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From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: extra sim socket in mono/turbo station? Date: 30 Aug 1997 21:48:36 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ua4fl$dc3@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5to6d0$qad@crcnis3.unl.edu> <5ts1pd$19vk@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Alex Levine (alex@guava.phil.lehigh.edu) wrote: : In article <5to6d0$qad@crcnis3.unl.edu> 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh : Hesse) writes: : > : > Over the summer I got a mono turbo Nextstation. : > (My first.) : > : > When I opened it up, I noticed, in addition to the four sockets near the : > power supply, there was a socket that (apparently, I never tried it) : takes : > a sim about halfway between the ROM and the disk drives. : > : > Could somebody enlighten me on what this is for? (my guess is that it : > could me some sort of cache, but I really am not sure...) : > : : I believe that's for DSP SRAM. : If so, would that be an extra, is it supposed to be standard equipment? At this point, I probably should add that I do have one application(game) That gives me a "could not open DSP" error message. (and I am clueless as to why.) Thanks, Josh -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |this post is (C)1997 Josh Hesse and may not be transmitted in any form,| |on any machine that is connected in any way to The Microsoft Network(TM).| +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Message-ID: <34089407.1BA8@pop.urgrgcc.edu> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 17:43:42 -0400 From: "J. David Mauer" <dmauer@pop.urgrgcc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Sonnet Accelerator in an 040 NeXT References: <5tanbk$db0$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> <EFA382.H6x@nidat.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yeah, go to Spherical Solutions (www.orb.com) and check out their Pyro Accelerator board! It runs at 50mhz and has beaten the Nitro in several different tests. Newer Technology makes the board, but Spherical sells it. Check it out! P.S. For 040 slabs only! Ben Mauer
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: <10179872395226@digifix.com> Date: 31 Aug 1997 03:53:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <16621873000033@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. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: "Laurent" <solfra@worldnet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: SB16 value PNP will work with Openstep 4.1 ? Date: 31 Aug 1997 10:08:16 GMT Message-ID: <01bcb5f5$d2378480$040e03c3@worldnet.sct.fr> Hello Next-Users, I have a little problem with my new Openstep 4.1 config : My PC : Intel P200 32 Mo SDram Diamond stealth 3D 3000 PCI Cd 12x Creative Labs IDE Creative Labs SB16 value PNP But the system doesn't recognize the SB16 sound card, but the bios recognize it (we can see SB 16 PNP when the system bios is booting). This sound card work correctly on a Windows 95 PC system. I'd try to change the slot of the card, to put the driver before installing the card, to install the card before installing the driver, to load new driver on Nextanswers, ...but the card still mute. Please I'm waiting for your help... Laurent BARNILS solfra@worldnet.fr
From: Clint Boggess <cboggess@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: amd processor Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 09:51:28 -0400 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <340976E0.1EF63EA7@ix.netcom.com> References: <5u7o14$mvh$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Once NS3.3 one a laptop with an AMD 486dx2/80 with 20 meg of ram and it ran great. Jung Woo Lee wrote: > > Can anybody tell if openstep runs on amd processor. I know that openstep > has a problem running on the cyrix chip. If anybody is running openstop > on an amd chip please tell me about your experiences.
From: Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@blns.siemens.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: SB16 value PNP will work with Openstep 4.1 ? Date: 31 Aug 1997 12:21:18 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <5ubnju$6fh@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <01bcb5f5$d2378480$040e03c3@worldnet.sct.fr> Organisation: RRR Hello Laurent, "Laurent" <solfra@worldnet.fr> wrote: > I have a little problem with my new Openstep 4.1 config : [...] > Creative Labs SB16 value PNP > > But the system doesn't recognize the SB16 sound card, but the bios > recognize it (we can see SB 16 PNP when the system bios is booting). This > sound card work correctly on a Windows 95 PC system. > Did you have the latest Soundblaster Driver?. I have a Soundblaster 16 Value PNP and it works under NEXTSTEP 3.3. Since the card was a bulk version NEXTSTEP didn't recognise it out of the box. I had to change the "Auto Detect IDs" line in /private/Drivers/i386/SoundBlaster16.config/SB16PnP.table to recognize the card. The value you have to add there can be found with the /private/Drivers/i386/EISABus.config/PnPDump utility. hth Bastian [posted + mailed] -- e-mail: Bastian.Schlueter@blns.siemens.de http://www.first.gmd.de/~buzz RRR100R -- Was wir da machen ist verboten, aber es ist wunderbar (TSS) --
From: Kari L Beischer <kari@gti.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 31 Aug 1997 21:02:02 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <5ucm4a$ej2$1@usenet76.supernews.com> References: <5u72mv$pp9@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <01bcb4a7$2a8f1710$a201ef8c@ubu> <5u7srm$6r2@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> slick@tools.ecn.purdue.edu (Brian S Slick) wrote: > Still, IDE vs. SCSI has absolutely nothing to do with multi-tasking. Ostensibly you are right. Practically you are not. IDE on a system that will run some real OS, like unix or rhapsody or even NT, will suck performance out. Even if the drive has similiar performance on paper, throughput and seek (generally not the case but I digress), the IDE controller really just uses the main CPU to do the bulk of transfers...any half crap PC SCSI controller will offload the bulk of the transfer from the CPU. Now with lots of processes, threads, users all accessing the system a bunch, offloading the cpu does affect multi-tasking performance on the system in a very real way that is easy to "feel" on the system... Of course YMMV depending upon use, but generally the better and more capable the OS, the more you run at once, and the more noticable this IDE "CPU TAX" is... This is being posted by JOHN KHEIT, not Kari, who is currently "inbetween" ISP's. So please direct all flamage to jkheit@cnj.digex.net and not to Kari. -- Thanks, Kari Beischer ____________________________________________________________________ AT&T ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK Systems mailto:kari@gti.net Development to want is natural, to need is negotiable... ____________________________________________________________________ Opinions expressed are mine, not those of my employer...
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <81f7cd$102717.309@NEWS> Control: cancel <81f7cd$102717.309@NEWS> Date: 31 Aug 1997 21:26:58 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.81f7cd$102717.309@NEWS> Sender: grants@ForYou.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: mrkai@sakurakai.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 31 Aug 1997 22:30:56 GMT Organization: @Home Networks Message-ID: <5ucrb0$4e9$1@ha2.rdc1.md.home.com> References: <5u72mv$pp9@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <01bcb4a7$2a8f1710$a201ef8c@ubu> <5u7srm$6r2@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <5ucm4a$ej2$1@usenet76.supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kari@gti.net In <5ucm4a$ej2$1@usenet76.supernews.com> Kari L Beischer wrote: > slick@tools.ecn.purdue.edu (Brian S Slick) wrote: > > Still, IDE vs. SCSI has absolutely nothing to do with multi-tasking. > > Ostensibly you are right. Practically you are not. IDE on a system > that will run some real OS, like unix or rhapsody or even NT, will > suck performance out. This isn't as accurate as it used to be, thanks to "Mode 4" IDE drives such as those manufactured by Maxtor. These types of IDE drives all but close the performance gap, even under OPENSTEP. I've seen them in action...it's quite impressive, actually. -K
From: Nathan Keir Edel <edel@best.com_SPAMBLOCK> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 31 Aug 1997 23:48:58 GMT Organization: Forte Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <5ucvta$hie$3@nntp2.ba.best.com> References: <5u72mv$pp9@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <01bcb4a7$2a8f1710$a201ef8c@ubu> <5u7srm$6r2@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <5ucm4a$ej2$1@usenet76.supernews.com> In comp.sys.mac.advocacy Kari L Beischer <kari@gti.net> wrote: KLB% Ostensibly you are right. Practically you are not. IDE on a system KLB% that will run some real OS, like unix or rhapsody or even NT, will KLB% suck performance out. Even if the drive has similiar performance KLB% on paper, throughput and seek (generally not the case but I digress), KLB% the IDE controller really just uses the main CPU to do the bulk of KLB% transfers...any half crap PC SCSI controller will offload the bulk KLB% of the transfer from the CPU. Now with lots of processes, threads, Um... no. Most modern PC compatible motherboards have very efficient busmastering IDE systems ... though right now only the OSR/2 version of Win95 and Linux have good support for them... this offloads almost as much of the work from the CPU as a good mid-range scsi controller, like the AHA2940, though not as much as a fully-intelligent caching and/or raid controller. The processor-load is not the issue; one big advantage to scsi that IDE has not yet matched is it's advantages wrt queuing, etc. and out of order reads, which can speed up performance with a poorly written multitasking OS a great deal... this includes NT or 95. With a largely-nonmultitasking system like Win3.1 or Dos, it makes very little difference... and on a high-end OS like most *ix-es, the disk driver & file system will attempt to reorder reads for maximum efficiency anyway... -- Nathan Keir Edel "In this world of delusion, #6: Which side are you on? edel@best.com never turn your back on a #2: That would be telling. friend..." -- Iron Maiden -- The Prisoner
From: Nick@tzcc.com (Nick Dinielli (The Fatman)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: For additional hardware support visit: http://www.tzcc.com Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 02:51:13 GMT Organization: NetTrip, Inc. Message-ID: <32797f0e.76860736@news.carroll.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain For additional hardware support visit: http://www.tzcc.com
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <32797f0e.76860736@news.carroll.com> Control: cancel <32797f0e.76860736@news.carroll.com> Date: 01 Sep 1997 03:14:01 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.32797f0e.76860736@news.carroll.com> Sender: Nick@tzcc.com (Nick Dinielli (The Fatman)) Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: caseymck@flash.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: amd processor Date: 1 Sep 1997 03:22:54 GMT Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net Message-ID: <5udcee$6df$1@excalibur.flash.net> References: <5u7o14$mvh$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <5u7o14$mvh$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> On 08/29/97, Jung Woo Lee wrote: >Can anybody tell if openstep runs on amd processor. I know that openstep >has a problem running on the cyrix chip. If anybody is running openstop >on an amd chip please tell me about your experiences. > I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on an AMD K6PR2 - 233/ASUS T2P4 system - it is quite fast, and has been more reliable than the previous Intel P133 with a different motherboard - no problems whatsoever. Regards, Casey
From: caseymck@flash.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ZyXel U336S with NXFax - anyone using? Date: 1 Sep 1997 03:28:14 GMT Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net Message-ID: <5udcoe$7ag$1@excalibur.flash.net> I was curious if anyone is using the ZyXel U336S modem successfully with NXFax? I'm having intermittent problems (mainly receiving) using NXFax to communicate with conventional fax machines with my current modem (Practical PC288LCD), and thought I'd make a change. I'm primarily interested in NXFax experiences with the U336S, but anyone's findings with the Omni 288S or the Elite 2864I/U would probably be helpful, too. Thanks in advance for your help, Regards, Casey
From: phillips@nospam.phoenix.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 68k NeXT Power Supplies - Unreliable? Date: 1 Sep 1997 04:38:12 GMT Organization: Charter Communications International, Inc. Message-ID: <5udgrk$oof$1@uhura1.phoenix.net> Is it just me or are the 68k NeXT power supplies pretty shoddy? How much problem have they been? -- Charles D Phillips <mailto:phillips@phoenix.net> Check the Macintosh Logic Board Battery web page at: <http://www.academ.com/info/macintosh> "I Don't Do Windows, I Have A Macintosh"
From: Eric Doenges <doenges@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 1 Sep 97 10:46:31 GMT Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Prozessrechner, TU Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <33FB5391.79CD@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> Originator: doenges@batian.lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de joe.ragosta@dol.net (Joe Ragosta) writes: >Then why have Macs consistently outperformed PCs? Why is it that when Apple >released the 3400/240, the nearest PC competitor was a 166 MHz Pentium? Consistently outperformed at what ? Photoshop ? Photoshop is completly irrelevant for most consumers. And what is it that Apple has done to make the 3400/240 fast ? The high performance of the PowerPC chips is NOT Apple's work. In fact, Apple is keeping the PowerPCs from reaching their true potential by using substandard motherboard designs. El cheapo PC motherboards can now be had with 75 and 83 MHz busspeeds and SDRAM support. How much difference does it make ? Check out <http://sysdoc.pair.com/busspeed.html> - someone took the trouble of testing different bus and processor clock speeds (for Wintel machines) and found that a 166MHz Pentium on a 83MHz bus is as fast as a 200 MHz Pentium on a 66MHz bus. I'd guess similar results could be observed for PowerPC systems. >Have you used a Gossamer motherboard? No, have you ? I thought Gossamer wasn't shipping yet. If we wanted to argue announced, but not yet shipping products, we might as well include the upcoming 100MHz motherboards from Intel. -- Eric Doenges EMail:<doenges@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> "You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the guy next to you" - anonymous
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 68k NeXT Power Supplies - Unreliable? Date: 1 Sep 1997 02:01:50 -0700 Organization: Idiom Communications Message-ID: <5ue09u$qhp@idiom.com> References: <5udgrk$oof$1@uhura1.phoenix.net> phillips@nospam.phoenix.net writes: >Is it just me or are the 68k NeXT power supplies pretty shoddy? How much >problem have they been? Well, I've got five slabs now, and I've never seen a power supply failure one one of my machines, or on any of the slabs I've run into in the last six years. -jcr
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From: tsengel@immd9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Engel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 68k NeXT Power Supplies - Unreliable? Date: 1 Sep 1997 10:16:50 GMT Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. Message-ID: <5ue4mi$798$1@concorde.ctp.com> References: <5udgrk$oof$1@uhura1.phoenix.net> <5ue09u$qhp@idiom.com> jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: >phillips@nospam.phoenix.net writes: > >>Is it just me or are the 68k NeXT power supplies pretty shoddy? How much >>problem have they been? > >Well, I've got five slabs now, and I've never seen a power supply failure >one one of my machines, or on any of the slabs I've run into in the last >six years. > The only major pain is that the fuse is hidden and sealed deep inside the power supplies housing. So if a lightning or a malfunctioning SoundBox kill your power supply yu really will have a hell of a time trying to fix it :-( Aloha Tomi
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 11:54:50 -0500 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Distribution: world Message-ID: <distler-0109971154500001@slip-118-25.ots.utexas.edu> References: <33FB5391.79CD@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In article <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>, doenges@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de wrote: > In fact, Apple is keeping the PowerPCs from reaching their > true potential by using substandard motherboard designs. El cheapo PC > motherboards can now be had with 75 and 83 MHz busspeeds and SDRAM > support. How much difference does it make ? Check out > <http://sysdoc.pair.com/busspeed.html> - someone took the trouble of > testing different bus and processor clock speeds (for Wintel machines) and > found that a 166MHz Pentium on a 83MHz bus is as fast as a 200 MHz > Pentium on a 66MHz bus. I'd guess similar results could be observed for > PowerPC systems. Sure. Look at Power Computing's PowerCenter Pro line. By tweaking the Catalyst motherboard to run at 60MHz, their 180MHz 604e (MacBench score 533) blows Apple's 233MHz 604e PowerMac 9600 out of the water (47 MHz bus, MacBench score 428). Of course, the rumours say that Apple is buying back Power Computing's licence, so this comparison will, in a few days time, be academic. Pity. JD -- PGP public key: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/distler.asc
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT OD compatible drive(s)? Date: 1 Sep 1997 17:30:26 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5ueu3i$cuv$2@maryj.bitstream.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recall reading at on time a thread mentioning that there existed at least one other Optical drive that could read NeXT ODs besides NeXT's own. Does anyone recall what that drive was? Whether or not it is currently available, I would be very interested to know the make and model of such a drive. Thanks to all who respond. --Chris ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, Sun, NeXTMail OK "Sacred Cows make the best hamburger" -- Mark Twain
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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 18:26:49 -0400 From: joe.ragosta@dol.net (Joe Ragosta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Message-ID: <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R0109971826490001@news.dol.net> References: <33FB5391.79CD@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <340b382f.719817663@news.alt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit In article <340b382f.719817663@news.alt.net>, hamm@spamsquish.ix.netcom.com (John Hammett) wrote: > You have to keep in mind that Joe's advocacy depends heavily on the past and the > future. The past, when all his dusty studies were made, and the future, when all > that vapor is suddenly going to become reality. Anything but the present. At least my advocacy depends on facts, studies and evidence--not uninformed opinion like yours. When was the last time you provided a URL to back up your opinion? Sure, you do it on occasion, but very rarely. -- Regards, Joe Ragosta joe.ragosta@dol.net Visit the Complete Macintosh Web Site http://www.dol.net/~Ragosta/complmac.htm
From: owolf@NOSPAMpdnt.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: A long tale of woe Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1#################################################################### From: hamm@spamsquish.ix.netcom.com (John Hammett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 04:56:17 GMT Organization: Face the Muzak! Message-ID: <340d9a10.744874542@news.alt.net> References: <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <340b382f.719817663@news.alt.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R0109971826490001@news.dol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit joe.ragosta@dol.net (Joe Ragosta) wrote, >> You have to keep in mind that Joe's advocacy depends heavily on the past >>and the future. The past, when all his dusty studies were made, and the future, >>when all that vapor is suddenly going to become reality. Anything but the present. > >At least my advocacy depends on facts, studies and evidence--not uninformed >opinion like yours. Your advocacy is supposed to be based on informed opinion? You certainly exhibit a lot of ignorance, even about the sources you cite. You didn't even know the Gistics report left out Win NT 4.0. Your advocacy depends on a set of filters that approves anything that seems to support your prejudices, and dismisses as "biased" anything that does not. Often these are the same sources! > >When was the last time you provided a URL to back up your opinion? Sure, >you do it on occasion, but very rarely. I post or refer to articles all the time, but you simply label the sources as biased or untrustworthy. Gradually people are catching on to you, Joe. It's no accident that you've been catching a lot of flak lately. You want to know the worst thing you do? Misrepresenting the position of your opponents. You've done that to me too many times to count. -- John Hammett "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." -- Edward P. Tryon --
From: see-below@not-my-address.com (Matthew Vaughan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 23:41:29 -0700 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <see-below-0109972341290001@ip145.mountain-view2.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> References: <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <340b382f.719817663@news.alt.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R0109971826490001@news.dol.net> <340d9a10.744874542@news.alt.net> In article <340d9a10.744874542@news.alt.net>, hamm@spamsquish.ix.netcom.com (John Hammett) wrote: > joe.ragosta@dol.net (Joe Ragosta) wrote, > > >> You have to keep in mind that Joe's advocacy depends heavily on the past > >>and the future. The past, when all his dusty studies were made, and the future, > >>when all that vapor is suddenly going to become reality. Anything but the present. > > > >At least my advocacy depends on facts, studies and evidence--not uninformed > >opinion like yours. > > Your advocacy is supposed to be based on informed opinion? You certainly exhibit > a lot of ignorance, even about the sources you cite. You didn't even know the > Gistics report left out Win NT 4.0. > > Your advocacy depends on a set of filters that approves anything that seems to > support your prejudices, and dismisses as "biased" anything that does not. Often > these are the same sources! > > > >When was the last time you provided a URL to back up your opinion? Sure, > >you do it on occasion, but very rarely. > > I post or refer to articles all the time, but you simply label the sources as > biased or untrustworthy. > > Gradually people are catching on to you, Joe. It's no accident that you've been > catching a lot of flak lately. Actually, he's been catching less flak than he might be. I kill-filed him a while back, since his posts were so *mindlessly* pro-Apple it wasn't even worth reading them any more, much less responding to them. I've already heard all the "Evangelize Apple" rhetoric, thank you very much, - I've even said a lot of it myself - but inflexibility in the face of contrary facts is something I have little respect for. Odd that he's one of only two people I've ever kill-filed in this group (the other being Frank Rizzo). > You want to know the worst thing you do? Misrepresenting the position of your > opponents. You've done that to me too many times to count. > > > -- > John Hammett > > "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal > that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." > > -- Edward P. Tryon > > -- -- Matthew Vaughan matthewv at mindspring dot com (damn spammers...) --------- This is your mind. This is duality. This is your mind on duality...
