ADB station and get the above error, and am getting poor (50% packet loss) or no network. Most oten the problem is there's no physical connection to the network (even with good cable and interface to the network hub etc.). It's running 3.2. I am nearly certain it's either a hardware error or a mon configuration error (that is, perhaps something to do with configuring the mon parameter settings or somesuch thing). But have no ideas, other than hardware probs. Have checked the the Next sysadmin book and the FAQ and others, but no luck. Anyone run across / know this error (sc: scintr program error). thanks a lot, --Adam -- ----- Adam Schwartz, schwartz@rsn.hp.com # # #
From: nextjoe@aol.com (NeXTJoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ADB scintr program error on boot--no network Date: 25 Jun 1997 12:39:55 GMT Message-ID: <19970625123900.IAA09344@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <5oqgi2$d94$1@news.rsn.hp.com> I have this same error on my station.... I posted a question about this some time ago, and got no answer. I don't know about the ethernet on my station because it is a standalone box. Joe
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress16 performance problems. Date: 25 Jun 1997 13:00:28 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jun25082124@ra.doubleu.com> References: <SCOTT.97Jun19174227@slave.doubleu.com> In-reply-to: scott@doubleu.com's message of 19 Jun 97 17:42:27 The article I'm responding to wasn't posted on col.networking the first time, sorry about that. In article <SCOTT.97Jun19174227@slave.doubleu.com>, scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes: [Wherein I describe how I was seeing very low ttcp throughput (50Kbyte/s) from a variety of boxes _to_ a 486/150 running Linux with an EtherExpress16, except for from a NeXTstation, which got 600+Kbyte/s. Throughput _from_ the Linux box was always reasonable. Setting the receive window size to a mere 1.5k pushed throughput from all machines to the Linux box up to 500Kbyte/s.] Well, I still don't know what the problem is, but I do know more. I put an NE2000 ISA card in the Linux box, and now it's able to send/receive at high rates from any box on my network. Worse, I put the EtherExpress16 in a Pentium box running NeXTSTEP3.3, and it's able to receive at well in excess of 500KByte/s. Since the EtherExpress16 has a 32kbyte buffer, it would seem to not be a buffer problem. It may be that I had the card setup wrong (IO-mapped versus mem-mapped?), but I can't tell from the driver documentation and output whether that's the case. In any case, I trust NeXT's EtherExpress16 driver more than the generic NE2000 driver, and now I trust the Linux NE2000 driver more than the eexpress driver, so ... I think I'll just leave the NE2000 card in the Linux box and count my blessings. Thanks, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress16 performance problems. Date: 25 Jun 1997 19:21:41 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5orr45$sen$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <SCOTT.97Jun25082124@ra.doubleu.com> In article <SCOTT.97Jun25082124@ra.doubleu.com> scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes: [woes about Intel EtherExpress16 driver for Linux] I don't know about Linux, but under FreeBSD, the Intel EtherExpress16 driver is flaky. Since FreeBSD tends to borrow a whole lot from Linux, I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on the Linux driver, and since it is an old card, the driver never was fixed. (In fact, it looks like it's been dropped from the latest release). I swapped my EtherExpress16 for an SMC on my dual-boot NEXTSTEP/FreeBSD box, and haven't had any problems since. Keep your EtherExpress16, tho. It's the only cheap 16-bit card I've found for which NEXTSTEP supports remote kernel debugging. -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: "Joerg Spix" <Joerg.Spix@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Newer Versions of NeXT on a Cube Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:52:59 +0200 Organization: C. v. Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg - Fachbereich Informatik Message-ID: <5os7hp$l6v@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> References: <5okgou$g4a$1@nntp-2.io.com> <5olam0$pv2$3@darla.visi.com> David Young <dwy@ace.net> wrote: > In <5okgou$g4a$1@nntp-2.io.com> Lupo LeBoucher wrote: > > Also, I noticed some information about an i860 motherboard one could > > install in the thing. This would be pretty neato for number crunching; > > does anyone know of a supplier or have any further info on this > > "nextGeneration" motherboard? > > It's not a motherboard, it's a dedicated graphics coprocessor called the > NeXTdimension. > More info at http://www.vamp.org/NeXT/. Enjoy. There is also a double I860 board for realtime soundprocessing made by Ariel, but it's damn expensiv (about $15,000) and only works with the specialized music application. There is also a library with standard unix routines, but as I know they do not work reliable or the documentation may be wrong. The board was specially designed for the realtime music application. The board is called the IRCAM signal processing workstation (ISPW) for NeXT. Joerg -- (Joerg.Spix@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ADB scintr program error on boot--no network Date: 25 Jun 1997 23:52:50 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5osb0i$l6i$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5oqgi2$d94$1@news.rsn.hp.com> Cc: schwartz@rsn.hp.com In <5oqgi2$d94$1@news.rsn.hp.com> Adam E. Schwartz wrote: > hi, > > Has anyone encountered the following error > > sc: scintr program error > Yep. I've seen it before. Usually associated with either dying, or improperly configured, new drives > upon booting a Station or Cube? Either. Most often with a new improperly jumpered drive on first install attempt. > I'm booting a Black ADB station and get the above error, > and am getting poor (50% packet loss) or no network. You need to be more specific here. Does the system actually boot? Or leave you at the PROM level w/ the sc: error If it boots do you see sc: errors while it boots? :( :| What is full system config SCSI wise.. Here is a relative example: I just checked a recently acquired(David?!) 040 motherboard and for some reason it just can't receive packets on the B10T, on the B2T I get absolutely nothing. And I'm not talking about 50% packet loss. It's 100%. I can see my router being hit and the packets going out my gateway into the ethers from the afflicted box/board.. I know the Netinfo setup is correct but I suspect the motherboard is just flaky. Seems to work fine otherwise though (Yet I havn't tried any of the other ports!) and it's not worth my time now to track what is going on at the packet level with a sniffer.. (Snif.) > Most oten the problem is there's no physical connection > to the network (even with good cable and interface to the > network hub etc.). This was exactly my case. Cable was good, rest of network fine, router fine, etc. Just my one box didn't work. And yes I checked the cable/25Mhz by dropping a 33Mhz board in the cube and trying it that way ;) So I know something is screwy on the MB.. Could be a similiar thing on yours.. I have also been tempted to try a different ROM/battery just to make sure.. > It's running 3.2. 