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From: nospam@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 68k NeXT Power Supplies - Unreliable? Date: 2 Sep 1997 06:52:06 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5ugd2m$8j7$4@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5udgrk$oof$1@uhura1.phoenix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <5udgrk$oof$1@uhura1.phoenix.net> phillips@nospam.phoenix.net wrote: > Is it just me or are the 68k NeXT power supplies pretty shoddy? How much > problem have they been? I think it might be just you... I've heard them referred to as ``a tank'' and ``a powerhorse'' by others. There is the fuse that I think someone else mentioned, but other than that I've gotten the impression that they were really quite good. Another plug for getting a UPS & perhaps PowerGuardian (the UPS software for NS). There are details on them at my NeXT page: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ and I'm quite glad I have mine! TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html there forever. You should be booting verbosely and seeing exactky where it is getting hung up at, as I think you did later.... this sounds like a HD that won't spin up, but I could be off base... > I broke into the ROM monitor and discovered that it would boot normally > until it attempted to check for a network connection. Sounds like the boot command is set to 'en' rather than 'sd' > Reinstallation went o.k., but then it kept > saying it couldn't find the internal SCSI drive until I typed in > "bsd(0,0,0)" and then it booted o.k. from there. Sounds like the boot command was not set to 'sd' > Except it still hung for hours trying to find a network connection. Once I > reinstalled the OS it booted normally except I had to boot from the ROM > monitor and during installation it would claim that a "perposterous date > value" or something to that effect. I thought, "A-Ha! The battery is > going out!" So I got a new one, just before installing the new one it would > hang forever at the network detection stage and never get to the login > prompt. After installing the new battery it behaves no differently except > that it does show a "Booting from network" animated graphic which it wasn't > showing before. Help! How can I get my NeXT STation to boot? Ok, replacing the battery might not have been a bad thing, but you will always see PREPOSTEROUS TIME, CHECK AND RESET THE DATE after an install, because it will be set to the time the CD was pressed, or something like that. OK, now the folks at NeXT wanted their computers to be part of the big NeXT network which was going to take over the world. They didn't expect that folks would have them at home unless they were ``really savvy'' and therefore some things aren't always what you'd expect. For example, the default setting is to boot off the network rather than the hard drive (en versus sd). So when you are in the ROM monitor, enter ``p'' to get to the Preferences, and set the boot command to 'sd' rather than 'en'.... and then change to Verbose booting because as nice as the pictures are, the verbose is much better. That should help TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: SB16 value PNP will work with Openstep 4.1 ? Date: 2 Sep 1997 06:42:35 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5ugcgr$8j7$2@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <01bcb5f5$d2378480$040e03c3@worldnet.sct.fr> <5ubnju$6fh@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <5ubnju$6fh@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> Bastian Schlueter wrote: > Did you have the latest Soundblaster Driver?. I have a Soundblaster 16 Value PNP > and it works under NEXTSTEP 3.3. Since the card was a bulk version NEXTSTEP > didn't recognise it out of the box. I had to change the "Auto Detect IDs" line > in /private/Drivers/i386/SoundBlaster16.config/SB16PnP.table to recognize the > card. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but I had some problem with the PNP for my SoundBlaster 16 also.... I've got it set to SoundBlaster 16PnP (8bit DMA) (v4.01) Is this the newest driver? I checked NA but couldn't figure it out... > The value you have to add there can be found with the > /private/Drivers/i386/EISABus.config/PnPDump utility. Interesting utility.... but I have several (5 actually) things list as 'suboptimal configuration' .... hrm.... suggestions on how to improve things? Here's the full listing: ========================================================= csn 1: ===================== Resource Description: ===================== Vendor Id CTL002a (0xe8c002a) Serial Number 0x1d58f CheckSum 0xe Plug and Play Version 1.0 (Vendor 1.0) id string(17) 'Creative SB16 PnP' Logical Device 0: Id CTL0031 (0xe8c0031) id string(5) 'Audio' Start dependent function 0 [good configuration] irq: 5 [high, edge] dma channel: 1 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] dma channel: 5 [16 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] i/o port: 0x220..0x220 align 0x1 length 0x10 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x330..0x330 align 0x1 length 0x2 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x388..0x388 align 0x1 length 0x4 [16 lines] Start dependent function 1 [acceptable configuration] irq: 5, 7, 10 [high, edge] dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] dma channel: 5, 6, 7 [16 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x300..0x330 align 0x30 length 0x2 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x388..0x388 align 0x1 length 0x4 [16 lines] Start dependent function 2 [acceptable configuration] irq: 5, 7, 10 [high, edge] dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] dma channel: 5, 6, 7 [16 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x300..0x330 align 0x30 length 0x2 [16 lines] Start dependent function 3 [suboptimal configuration] irq: 5, 7, 10 [high, edge] dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] dma channel: 5, 6, 7 [16 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines] Start dependent function 4 [suboptimal configuration] irq: 5, 7, 10 [high, edge] dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x300..0x330 align 0x30 length 0x2 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x388..0x388 align 0x1 length 0x4 [16 lines] Start dependent function 5 [suboptimal configuration] irq: 5, 7, 10 [high, edge] dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x300..0x330 align 0x30 length 0x2 [16 lines] Start dependent function 6 [suboptimal configuration] irq: 5, 7, 10, 11 [high, edge] dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat] i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines] End of dependent functions Logical Device 1: Id CTL2011 (0xe8c2011) Compatible Device Id: PNP0600 (0x41d00600) id string(3) 'IDE' Start dependent function 0 [good configuration] irq: 10 [high, edge] i/o port: 0x168..0x168 align 0x1 length 0x8 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x36e..0x36e align 0x1 length 0x2 [16 lines] Start dependent function 1 [acceptable configuration] irq: 11 [high, edge] i/o port: 0x1e8..0x1e8 align 0x1 length 0x8 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x3ee..0x3ee align 0x1 length 0x2 [16 lines] Start dependent function 2 [acceptable configuration] irq: 10, 11, 15 [high, edge] i/o port: 0x100..0x1f8 align 0x8 length 0x8 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x300..0x3fe align 0x2 length 0x2 [16 lines] Start dependent function 3 [suboptimal configuration] irq: 15 [high, edge] i/o port: 0x170..0x170 align 0x1 length 0x8 [16 lines] i/o port: 0x376..0x376 align 0x1 length 0x1 [16 lines] End of dependent functions Logical Device 2: Id PNPffff (0x41d0ffff) id string(8) 'Reserved' i/o port: 0x100..0x3f8 align 0x8 length 0x1 [16 lines] Logical Device 3: Id CTL7001 (0xe8c7001) Compatible Device Id: PNPb02f (0x41d0b02f) id string(4) 'Game' i/o port: 0x200..0x200 align 0x1 length 0x8 [16 lines] ============================================ Current configuration for Logical Device 0: ============================================ i/o port: 0x220..0x220 align 0x0 length 0x0 [0 lines] i/o port: 0x330..0x330 align 0x0 length 0x0 [0 lines] i/o port: 0x388..0x388 align 0x0 length 0x0 [0 lines] irq: 5 [high, edge] dma channel: 1 [bus master][byte][word][compat] ============================================ Current configuration for Logical Device 1: ============================================ ============================================ Current configuration for Logical Device 2: ============================================ ============================================ Current configuration for Logical Device 3: ============================================ -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frohnh=F6fer)?= Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 8 72pin SIMM sockets. What is this thing? Date: 1 Sep 1997 16:22:16 GMT Organization: University of =?ISO-8859-1?Q?W=FCrzburg,?= Germany Message-ID: <5ueq3o$vr@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <01bca914$0a9e0720$aa098bcc@isp.isp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: gmrca@isp.net In <01bca914$0a9e0720$aa098bcc@isp.isp.net> "gmrca" wrote: > I have a Color NeXTStation, and need to know WhAT it is. > All of the specs that I see point to a slab having 4 SIMM > sockets, and 128megs max RAM. Does this mean I could > do 256? Or that it won't accept 32meg SIMMs? I appreciate > any help offerred. Thanx This is really a FAQ. Is the RAM expansion slot for the M56000 DSP. Until you want to use special sound software, you will never use it. > In addition, are there any hardware hacks to increase speed > on a slab? There's one overdrive kit that pushes a 25MHz slab to 50, but it's too expensive. There's nothing else, for the whole hardware design was done "around" the processor and a change in CPU clocking would require a lot of changes on board. -- ------------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (public key avaible at any key server near you ...)
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: amd processor Date: 2 Sep 1997 10:59:53 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk Message-ID: <5ugrj9$561$1@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <5u7o14$mvh$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> jwlee@artsci.wustl.edu (Jung Woo Lee) writes: > Can anybody tell if openstep runs on amd processor. I know that openstep > has a problem running on the cyrix chip. If anybody is running openstop > on an amd chip please tell me about your experiences. We've been using AMD clones for years - work fine. Have used it on the AMD 486 clones, the 5x86 processors and curerently the K5. Shoulld be getting K6 in a week or so and I am confident it will run fine. Go for it. -bat.
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 08:23:33 -0400 From: joe.ragosta@dol.net (Joe Ragosta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Message-ID: <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R0209970823330001@news.dol.net> References: <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <340b382f.719817663@news.alt.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R0109971826490001@news.dol.net> <340d9a10.744874542@news.alt.net> <see-below-0109972341290001@ip145.mountain-view2.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> Organization: Graver Chemical Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit In article <see-below-0109972341290001@ip145.mountain-view2.ca.pub-ip.psi.net>, see-below@not-my-address.com (Matthew Vaughan) wrote: > In article <340d9a10.744874542@news.alt.net>, > hamm@spamsquish.ix.netcom.com (John Hammett) wrote: > > > > > Gradually people are catching on to you, Joe. It's no accident that > you've been > > catching a lot of flak lately. > > > > Actually, he's been catching less flak than he might be. I kill-filed him > a while back, since his posts were so *mindlessly* pro-Apple it wasn't > even worth reading them any more, much less responding to them. I've > already heard all the "Evangelize Apple" rhetoric, thank you very much, - > I've even said a lot of it myself - but inflexibility in the face of > contrary facts is something I have little respect for. Gee. I guess I shouldn't have a strong opinion. People like Matthew who can't stand strong opinions might kill-file me. I back up my opinions with evidence. I've been wrong at times, and I admit it when I am. But the majority of times, I have plenty of evidence to support my position. It's too bad that you are too interested in "neutrality" to want to read supported, factual statements. I don't feel that I need to support the Windows side of things--there are plenty of Wintel apologists. I'm still waiting for evidence of all these misrepresentations you keep accusing me of. -- Regards, Joe Ragosta See the Complete Macintosh Advocacy Site http://www.dol.net/~Ragosta/complmac.htm
From: James Felix Black <james_black@diversified.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 02 Sep 1997 11:45:21 -0500 Organization: [poster's organization not specified] Message-ID: <u7mczk6la.fsf@diversified.com> References: <5u72mv$pp9@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <01bcb4a7$2a8f1710$a201ef8c@ubu> <5u7srm$6r2@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> slick@tools.ecn.purdue.edu (Brian S Slick) writes: > Multi-tasking has absolutely zero to do with hardware. Hardware has nothing > to do with implementation or efficiency of multi-tasking. Context switching? Certainly important for multitasking in Unix, and definitely hardware limited, right? So hardware can have *lots* to do with the implementation and efficiency of multi-tasking. Not an advocate one way or the other, just pointing that out. JFB -- James Felix Black jfb@wavefront.com finger for pgp public key "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - HL Mencken
From: kykim@access5.digex.net (Kevin Yungsun Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Sun Monitor on color NeXT? Date: 2 Sep 1997 13:52:03 -0400 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Message-ID: <5uhjo3$hu0@access5.digex.net> Can this be done? The monitor has a 13w3 out and is currently connected to a Sparc 2 with a CG6 video card. My current monitor is broken and I'm waiting for a replacement. Thanks, -kevin
From: wparras@cc.ua.edu (walter parras) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Q: can I attach a black printer to non-black hardware? Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 18:32:48 GMT Organization: Adult Continuing Education Message-ID: <340c5a65.1328508@news.mindspring.com> References: <5stkce$153$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 14 Aug 1997 00:43:58 GMT, dyaeb@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (David Aston) wrote: ~Specifically, I'd like to drive an old NeXT 400dpi printer from a Sparc 5 ~running OpenStep 4.1. Does anyone know if this is possible? [An alternative ~solution driving it from any other non-black NeXTStep/OpenStep machine would ~also be of interest.] ~ <Dave> ~-- ~Dave Aston......Internet: dyaeb@slac.stanford.edu; BitNet: RIP *8-( ~MS62 Voice: (650)926-2457; Fax: (650)926-3587 ~ **NOTE new area code <^^^> <^^^> ** ~SLAC, Stanford U, and DOE are not responsible for _anything_ I say. I know this is old news, but while perusing http://biomech.mae.cornell.edu/~schmidt/next/SAQ.html I was led to a link http://biomech.mae.cornell.edu/~schmidt/next/SAQ.html#P1 listing the location of an Adobe driver. That link listed in the SAQ is broken. So I did a search on the Adobe site and turned up http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/27de.htm that reports a driver for windows machines. I realize that the original poster asked for a Sparc 5 printer connection, but does anyone know if this driver works for windows? Thank You, Walter
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <020997022422@email-now3.com> Date: 2 Sep 1997 17:59:09 GMT Control: cancel <020997022422@email-now3.com> Message-ID: <cancel.020997022422@email-now3.com> Sender: "SPECIAL !!!" special@email-now3.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: cdodson@i.cant.say.com***(email spammers must die) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Pentium Pro or Pentium II - which one for better performance ? Date: 2 Sep 1997 19:26:55 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5uhp9v$f5i@transfer.stratus.com> References: <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> In article <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> ernst@fritz.Xsnafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) writes: > Has anybody had the chance to compare the performance of Openstep/Mach or > Rhapsody on similarly equipped machines with Pentim Pro vs Pentium II ? > > I have heard of a display driver by Omnigroup, which is supposed to give > Pentium Pro systems another performance boost. Is it possible to use this > driver with Pentium II systems as well ? > > > For all intents and purposes, a Pentium II *is* a Pentium Pro with the addition of MMX extensions. OK, it's not exactly a PPro because the level 2 cache is back on the motherboard (therefore running at a slower clock speed) but that's offest by the higher chip speeds of the PII. We've evaluated two of them (P233 and P300) under OpenStep 4.2 using a Matrox Millenium 4mb and the Omni PPro Fast Video driver. If you're used to PPro speeds, they'll seem a little faster but not a huge leap. However, if you're coming to them from non-Pro Pentium systems, be prepared to be amazed. In answer to your question, I believe a 266 or 300 PII should slightly outperform a PPro 200. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
From: gary-nospam-@screaming.org (Gary W. Longsine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: I hate the word "newbie", but... Date: 2 Sep 1997 22:09:32 GMT Organization: Save the Skeet Foundation Message-ID: <5ui2qs$jki$1@news.platinum.com> References: <33fcfe76.39318381@news.erols.com> <5tj7jp$b1s$3@news.platinum.com> <01bcaf23$36415a20$86c147cf@jacob-1> Cc: timebomb@west.net In <01bcaf23$36415a20$86c147cf@jacob-1> it appeared that "Hunter Hillegas" wrote: > Why do you respond if you don't want to answer the questions? > Gary W. Longsine <longsine_nospam_@platinum.com> wrote: >> my patience is wearing thin... Although I answered most of the questions posed, and provided pointers on some others, I must say that this was a poor choice of phrasing. I should not have displayed my mood so openly. I tend to forget that not everyone has access to a web browser, or might not know where to point it for basic information on a topic. Sorry for my impatience. I'll try to do better. There is a FAQ posted here, in this newsgroup, monthly, which points to NeXTSTEP resources on the net. Among those are: www.stepwise.com www.next.com (the Apple Enterprise Software group aka enterprise.apple.com) www.apple.com (find "Rhapsody") next-ftp.peak.org (main NeXTSTEP/OpenStep ftp archive) www.gnustep.org (attempt to implement a free, portable, OpenStep) OK, I think that's enough pennance for one minor transgression. ;-) /gary -- Gary W. Longsine, Systems Engineer | ____/| OpenStep MachOS PLATINUM technology, inc. | \ o.O| Objective-C l_o_n_gsine@platinum.com (NeXTmail | =(_)= the Dock (Can i have his spam?) & MIME) |. U Elegance is Relevant.
From: David Young <daver@jacobs.Geeks.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ND & callout_dispatch() ? Date: 2 Sep 1997 22:35:18 GMT Organization: Geeks Organizations Message-ID: <5ui4b6$h4d$1@darla.visi.com> References: <5u4do6$kl$1@darla.visi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 02 Sep 1997 17:35:18 CDT David Young <daver@jacobs.Geeks.ORG> wrote: [snip] Time to follow up on my own post. > (from memory) > NeXTdimension server loaded > 32MB DRAM, i860 step C.2 > NTSC video configured > callout_dispatch(xxxxxx,nnnnnn,yyyyyy) The machine now says: "Memory controller step 1, i860 step C.1" I could've sworn it said step C.2 before shipping; I'm going to have to check the system logs to make sure. I noticed a jumper on the ND which I'm not sure if it was jumpered or not before transit, on the top side towards the "front side" of the board (the side opposite the video in/out plugs) > The "callout_dispatch" line is repeated about 10 or 12 times, and then the > machine reboots. I never see the "NeXTdimension server running" message. This still happens. The lines always say: callout_dispatch(28,xxxxxxx,yyyyyy) Where xxx and yyy are hexadecimal longints. Sometimes it looks like it's trying to break into the NMI, but another interrupt comes along and slams the callout_dispatch exception again. The screen _does_ make it to the "brightness change" when the NDserver takes over. (then it crashes) > Is this a hardware problem, a software problem, or what? What do I need to > do to fix it? I've summed the original files in /usr/lib/NextStep/Displays/NeXTdimension.psdrvr and compared the results to my installation; they are the same. I'm waiting on sums for /mach and WindowServer, and failing that, I'm going to boot from CD (when my CD arrives) and see if that works. I'd hate to think that I've damaged the boards in some way as I was extremely careful in transport. I've cleaned the contacts, reseated the memory, and tried the main board and the ND in different slots (whichever ones fit, naturally..) I guess I'm trying to drum up some attention to this post and see if anyone knows the answers (say, a certain Apple graphics engineer with more than his fair share of clues.. :)) Dave -- :: 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: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5uib9i$3s7@examiner.concentric.net> Control: cancel <5uib9i$3s7@examiner.concentric.net> Date: 03 Sep 1997 01:11:37 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.5uib9i$3s7@examiner.concentric.net> Sender: FREE CABLE<pifer@laugh.com> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: ad255@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Michael Hanna) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Newbie Questions Date: 2 Sep 1997 21:25:31 GMT Organization: Hamilton-Wentworth FreeNet Message-ID: <5ui08b$2h9$1@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> There's a local NextStation for sale. It's listed with a mono 17" monitor so I assume it's a mono station. Can this be upgraded to color? Would I need a NextDimension board? Would a ND board fit? It's a 25Mhz/040 BTW. Michael -- zen@hwcn.org http://www.hwcn.org/~ad255/Profile.html
From: crobato@kuentos.guam.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 3 Sep 1997 01:35:15 GMT Organization: Kuentos Communications Inc. Message-ID: <5uiesk$2s7@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> References: <33FB5391.79CD@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <distler-0109971154500001@slip-118-25.ots.utexas.edu> In <distler-0109971154500001@slip-118-25.ots.utexas.edu>, distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: >In article <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>, >doenges@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de wrote: > >> In fact, Apple is keeping the PowerPCs from reaching their >> true potential by using substandard motherboard designs. El cheapo PC >> motherboards can now be had with 75 and 83 MHz busspeeds and SDRAM >> support. How much difference does it make ? Check out >> <http://sysdoc.pair.com/busspeed.html> - someone took the trouble of >> testing different bus and processor clock speeds (for Wintel machines) and >> found that a 166MHz Pentium on a 83MHz bus is as fast as a 200 MHz >> Pentium on a 66MHz bus. I'd guess similar results could be observed for >> PowerPC systems. > >Sure. Look at Power Computing's PowerCenter Pro line. > >By tweaking the Catalyst motherboard to run at 60MHz, their 180MHz 604e >(MacBench score 533) blows Apple's 233MHz 604e PowerMac 9600 out of the >water (47 MHz bus, MacBench score 428). > >Of course, the rumours say that Apple is buying back Power Computing's >licence, so this comparison will, in a few days time, be academic. > >Pity. Actually Power Computing is still allowed to sell their machines all the way to the end of the year, so it won't be academic for the next four months. In any case, we should be expecting new Apple Mac designs before the end of the year with faster bus speeds so indeed, the issue becomes academic in both ways. Rgds, Chris > >JD > >-- >PGP public key: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/distler.asc
From: Br. Michael<stanthony@jumpnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: St. Anthony of Padua Date: 3 Sep 1997 07:30:42 GMT Organization: St. Anthony Center Message-ID: <5uj3n2$4er@news.jumpnet.com> September 1, 1997 We need your help NOW! The Order of St. Anthony/St. Anthony Center is an ecumenical tax exempt Religious Order dedicated to helping the oppressed. One group of oppressed is the alcoholics and addicts. A few months ago we entered into an escrow contract with owner financing, to purchase 152 acres just southeast of Austin. This property would provide a larger home for the monastery and those who want to work with us, as well as property on which to develop the first St. Anthony Detox and Recovery Center. This contract requires a $250,000 down payment. We planned an 84 hour music festival for this weekend called The Cow Pasture Special.We were featuring Blood Sweat & Tears, the Ricky Van Shelton Band, Willie Nelson and many local groups. This would have covered the down payment and more. At the last minute our financial backers for the festival reneged on their commitments. We could not find alternative backing fast enough and had to cancel the festival. Now we are asking for donations or loans of approximately $300,000 to cover the down payment and liabilities we acquired in having to cancel the festival.Closing on the property is this Thursday, 9/4/97. If you or people you know have a special interest in the desperate need for detox and recovery facilities, please contact us immediately at (512) 467-0613; FAX (512) 467-9027; 7511 Carriage Drive; Austin, Texas 78752 or e-mail at stanthony@jumpnet.com. For The St. Anthony Center: With Love and Peace; I am, Br. Michael, OSA
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From: hiatt@cig.mot.com (Don D. Hiatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: St. Anthony of Padua Date: 03 Sep 1997 08:47:56 -0500 Organization: Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group Sender: hiatt@web02 Message-ID: <v6h7mcy8q5v.fsf@cig.mot.com> References: <5uj3n2$4er@news.jumpnet.com> This is not the proper venue for your plea. Please post it elsewhere and also try to include a carriage return once in a while. don Br. Michael<stanthony@jumpnet.com> writes: > September 1, 1997 > > We need your help NOW! The Order of St. Anthony/St. Anthony Center is an ecumenical tax exempt Religious Order dedicated to helping the oppressed. One group of oppressed is the alcoholics and addicts. A few months ago we entered into an escrow contract with owner financing, to purchase 152 acres just southeast of Austin. This property would provide a larger home for the monastery and those who want to work with us, as well as property on which to develop the first St. Anthony Detox and Recovery Center. This contract requires a $250,000 down payment. [snip] -- "Don Hiatt" <hiatt@cig.mot.com> Key fingerprint = 72 83 9B 82 FF DB F5 97 53 78 01 00 22 4C 95 A0 "Not speaking officially"
From: "John Huang" <john@scenarist.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 3 Sep 1997 19:00:44 GMT Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content Message-ID: <01bcb89c$bd132a10$b55db8ce@paper> References: <33FB5391.79CD@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <distler-0109971154500001@slip-118-25.ots.utexas.edu> <5uiesk$2s7@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> The 7500/7600/8500/8600 motherboard are capable of transfering 200 megs/second data (according to an Apple engineer I know). The fastest Pentium Pro motherboard at the time of conversation (1 year ago) can do 50. Thus, Intel created AGP architecture, which is still in prototype. Comparing 166/83 pentium to 200/66 pentium can be often misleading. Unless they are from the same manufacturer and have the exact same configuration, you cannot really know what effect the speed difference. Other issues include, hard drive speed (Apple sucks on this one), memory speed/interleaving/type, even the physical distance between the cache to the processor. John > >> In fact, Apple is keeping the PowerPCs from reaching their > >> true potential by using substandard motherboard designs. El cheapo PC > >> motherboards can now be had with 75 and 83 MHz busspeeds and SDRAM > >> support. How much difference does it make ? Check out > >> <http://sysdoc.pair.com/busspeed.html> - someone took the trouble of > >> testing different bus and processor clock speeds (for Wintel machines) and > >> found that a 166MHz Pentium on a 83MHz bus is as fast as a 200 MHz > >> Pentium on a 66MHz bus. I'd guess similar results could be observed for > >> PowerPC systems. > >
From: schoinas@fox.cs.wisc.edu (Ioannis Schoinas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 3 Sep 1997 20:29:42 GMT Organization: University of WI, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept. Message-ID: <5ukhbm$8n2@spool.cs.wisc.edu> References: <33FB5391.79CD@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <distler-0109971154500001@slip-118-25.ots.utexas.edu> <5uiesk$2s7@lehi.kuent <01bcb89c$bd132a10$b55db8ce@paper> "John Huang" <john@scenarist.com> writes: +The 7500/7600/8500/8600 motherboard are capable of transfering 200 +megs/second data (according to an Apple engineer I know). The fastest +Pentium Pro motherboard at the time of conversation (1 year ago) can do 50. +Thus, Intel created AGP architecture, which is still in prototype. +Comparing 166/83 pentium to 200/66 pentium can be often misleading. Unless +they are from the same manufacturer and have the exact same configuration, +you cannot really know what effect the speed difference. Other issues +include, hard drive speed (Apple sucks on this one), memory +speed/interleaving/type, even the physical distance between the cache to +the processor. You are completely confused. AGP has nothing to do with the memory bus speed. It's just a faster, non-standard version of PCI, mainly targeted for 3D controllers. Not very interesting, IMHO. BTW, AGP motherboards ship today. Also, the 50 MBs/sec is totally bogus, unless you refer to the PCI bandwidth. A standard way to increase is to go for a 66 MHz, 64 bits PCI bus, which is described in the PCI spec. Alpha's have shipping with such busses for ages. Yannis
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Sun Monitor on color NeXT? Date: 3 Sep 1997 14:52:08 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5ukilo$b28$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5uhjo3$hu0@access5.digex.net> Kevin Yungsun Kim <kykim@access5.digex.net> wrote: : Can this be done? The monitor has a 13w3 out and is currently connected to : a Sparc 2 with a CG6 video card. My current monitor is broken and : I'm waiting for a replacement. No. The sync rates don't match. ................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know so much about Usenet, then why are you still posting?