3.3 Here. > I am nearly certain it's either a hardware error or a mon > configuration error (that is, perhaps something to do with > configuring the mon parameter settings or somesuch thing). Not sure what you mean here... What were you doing with mon?. > But have no ideas, other than hardware probs. Have checked the > the Next sysadmin book and the FAQ and others, but no luck. What I don't understand is why you think the sc: scintr program error would be related to the ethernet problem. Also I don't know how you'd notice the ethernet problem w/o the system being booted. Are you seeing these sc: scintr program errors on the console AFTER the machines has booted. If so I'm not sure I've ever seen a machine doing that. If so I know I'd immediately start going through the SCSI routine.. Check cabling, termination, ID's, drive jumpers, cases, physical device order on SCSI chain, swapping devices in/out of chain etc. > Anyone run across / know this error (sc: scintr program error). I don't know the details of the error only my experience. And that is that it is related to scsi. > thanks a lot, > --Adam Good luck - a lot, Randy rencsok at channelu dot com spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Printing using LocalTalk port on Black NeXTStation Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:07:19 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <ECA4C8.3AH@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <EC4qu7.Etq@nidat.sub.org> In article <EC4qu7.Etq@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes: > In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618165509.419A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> > "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> writes: > > I'm wondering if it's possible to print directly from the serial port on > > a black NeXTStation to the LocalTalk port on an HP 6MP. > > No way! LocalTalk and serial ports are only plug compatible, > all else is different. > You can only have a rather slow serial connection using the appropriate > cabling or a fast Ethernet connection It's not possible on Black hardware, but I've just completed a BSD driver for the old apple ISA localtalk cards. Porting it to NeXTStep should be quite do-able if any one wants to try it (or if anyone wants to lend me a NeXTStep capable PC I'll do it myself). $an
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: No sync when NeXT Station shut down Date: 26 Jun 1997 00:11:56 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5osc4c$l6i$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5obqka$ona$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Cc: 100321.1674@CompuServe.COM In <5obqka$ona$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Yves Pons wrote: > When I want to shut down the NeXT Station Turbo Color of my > friend, > 1) > I click on the power button in the loggin window or on the > restart button if I want to restart the station, and I get a > panel which tell me if I realy want to shut down or restart the > computer. After I click on the button and normaly the station > should stop after killing all the proccess. Yes on most systems this should just work! ;) > 2) I just obtain that all panels disappear and nothing more. How long have you waited (2minutes should be more than sufficient) > To stop completely the station I need to press at the same moment > the right Command Key and the upper left keys of the numeric > keyboard. Command(Right) - ~ basically will try to execute the right thing to take you to the ROM monitor. But it simply asks restart, power down, cancel.. > After that I obtain a mini panel telling me if I want to Power > off the computer or to restart it or stay like that. > I have to press the power button or the r and after that to press > simultaneously the right Cmd key and the upper left numeric key > and press after the r or the power key. > Normally the station stop. Look if you tell the computer to restart it should kill all processes and indeed reboot. You arn't clear on whether this actually works. Power off at certian points simply does a final real power off regardless whether the machine gracefully unmounted root as it went down. > The problem is that when I want to power on the station it take > approximatively 10 minutes to check the Hard drive (and sync it I > think) and to restart completely until the loggin window. Yes of course. Requiring two reboots, and one fsck. > A) Is it a hardware failure or a part of the OS is broken ? > B) What do I do to repair ? > C) Is the checking of the HD not good for the HD' life time ? > I'm not sure what is going on. It could be the battery on your MB. Something on your MB. Software problem. Other problem.. Please describe config on your system.. I would hazard that IF your having some trouble to get the machine to actually power off unattended but you can get it to reset/reboot unattended that you should be able to do a reset, and when the machine finally begins to reboot you do another Command-~ to get it into the ROM monitor (do this quickly after the Testing System panel is replaced). THEN hit power down button. You should be prompted with a Really power off? question. Say "Y" and your system should shutdown. If all this works as I stated the system should come back up clean and not have to fsck the disk. At least this will buy you some time till you can diagnose/fix the problem.. (Try a new MB battery ;) Randy rencsok (at here) channelu (dot buddy) com - replace parend by dots '.' spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
From: nextjoe@aol.com (NeXTJoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ADB scintr program error on boot--no network Date: 26 Jun 1997 00:49:01 GMT Message-ID: <19970626004900.UAA14893@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <5osb0i$l6i$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> my station still has an ancient 105 mb internal boot disk, so it could concievably be dying. I've never had any trouble with it other than the "scintr program error" message, though. this message occasionally comes up once or twice during some bootups, both hot and cold starts. The machine finishes booting and runs perfectly, so my guess would be that the drive may be slow to spin up. any black hardware experts have any advice/info?? joe
From: Harald Ellmann <ellmann@msi.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Colour printer problems Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:12:59 +0100 Organization: Stockholm Univerity Distribution: world Message-ID: <33B2248B.11EB@msi.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have some trouble with my NeXT Colour printer. Yesterday I left the computer for about four hours with some documents still in the printer queue. When I returned all the documents were printed, but the orange alarm light was on and in the display I could read: 72 SERVICE I tried several buttons but nothing happened. I powered the printer off and on again, but nothing happens except for both lamps (ON LINE and ALARM) being light. No mesage in the display. What can I do? Any help is greatly appreciated since I have to print my thesis onm this printer and i have to do it SOON. Thank you. Harald
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Re: NeXT architectures? Message-ID: <ECDIAv.62z@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <01bc8046$4cfac460$7b9fc9c7@aengus.jlc.net> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 08:01:42 GMT "Marinara, like the sauce" <aengus@jlc.net> wrote: >What system architextures will the NeXTStep os run on? The current >version, that is. I wanted to run it on a DEC Alpha. Will it run on x86 >too? I got the impression it only uses a unique architexture (Black Box?). The name OPENSTEP is used confusingly by Apple (and formerly NeXT, actually, Apple uses the name Rhapsody now for most of what follows.) There is a defined standard called OpenStep, that's an API defined by NeXT and SUN, based on NEXTSTEP by NeXT. There are OpenStep implementations for Solaris, Windows NT and MachOS. MachOS is the 'underlying' OS from NeXT. So we have currently: OPENSTEP/Solaris (only for Solaris(sparc) afaik) OPENSTEP/NT (only for PC(i486)) OPENSTEP/MachOS (for SUN(sparc), NeXT(m68k) and PC(i486)) OPENSTEP/MachOS is more or less what used to be called NEXTSTEP. At that time it also ran on HP workstations (hppa architecture). OPENSTEP/MachOS also comes with applications, like Edit.app, Mail.app, etc. and the Workspace manager. The other two are just the API-layer. OPENSTEP/MachOS is the starting point for Rhapsody, the new Apple OS. Apple will add the PPC architecture (mac hardware) to the compatibility list. They will however probably drop sparc. It will, however not be very difficult for them to add sparc and/or hppa in a later stadium, as most of the work has been done already. When you restrict yourself to the OpenStep API, a program can be developed once and compiled for OPENSTEP/Solaris, OPENSTEP/NT and OPENSTEP/MachOS. When you also use the MachOS API, you can compile once and deploy on all systems running OPENSTEP/MachOS, regardless of the underlying hardware. This is called MAB (Multiple Architecture Binaries) or 'fat' binaries. There is no emulation or so involved, it is just that the binaries for all systems can be produced on all systems and they are packed together and unpacked by the kernel when a program is run. This is why many submitted software packages have something like NIHS in their name, it stands for NeXT-Intel-HPPA-SPARC, all the architectures NEXTSTEP 3.3 ran on. NEXTSTEP 3.3 was the latest pre-OpenStep release with hardware support for 4 architectures. Many people still run NEXTSTEP 3.3, especially on older (read: NeXT) or orphaned (read: HPPA) hardware. If you want to experience OpenStep, the best way is probably to take a Pentium PC following the supported specs and install the 'prerelease to Rhapsody' or OPENSTEP 4.2. You can also buy a second hand NeXT machine (they are cheap) and run NEXTSTEP 3.3 or OPENSTEP 4.2. Current release is OPENSTEP 4.2, available as OPENSTEP/MachOS 4.2 for i486 PC, m68k NeXT hardware (still going string after all those years) and SUN sparc (afaik). Also available as OPENSTEP 4.2 for i486 PC running Windows NT and SUN workstations running Solaris (afaik). Still being sold is NEXTSTEP 3.3, available for i486 PC, m68k NeXT, hppa HP workstations and sparc SUN workstations. For both environments there is a developer environment which may be the best around, but it is also expensive. Go to http://www.next.com/ for details, whitepapers and such. -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One fool can state more than a thousand wise men can question."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Re: No sync when NeXT Station shut down Message-ID: <ECDIqD.64A@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <5obqka$ona$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 08:11:01 GMT [crossposted to csn.sysadmin because that is where it belongs] This is probably a software problem. This may happen when you start processes that end up in the same process group as the loginwindow program (which is responsible for the login panel and shutdown). When the loginwindow program starts killing all processes, one of the processes in turn makes that the loginwindow program is killed (because of it being in the same group). This happens before the loginwindow program can finish the shutdown procedure. The system is left with some process running, under which the WindowServer. I have had this behaviour when I started a cern httpd daemon from /etc/rc.local, by combination with backgroun (&) and shell script or something like that. I posted the solution to this problem a while ago. Normally, running the NMI panel and hitting 'r' will cleanly reboot the system (no fsck's needed). If you have a fsck on every reboot, the culprit might be a program you are running. Samba is one that has this property. This may not have anything to do with the reason why you get the unsynced disk. To be sure, have a look at the file /etc/rc.local and tell me what is started there. Or, before shutting down, run the command 'ps axww' in a shell window and send me the output. This IMO is not likely to be a hardware problem. Yours, Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> wrote: >When I want to shut down the NeXT Station Turbo Color of my >friend, >1) >I click on the power button in the loggin window or on the >restart button if I want to restart the station, and I get a >panel which tell me if I realy want to shut down or restart the >computer. After I click on the button and normaly the station >should stop after killing all the proccess. >2) I just obtain that all panels disappear and nothing more. >To stop completely the station I need to press at the same moment >the right Command Key and the upper left keys of the numeric >keyboard. >After that I obtain a mini panel telling me if I want to Power >off the computer or to restart it or stay like that. >I have to press the power button or the r and after that to press >simultaneously the right Cmd key and the upper left numeric key >and press after the r or the power key. >Normally the station stop. >The problem is that when I want to power on the station it take >approximatively 10 minutes to check the Hard drive (and sync it I >think) and to restart completely until the loggin window. > >A) Is it a hardware failure or a part of the OS is broken ? >B) What do I do to repair ? >C) Is the checking of the HD not good for the HD' life time ? -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One fool can state more than a thousand wise men can question."
From: Laurent Vinet <vinet@ina.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,fr.comp.sys.next Subject: OpenStep4.2 on PC Asustek/T2P4, Cyrix 166, MatroxMystique ? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:03:31 +0200 Organization: INA - France Message-ID: <33AE3BE3.41C6@ina.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We are trying to install Prelude to Rhapsody on a PC: - Asustek/T2P4 (mother board), Cyrix 166(CPU) - Matrox Mystique as video card - Dual IDE Primary/Secondary - IDE Disk - IDE CD ROM (GoldStar) - US Robotics Modem (intern) with a lot of pb: 1: The first step of installation (Boot on disk and copy of the system) does not work in French but it's ok in English (default language). Some files does not exists ?? 2: Now i trying second step of installation after reboot. So i need to choose my hardware drivers. It's ok and then i have to finish the installation by installing "OpenStep Essential (78Mo) and some other applications. But It always failed after two or three files (???). All I can do it's reset my computer. The only solution that i found it's to do the first step, then to boot in single user, to remove the CDRom in the fstab file, then reboot. So the "OpenStep Essential 78Mo" is skipped by this way and i finished the installation by copying all files that i guess to be on the hard drive!!! Unbeleivable but it seems to works!!!! 3: Now i don't found any driver for my video card MatroxMystique(2Mo). In 640x480 it's impossible to work correctly. So if someone have a cool driver, can you send it to me. 4: I need also a driver for my modem but if i don't have it doesn't matter to much, all i want it's to work with OpenStep 4.2 correctly. Any idea ? Thank you -- Laurent VINET INA Phone (33) 01.49.83.22.63 4 avenue de l'Europe Fax (33) 01.49.83.25.82 94366 Bry sur Marne Cedex Mailto:vinet@ina.fr France http://www.ina.fr/People/Laurent.VINET/
From: "Gerd Sender" <Gerd.Sender@koeln.netsurf.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Prelude Installation cannot find Quantum Drive LPS340S Date: 26 Jun 1997 16:43:44 GMT Organization: PIRONET GmbH Message-ID: <01bc823f$5a7ec820$016fa8c0@penni-nt> Hi! I have a problem to install "Prelude to Rhapsody": The installation program starts from CD and resets the SCSI bus. My CD-ROM and Fireball HD appear, but not the Quantum LPS340S, which IŽd like to use as destination. Is the any restriction about the SCSI drive I have to use with Nextstep?? Thanx. Gerd Sender