From: dnelson@slip.net (Dru Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep Intel/Mach Install Tips page Date: 3 Sep 1997 13:58:09 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Message-ID: <5ukj11$ml2@slip.net> I have made a web page that has some tips for dealing with some of the Openstep install issues. You can get to it here: http://www.slip.net/~dnelson/openstep.html Basically, it describes some of the problems I have had and some of the solutions. If you have a problem/solution we can put the result of that here. contact me here: dnelson@slip.net
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Pentium Pro or Pentium II - which one for better performance ? Date: 2 Sep 1997 06:55:57 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <5ugd9t$kh7$1@radjah.navigator.de> References: <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: ernst@fritz.Xsnafu.de In <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> Ernst Kloecker wrote: > Has anybody had the chance to compare the performance of Openstep/Mach or > Rhapsody on similarly equipped machines with Pentim Pro vs Pentium II ? > > I have heard of a display driver by Omnigroup, which is supposed to give > Pentium Pro systems another performance boost. Is it possible to use this > driver with Pentium II systems as well ? > As the Omni driver optimizes CPU parameters, I assume they are unique to the PPro and the driver cannot be used for different processors. I haven't seen a PII with Openstep yet, but performance on a PPro is quite cool, and the large builtin cache is useful for a real 32 bit multitasking OS like Openstep. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: Augusto Rodrigues <augusto@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Jazz on Next slab Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 19:05:52 -0700 Organization: The University of Arizona Message-ID: <340E1780.167E@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi there. Is anyone using a Iomega Jazz drive with a NeXT Turbo slab? If so can he/she give me some directions on how to set it up, cables needed, format of the disks (DOS or Mac), any disktabs needed, ... Radical Solutions has a nice web page on the Zip drive, but their page for the Jazz is under construction :( Any help is appreciated. Thanks. A Rodrigues
From: Eric Doenges <doenges@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 4 Sep 97 06:23:28 GMT Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Prozessrechner, TU Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <doenges.873354208@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <33FB5391.79CD@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <distler-0109971154500001@slip-118-25.ots.utexas.edu> <5uiesk$2s7@lehi.kuent <01bcb89c$bd132a10$b55db8ce@paper> Originator: doenges@batian.lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de "John Huang" <john@scenarist.com> writes: >The 7500/7600/8500/8600 motherboard are capable of transfering 200 >megs/second data (according to an Apple engineer I know). The fastest >Pentium Pro motherboard at the time of conversation (1 year ago) can do 50. This I find very hard to believe. I suspect memory tranfer was measured differently. Let's assume an x86-board with EDO RAM at 66MHz with a 5-2-2-2 read burst (some x86 boards support 4-2-2-2 EDO read bursts). If all the system was doing is memory read bursts, that would give us about 190 MByte/s throughput. If we access memory without burst mode and only read 32 Bits at a time (remeber all Pentium Amateurs, Pros and IIs have 64 bit busses) we would get about 52 MBytes/s. With these figures, I think I can see were these numbers come from - comparing burst read to cache (64 bits) with normal longword read (32 Bits), which is a totally bogus comparison. >Thus, Intel created AGP architecture, which is still in prototype. AGP has nothing to do with system bus speed - it was created because 33MHz/32 bit PCI is becoming a bottleneck for graphics. >Comparing 166/83 pentium to 200/66 pentium can be often misleading. Unless >they are from the same manufacturer and have the exact same configuration, >you cannot really know what effect the speed difference. Other issues >include, hard drive speed (Apple sucks on this one), memory >speed/interleaving/type, even the physical distance between the cache to >the processor. You are right that there are more variables than system bus speed involved. However, I would tend to think that a 25% increase in bus speed should be very noticable. -- Eric Doenges EMail:<doenges@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> "You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the guy next to you" - anonymous
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Jazz on Next slab Date: 4 Sep 1997 07:00:16 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5ulma0$o1f$6@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <340E1780.167E@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: augusto@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu And here I thought it was going to be about music on black hardware ;-) In <340E1780.167E@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> Augusto Rodrigues wrote: > Is anyone using a Iomega Jazz drive with a NeXT Turbo slab? Sure... lots..... not me, but I've heard of them > If so can he/she give me some directions on how to set it up, > cables needed, format of the disks (DOS or Mac), any > disktabs needed, ... I think I heard that Mac disks worked easier.... disktabs and other info can be found linked to http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html > Any help is appreciated. If you want a faster/larger drive which will be easier to use (ie no disktabs) try SyQuest's SyJet (www.syquest.com) TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: tyf@.primenet.com (Tin-Yau Fung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Pentium Pro or Pentium II - which one for better performance ? Date: 4 Sep 1997 01:01:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <5ulprs$43f@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> <5ugd9t$kh7$1@radjah.navigator.de> In-Reply-To: <5ugd9t$kh7$1@radjah.navigator.de> On 09/01/97, Markus Wenzel wrote: >In <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> Ernst Kloecker wrote: >> Has anybody had the chance to compare the performance of Openstep/Mach or >> Rhapsody on similarly equipped machines with Pentim Pro vs Pentium II ? >> >> I have heard of a display driver by Omnigroup, which is supposed to give >> Pentium Pro systems another performance boost. Is it possible to use this >> driver with Pentium II systems as well ? >> > >As the Omni driver optimizes CPU parameters, I assume they are unique to the >PPro and the driver cannot be used for different processors. I haven't seen a >PII with Openstep yet, but performance on a PPro is quite cool, and the large >builtin cache is useful for a real 32 bit multitasking OS like Openstep. > >-- >Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de >IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/ > > > The Pentium II and the Pentium Pro have the same CPU core (besides the additions of MMX on the PII). The Omni driver takes advantage of the new MTRR instruction in the P6 core. Thus, any Intel CPU which derives from the P60 core will be able to use the OmniDriver, till the release of P7. -- ________________ Tin-Yau Fung, tyf@ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu NeXTmail is best!
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Jazz on Next slab Date: 4 Sep 1997 09:38:48 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5ulvj8$iad@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <340E1780.167E@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> Augusto Rodrigues <augusto@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> wrote: >Hi there. > >Is anyone using a Iomega Jazz drive with a NeXT Turbo slab? >If so can he/she give me some directions on how to set it up, >cables needed, format of the disks (DOS or Mac), any >disktabs needed, ... --- snip --- hi we use (quite successfull) the following disktab entry IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\ :fp#160:bp#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\ :pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: the jaz is connected over SCSI and it is all plug and play. you can use and format DOS-disks, too (but only to NeXT or Mac-format). greets -- Sven Droll __ ______________________________________________________/ / ______ __ sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de / /_/ ___/ please delete the 'NOSPM' from my reply-address /_ _/ _/ =====\_/======= LOGOUT FASCISM! ___________________________________________________________________ NeXT-mail or MIME welcome ;-) SPAM NOT welcome!!!
From: Rony Daher <r.daher@popmail.csuohio.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Adaptec 2920 on OS4.2 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 10:11:05 -0400 Organization: Cleveland State University Message-ID: <340EC179.D194470D@popmail.csuohio.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, I have an Adaptec AHA-2920 SCSI adapter that I'd like to use with OS4.2. My primary boot device is an IDE drive, but I'd like to be able to access my Jaz drive from OPENSTEP. The closest driver that I can find is the AHA-2940, but these two cards are not compatible. The card is compatible with a few Future Domain (tm-16xx) cards, but I haven't been able to find drivers for those either. Is anyone successfully using this card with OPENSTEP? Your help is appreciated. Please respond via email. Rony Daher Network Support Technician Cleveland State University
From: Scott Byer <byer@corp.adobe.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPCP/CHRP Death= BIG Apple Problem Date: 04 Sep 1997 09:50:43 -0700 Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View, CA Sender: byer@PUNISHMENT Message-ID: <uyb5ddnvg.fsf@corp.adobe.com> References: <33FB5391.79CD@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <see-below-2308970045490001@ip120.mountain-view.ca.pub-ip.psi.net> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2308970722330001@news.dol.net> <doenges.872664845@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <5u1grh$dpi@vuokko.uta.fi> <5u57sv$cc5@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <doenges.872836833@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <joe.ragosta-ya02408000R2908970749000001@news.dol.net> <doenges.873110791@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <distler-0109971154500001@slip-118-25.ots.utexas.edu> <5uiesk$2s7@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> <01bcb89c$bd132a10$b55db8ce@paper> John Huang writes: John> The 7500/7600/8500/8600 motherboard are capable of transfering 200 John> megs/second data (according to an Apple engineer I know). The fastest John> Pentium Pro motherboard at the time of conversation (1 year ago) can John> do 50. Someone lied to you. Actually, the bandwidth measurements are reversed. Those Macs can do a little over 120MB/sec. A good Pentium II motherboard can do over 220MB/sec. And did you know the NEW 9600 does around 64MB/sec? Measure it for yourself. Memory bandwidth is Apple's weakest spot. They keep on designing custom chips that are more expensive and slower than what you can get off the shelf. (Current workstation bandwidth is over 1GB/sec, for reference). John> Thus, Intel created AGP architecture, which is still in prototype. It's not a prototype - machines are shipping now - and was created to get video bandwidth off the main PCI bus. No biggie. Since PCs are used to video-card based designs, having a separate port is cheaper than going to a full multi-ported RAM design. -- Scott Byer, Computer Scientist mailto:byer@adobe.com Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mailstop W10 These are my opinions, and 345 Park Avenue do not necessarily reflect San Jose, CA 95110-9704 the opinions of my employer. --------- 56 bits is not enough. Visit http://rc5.distributed.net/ ---------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: atmcdo@most.NO_SPAM.fw.hac.com Subject: Re: Jazz on Next slab In-Reply-To: <5ulma0$o1f$6@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: <EG003p.Ko7@most.fw.hac.com> Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) Organization: Magnavox Electronics Systems Company References: <340E1780.167E@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> <5ulma0$o1f$6@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 19:14:12 GMT On 09/03/97, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: >If you want a faster/larger drive which will be easier to use (ie no >disktabs) try SyQuest's SyJet (www.syquest.com) > So have used one of these with a Next slab? If so how are they? Can the cartridges be Next formated or are you stuck with Apple and DOS formats? Anthony McDowell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: extra sim socket in mono/turbo station? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EG058p.nLu@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 21:05:12 GMT References: <5to6d0$qad@crcnis3.unl.edu> <5ts1pd$19vk@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> <5ua4fl$dc3@crcnis3.unl.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5ua4fl$dc3@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Josh Hesse <00093182@bigred.unl.edu> wrote: >If so, would that be an extra, is it supposed to be standard equipment? The machine comes with some DSP RAM; this board adds more. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Jazz on Next slab Date: 4 Sep 1997 23:40:48 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5ungu0$o6l$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <340E1780.167E@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> <5ulma0$o1f$6@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> <EG003p.Ko7@most.fw.hac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: atmcdo@most.fw.hac.com In <EG003p.Ko7@most.fw.hac.com> atmcdo@most.NO_SPAM.fw.hac.com wrote: > > On 09/03/97, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > >If you want a faster/larger drive which will be easier to use (ie no > >disktabs) try SyQuest's SyJet (www.syquest.com) > > So have used one of these with a Next slab? If so how are they? I have used a SyQuest EZ135, but not a SyJet... no $$ at this time, although they are having a great deal right now.... > Can the cartridges be Next formated or are you stuck with > Apple and DOS formats? They are regular Wincester drives, you can format them like any other SCSI drive, so yes you can format for NeXT. TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: louis@orb.isdn.emory.edu (Louis Leon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Will NeXTStep/OpenStep run on Versa 6200MX Date: 5 Sep 1997 03:15:41 GMT Organization: Emory University Message-ID: <5untgt$es2@lendl.cc.emory.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On the same day, I get a CompUSA quoting the Versa for $5599 and a direct mailing from NEC advertisizing a promotional price for the Versa of $3799. It is too good to bypass. The question I have is "is the Versa 6200MX is a useable platform for NextStep/Openstep for Intel." (I believe that I can assume that Windows NT and Openstep Enterprise will run on it). What I feel most concern about are the driver issues that I have read about in old newgroup postings: is there a video driver for the Versa's XGA display (I don't know what chipset it uses, nor could I find a reference to such a driver in NextAnwsers); is there a driver for Xircom's 10/100 Ethernet CardBus; what are the issues with this laptop being multi-OS bootable? Thanks -- Louis Leon
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: leffert@cs.uchicago.edu (Jonathan B. Leffert) Subject: OpenStep 4.2 on Intel and Large Disks Message-ID: <leffert.873480567@cs.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 17:29:27 GMT I've got a pc, all scsi system with a 4gb scsi disk on id 0. I want to install dos in a 400mb partition and then use the rest for OpenStep. I know the OS has a 2gb partition limit so I thought a 2gb partition and a 1.6 gb partition would be good. I've read the NeXT Answer on partitioning big disk and that seems to assume you have a working system (which I don't). I've also read the FAQ and that didn't help much. I'm looking for fairly verbose instructions on the procedure for installing this system. I was thinking it might be possible to use the FreeBSD or Linux partitioning program to create two NS partitions, but I don't know if that would work or not. Other than that, I would have to edit the disk tab, but i'm not sure how to do that given that I want to have a DOS partition. thanks, -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
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From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: A long tale of woe Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 19:20:27 GMT Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <34103900.8614787@news.wco.com> References: <owolf-ya02408000R0109971820450001@news.pdnt.com> <5ugdlh$8j7$5@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> On 2 Sep 1997 07:02:09 GMT, nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) wrote: In <owolf-ya02408000R0109971820450001@news.pdnt.com> owolf@NOSPAMpdnt.com wrote: >> After installing the new battery it behaves no differently except >> that it does show a "Booting from network" animated graphic which it wasn't >> showing before. Help! How can I get my NeXT STation to boot? This is one of the symptoms of losing the contents of the parameter RAM. Most of those batteries are over 5 years old, so this is becoming a common failure mode. >Ok, replacing the battery might not have been a bad thing, but you will >always see > >PREPOSTEROUS TIME, CHECK AND RESET THE DATE > >after an install, because it will be set to the time the CD was pressed, or >something like that. Yup. It's the CD mastering date. The error is harmless. Mostly harmless... >OK, now the folks at NeXT wanted their computers to be part of the big NeXT >network which was going to take over the world. They didn't expect that >folks would have them at home unless they were ``really savvy'' and therefore >some things aren't always what you'd expect. For example, the default >setting is to boot off the network rather than the hard drive (en versus sd). I don't think we were ever THAT optimistic. The parameter RAM defaults to Ethernet booting ('en' in the parameter RAM) for a rather prosaic reason. This let the CPU boards boot off of the factory floor network when first powered on to load the burn-in tests and operating system. When a machine was assembled, the tech would flip the parameter RAM to boot from the disk. >So when you are in the ROM monitor, enter ``p'' to get to the Preferences, >and set the boot command to 'sd' rather than 'en'.... and then change to >Verbose booting because as nice as the pictures are, the verbose is much >better. This should do the trick. If the machine is tobe used by a non-techie, don't bother with the verbose boot. I know it always confused me mum.
From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Newbie Questions Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 19:20:31 GMT Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <34103ba3.9289878@news.wco.com> References: <5ui08b$2h9$1@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> On 2 Sep 1997 21:25:31 GMT, ad255@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Michael Hanna) wrote: >There's a local NextStation for sale. It's listed with a mono 17" monitor >so I assume it's a mono station. Can this be upgraded to color? Would I >need a NextDimension board? Would a ND board fit? It's a 25Mhz/040 BTW. Unlike the Cube, a monochrome NeXTStation is monochrome for life. The NeXT Cube is the only version of NeXT hardware with expansion slots. The NeXTdimension board can only be used with the Cube.