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Prelude Installation cannot find Quantum Drive LPS340S Date: 26 Jun 1997 16:33:10 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5ou5k6$7vp$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <01bc823f$5a7ec820$016fa8c0@penni-nt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit "Gerd Sender" <Gerd.Sender@koeln.netsurf.de> wrote: >I have a problem to install "Prelude to Rhapsody": > >The installation program starts from CD and resets the SCSI bus. My CD-ROM >and Fireball HD appear, but not the Quantum LPS340S, which IŽd like to use >as destination. Is the any restriction about the SCSI drive I have to use >with Nextstep?? Depends what hardware you are talking about.. there are a few harddisks that don't work with black hardware because they don't implement SCSI properly :-) But I'm assuming you are talking about Intel hardware. One requirement for a bootable disk is having a sector size of 512 byte. If, however, the disk is not even "seen" at boot time, it's more likely a problem with the SCSI chain, e.g. termination, cable quality or length, termpower, etc. Does you SCSI adapter recognise the disk? Normally, you can enter an adapter diagnosis mode by hitting escape or some other hotkey during the boot sequence. Rgds, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
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From: Eric Smalling <Eric_Smalling@amrcorp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: System Commander and Netware woes with OS4.1 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:02:24 -0500 Organization: The SABRE Group Message-ID: <33B29290.8C63D67F@amrcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to install OS4.1 for Mach on Intel and, thank God had no problems with my EIDE HD/CDROMs! My two problems are: 1. It seems that System Commander's (a multiple OS loader) boot block on my HD is causing OPENSTEP to not recognize my DOS partition. When I have the NeXT installed boot block everything is peachy keen, OS mounts the DOS partition automatically, but with System Commander installed the DOS partition will not mount. (I entered "-v" at the BOOT: prompt and there is some kind of error that flies by when it is, apparently, trying to mount the DOS partition.) I have one HD, an EIDE 2GB with 3 partitions: 700MB as DOS (FAT16), 300MB for UNIX/OpenStep, 1GB NTFS (WinNT) and I need system commander to choose between the 3 OS's. 2. I have TCP/IP connectivity but, here at work, we have many Novel NetWare 3.x and 2.x file servers I need to be able to see. The doc's say to just go to the NextAdmin folder and run the NetWare Manager --- well, it's not there! I checked NeXTAnswers and, in the 4.1 release notes it says that NetWare support is not included in 4.1. Is the NetWare client software available anywhere like it is for Win95/NT/3.1? (I didn't see it on Novell's wed site). Any help would be greatly appreciated! -es -- ____________________________________________________________________ Eric A. Smalling Ft Worth, Texas USA --=== ------=== The Any views expressed are mine alone and are in no ----------- SABRE way the views of AMR or any of it's subsidiaries. ------=== Group --=== email:Eric_Smalling@amrcorp.com Corp Web Site: http://www.sabre.com ____________________________________________________________________ --------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Eric Smalling Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Eric Smalling n: Smalling;Eric org: The SABRE Group email;internet: Eric_Smalling@amrcorp.com title: Programmer Associate x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE end: vcard --------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536--
From: swagner@studi1.unizh.ch (Simon Wagner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: b/w megaPixel alignement? Date: 26 Jun 1997 17:58:46 GMT Organization: University of Zurich, Switzerland Message-ID: <5ouakm$gki@rzunews.unizh.ch> my newly bought MegaPixel display, b/w, has an annoying feature... in the top left corner, the borders are curved.. just there, and it has nothing to do with surrounding magnetic fields... is that a feature inherent to the monitors, as my supplier told me, because of their calibration in japan, or can it be opened and readjusted (please give me instructions then) ... or is my leg being pulled and I have to give the monitor back??? cu simon -- Dogshit and women have something in common ... the older they get, the easier they are to pick up!' -Al Bundy
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From: swagner@studi1.unizh.ch (Simon Wagner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Cube Floppy Date: 26 Jun 1997 17:45:09 GMT Organization: University of Zurich, Switzerland Message-ID: <5ou9r5$gki@rzunews.unizh.ch> I just got hold of my first NeXt ... something I was dreaming of the last 10 years :)) I also got an internal floppy, but I have to mount it myself.. it's a 040 cube, internal 660mega HD (5.25" full height) and an OD.. which miraculously works... now... I'd rip out the big HD and put in a 3.5" .. that would make room for the floppy, while leaving the OD.. problem: I have nothing to cover the front then... I can break out the wide window, which was meant for a second OD or so.. but that looks terrible... does anyone know of a replacement shutter? that has the right hole for the floppy? and of a way to mount these three devices so that the floppy and the OD are aligned to their slots?? thanks a lot!!!! (can you, if you do, please respond via email? simon -- Dogshit and women have something in common ... the older they get, the easier they are to pick up!' -Al Bundy
From: swagner@studi1.unizh.ch (Simon Wagner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: IBM E15 drive and black? Date: 26 Jun 1997 17:55:52 GMT Organization: University of Zurich, Switzerland Message-ID: <5ouaf8$gki@rzunews.unizh.ch> I heard that black hardware can't use IBM's E15 hard-disk.. it's one of IBM's first giga-disks.. about 4 years old.. but it's lying around here and perhaps I could put it to better use.. has anyone gotten tips for making this beast work?? cu simon -- Dogshit and women have something in common ... the older they get, the easier they are to pick up!' -Al Bundy
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From: Jesse McCann <ybco@bestweb.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXTSTEP PCMCIA Support Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:51:29 -0500 Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <33B05D81.1937@bestweb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does NeXTSTEP 3.1 for Intel Processors support PCMCIA in such computers as the Compaq LTE laptop? Jesse McCann ybco@bestweb.net
From: "Gerd Sender" <Gerd.Sender@koeln.netsurf.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Prelude Installation cannot find Quantum Drive LPS340S Date: 27 Jun 1997 01:07:40 GMT Organization: PIRONET GmbH Message-ID: <01bc8285$c03855f0$016fa8c0@penni-nt> References: <01bc823f$5a7ec820$016fa8c0@penni-nt> <5ou5k6$7vp$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> schrieb im Beitrag <5ou5k6$7vp$1@news.th-darmstadt.de>... > "Gerd Sender" <Gerd.Sender@koeln.netsurf.de> wrote: > >and Fireball HD appear, but not the Quantum LPS340S, which IŽd like to use > properly :-) But I'm assuming you are talking about Intel hardware. Yes The disk can be formated and verified with the bios and is accessible under W95 and NT. Adaptec SCSI utlities say that it has 512 byte sectors. The disk has no termination, but the bus is terminated at both ends. Gerd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NeXT architectures? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <ECC61u.IwE@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 14:39:30 GMT References: <01bc8046$4cfac460$7b9fc9c7@aengus.jlc.