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: A long tale of woe Date: 6 Sep 1997 03:04:48 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5uqh8g$2gf$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <owolf-ya02408000R0109971820450001@news.pdnt.com> <5ugdlh$8j7$5@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> <34103900.8614787@news.wco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <34103900.8614787@news.wco.com> Mike Paquette wrote: > On 2 Sep 1997 07:02:09 GMT, nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. > Luoma) wrote: > >OK, now the folks at NeXT wanted their computers to be part of the big NeXT > >network which was going to take over the world. They didn't expect that > >folks would have them at home unless they were ``really savvy'' and therefore > >some things aren't always what you'd expect. For example, the default > >setting is to boot off the network rather than the hard drive (en versus sd). > > I don't think we were ever THAT optimistic. Well, maybe it was just me ;-) > This should do the trick. If the machine is tobe used by a > non-techie, don't bother with the verbose boot. I know it always > confused me mum. Well, it used to confuse me too.... In fact there's still some things I don't understand about it... but watching it boot verbosely time and time again made it much easier to recognize where it was failing, ie right before it said 'netinfod' or right after X.... a lot more helpful than 'It's just spinning!' Still, at first it is mytee overwhelming ;-) TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: gougiNOspam@slip.net (steven gougi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Sound Box Woes! Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 20:36:35 -0800 Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Message-ID: <gougiNOspam-ya023580000509972036350001@news.slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Has anybody heard of this phenomenon? I purchased a sound box recently from Deepspace and connected it to my Cube, which has a Nextdimension board and a Fimi Color Monitor. When I press the power key on my keyboard it makes a "Poof" sound but does not boot up. However my Cube works perfectly as a two -headed beast. - It only malfunctions with the Sound Box. - Deepspace has already replaced it once and yet I get the same error again. I have also changed the Parameters in the ROM monitor (see below), to no avail. Sound out ? No Wait until Keypress ? No Port A alt console ? Yes Verbose Mode ? No Please E-mail your suggestions to gougi@slip.net Your kind assistance is much appreciated regards Steven
From: martin@beauty.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Klocke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Newbie Questions Date: 4 Sep 1997 21:21:23 GMT Organization: Aachen University of Technology / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik Message-ID: <5un8oj$nn7$1@news.rwth-aachen.de> References: <5ui08b$2h9$1@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: ad255@freenet.hamilton.on.ca In <5ui08b$2h9$1@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Michael Hanna wrote: > There's a local NextStation for sale. It's listed with a mono 17" monitor > so I assume it's a mono station. Can this be upgraded to color? Would I > need a NextDimension board? Would a ND board fit? It's a 25Mhz/040 BTW. Hi Michael ! The ND-Board was for the cube only. It's pretty big and would never fit into a slab. There is no way to upgrade a mono station to color. At least nothing I have heard of... Adios Martin
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From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on Intel and Large Disks Date: 6 Sep 1997 17:09:10 GMT Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated Message-ID: <5us2nm$gih$1@news.istar.ca> References: <leffert.873480567@cs.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <leffert.873480567@cs.uchicago.edu> On 09/05/97, Jonathan B. Leffert wrote: >I want to install dos in a 400mb partition and then use the rest for >OpenStep. I know the OS has a 2gb partition limit so I thought a 2gb >partition and a 1.6 gb partition would be good. I've read the NeXT >Answer on partitioning big disk and that seems to assume you have a >working system (which I don't). Why don't you just install the system in the first 2 GB partition you create, and then add the 1.6 GB partition afterwords? Also, during the installation of OPENSTEP, you are given the option to manipulate partitions on the disk (i.e. create and delete). I fail to see what the problem is. -- -===================================================================- 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: yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Marc Guenther) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Trident video driver for Sharp PC9800T notebook Date: 6 Sep 1997 07:38:34 GMT Organization: INTRON NET Message-ID: <5ur19q$k4@ns2.intron.net> Hi, Does anyone run Nextstep/Openstep on a Sharp 9800 notebook ? It has a Trident graphicscard (at least thats what Windows95 claims). But the driver provided by Next doesn't work. So I'm stuck with 800x600/gray on a notebook that does 1024x768/color. Not very satisfactory :-( Any help appriciated. Thanks, Marc yoda@eko.de
From: Jason McBrien <jbm@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Next 400dpi Printer Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 13:35:29 -0400 Organization: Wayne State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Are there any toner cartridges currently available for the NeXT Printer? What type of toner cartridges does it take? Is it worth buying? Jason McBrien jbm1@nova.eng.wayne.edu Wayne State University Computer Labs
From: ~eseale~@enteract.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Question about NeXTstation color (25Mhz) and SIMM banks. (please?) Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 20:09:06 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5us5dm$7pc@eve.enteract.com> this is what i understand from the next faqs that i have read. 1. the next colorstation (non -turbo) came in three flavors (hardware wise) a. one with 16 lots for 30 pin simms b. one with 8 72 pin slots for ram c. one with 4 72 pin slots for ram is this correct? i am still lost on one point. what happens if i put 2 8 meg simms in the revsion that takes 8 72 pin simms. does it count up as 16 meg? 8 meg? or does it just not function? ps - i would try it but i do not have any 8 meg 72 pin simms laying about my apt. -thanks from eric
From: rgr@freedomnet.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Is this you? Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 08:18:43 Organization: FreedomNet Message-ID: <5ujkl5$jc9$2094@news.freedomnet.com> Are you sick of all the Home Business hype? Most of them are either too expensive or so complicated that you can't explain them to other people. Are you ready for a simple Home Business that makes sense? A business that doesn't monopolize all of your time. That requires No: Stocking, Selling or Delivery. No: billing or collections. No: complicated paperwork. No: employees to pay. No: contracts to sign, you can quit any time. There is a one time $29 enrollment. There is never any new money spent after that. If you decide that this business is not for you simply return the business kit within 60 days for a full refund. Tens of thousands of people have been able to make this their full time business in a reasonably short amount of time. This is not "get rich quick." This is a highly reputable company that opened in 1985. I will send you details on this company when you e-mail me for information. God forbid, but if something should happen where you couldn't work or a loved one became ill and you had to stay home to care for them, would you be able to? Would your company keep paying you? Nobody likes to think about these things, but they do happen. And unless you have great insurance you may want to consider this business. You've nothing to lose by asking for information. I'll be happy to send it to you. The fact is, if you are trading time for money your income is temporary, ( even if you own the company.) The average person works from paycheck to paycheck with little or nothing left over to save or invest. This business can help you break the paycheck to paycheck cycle. For information email me at rramsey36@aol.com or rgr@freedomnet.com
From: "CygnusX1" <ben@p3.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: help... Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 12:44:51 -0400 Organization: Surf Network Message-ID: <5us1dt$bm4@surf3.p3.net> If anyone can provide some assistance, it will be greatly appreciated. I have a NextStep workstation (Mono) that is not working properly. I changed the domain name and was forced to restsart. The machine has not booted since. It gets stopped at "Checking System Files". I tried hitting the command-command- tilde with out any results. I have no boot disk, and limited UNIX experience. Please provide any detailed help you can. Thanks. benjamin@p3.net -- Benjamin Folk Jr, Client Service Analyst CoreTech Consulting Group, Inc. Janssen Pharmacutica Titusville, NJ 609-730-2233(Client Service Center) 609-730-2589(Desk) 215-819-1462 benjamin@p3.net ben@p3.net
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5uslfu$d3n@world1.bawave.com> Control: cancel <5uslfu$d3n@world1.bawave.com> Date: 06 Sep 1997 22:27:55 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.5uslfu$d3n@world1.bawave.com> Sender: CASH4U@dream.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: help... Date: 7 Sep 1997 03:02:01 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5ut5f9$2a9$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5us1dt$bm4@surf3.p3.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ben@p3.net Right after it does the ``sound out'' test, break the boot process with 'command-tilda' or 'command command tilda' and boot with the 'bsd' command. This will give you a verbose booting from the ROM monitor, which may show more exactly what is going on... TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on Intel and Large Disks Date: 7 Sep 1997 03:04:50 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Sep6222845@slave.doubleu.com> References: <leffert.873480567@cs.uchicago.edu> In-reply-to: leffert@cs.uchicago.edu's message of Fri, 5 Sep 1997 17:29:27 GMT In article <leffert.873480567@cs.uchicago.edu>, leffert@cs.uchicago.edu (Jonathan B. Leffert) writes: I've got a pc, all scsi system with a 4gb scsi disk on id 0. I want to install dos in a 400mb partition and then use the rest for OpenStep. I know the OS has a 2gb partition limit so I thought a 2gb partition and a 1.6 gb partition would be good. <...> I was thinking it might be possible to use the FreeBSD or Linux partitioning program to create two NS partitions, but I don't know if that would work or not. Other than that, I would have to edit the disk tab, but i'm not sure how to do that given that I want to have a DOS partition. _I_ would use Linux to provide a NeXTSTEP FDISK partition (NS/OS won't use the second one if you provide two, even if you ask nicely). I've not had good luck using NeXTSTEP fdisk on a 3.1G EIDE drive. The info it spit back at me was far enough from correct that I didn't want to let it go any further. But it used a partition created with Linux fdisk, no problem. Then I'd use "disk -i -p <size> <disk>" to partition that "slice" into one or more NeXTSTEP partitions (replace <size> with the number of blocks for the first partition, the rest goes to the second, <disk> with the corrosponding device, /dev/rsd0a or somesuch in this case. Check /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes/3_3Development.rtf on the CD-ROM). Unfortunately, I don't think you're able to reach this level of control without a running NeXTSTEP/OpenStep system. Do you have any other SCSI disks you could use for awhile to accomplish this? I've installed NeXTSTEP and OpenStep to a Syquest EZFlyer, it boots for me fine. I doubt a Zip would work. Otherwise, perhaps you could find a running system to put your disk in for a couple minutes. Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: nospam@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next 400dpi Printer Date: 7 Sep 1997 03:11:28 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5ut610$2a9$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jbm@apollo.accs.wayne.edu In <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> Jason McBrien wrote: > > Are there any toner cartridges currently available for the NeXT Printer? Yes > What type of toner cartridges does it take? http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/printerinfo.html#TONER I use the toner cartridge for HP Laserjet II, IID,III, IID HP ref : HP 92295A (that is what you will see on the box) or the Canon E-PS > Is it worth buying? Well, the cart costs about $70.... a new PostScript printer is about $1000, so I'd say yes ;-) If you are asking if the toner works well, it works perfectly. TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
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: <16621873000033@digifix.com> Date: 7 Sep 1997 03:52:35 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <8835873604833@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. 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From: kimjinsoo <ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [q] i want to use pc`s monitor my NeXTDimention cube ?? Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 14:38:13 +0900 Organization: yoo Message-ID: <34123DC4.9539E28F@chollian.dacom.co.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have a NeXTDimention cube(25mh) the good old days i want to use pc`s monitor at my NeXTDimention cube can i use pc`s monitor ? 1)a method ? 2)a kind ? 3)a brand ? Please reply to ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr Thanks. Sincerely, kim jin soo, ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr
From: "Michael Warnock" <skill@execpc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: amd processor Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 09:39:52 -0500 Organization: Exec-PC BBS Internet - Milwaukee, WI Message-ID: <5utsn5$2ec@newsops.execpc.com> References: <5u7o14$mvh$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> <5ugrj9$561$1@netty.york.ac.uk> I am running OS4.2 with a k6 233 no prob
From: "Michael Warnock" <skill@execpc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: plz help with USR 56k PnP modem on OS4.2 Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 09:41:00 -0500 Organization: Exec-PC BBS Internet - Milwaukee, WI Message-ID: <5utsp9$2eq@newsops.execpc.com> Ok- the modem is plug and play and has no overide jumpers like previous sportsters. In verbose mode i can see the kernel find it along with my awe64 (which works) and i can do a pnpdump on eisa and look at all the fun junk- now from the other end I have an isa serial port driver installed with the correct irq and io (7 and 3e8) but in bootup the serial driver says that the chip is unknown (same place that my mouse's serial port says its irq and stuff) and that is where i am- I have searched all the ftp and web sites for info and found ZIP almost nothing on modems at all and the stuff there was basically assumed it was already being found. I am posting this message with IE on 95 and I am getting tired of rebooting to do so:) Michael Warnock -- Skill Labs
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: adding scsi to eide system and Adaptec 2940UW questions Date: 7 Sep 97 11:20:40 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <B0383E8F-3DAA73@141.214.128.36> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://news.itd.umich.edu/comp.sys.next.sysadmin I recently ordered a bunch of stuff for my eide OpenStep on mach station (2 imagine 128's, adaptec 2940 uw, 4 gb scsi drive (the fastest I could find), scsi cd-rom :-). I'm planning on keeping my boot drive as the eide drive (I was told that you can't boot from a scsi device and still see your eide devices, but can boot from eide and still see your scsi devices). I think I know how to move my swapspace over to the scsi drive (with the swaptab file). I would also like to move some other essential stuff over to the scsi drive. However, I'm new to UNIX and not sure what's really possible. Is it possible to move the NextLibrary directories over? How do I set it up so that Project Builder, WebObjects, the system, etc will still find the libraries they need? Any other stuff you would suggest that should be moved over to the fast drive? Also, would it be possible to put a small DOS partition on the SCSI drive, even though this isn't the OpenStep boot drive? 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Next 400dpi Printer Message-ID: <EG508H.n4o@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 12:05:03 GMT In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> Jason McBrien <jbm@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> writes: > > Are there any toner cartridges currently available for the NeXT Printer? > What type of toner cartridges does it take? Is it worth buying? > FAQ! Refer to peanuts.leo.org P.S.: The answer is: they're normal Canon EP-S like in Apple LaserWriterII and HP LaserJet 3. -- 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: Question about NeXTstation color (25Mhz) and SIMM banks. (please?) Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EG5DJ2.7nv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:52:14 GMT References: <5us5dm$7pc@eve.enteract.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5us5dm$7pc@eve.enteract.com>, <~eseale~@enteract.com> wrote: >this is what i understand from the next faqs that i have read. > >1. the next colorstation (non -turbo) came in three flavors (hardware >wise) > >a. one with 16 lots for 30 pin simms >b. one with 8 72 pin slots for ram >c. one with 4 72 pin slots for ram > >is this correct? > I don't think so--I don't think there ever was one with 30 pin SIMMs. All I have seen correspond to your type "b" above; I don't know if any Turbo-based non-Turbo colour slabs were ever made. >i am still lost on one point. what happens if i put 2 8 meg simms in >the revsion that takes 8 72 pin simms. > The board doesn't recognise SIMMs above 4MB so you'll get something strange--maybe 2MB, maybe 4MB, I'm not sure. -- 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: Sound Box Woes! Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EG5DqK.8uB@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:56:44 GMT References: <gougiNOspam-ya023580000509972036350001@news.slip.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <gougiNOspam-ya023580000509972036350001@news.slip.net>, steven gougi <gougiNOspam@slip.net> wrote: >Has anybody heard of this phenomenon? > >I purchased a sound box recently from Deepspace and connected it to my >Cube, which has a Nextdimension board and a Fimi Color Monitor. >When I press the power key on my keyboard it makes a "Poof" sound but does >not boot up. However my Cube works perfectly as a two -headed beast. - It >only malfunctions with the Sound Box. The problem is with your power supply. Cubes turn themselves off by detecting the amount of current drawn from the power supply. When it drops below a certain threshold (because the CPU board shut itself down) it turns off. On cubes that were build before the ND came along this threshold is set assuming a mono monitor will always be connected. Your cube is turning itself off since not enough current is being drawn. Newer power supplies have this fixed. You can get around it in a couple of ways. If you have an old dead hard disk lying around you can connect it, basically acting as a power resistor. I have found that my big CDC disk combined with a NeXT optical drive is enough to stop my cube from turning off. Another note... >I have also changed the Parameters in the ROM monitor (see below), to no avail. >Sound out ? No It's fine to leave this turned on if you have a Sound Box connected. >Port A alt console ? Yes You don't need this; the console will appear on the ND's screen. Unless you're running an '030 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
From: michael@nexus1.oche.de.NOSPAM (Michael Pieper, remove '.NOSPAM' for reply) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next 400dpi Printer Date: 7 Sep 1997 16:42:52 GMT Organization: I.N.-Regionaldomain oche.de, Aachen, Germany Message-ID: <5uulic$6bv$1@nexusgate.oche.de> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> Jason McBrien <jbm@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> wrote: > >Are there any toner cartridges currently available for the NeXT Printer? >What type of toner cartridges does it take? Is it worth buying? You can find the asnwer in the Next FAQ, available from http://peanuts.leo.org: The toner cartridge is a standard EP-S cartridge, the same that fits the HP LaserJet III and some other printers. Any HP LaserJet II or III will fit. HPLJ4mSI cartridges do NOT fit. Michael -- Michael Pieper, Bluecherplatz 14, D-52068 Aachen, Tel. : +49 - (0)241 - 902455 Fax: +49 - (0)241 - 902456 Mail : michael @ nexus1.oche.de (NeXTmail and MIME welcome) PGP : Public Key on demand
From: Jonathan Hendry <jon@subsequent.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Sporadic freezes with 4.2 Date: 7 Sep 1997 21:58:48 GMT Organization: Netcom Sender: Jonathan Hendry <jon@aahz.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: <5uv82o$sh1@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> Help - Every so often, my machine locks up solid. I can't even get the restart/halt panel. No messages, no kernel panic, nada, it just freezes up solid. It seems to happen when I move the mouse. I'm using a P166, Tyan motherboard, Logitech serial mouse. I recently moved long distance, and this behavior started since I unpacked the machine. It hasn't happened today (so far). On the other hand, I have seen several instances of mouse stutter, where the mouse doesn't respond or 'jumps' during heavy activity. I don't know if this is related or not. Any ideas what the freeze problem might be? Thanks, Jon
From: Jonathan Hendry <jon@subsequent.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 'MagicSound16'? Date: 7 Sep 1997 22:01:55 GMT Organization: Netcom Sender: Jonathan Hendry <jon@aahz.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: <5uv88j$sh1@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> I've got a 'MagicSound 16' PNP sound board I bought at Frys', allegedly SB16 compatible. OpenStep doesn't seem to like it, though. Telling OpenStep that it's a SoundBlaster didn't work. Has anyone gotten one of these to work? - Jon
From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [q] i want to use pc`s monitor my NeXTDimention cube ?? Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 22:54:38 GMT Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <341329be.3576312@news.wco.com> References: <34123DC4.9539E28F@chollian.dacom.co.kr> On Sun, 07 Sep 1997 14:38:13 +0900, kimjinsoo <ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr> wrote: > I have a NeXTDimention cube(25mh) the good old days > > i want to use pc`s monitor at my NeXTDimention cube Most of the better multi-sync monitors which have 1) R, G, and B co-ax barrel connectors 2) Support 1280 x 1024 non-interlaced at 68Hz will work. I've used an old NEC Multisync 5FG this way, with the ND board connected to the barrel connectors, and a PC hooked to the VGA connector. The monitor has a switch to move between the two inputs. The ND board generates video for 1120 by 832 pixel displays, with 68 Hz refresh rate, and composite sync on the green channel.
From: nirvana@interport.net (Moonlit Knight) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: P133 system for sale Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 01:26:26 GMT Organization: Interport Communications Corp. Message-ID: <34135438.8345789@news.interport.net>
From: kimjinsoo <ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: re : Re: [q] i want to use pc`s monitor my NeXTDimention cube ?? Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 11:06:27 +0900 Organization: yoo Message-ID: <34135DA3.A3E7210D@chollian.dacom.co.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi. >Most of the better multi-sync monitors which have > 1) R, G, and B co-ax barrel connectors > 2) Support 1280 x 1024 non-interlaced at 68Hz => "R, G, and B co-ax barrel connectors " = 3BNC cable (?) or 4BNC cable(?) or 5BNC cable(?),, Please reply to ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr Thanks. Sincerely, kim jin soo, ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr
From: Jack Nutting <jnutting@iaxs.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: The Problem With NS/OS Intel Internal Modems Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 16:29:56 -0500 Organization: Infinity AccessNET Message-ID: <34146E54.2FC32D33@iaxs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit People of Earth, I'm trying to make the generic-cheapo-internal-modem-that-came-with- my-machine work with OpenStep 4.1, and having limited success. In trying to solve this problem, I've been digging through DejaNews, and have found *lots* of people posting the same problem, but have never seen a real solution. The following is a typical symptom of the NS/OS Internal Modem Problem: Apr 9 14:55:01 localhost mach: ISASerialPort1: Unable to determine chip type at I/O base 0x2f8 The general problem I've seen described, and from which I'm suffering as well, is that you have your internal modem all set up as com2, irq 3, address 0x2f8, working perfectly well with Win95 and everything else you throw at it. You've got two instances of the ISA Serial Driver set up, and the first one works fine for com1, but the second one, pointing at the modem, chokes as above. The Configure.app help files say that this means the driver can't recognize the UART at the specified address. So I guess I should infer that the UART in the modem I've got, as well as those in the modems all these other folks have, is somehow "nonstandard". The problem I have with this hypothesis is that it seems unlikely to me that the broad range of modems I've seen mentioned, ranging from USR down to generic equivalents, are all using "nonstandard" UARTs. In fact, some posters with this error even said that their modem documentation claimed to have the "standard 16550". So what gives? My hunch is that there is a tiny oversight in the ISA Serial Driver that doesn't recognize some slight variation in the UART included with a few types of modems, and chokes on those. I've checked NextAnswers to see if there's an updated driver, but there doesn't seem to be any. If anybody has any sort of solution to this problem, please do share it. -- Jack Nutting jnutting@iaxs.net
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: The Problem With NS/OS Intel Internal Modems Date: 8 Sep 1997 18:28:50 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5v1g52$o5h$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <34146E54.2FC32D33@iaxs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jnutting@iaxs.net 1) csn.misc is for messages which don't belong is any other group and therefore should never be crossposted to See http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html 2) If you must crosspost (ie a member of your family is being held at gunpoint until you do) please make sure you set a Followup-To: line. 3) <bordering on an answer> Did you install the Serial Port and TTY Port in Configure.app? TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: Nobert Pirzkal <npirzkal@eso.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Pentium Pro or Pentium II - which one for better performance ? Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 08:33:47 +0200 Organization: ESO Message-ID: <34139C4B.4A6A394@eso.org> References: <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> <5ugd9t$kh7$1@radjah.navigator.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Markus Wenzel wrote: > > In <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> Ernst Kloecker wrote: > > Has anybody had the chance to compare the performance of Openstep/Mach or > > Rhapsody on similarly equipped machines with Pentim Pro vs Pentium II ? > > > > I have heard of a display driver by Omnigroup, which is supposed to give > > Pentium Pro systems another performance boost. Is it possible to use this > > driver with Pentium II systems as well ? > > > > As the Omni driver optimizes CPU parameters, I assume they are unique to the > PPro and the driver cannot be used for different processors. I haven't seen a > PII with Openstep yet, but performance on a PPro is quite cool, and the large > builtin cache is useful for a real 32 bit multitasking OS like Openstep. > > -- > Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de > IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/ I thought that I remembered that they renamed the OMNIpro driver to something else with version 1.0 for the very reason that it worked with Pentium Pro's AND Pentium II's... Check their homepage... I may be mis-remembering.... :-( Nor --
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Pentium Pro or Pentium II - which one for better performance ? Date: 8 Sep 1997 20:52:16 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5v1oi0$o5h$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> <5ugd9t$kh7$1@radjah.navigator.de> <34139C4B.4A6A394@eso.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <34139C4B.4A6A394@eso.org> Nobert Pirzkal wrote: > I thought that I remembered that they renamed the OMNIpro driver to > something else with version 1.0 for the very reason that it worked with > Pentium Pro's AND Pentium II's... Check their homepage... I may be > mis-remembering.... :-( No, you remember correctly: http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/ says: a NEXTSTEP driver which can dramatically improve video performance on Intel Pentium Pro and Pentium II systems. Checkout: http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniFastVideoDriver/ TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: terrence@minn.net (Terrence Asselin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Turbo Slab just switches off Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 21:31:15 GMT Organization: MinnNet Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <34146dc3.1769623@news.minn.net> Hello all, I have a mono turbo slab which has been working fairly well until I moved. Once I arrived at my new home and fired up the machine I noticed a disturbing new behavior. Occasionally, after no predictable amount of time the machine will just switch off cold. There is no software warning or anything. Any clues what could be causing this? Thanks, Terrence Asselin
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Turbo Slab just switches off Date: 8 Sep 1997 22:29:42 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5v1u8m$o5h$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <34146dc3.1769623@news.minn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: terrence@minn.net In <34146dc3.1769623@news.minn.net> Terrence Asselin wrote: Without really knowing, here are some guesses.... - Replace the internal battery. $7 fixes a lot of odd problems. - Check the power coming in... does it dip very low (so low that the machine might pop off?) - open the case and check the various connectors, and make sure they are all secure. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: Brent Clothier <bclothie@uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Pentium Pro or Pentium II - which one for better performance ? Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 17:55:18 -0500 Organization: Beckman Institute Message-ID: <34148256.41C6@uiuc.edu> References: <EFspsB.F3M@fritz.snafu.de> <5uhp9v$f5i@transfer.stratus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > For all intents and purposes, a Pentium II *is* a Pentium Pro with > the addition of MMX extensions. OK, it's not exactly a PPro because > the level 2 cache is back on the motherboard (therefore running at a slower > clock speed) but that's offest by the higher chip speeds of the PII. > We've evaluated two of them (P233 and P300) under OpenStep 4.2 using > a Matrox Millenium 4mb and the Omni PPro Fast Video driver. If you're used > to PPro speeds, they'll seem a little faster but not a huge leap. However, > if you're coming to them from non-Pro Pentium systems, be prepared to be > amazed. > > In answer to your question, I believe a 266 or 300 PII should slightly > outperform a PPro 200. > > Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) If you are fortunate to have a motherboard that can overclock the P6 to 233MHz this may not be an issue. The P6 has been reported to be very stable. Those interested in overclocking can go to Tom's Hardware Guide at http://www.sysdoc.pair.com/ Brent
From: smyth@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Richard Smyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT 400 dpi Level II off center Date: 8 Sep 1997 23:08:24 GMT Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Message-ID: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> Keywords: NeXT 400 dpi Level II Has anyone seen the following problem? We are running NeXTSTEP 3.2 on a 25 MHz NeXTstation with a NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer, on which the printed output has strayed from the center of the page; it is 0.75 inches too high and 0.75 inches too far to the right. This problem occurs in all apps (Edit.app, WriteNow.app, NXFax, etc.) Print previews look fine before jobs are sent to the printer. Some recent software installations include 1) Yiannis Michopoulos's NT drivers (www.gomeco.com/next/NeXTprinterWNT40.I.d.zip) 2) NXFax 1.04 3) BlueSkyFonts (blueskyfonts.tar.gz) The Michopoulos driver did not install successfully on the NT box, so it is almost certainly not the cause. The NXFaxModem required the Addendum fix for timeouts on the Zyxel Omni 288S modem. (See the recent post by Stephen at A&M and the reply by Markus Wenzel. By the way, should root see both a "localhost_fax" and a "Local_Fax_Modem" in the dread database?) We booted from an old external SCSI with a clean copy of NeXTSTEP 3.2 and saw more problems: Edit.app printed portrait documents in landscape format and printed landscape documents in portrait format. We re-installed NeXTSTEP 3.2 on the internal SCSI to no avail. The green tab on the paper tray is set to LTR (not A4). The machine is not connected to the network at this time. Because we experienced such strange problems when we booted to the external SCSI, the problem is almost certainly in the printer (or the printer port), which bodes ill. The best hope is that the "BIOS" or "firmware" of the printer has been altered, and perhaps could be returned to some kind of factory default. There is also rumor of a solenoid that can go bad on HP printers and cause this sort of problem. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
From: kimjinsoo <ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [q] help ( NeXTDimention cube) ?? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 10:10:23 +0900 Organization: yoo Message-ID: <3414A1FF.36B2B1FD@chollian.dacom.co.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi. >Most of the better multi-sync monitors which have > 1) R, G, and B co-ax barrel connectors > 2) Support 1280 x 1024 non-interlaced at 68Hz => "R, G, and B co-ax barrel connectors " = 3BNC cable (?) or 4BNC cable(?) or 5BNC cable(?),, Please reply to ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr Thanks. Sincerely, kim jin soo, ypc@chollian.dacom.co.kr
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT 400 dpi Level II off center Date: 9 Sep 1997 01:38:29 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5v29al$o5h$6@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: smyth@gibbs.oit.unc.edu In <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> Richard Smyth wrote: > Has anyone seen the following problem? No.... just some guesses. > Some recent software installations include > 1) Yiannis Michopoulos's NT drivers > (www.gomeco.com/next/NeXTprinterWNT40.I.d.zip) > > The Michopoulos driver did not install successfully on the > NT box, so it is almost certainly not the cause. I don't know what this driver does, but it is *possible* that some incorrect installation of something that mucked with the Printer was responsible for this, no? > There is also rumor of a solenoid that can go bad on HP printers and cause > this sort of problem. The printer was made by Canon, not HP, though, wasn't it? TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: escape@paranoia.com (Mike Watts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NEC cdrom with openstep4.2 Date: 9 Sep 1997 01:41:05 GMT Organization: Overcome by Paranoia Message-ID: <5v29fh$qdg$1@usenet76.supernews.com> We have installed openstep 4.2 on a Dell Optiplex box, and are wondering if there is any support for the NEC cdrom that came with it. The model is CDR-1400A, IDE interface. thanks, mike -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-J o h n M i c h a e l W a t t s-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-= escape@paranoia.com http://www.paranoia.com/~escape/ -=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "El Riesgo Siempre Vive" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
From: drew <arel@wt.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Seagate 2.5GB Ultra SCSI $285 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 21:33:18 -0500 Organization: World Trade Network, Inc. Message-ID: <3414B56E.CEC@wt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Seagate 2.5GB Ultra SCSI $285 model ST32151WC SCA80 NEW DRIVE IN BOX still under warranty arel@wt.net
From: drew <arel@wt.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 2.1GB SCSI Wide $250 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 21:34:38 -0500 Organization: World Trade Network, Inc. Message-ID: <3414B5BE.7986@wt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 2.1GB SCSI Wide $250 Conner drive model CFP2107W used once still under warranty by seagate arel@wt.net
From: drew <arel@wt.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: IBM 2.2GB UltraStar DCAS-32160 B SCSI 3.5" LowPro. HH $300 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 21:42:56 -0500 Organization: World Trade Network, Inc. Message-ID: <3414B7B0.656D@wt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit IBM 2.2GB UltraStar DCAS-32160 B SCSI 3.5" LowPro. HH $300 arel@wt.net
From: eng50184@leonis.nus.sg Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ttttttttttttttttt Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 14:22:34 GMT Organization: NUS Message-ID: <34155ba7.11131718@news.pacific.net.sg>
From: shaffer@durer.phyast.pitt.edu (C. David Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next 400dpi Printer Date: 09 Sep 1997 15:30:26 GMT Organization: University of Pittsburgh Message-ID: <SHAFFER.97Sep9113026@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> <5ut610$2a9$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> In-reply-to: nospam@luomat.peak.org's message of 7 Sep 1997 03:11:28 GMT For what it's worth: I just bought a Next Laser Printer from Deep Space Technologies. I'm very happy with it. Anyway, in search of a cheap alternative to the HP toner cartridges, I bought a Nashau "remanufactured" toner cartridge. They (the manufacturer) explicitly state that these cartridges work in the Next Laster printer and at Sams I paid only $39 and when I return the used cartridge I get $10 back (rebate sticker on box). Some comments: . Quality: looks fine to me but I'm no expert in toner . Quantity: I have no idea if this toner cartridge contains as much toner as the HP cartridge . Rebate: I don't know what HP gives you when you recycle their toner cartridges. Maybe it would equalize the prices. . Insertion: Be careful when inserting the cartridge. It should fit perfectly but the one I bought had a bent pastic tab which got in the way (until I noticed it). Maybe someone else could point out other issues with "cheap toner". Bottom line was I had about $50 in my pocket, the HP toner was $79 and Sam's doesn't take VISA :-) David -- David Shaffer Department of Physics Wayne State College Wayne, NE 68787 shaffer@phyast.pitt.edu NeXTMail/MIME welcome
From: jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT 400 dpi Level II off center Date: 9 Sep 1997 17:24:10 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5v40nq$msa$1@news.tamu.edu> References: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Sep 1997 17:24:10 GMT In-Reply-To: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> On 09/08/97, Richard Smyth wrote: >Has anyone seen the following problem? We are running >NeXTSTEP 3.2 on a 25 MHz NeXTstation with a >NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer, on which the printed output >has strayed from the center of the page; it is 0.75 inches >too high and 0.75 inches too far to the right. I have seen this problem and it had a very simple solution. When you pull out the paper tray on the end that goes into the printer, there is a plastic green tab. Make sure this is on Letter and not A4. I don't know how they get switched, but if it gets moved, the printer output gets shifter for the appropriate size paper. Took me a little while to figure that out. Let me know if that was your problem. Jeromy --
From: Greg Bryant <Gregory.A.Bryant@ncal.kaiperm.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can a NeXT workstation be upgraded...? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 10:41:44 -0700 Organization: Another Netscape News Server User Message-ID: <34158A55.1F322A71@ncal.kaiperm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am interested in hearing from people with expertise in upgrading NeXT workstations. I'm considering the purchase of a NeXT black box and would like to hype it's performance to that of a low-end Pentium. I know the option exists to go Intel but I wan to hear ideas about upgrading. Will a huge RAM poolmake a difference? many thanks, greg
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next 400dpi Printer Date: 9 Sep 1997 17:40:12 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5v41ls$pj4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> <5ut610$2a9$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <SHAFFER.97Sep9113026@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <SHAFFER.97Sep9113026@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> C. David Shaffer wrote: > Rebate: I don't know what HP gives you when you recycle > their toner cartridges. Maybe it would equalize the prices. I think they'll give you postage to mail the toner in... > Bottom line was I had about $50 in my pocket, the HP toner was $79 and > Sam's doesn't take VISA :-) They do... at least they take MasterCard..... not for a long time, but they do... at least in my area. It came in handy one day when I found myself check-less.... TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: kafkouli@zeus.fiu.edu (Yorgos Kafkoulis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Wacom Tablet works fine with 4.0 Date: 9 Sep 1997 18:39:42 GMT Organization: Florida International University Message-ID: <5v455e$b51$1@isis.fiu.edu> Hello friends After more than a month with the puzzle, I managed to make the WacomTablet (version 3.36i) by Cambridge Animation Systems to work. For Openstep 4x there is no need to use the MuX driver. My problem was with an Intel laptop Tecra730CDT which has an internal modem in COM2. I used just one copy of the Serial port driver with IRQ3 at 0x2F8 and put the Wacom in IRQ4 at 0x3F8. I was making all these changes but I was selecting (for the wacom) the first available address other than 0x3F8 and I was getting UART failure. Anyway, I post this in case someone else needs it. I have a wacom ARTZII 18X12 electrostatic UD1812REB. Thanks George Kafkoulis Mathematics. PS: I use the wacom for handwriting my lecture as an electronic blackboard. I use Iconbuilder (! it is the fastest!!) and broadcast to my students' computers the screen of my laptop using ScreenCast.app.