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <01bc8046$4cfac460$7b9fc9c7@aengus.jlc.net>, Marinara, like the sauce <aengus@jlc.net> wrote: >What system architextures will the NeXTStep os run on? The current >version, that is. I wanted to run it on a DEC Alpha. Will it run on x86 >too? I got the impression it only uses a unique architexture (Black Box?). > NeXTSTEP 3.3 (the last "NeXTSTEP") runs on Motorola (NeXT hardware), Intel (check the compatibility guide at http://www.next.com/), Sparc (SPARC 4, 5, 10, some 20s, Voyager, and maybe others), and HP (don't know much about the supported hardware here.) OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 (the most recent version) runs on Motorola, Intel, and I think Sparc. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Newer Versions of NeXT on a Cube Date: 23 Jun 1997 02:09:43 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5oklt7$hff$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <5okgou$g4a$1@nntp-2.io.com> The add on card you are referring to is NeXTDimension board.. the i860 is used exclusively for graphics manipulation.. I don't know if you can use it for number crunching Godwin Lupo LeBoucher (ix@xanadu.io.com) wrote: : I'm wondering if there is anything to be gained by upgrading my Cube to : something beyond the ancient v2.1 of the OS which is included on the : thing? (I got it for free, believe it or not). : Also, I noticed some information about an i860 motherboard one could : install in the thing. This would be pretty neato for number crunching; : does anyone know of a supplier or have any further info on this : "nextGeneration" motherboard? : -Lupo : "In dee wiyuld, wee are primarily carneeevorous" <ix@pentagon.io.com>
From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Does a Teac FD235-HS work with Black hardware? Date: 26 Jun 1997 21:15:46 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <5ov482$mc3@umbc9.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: bhurle1 does this scsi floppy drive work with black hardware? specifically 030 and 040 cubes. as well as whatever else it works with, or your experience with would be greatly appreciated. thanks bryan 040 25 20 100 3.2
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew) Subject: Re: How do I use a ZIP drive on my NeXTStaion? Message-ID: <edewECEx4B.Cqx@netcom.com> Sender: edew@netcom2.netcom.com Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <5od3cp$4ln$2@news2.nctu.edu.tw> <EC3vKr.2DK@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 02:19:23 GMT In article <EC3vKr.2DK@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: >In article <5od3cp$4ln$2@news2.nctu.edu.tw>, >Spencer Yu <u8222015@cc.nctu.edu.tw> wrote: >>Talk to me like I am 3 years old..I am totally clueless...do I need >>some driver or something, in order to use a SCSI ZIP on my NeXTStaion? >> > > No. You get the right cable (the one that will let you plug it into the >blue thing with one end and the black thing with the other) and away you go. > This is true. You don't need any tools zip disk, no installation floppy or anything else. Just get a 25pin-50pin scsi cable (around $14, depending on where you buy it). Make sure you get the right type of 50pin connector: if it hooks up to your slab, then it is the scsi II type. If it hooks up to another scsi device, chances are it may be a scsi I type (centronics). That's it. It is literally as easy as anything in terms of plug and play. EDEW
From: Jason<jlsb@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Don't read this message! Date: 27 Jun 1997 02:43:15 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5ov9c3$g16@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> CALLING ALL LITERARY MINDS! I am trying to compose a coffee table book on the topic of EXCUSES. To add an original flavor to my project I am attempting to derive my research entirely from people I come in contact with on the Net. If you have, or know of, any interesting, unique, or even bizarre excuses, and would like to participate in this experiment in creative literature, please reply to this message with your excuse. Any excuse that is used in the published version will receive full literary credit. Thank you in advance for helping a fellow netizen. Long live free speech! Sincerely yours, Jason
From: pwm@cbr.dit.csiro.au (Peter Milne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Adding a 2.1Gbyte disk under NS3.3 Date: 27 Jun 1997 04:20:00 GMT Organization: C.S.I.R.O Australia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ovf1g$l9c@hercules.its.csiro.au> Folks I have upgraded my NeXTSTATION to NS3.3 and have my new 2.1G disk set up as an external drive. The first time I started my machine after upgrading to NS3.3 and adding the external drive it saw the new disk and asked if I wanted to initialise it. It initialised the disk successfully but Workspace reported its free space as being about half what it should be. Consulting the console log showed the following: /usr/etc/disk -i -h gringo -l "NeXTDisk" -d -2124974080 /dev/rsd3a disk name: SEAGATE ST52160N disk type: fixed_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/boot creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd3a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd3a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd3a 1059490 81 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: 314 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd3a: 1059490 sectors in 3271 cylinders of 4 tracks, 81 sectors 1084.9Mb in 205 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.31Mb/g 1280 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: ...... ...... ...... creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd3b /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd3b /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd3b 1059491 81 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: 313 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd3b: 1059491 sectors in 3271 cylinders of 4 tracks, 81 sectors 1084.9Mb in 205 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.31Mb/g, 1280 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: ...... ...... ...... initialisation complete Jun 26 17:19:10 Workspace: Mounted hard disk at /NeXTDisk Question: Is the reason why Workspace is only reporting half the free space on the disk due to the initialisation process creating two partitions but mounting only rsd3a? I ran BuildDisk hoping that this would help. It correctly saw the external disk as having 2069Mbytes. It built the disk successfully (I didn't specify any partitions) and reported that there were 1656Mbytes free (413 Mbytes used). (In BuildDisk I changed the disk's name to ST52160N). After running BuildDisk Workspace reports the external disk has 704Mbytes free and df returns: kbytes used avail 1023390 199132 721919 22% /ST52160N I'm confused. I thought NS3.3 knew how to initialise and build 2.1Gbyte drives. How should I proceed? Do I have to mess with disktab and fstab entries? My ultimate aim once the new disk is correctly built is to copy all my files over to it from the existing internal drive, then replace the internal drive with it. Cheers, Peter (peter.milne@cmis.csiro.au)
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From: grewal@uclink4.berkeley.edu.nospam (Kawaldeep Grewal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Apple LaserWriter with black hardware? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 02:40:31 -0800 Organization: UC Berkeley Message-ID: <grewal-ya023580002706970240310001@nntp.netcruiser> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm reading Bruce Webster's "The Next Book". and it says that black hardware (specifically, the mono cube) can print out to a Apple LaserWriter II NT/NTX. Is this still possible with a combination of black hardware and nextstep 3.3? The author was refering to a beta version of the OS (.8 or ..9). I was hoping to connect the two through Ethernet, but serial will do. Regards, Kawaldeep Grewal Reply to grewal@uclink4.berkeley.edu