From: not@my.address.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT 400 dpi Level II off center Date: 9 Sep 1997 19:04:10 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <5v46ja$38k$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> In-Reply-To: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> On 09/08/97, Richard Smyth wrote: >Has anyone seen the following problem? I've been having a similar problem for a week -- top margins are too long, bottom margins are too short. It makes no difference what app I use, and everything prints to screen just fine in Preview.app. I even installed the JetPilot driver for the NeXT Laser, but no luck. At least one other user has posted a similar problem. That was six months ago and he's still looking for a solution. If anyone has any ideas, we'd all be much obliged. Best, -- invert: umich.edu jdevlin insert: shift "2"
From: "Jay Weber" <jweb@accessus.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXTstation Turbo Color Keyboard woes! Date: 9 Sep 1997 19:42:41 GMT Organization: Blah! Message-ID: <01bcbd58$c593c9e0$1da9cecf@duh.accessus.net> Hi, hopefully somebody can give me a hand. I have a NeXTstation Turbo Color system and my problem is that when getting into ROM Monitor "monitor" mode I can't use the keyboard anymore. It doesn't accept any input. I *think* I have an ADB setup keyboard, have the soundbox, etc. I'm a NeXT newbie, so I'm not sure if thats right. But, I managed to find some info regarding requirements for ADB systems to work properly and noted the CPU Eprom has to be v74. Now when I boot, it does say my ROM Monitor is v72. Would this be an indication? And, if that *is* the case, anybody know where I might find a new Eprom. If you have any ideas.. or helpful hints.. please drop me a line. :^) Thanks.
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can a NeXT workstation be upgraded...? Date: 9 Sep 1997 21:07:43 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5v4dqv$eu4$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <34158A55.1F322A71@ncal.kaiperm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gregory.A.Bryant@ncal.kaiperm.org In <34158A55.1F322A71@ncal.kaiperm.org> Greg Bryant wrote: > > I am interested in hearing from people with expertise in upgrading > NeXT workstations. I'm considering the purchase of a NeXT black box and > would like to hype it's performance to that of a low-end Pentium. I > know the option exists to go Intel but I wan to hear ideas about > upgrading. Will a huge RAM poolmake a difference? It will make a difference. If you really want to drop some $$, get a Pyro from www.orb.com, but expect about $900 or so. Still, it's cheaper than getting an Intel, and NeXT hardware ``just works''. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: tfu@bigfoot.com (Thomas F. Unke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next 400dpi Printer Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 17:37:05 GMT Organization: Smoke'n Joy - The first virtual crematory Message-ID: <1997Sep9.173705.719@online.de> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> <5ut610$2a9$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <SHAFFER.97Sep9113026@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: shaffer@durer.phyast.pitt.edu In <SHAFFER.97Sep9113026@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> C. David Shaffer wrote: > . Insertion: Be careful when inserting the cartridge. It > should fit perfectly but the one I bought had a bent pastic tab which > got in the way (until I noticed it). I experienced this with the original HP toner too.
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5v4gpk$3ij@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> Control: cancel <5v4gpk$3ij@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> Date: 09 Sep 1997 21:58:13 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.5v4gpk$3ij@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> Sender: JOHN EDMONDS<ANYWHERE@USA.COM> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next 400dpi Printer Date: 9 Sep 1997 22:04:59 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Sep9174243@slave.doubleu.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970906133409.24181A-100000@apollo.accs.wayne.edu> <5ut610$2a9$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <SHAFFER.97Sep9113026@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> <5v41ls$pj4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> In-reply-to: nospam@all.please's message of 9 Sep 1997 17:40:12 GMT In article <5v41ls$pj4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>, nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) writes: In <SHAFFER.97Sep9113026@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> C. David Shaffer wrote: > Rebate: I don't know what HP gives you when you recycle their > toner cartridges. Maybe it would equalize the prices. I think they'll give you postage to mail the toner in... Of course, sometimes, you send off the toner and never get anything back. I've had this experience exactly once (I'm still on my second cart :-), though I can't remember who the vendor was. > Bottom line was I had about $50 in my pocket, the HP toner was > $79 and Sam's doesn't take VISA :-) They do... at least they take MasterCard..... not for a long time, but they do... at least in my area. It came in handy one day when I found myself check-less.... In my experience, Sam's takes Discover only, because MasterCard and VISA have a merchant charge, and Discover apparently does not. I personally _use_ Discover at Sam's, because you really run up those bonus points when you buy things like desks, vacuum cleaners, VCRs, and couches :-), -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: [q] help ( NeXTDimention cube) ?? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EG997F.DHJ@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:09:15 GMT References: <3414A1FF.36B2B1FD@chollian.dacom.co.kr> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <3414A1FF.36B2B1FD@chollian.dacom.co.kr>, kimjinsoo <ypc@chollian..dacom.co.kr> wrote: >hi. > >>Most of the better multi-sync monitors which have >> 1) R, G, and B co-ax barrel connectors >> 2) Support 1280 x 1024 non-interlaced at 68Hz > >=> "R, G, and B co-ax barrel connectors " = 3BNC cable (?) or 4BNC >cable(?) or 5BNC cable(?),, > Three. The sync signal is in the green connector. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: itchris@zen.ucdavis.edu (Chris Lambertus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Sun Monitor on color NeXT? Date: 5 Sep 1997 22:43:34 GMT Organization: Solderland World HQ Message-ID: <5uq1um$gjh$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5uhjo3$hu0@access5.digex.net> <5ukilo$b28$1@xmission.xmission.com> planetary (kris@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: - Kevin Yungsun Kim <kykim@access5.digex.net> wrote: - - : Can this be done? The monitor has a 13w3 out and is currently connected to - : a Sparc 2 with a CG6 video card. My current monitor is broken and - : I'm waiting for a replacement. - - No. - - The sync rates don't match. Unfortunately, the original message here already expired, so I don't know what the original fellow's monitor was. The new style Sun trinitron monitors work fine on a non-ADB NeXT, and should work better on an ADB NeXT. The 17" monitor I have syncs up and looks great, but is on the upper end of the monitor's tolerance. The old-style 16" trinitrons are fixed frequency and will probably explode if you try to hook em up to a NeXTstation. :-) Chris -- Christopher M. Lambertus | cmlambertus@ucdavis.edu IR Distributed Systems Security | Office: (916) 754-9022 University of California | Fax: (916) 752-9154 Davis, California 95616 | Gabbpuy!
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXTstation Turbo Color Keyboard woes! Date: 10 Sep 1997 00:05:07 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5v4o7j$eu4$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <01bcbd58$c593c9e0$1da9cecf@duh.accessus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jweb@accessus.net In <01bcbd58$c593c9e0$1da9cecf@duh.accessus.net> "Jay Weber" wrote: > Hi, hopefully somebody can give me a hand. I have a NeXTstation Turbo > Color system and my problem is that when getting into ROM Monitor "monitor" > mode I can't use the keyboard anymore. It doesn't accept any input. I > *think* I have an ADB setup keyboard, have the soundbox, etc. ADB means you have a ``command-bar'' instead of two command keys. This bar is right under the space bar. The commandkeys are on each side of the space bar. That's the easiest way to say what you have. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: not@my.address.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT 400 dpi Level II off center Date: 10 Sep 1997 00:54:51 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <5v4r4r$9bf$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> <5v40nq$msa$1@news.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5v40nq$msa$1@news.tamu.edu> On 09/09/97, Jeromy Hollenshead wrote: >On 09/08/97, Richard Smyth wrote: >>Has anyone seen the following problem? We are running >>NeXTSTEP 3.2 on a 25 MHz NeXTstation with a >>NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer, on which the printed output >>has strayed from the center of the page; it is 0.75 inches >>too high and 0.75 inches too far to the right. > >I have seen this problem and it had a very simple solution. When you >pull out the paper tray on the end that goes into the printer, there >is a plastic green tab. Make sure this is on Letter and not A4. I >don't know how they get switched, but if it gets moved, the printer >output gets shifter for the appropriate size paper. Took me a little >while to figure that out. Let me know if that was your problem. > Didn't work for me ... Green tab is in the right place and the top margin is still too big and the bottom too small ... -- invert: umich.edu jdevlin insert: shift "2"
From: grewal@uclink4.berzerkeley.edu (Kawaldeep Grewal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Cure my ignorance ?--more questions Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 19:41:06 -0800 Organization: UC Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <grewal-ya023580000909971941060001@nntp.ix.netcom.com> References: <5v3s2u$ai5@lace.colorado.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5v3s2u$ai5@lace.colorado.edu>, baldwin@kurgan.colorado.edu (Dan Baldwin) wrote: >My current understanding (misunderstanding) is that there are two >types of PCI cards to plug your monitor into : > > Graphics acceleration boards that accelerate >Quickdraw and Quickdraw 3D calculations. In regards to this, what will happen to the functionality of our PCI cards when Rhapsody comes around? All the sources say that Rhapsody will use Display Postscript instead of the normal Mac standard of QuickDraw. Will the chipsets in our video cards have to be swapped/replaced in order to accelerate the Postscript code for our dislplay's? In the print industry, where Postscript is the lingua franca, they have dedicated RIP's for converting the Postscript code into something the presses can handle. What does this mean in terms of performance on screen? I'm sure the PCI card cannot even match (let alone come close) the performance of a dedicated RIP. This message is being crossposted to c.s.next.hardware because I believe the people there will have information/comments about this. Specifically, how slow is the display in OpenStep on high-end Intel and Sun hardware? Kawaldeep Grewal Replace "berzerkeley" with "berkeley" to respond via email.
From: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: "testing system..." then freeze Date: 10 Sep 1997 03:50:13 GMT Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene Message-ID: <5v55dl$d29$1@pith.uoregon.edu> My NeXTStation that I ordered (Color, 32 MB RAM, 400MB HD, NS 3.3 User) just arrived, and here I am out of town...Anyway, one of my room mates tried to set it up and he says that it says "testing system..." and there's a NeXT logo and then it hangs...He says he thinks he heard some HD activity, but he can't be sure...He let it just sit for a long time to see if it was being slow, and it did nothing...Any ideas off the top of your head what might cause this? I'm hoping it's not a fatal hardware problem... Any help will be *greatly* appreciated. I'm hoping to have it up and running before I get home Thursday afternoon.. Sean
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT 400 dpi Level II off center Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 23:55:10 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970909235224.25009A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> <5v40nq$msa$1@news.tamu.edu> <5v4r4r$9bf$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5v4r4r$9bf$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> On 10 Sep 1997 not@my.address.net wrote: > > >I have seen this problem and it had a very simple solution. When you > >pull out the paper tray on the end that goes into the printer, there > >is a plastic green tab. Make sure this is on Letter and not A4. I > >don't know how they get switched, but if it gets moved, the printer > >output gets shifter for the appropriate size paper. Took me a little > >while to figure that out. Let me know if that was your problem. > > > > Didn't work for me ... Green tab is in the right place and the top margin > is still too big and the bottom too small ... > This seems like a real problem now. We have the same trouble and had to stop using the printer because of that long time ago. Sucks. Makes me wonder if the switch that detects the position of the green tab broke. The printer is OK otherwise. Rudy,
From: mattm@black-cat.igloo.org (Matt Mosley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HSD scanner drivers? Date: 10 Sep 1997 14:34:22 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <5v6b5e$9cf$1@news2.digex.net> I'm considering picking up an HSD flatbed scanner for my NeXT, but I'd like to see if I can find drivers for it first. Does anyone know where I might be able to get the stuff to drive one of these? Please respond via email. Thanks, -Matt
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT 400 dpi Level II off center Date: 10 Sep 1997 08:30:07 GMT Organization: Squonk-Net, Loudonville, NY 12211 Message-ID: <5v5lqf$dhj$1@duke.squonk.net> References: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> smyth@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Richard Smyth) wrote: > Has anyone seen the following problem? We are running [...] with > a NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer, on which the printed output has > strayed from the center of the page; I have almost no experience with NeXT laser printers, but this sounds like a problem I'm used to seeing on other laser printers. It generally means the printer thinks you are using a different size paper than you're really using. Check whatever sensors or settings on the printer (usually the printer tray) track the paper size. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: laakkone@ilmari.lnet.lut.fi (Mika Laakkonen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Soundblaster awe64 & nextstep 3.3? Date: 10 Sep 1997 09:11:22 GMT Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Message-ID: <5v5o7q$kg$1@lut.fi> I think I saw somewhere instructions how to get awe64 soundcard work with nextstep 3.3, but can't find it anymore. Can anyone give me some directions how to start find some information about that... I already have looked NextAnswers and Hardware section of Next FAQ without help. -- Mika Laakkonen email: mika.laakkonen@lut.fi Laserkatu 4 B 15 http://ilmari.lnet.lut.fi 53850 Lappeenranta ircnick: ilmari Finland puh. 050-5818542
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 05:01:32 -0600 From: Benoit.Marchant@questintl.com Subject: Driver for Thinkpad 760ED good for Thinkpad 770 ? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <873885368.31189@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service Hi, I would like to know if there is any chance that the NeXT driver for the Thinkpad 760ED display controller (Trident CYBER9385) migth works for the Thinkpad 770 display controller (Trident CYBER9397) ? Or if one is planned > Thanks in advance for any info ! Best regards, Benoit Marchant -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Soundblaster awe64 & nextstep 3.3? Date: 10 Sep 1997 15:54:35 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5v6frr$97r$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5v5o7q$kg$1@lut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: laakkone@ilmari.lnet.lut.fi Perhaps this is what you wanted? Except it is for 4.2 rather than 3.3.... but maybe it is the same procedure? From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson) Subject: Re: OPENSTEP newbie Date: 1 Sep 1997 16:08:19 GMT Message-ID: <5uep9j$oh5$1@news.istar.ca> X-URL: ¬http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jeanpaul Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc On 08/31/97, Stuart Krivis wrote: >I just got OS 4.2 Mach for Intel and am having a rough time of it. >I can't seem to get my soundcard to work. It's a SB 32PNP. Anyone >have experience with these? See ¬http://www2.stepwise.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Stepwise/FactBase.woa/4374 914481554563571123995859011611/TopicsPage.wo/18017676810611/1.1.5/-/di gifix for the best directions on how to get Soundblaster 16/32/64 PnP cards to work. Here are the details: ***** How can I use my SoundBlaster AWE64? Be sure that you have the latest EISABus driver installed (at least version 4.03) _NeXTanswer #2270_. Install the latest SoundBlaster 16 PnP driver _NeXTanswer #2407_. When you reboot, if sound is working, you're all set. Otherwise, you'll need to do the following.. Open a terminal window using /NextApps/Terminal.app. At the prompt, type this /private/Drivers/i386/EISABus.config/PnPDump The goal here is to find out the value that should have been auto-detected by the driver. If the SoundBlaster card is listed in the output from PnPDump, you will see a line that says something similar to this... id string(21) 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' Logical Device 0: Id CTL0042 (0xe8c0042) Open Configure.app, select your SoundBlaster 16 PnP driver and click on the Expert button. You will see a list of keys and values, one of which should be Auto Detect Ids. Replase the hex number value that is currently there with the underlined number above. Be sure to hit return! This is important. Click OK, save you changes in Configure.app, and reboot. You should now have working sound! ***** >I found an FAQ on PPP for NS and will try >going through that if it actually still applies to OS. The LKS stuff >makes sense because running pppd produces a message telling me ppp >hasn't been installed on my system. Follow these PPP directions. I also recommend getting a copy of GateKeeper, an application which automates the process up making a PPP connection: ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.1.NI.b .tar.gz >I will also need to get a Web Browser once I'm up. Any suggestions? Omniweb is the best browser, IMHO. You can get it at: ¬ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/OmniWeb/OmniWeb-2.6-NIHS.tar.gz -- -===================================================================- 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 -===================================================================- -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: bofh@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Sender: ltest@rte9-sun_5.5.1 (news_check.py) Message-ID: <cancel.5v6a30$fi1@lztnsc06.att.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <5v6a30$fi1@lztnsc06.att.com> ignore Control: cancel <5v6a30$fi1@lztnsc06.att.com> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:11:23 GMT ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr. It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Wed Sep 10 17:47:18 1997 Original subject was: Re: NeXTstation Turbo Color Keyboard woes!