From: beauvois@usa.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: repairing Digital Ears Date: 27 Jun 1997 10:18:31 GMT Organization: University of Tennessee Message-ID: <beauvois-ya023580002706970619420001@news.utk.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mine seems to have gone up in a cloud of smoke. I thought I heard of someone a while back who repaired these... Anyone got a dead one I might be able to use for parts ? Much obliged -- CB
From: grewal@uclink4.berkeley.edu.nospam (Kawaldeep Grewal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Any SCSI harddrive in black? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 02:55:37 -0800 Organization: UC Berkeley Message-ID: <grewal-ya023580002706970255370001@nntp.netcruiser> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Can I put any SCSI harddrive in old black hardware and have the system recognize it (i.e. boot from it)? Sorry for the beginner question, but can't find any next faq's...maybe someone can point me towards one? Regards, Kawaldeep Grewal Reply to grewal@uclink4.berkeley.edu
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Apple LaserWriter with black hardware? Date: 27 Jun 1997 12:05:19 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5p0a9v$5n2$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <grewal-ya023580002706970240310001@nntp.netcruiser> Cc: grewal@uclink4.berkeley.edu In <grewal-ya023580002706970240310001@nntp.netcruiser> Kawaldeep Grewal wrote: > I'm reading Bruce Webster's "The Next Book". and it says that black > hardware (specifically, the mono cube) can print out to a Apple LaserWriter > II NT/NTX. Is this still possible with a combination of black hardware and > nextstep 3.3? The author was refering to a beta version of the OS (.8 or > ..9). I was hoping to connect the two through Ethernet, but serial will do. For connecting by Ethernet (Appletalk) see http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html For connecting by serial, all you need is a printer cable. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: ap26@ap26.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ## SURPLUS/EXCESS INVENTORY ## Date: 26 Jun 97 20:18:09 GMT Organization: Axcess3 Message-ID: <33b2ce81.0@news.genesisnetwork.net> ## EXCESS/SURPLUS INVENTORY WANTED ## AX~CESS COMPUTER IS NOW SEEKING QUANTITIES OF EXCESS, OBSOLETE, SURPLUS, NEW OR USED, END OF LIFE, OVERSTOCKED, FRANKLY, ANY COMPUTER RELATED INVENTORIES. IF YOU HAVE A LIST OR CAN ASSEMBLE ONE, PLEASE FAX IT OR EMAIL IT TO THE NUMBER AND EMAIL ADDRESS LISTED BELOW. WE ARE INTERESTED IN ALL TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN HARDWARE FROM P.C. TO MAIN FRAMES, HARD DRIVES TO MODEMS, KEYBOARDS TO MOTHERBOARDS. AX~CESS COMPUTER IS IN THE BUSINESS OF BUYING AND SELLING COMPUTER RELATED EQUIPMENT. OUR EXTENSIVE WORLDWIDE NETWORK OF MANUFACTURERS, DEALERS AND USERS, ALLOWS US TO RESPOND QUICKLY TO THE NEEDS OF OUR CLIENTS. WE ARE INTERESTED IN A WIDE ARRAY OF NEW AND USED PC AND MAINFRAME EQUIPMENT, AND PERIPHERALS SUCH AS; (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) HARD DRIVES-MONITORS-TERMINALS- PRINTERS-BOARDS-MEMORY-P.O.S.-TELECOMMUNICATION-CD ROM- CABLE OR VIRTUALLY ANY TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN HARDWARE. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD AX~CESS COMPUTER TO YOUR CURRENT LIST OF BIDDERS AS WE WOULD VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BID ON ANY EXCESS, OBSOLETE, OR SURPLUS INVENTORY THAT MAY BECOME AVAILABLE. IF YOU HAVE A CURRENT LIST OF AVAILABLE PRODUCT, REQUIRE OUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION OR JUST HAVE A QUESTION, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL, FAX OR EMAIL ME A LIST AT YOUR CONVENIENCE. I LOOK FORWARD TO SPEAKING WITH YOU IN THE NEAR FUTURE. SINCERELY, BILL SANDERS AX~CESS COMPUTER bsanders@pacbell.net
From: "yoonsik KANG" <easters@nuri.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problem the Gamma Correction with Mga Millenium Date: 27 Jun 1997 16:33:44 GMT Organization: HanNuri Internet Service Message-ID: <01bc82cc$720c9de0$8af2e7cb@yoonsikk> I have a some of problem with Mga , it is Gamma Correction. My workspace too bright due to uncorrected gamma value. Is there any solution to get a correct gamma value with my mga vga? easters@nuri.net (NeXT Mail OK)
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Any SCSI harddrive in black? Date: 27 Jun 1997 16:27:16 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5p0pl4$jcb$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <grewal-ya023580002706970255370001@nntp.netcruiser> grewal@uclink4.berkeley.edu.nospam (Kawaldeep Grewal) wrote: >Can I put any SCSI harddrive in old black hardware and have the system >recognize it (i.e. boot from it)? Sorry for the beginner question, but >can't find any next faq's...maybe someone can point me towards one? > >Regards, > >Kawaldeep Grewal > >Reply to grewal@uclink4.berkeley.edu Check out Timothy Luoma's Home Page. He has quite a few links that will be helpful (including FAQs). http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ --Ryan Scott
From: see-url@bottom (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Daydream to Next color printer Date: 27 Jun 1997 09:40:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <5p0qd1$34h@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <5ok5vm$aas@news1-alterdial.uu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: rwakeman@thoughtport.com In <5ok5vm$aas@news1-alterdial.uu.net> rwakeman@thoughtport.com wrote: > I have been running Daydream on my cube for several years and have > printed to the Next laser printer with no problems. I also have a Next > color printer, and wonder if there is a mac driver for it. Has anyone > been able to print from Daydream directly (no network) to the Next > color printer? If so, any help would be appreciated. > I have tried both the Apple Color Printer driver (Apple OEM version of the Canon printer) and the Canon drivers for the Canon Version... neither work. The best I could get out of it was that the Apple drivers printed garbage. -- Robert Worne [mail to me with the URL below:] Mail: http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/email.html //-----------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows I'd rather starve!" //-----------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
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From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Adding a 2.1Gbyte disk under NS3.3 Date: 27 Jun 1997 13:12:04 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p0e74$21o$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <5ovf1g$l9c@hercules.its.csiro.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: pwm@cbr.dit.csiro.au In <5ovf1g$l9c@hercules.its.csiro.au> Peter Milne wrote: > I have upgraded my NeXTSTATION to NS3.3 and have my new 2.1G disk set > up as an external drive. > I'm confused. I thought NS3.3 knew how to initialise > and build 2.1Gbyte drives. How should I proceed? > Do I have to mess with disktab and fstab entries? Nope. 2.0 is the limit. Specifically 2047 megs. It probably split the disk into 2 partitions. You can try mounting /dev/sdXh where 'X' is the same as the partition you currently have. My guess is that it might be /dev/sd1a, so try /dev/sd1h However, if you read the sysadmin group, (and since you re-posted this message in csn.sysadmin I'm guessing you do), checkout the archives for "HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive" a thread from late May. Having two partitions is not efficient. TjL ps -- please do not crosspost within comp.sys.next.* groups. If you _must_ then a) post both messages at once, separating the newsgroups with a "," and b) set a Followups-To line. RadicalNews makes this very easy, you might want to check it out.
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From: smarqzDOG@unm.edu (mtn biker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Boot error message Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 23:05:53 GMT Organization: univ of new mexico Message-ID: <33b99894.14101176@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am receiving the following error message when booting a newly acquired 040 25Mhz cube: exception #2 (0x*)@1006C92 It proceeds no further. Any suggestions? TIA my return adress anti spammed please remove the animal from my return address, or respond to smarqz at unm dot edu (thanks)
Message-ID: <33B58D44.7C2251CD@ibm.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 18:16:37 -0400 From: "Dr. Andreas D. Bovopoulos" <andreas_bovopoulos@ibm.net> Organization: PairGain Technologies MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How Can I print from a Window95 PC to a Next Printer over a LAN? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, I have a Next computer and two PC connected over an Ethernet (TCP/IP) network. Currently, when I wish to print a file from my PC on the Next's printer, I transfer the file to the Next first, and then I print it. Is there any utility that I could install on my PC so that I can automatically print on the Next's printer? I assume that I should be able to do something like this, by specifying Next's IP address. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Andreas Bovopoulos -- Dr. Andreas D. Bovopoulos 10 Fairfield Boulevard Director of Architecture Wallingford, CT 06492 PairGain Technologies Tel: (203)-265-5612,ext.228 Fax: (203)-265-5614
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From: mat0001@jove.acs.unt.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: EIDE problem - OpenStep Install & PC hardware sucks! Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 22:13:51 -0600 Organization: University of North Texas Message-ID: <mat0001-2806972213510001@remote72.server1.local.premium.dialup.unt.edu> References: <paul-2806970727420001@max1-np-ca-37.earthlink.net> Question 6.... Good question...... any answers might upset the masses!!!! so, I will restrain from answering. > > 6) How come PC hardware still sucks big time 17 years after it was concocted? > > Paul
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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <10436866952022@digifix.com> Date: 29 Jun 1997 03:56:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <1452867556825@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. 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USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. 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From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Hardware and Cable Modems Date: 29 Jun 1997 05:02:36 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5p4q9c$1q6$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <5omiq1$djj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <5on8m3$c1k$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <5p3hqm$9uv$1@news.istar.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jsamson@istar.ca In <5p3hqm$9uv$1@news.istar.ca> Jean-Paul Samson wrote: > On 06/23/97, Godwin wrote: > >If the modem is ethernet based it should be okay > > The cable providers in my area now have cable modems. A few of my > friends have these blazing beasts and they do hook into the computer > via Ethernet. I've been told that you are not assigned a fixed IP > address; rather, it is dynamically assigned when you connect (like PPP > does). Will such a cable modem system work with NeXT's? My provider does provide a static IP, so I am not speaking from experience, but I would think that it would be hard for the NeXT to handle this automatically, because the NeXT wants to know the IP during the boot cycle.... However, it is _possible_ that there might be a way to do this... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: eide problem Date: 24 Jun 1997 17:48:10 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5op18q$hp9$2@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <33AFF183.46B2@treknet.is> Did you add the second EIDE driver? Would that be the problem?? Go under preference and drivers and add another EIDE driver for the seocnd controller. Kinda silly but it works.. (or used to!) =) Godwin Sigthor Hrafnsson (siffi@treknet.is) wrote: : Hi all : I got a pentium pc with 2 x eide 1 gb + cd. : I can't get nextstep to mount more than 2 at a time. : I can have the 2 ide on primary controller, : then the cd dosn't work on the secondary controller. : I can have the 1 ide and cd on the primary controller, : then the second ide dosn't work on the secondary controller. : The secondary controller is not broke, I can see the 2 ide and : the cd in windows 95 (I got 2 oses on the same machine). : Any ideas? : siffi@treknet.is
From: "Eric M. Aldrich I" <ealdrich@wavequest.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Detailed black hardware specs Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 03:36:09 +0000 Organization: Wavequest Inc. Message-ID: <33B5D820.B3A@wavequest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have or know where to find detailed hardware specs for the various configurations of black (Motorola) NeXT hardware? I'm looking for things such as serial port speeds, SCSI specs, NeXTbus speeds -- all the stuff that isn't in the FAQ. Post or email is fine. Any applicable info appreciated. Eric
From: "Joacim Melin" <joacim@mbox301.swipnet.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXTstep v3.3 (Intel) with the Matrox Mystique gfx-adapter. Date: 29 Jun 1997 12:25:04 GMT Organization: A customer of Tele2 Message-ID: <01b991ed$9c62da00$13b8f482@nostromo.melin.se> Cache-Post-Path: mn8!s-226072@dialup184-1-19.swipnet.se Hello. Just wondering if Nextstep v3.3 will work properly with an Matrox Mystique. I mean, will I have to settle with vanilla VGA (640x480x16) or is there any drivers that I can use to get great resolution and colors ? Please respond via email to joacim@mbox301.swipnet.se Thanks for any advice. /Joacim Melin
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Detailed black hardware specs Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 10:50:01 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YnhbMNS00iV901OJA0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33B5D820.B3A@wavequest.com> In-Reply-To: <33B5D820.B3A@wavequest.com> [ ...Newsgroups trimmed... ] Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 29-Jun-97 Detailed black hardware specs by "Eric M. Aldrich I"@wave > Does anyone have or know where to find detailed hardware specs for the > various configurations of black (Motorola) NeXT hardware? I'm looking > for things such as serial port speeds, SCSI specs, NeXTbus speeds -- all > the stuff that isn't in the FAQ. You can push the serial ports up to 38.4K reliably on turbo (33 MHz) machines, and sometimes non-turbos (25 MHz) seem to run okay at that rate although maybe it depends on the data and how well any compression is doing. Some will only do 19.2K reliably. I've heard some with turbos say they seem to work okay at 57.6K, but I again suspect that depends on the effective data rate through the modem and that it may not be reliable at that speed. The SCSI bus on all runs at 5 MB/s asyncronous SCSI only. The NeXTbus is really a double-speed Mac NuBus design, also referred to as the "workstation NuBus" standard. I believe it's 20 MB/s sustained, and has a peak burst rate for aligned transfers of 80 MB/s. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Message-ID: <33B772E6.FFD158DB@frozenwave.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 01:48:38 -0700 From: "M@" <hixson@frozenwave.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking To: Scott Hess <scott@doubleu.com> Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress16 performance problems. References: <SCOTT.97Jun19174227@slave.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Jun25082124@ra.doubleu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott Hess wrote: > > The article I'm responding to wasn't posted on col.networking the > first time, sorry about that. > > In article <SCOTT.97Jun19174227@slave.doubleu.com>, > scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes: > [Wherein I describe how I was seeing very low ttcp throughput > (50Kbyte/s) from a variety of boxes _to_ a 486/150 running Linux > with an EtherExpress16, except for from a NeXTstation, which got > 600+Kbyte/s. Throughput _from_ the Linux box was always > reasonable. Setting the receive window size to a mere 1.5k pushed > throughput from all machines to the Linux box up to 500Kbyte/s.] > > Well, I still don't know what the problem is, but I do know more. I > put an NE2000 ISA card in the Linux box, and now it's able to > send/receive at high rates from any box on my network. Worse, I put > the EtherExpress16 in a Pentium box running NeXTSTEP3.3, and it's able > to receive at well in excess of 500KByte/s. > > Since the EtherExpress16 has a 32kbyte buffer, it would seem to not be > a buffer problem. It may be that I had the card setup wrong > (IO-mapped versus mem-mapped?), but I can't tell from the driver > documentation and output whether that's the case. > > In any case, I trust NeXT's EtherExpress16 driver more than the > generic NE2000 driver, and now I trust the Linux NE2000 driver more > than the eexpress driver, so ... I think I'll just leave the NE2000 > card in the Linux box and count my blessings. I had an EtherExpress 16 which kept locking up on me. By locking up I don't mean just the OS stopped responding, I mean the actuall card stopped responding and caused the machine to lock up (you can't even ping it from another machine). I went looking for the source file (eexress.c) and found the following comment in the file header. /* * The original EtherExpress driver was just about usable, but * suffered from a long startup delay, a hard limit of 16k memory * usage on the card (EtherExpress 16s have either 32k or 64k), * and random locks under load. The last was particularly annoying * and made running eXceed/W preferable to Linux/XFree. After hacking * through the driver for a couple of days, I had fixed most of the * card handling errors, at the expense of turning the code into * a complete jungle, but still hadn't tracked down the lock-ups. * I had hoped these would be an IP bug, but failed to reproduce them * under other drivers, so decided to start from scratch and rewrite * the driver cleanly. And here it is. * * It's still not quite there, but self-corrects a lot more problems. * the 'CU wedged, resetting...' message shouldn't happen at all, but * at least we recover. It still locks occasionally, any ideas welcome. * * The original startup delay experienced by some people was due to the * first ARP request for the address of the default router getting lost. * (mostly the reply we were getting back was arriving before our * hardware address was set up, or before the configuration sequence * had told the card NOT to strip of the frame header). If you a long * startup delay, you may have lost this ARP request/reply, although * the original cause has been fixed. However, it is more likely that * you've just locked under this version. * * The main changes are in the 586 initialization procedure (which was * just broken before - the EExp is a strange beasty and needs careful * handling) the receive buffer handling (we now use a non-terminating * circular list of buffers, which stops the card giving us out-of- * resources errors), and the transmit code. The driver is also more * structured, and I have tried to keep the kernel interface separate * from the hardware interface (although some routines naturally want * to do both). * Hope that helps, -M@
From: ix@pentagon.io.com (Lupo LeBoucher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Detailed black hardware specs Date: 30 Jun 1997 08:43:37 GMT Organization: Illuminati Online Message-ID: <5p7rjp$slj$1@nntp-3.io.com> References: <33B5D820.B3A@wavequest.com> <YnhbMNS00iV901OJA0@andrew.cmu.edu> In article <YnhbMNS00iV901OJA0@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >[ ...Newsgroups trimmed... ] > >The SCSI bus on all runs at 5 MB/s asyncronous SCSI only. > >The NeXTbus is really a double-speed Mac NuBus design, also referred to >as the "workstation NuBus" standard. I believe it's 20 MB/s sustained, >and has a peak burst rate for aligned transfers of 80 MB/s. FWIIW, I ran STREAM on my 25Mhz NeXT Cube & got the following results: Function Rate (MB/s) RMS time Min time Max time Copy: 19.6923 0.4299 0.4062 0.4531 Scale: 16.5161 0.4986 0.4844 0.5156 Add: 17.0667 0.7157 0.7031 0.7344 Triad: 16.0000 0.7704 0.7500 0.7812 A Natoma/Triton2 chipsetted 200Mhz PPro running Linux gives: Function Rate (MB/s) RMS time Min time Max time Copy: 76.1905 0.2110 0.2100 0.2200 Scale: 76.1905 0.2110 0.2100 0.2200 Add: 85.7143 0.2850 0.2800 0.2900 Triad: 85.7143 0.2870 0.2800 0.2900 -Lupo "In dee wiyuld, wee are primarily carneeevorous" <ix@pentagon.io.com>
From: dfgalvan@next2.icia.rcanaria.es (Domingo Fernandez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NXFax and USR 33.6 v. Everything modem Date: 30 Jun 1997 09:06:28 GMT Organization: Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias Message-ID: <5p7suk$r84@sinfo.ll.iac.es> Someone knows how to make it work? Thanks -- Domingo Fernandez Galvan <dfgalvan@icia.rcanaria.es> MIME NeXT Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias Dto. Fruticultura Tropical Apdo 60 La Laguna 38200 Tenerife Canary Is. SPAIN
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NX Station shutdown broken Message-ID: <ECL1nM.KrA@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5ol7h9$2qp$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:42:58 GMT In article <5ol7h9$2qp$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> writes: > When I want to shut down the NeXT Station Turbo Color of my > friend, > 1) I click on the power button in the loggin window or on the > restart button if I want to restart the station, and I get a > panel which tell me if I realy want to shut down or restart the > computer. After I click on the button and normaly the station > should stop after killing all the proccess. > 2) I just obtain that all panels disappear and nothing more. > To stop completely the station I need to press at the same moment > the right Command Key and the upper left keys of the numeric > keyboard. > After that I obtain a mini panel telling me if I want to Power > off the computer or to restart it or stay like that. > I have to press the power button or the r and after that to press > simultaneously the right Cmd key and the upper left numeric key > and press after the r or the power key. > Normally the station stop. > The problem is that when I want to power on the station it take > approximatively 10 minutes to check the Hard drive (and sync it I > think) and to restart completely until the loggin window. > > Is it a hardware failure or a part of the OS is broken ? > Neither one. You just happened run a process that refuses to respond to the signal 'TERM'. This either means you have a rogue process or, unfortunately, some process who hit a weakness of NeXT MACH kernel implementation. The most infamous is a process who owns an open serial line with a switched off external device. But OmniWeb is also said to have such an unwanted effect. > What do I do to repair ? > Check your list of processes, make an educated guess about the possible culprit, and kill it manually. Then shut down and see if everything went ok... If you identified the guilty process you must find a way to shut it down befor you power down or you must avoid the situation that makes it hang (for instance, leave the serial device switched on). > Is the checking of the HD not good for the HD' life time ? > No, to a hard drive it is rather meaningless on what it spends its time. Just uptime counts, since it is the bearings that get spent first, in almost all cases. Thermal cycles count most. So it depends on how often you power down and let it cool off before switching on again. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
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From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ZyXEL FAX Modem won't receive FAXes Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:46:58 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p8nu2$30l@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have NXFax.app (a license'd copy) and a ZyXEL Omni 2864 Fax Modem. What does it take to get the modem to receive faxes? I've installed NXFax and configured a fax modem in the PrintManger.app. It can send faxes fine, I just cant receive faxes (unattended). The modem just doesn't answer. I've set the fax configuration in PrintManger to answer in 1 ring and I've tried a few other things (see below). I've tried using 'cu' to manually set things like ATS0=1 AT+FAA=1 ATAA=1 +FAA=1 but the thing still doesn't answer the phone. Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss something? Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
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From: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Adding a 2.1Gbyte disk under NS3.3 Date: 27 Jun 1997 16:51:08 GMT Organization: Systemix, Inc. Message-ID: <5p0r1s$nig@iserver.stem.com> References: <5ovf1g$l9c@hercules.its.csiro.au> pwm@cbr.dit.csiro.au (Peter Milne) wrote: > I'm confused. I thought NS3.3 knew how to initialise and build 2.1Gbyte > drives. 2.1GB is the changeover between where the NeXT can automatically format the disk into a single BSD partition and where it has to split the disk up into multiple partitions. The magic number is around 2^31 = 2.147GB, your Segate ST52160N appears to the OS as a 2.160GB disk so it splits it into two partitions. (2.147GB appears to be close to the cutover, probably not exact due to format issues.) NS 3.3, and later, does know how to format 2.1GB and larger drives -- it splits them into smaller units. Prior to that, they were handled even worse. Although the NeXT can't have a local BSD disk partition larger than 2.1GB, it can handle NFS mounted filesystems that are larger. The following NeXTAnswers may be helpful: Initializing and Partitioning Large Disks: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1533.htmld/1533.html Adding On without Flipping Out http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1849.htmld/1849.html My personal recommendation is stay on one side or the other of the boundary -- i.e. use disks that are slightly smaller than 2.1GB or use very large disks that can be partitioned into multiple 2.1GB partitions. - Christopher
From: luomat@extra.crunchy.peanut.butter.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How Can I print from a Window95 PC to a Next Printer over a LAN? Date: 29 Jun 1997 18:31:51 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5p69mn$mgg$2@bashir.peak.org> References: <33B58D44.7C2251CD@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: andreas_bovopoulos@ibm.net You are looking for samba http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/ TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
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