From: laakkone@ilmari.lnet.lut.fi (Mika Laakkonen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Soundblaster awe64 & nextstep 3.3? Date: 10 Sep 1997 11:39:42 GMT Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Message-ID: <5v60tu$al4$1@lut.fi> References: <5v5o7q$kg$1@lut.fi> In-Reply-To: <5v5o7q$kg$1@lut.fi> On 09/10/97, Mika Laakkonen wrote: >I think I saw somewhere instructions how to get awe64 soundcard work with >nextstep 3.3, but can't find it anymore. Can anyone give me some directions how >to start find some information about that... I already have looked NextAnswers >and Hardware section of Next FAQ without help. > Well, I figured solution myself and decided to write it here too. 1. I take latest EISA Bus driver from www.next.com, which supports Plug and Pray technology 2. I take latest Soundblaster16 Driver which supports SB16 PnP card 3. I installed EISA dirver and after boot I check what kind of information new utility called PnPDump shows from my SB awe64 card and most important info is at beginning of this information > ========================================================= > csn 1: > ===================== > Resource Description: > ===================== > Vendor Id CTL00c1 (0xe8c00c1) Serial Number 0x10e20ac3 CheckSum 0x39 > Plug and Play Version 1.0 (Vendor 1.0) > id string(21) 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' There is text line where is id number of card which is needed with SB16 driver installation, number is for me 0xe8c00c1 > Vendor Id CTL00c1 (0xe8c00c1) Serial Number 0x10e20ac3 CheckSum 0x39 ^^^^^^^^^^ 4. I installed Soundblaster16 PnP driver and after that I chanced one parameter in Expert settings. That parameter is called "Auto Detect IDs" and I chanced original number to 0x0e8c00c1 and after boot my card worked fine... -- Mika Laakkonen email: mika.laakkonen@lut.fi Laserkatu 4 B 15 http://ilmari.lnet.lut.fi 53850 Lappeenranta ircnick: ilmari Finland puh. 050-5818542
From: smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Thinkpad 765D ? Date: 10 Sep 1997 13:20:54 GMT Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5v66rm$1dt$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Now that the IBM 770 is out, there are starting to be more reasonable prices for the 765D. Has anyone successfully installed OpenStep on a 765? I'm not sure if it has the same Cyber9385 as the 760 series. IBM's site has a blank for the graphics chipset for that model. Anyone tried it? Thanks! Steve -- Steven M. Boker (219) 631-4941 (office) (219) 631-8883 (fax) boker@NO.TINNED.MEAT.virginia.edu Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: "Hunter Hillegas" <timebomb@west.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Cure my ignorance ?--more questions Date: 10 Sep 1997 18:06:47 GMT Organization: Jacob Stern & Sons Message-ID: <01bcbe13$c3ced760$4fde47cf@jacob-1> References: <5v3s2u$ai5@lace.colorado.edu> <grewal-ya023580000909971941060001@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Very fast display. DPS has been optimized heavily. It's a great system. Kawaldeep Grewal <grewal@uclink4.berzerkeley.edu> wrote in article <grewal-ya023580000909971941060001@nntp.ix.netcom.com>... > In article <5v3s2u$ai5@lace.colorado.edu>, baldwin@kurgan.colorado.edu (Dan > Baldwin) wrote: > > >My current understanding (misunderstanding) is that there are two > >types of PCI cards to plug your monitor into : > > > > Graphics acceleration boards that accelerate > >Quickdraw and Quickdraw 3D calculations. > > In regards to this, what will happen to the functionality of our PCI cards > when Rhapsody comes around? All the sources say that Rhapsody will use > Display Postscript instead of the normal Mac standard of QuickDraw. Will > the chipsets in our video cards have to be swapped/replaced in order to > accelerate the Postscript code for our dislplay's? In the print industry, > where Postscript is the lingua franca, they have dedicated RIP's for > converting the Postscript code into something the presses can handle. What > does this mean in terms of performance on screen? I'm sure the PCI card > cannot even match (let alone come close) the performance of a dedicated > RIP. > > This message is being crossposted to c.s.next.hardware because I believe > the people there will have information/comments about this. Specifically, > how slow is the display in OpenStep on high-end Intel and Sun hardware? > > Kawaldeep Grewal > > Replace "berzerkeley" with "berkeley" to respond via email. >
From: ~eseale~@enteract.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: colorstation external cd-rom problems (please help!) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 04:59:53 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5v7m1d$o8c@eve.enteract.com> i am trying to install NS 3.1 (user) on an otherwise functional colorstation. when i try to install the install tells me my hdd is damaged. i tried a number of IDs on the external cd-rom but always get the same problem. is it possible that the internall hdd does not have an ID set? or is it probably really damaged? i tried fsck but it always tells me to reboot. when i try to shut down i get a panic and the box must be powered down to re-start. ps -i can not boot with the external cd-rom attached. lest the machine just sit and try to boot off of the cd-rom (it seems). -eric
From: rowdyace@aol.com (RowdyAce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 21" Megapixel on IBM PC Date: 11 Sep 1997 03:21:31 GMT Message-ID: <19970911032101.XAA09854@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com SnewsLanguage: English I just acquired a 21" Megapixel N4005 and I want to use it on my IBM PC. Does anybody have a source for a cable that will make this work? Any help would be appreciated, Todd M. Tolbert, MCSE Network Manager Temerlin McClain ttolbert@temmc.com
From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - replace "DOT") Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Scanner recommendations needed Date: 11 Sep 1997 06:27:33 GMT Organization: LavaNet, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5v830l$gut@mochi.lava.net> My trusty old HSD (UMAX) scanner is dead and not worth any additional repair efforts (I already spent $60 on a new power supply that died the moment it was powered on, probably because of a main board short-circuit :-( So I need to replace it with a scanner that can be run on ... cough, cough ... Windows NT 4.0 now and Rhapsody in the future, assuming device driver availability. This is for light duty use, so I don't need all the bells and whistles and resolution. But I do need software that produces a file format that can be sent by NXFax. Any idea how this might be done? Suggestions on hardware and software appreciated. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: arti@lavaDOTnet Trego Systems (for whom I don't speak) Voice/Fax: +1 808 394 0511 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495 managed care solutions US Mail: Honolulu, HI 96825-2638
From: Jack Nutting <jnutting@iaxs.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: The Problem With NS/OS Intel Internal Modems Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:52:31 -0500 Organization: Infinity AccessNET Message-ID: <34183DEF.3C684E15@iaxs.net> References: <34146E54.2FC32D33@iaxs.net> <5v1g52$o5h$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit First off, sorry for the crossposting. Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > 3) <bordering on an answer> Did you install the Serial Port and TTY Port in > Configure.app? Yeah, that's all set up, but it doesn't work. I think that the problem is that I have what is called a "WinModem", an evil device often discussed in comp.dcom.modems (thanks to Carl Lowenstein for pointing this out), which has a proprietary hardware interface, and for which drivers exist for Win95 and NOTHING else (not even NT). Apparently with a WinModem, most of the UART functionality is implemented in software, so the CPU is forced to do this work via the driver. Yuck. So the solution is to chuck the WinModem and buy something decent, and I guess that's what I'm going to do. -- Jack Nutting jnutting@iaxs.net
From: shaffer@durer.phyast.pitt.edu (C. David Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Scanner recommendations needed Date: 11 Sep 1997 15:10:48 GMT Organization: University of Pittsburgh Distribution: world Message-ID: <SHAFFER.97Sep11111048@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> References: <5v830l$gut@mochi.lava.net> In-reply-to: arti@lava.DOTnet's message of 11 Sep 1997 06:27:33 GMT Hello, A while back I posted a summary of my experiences with scanners under nextstep. I can summarize by saying that I ended up buying a Microtek Scanmaker E6 (E3 would be fine too but not V300) and ported mtekscan (a command line driven scan program) to NextStep. If you can't find the post on Dejanews send me an e-mail and I'll send it to you. I am currently distributing the NS version of mtekscan via e-mail but plan to send it to Peanuts and Peak as soon as I clean up the mess that I made of the source :-\ Someone was kind enough to send me an OpenStep binary if anyone wants it. If you'd like me to _maintain_ an OpenStep verion just send me $300-$400(?) for the Acad. bundle :-) David -- David Shaffer Department of Physics Wayne State College Wayne, NE 68787 shaffer@phyast.pitt.edu NeXTMail/MIME welcome
From: cdodson@i.cant.say.com***(email spammers must die) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NEC cdrom with openstep4.2 Date: 11 Sep 1997 15:04:46 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5v91ae$aa1@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5v29fh$qdg$1@usenet76.supernews.com> In article <5v29fh$qdg$1@usenet76.supernews.com> escape@paranoia.com (Mike Watts) writes: > We have installed openstep 4.2 on a Dell Optiplex box, and are > wondering if there is any support for the NEC cdrom that came with it. > The model is CDR-1400A, IDE interface. > > thanks, > mike I can help you out here. The IDE NEC cdrom's shipping with the latest Dell boxes do *not* work with OpenStep. The reason is that they drift a little too far outside of the ATAPI spec that OpenStep supports. You'll need to swap in another IDE cdrom to install OpenStep. I've had good luck with the Toshiba 16x (model XM6002B) for about $70. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
From: "Wes Spears" <jspears@weston.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Multiple Modems on Black or White Hardware Date: 11 Sep 1997 14:21:19 GMT Organization: The Weston Group Message-ID: <01bcbebe$3bb347c0$5be532ce@jspears.onramp.net> I am interested in having a number of modems dangling off a NEXTSTEP machine. I would prefer a clack machine, but Intel would work. I know there was a SLAT-1 product a number of years ago, but if you can give me any ideas, that would be great. THanks WEs
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: The Problem With NS/OS Intel Internal Modems Date: 11 Sep 1997 18:13:17 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5v9cbt$2eq$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <34146E54.2FC32D33@iaxs.net> <5v1g52$o5h$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <34183DEF.3C684E15@iaxs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jnutting@iaxs.net In <34183DEF.3C684E15@iaxs.net> Jack Nutting wrote: > First off, sorry for the crossposting. Accepted, no problem.... > Yeah, that's all set up, but it doesn't work. I think that the problem is > that I have what is called a "WinModem", an evil device often discussed in > comp.dcom.modems (thanks to Carl Lowenstein for pointing this out), which > has a proprietary hardware interface, and for which drivers exist for Win95 > and NOTHING else (not even NT). The Evil Computer Company strikes again.. *puke* > So the solution is to chuck the WinModem and buy something decent, and I > guess that's what I'm going to do. Sounds right to me. I'd suggest SupraFaxModem (for use with NXFax) or ZyXel if you have the money. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: Raphael Marmier <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Installation of NeXTSTEP 3.3 on an EIDE system Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:28:31 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <34185463.50A8@hei.unige.ch> References: <3406d285.1534102@usenet.psinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jfranco@eyestreet.com Hello your message is pretty old so you have perhaps already solved the problem :) I've installed OS 4.1 on an EIDE drive from an ATAPI CD-Rom. Your problem, I suppose comes from the driver which is probably designed for OS 4.0 You'll need to find a driver for 3.3 (I think there is one available at Next). Loading the Adaptec driver is the right thing to do. I think you can remove it afterward. cheers Raph
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut" <webmaster@starpage.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Multiple Machines on one modem? Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:32:27 -0600 Organization: StarPage LCC Message-ID: <3418474A.89FE0BB5@starpage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am looking for an external modem I can plug either my wintel or my next into. Are there any special features I should be looking for. Are there any recommendations? thanks, jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: memory configs on turbo cube Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:51:34 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg139705.thr-3968d8.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg139705.thr-3968d8.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> According to nextanswers, ALL turbo machines have four, 72-pin slots that= can be filled with two, identical pairs. I quote the memory capacity cha= rt: table 1: memory capacity for NeXT Turbo systems total RAM slot 1 slot 2 slot 3 slot 4 8 MB 4 MB 4 MB 16 MB 8 MB 8 MB 16 MB 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB 24 MB 8 MB 8 MB 4 MB 4MB 32 MB 8 MB 8 MB 8 MB 8 MB 64 MB 16 MB 16 MB 16 MB 16 MB 128 MB 32 MB 32 MB 32 MB 32 MB One configuration I don't see is to put just two 32 megs simms in for 64 = megs, with an eye towards the purchase later of two more 32 meg simms. Is= this possible? Would it also be possible to configure a machine thusly: 32 x 32 x 16 x 16 for 96 megs? -- = David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: scollarw@cadvision.com (guzzibill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Turbo Slab just switches off Date: 11 Sep 1997 23:49:31 GMT Organization: CADVision Development Corp. Message-ID: <5va02b$3gni@elmo.cadvision.com> References: <34146dc3.1769623@news.minn.net> In-Reply-To: <34146dc3.1769623@news.minn.net> On 09/08/97, Terrence Asselin composed a News article about Turbo Slab just switches off: >Hello all, > >I have a mono turbo slab which has been working fairly well until I >moved. Once I arrived at my new home and fired up the machine I >noticed a disturbing new behavior. Occasionally, after no predictable >amount of time the machine will just switch off cold. There is no >software warning or anything. Any clues what could be causing this? > >Thanks, >Terrence Asselin > I had these exact symptoms. It was the internal battery. My local battery supply (cannon type batteries) and 10.00$ saved the day for my Turbo colour slab. -- Bill Scollard Calgary, Canada Scollard Holdings Ltd. "Computer Systems : Cradle-to-Grave"
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Multiple Machines on one modem? Date: 12 Sep 1997 02:38:28 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5va9v4$c2q$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <3418474A.89FE0BB5@starpage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu In <3418474A.89FE0BB5@starpage.com> "Jesse D. Hurlbut" wrote: > > I am looking for an external modem I can plug either my wintel or my > next into. Are there any special features I should be looking for. Are > there any recommendations? Not really. If you network the machines, you can fax from one to the other without having to have it directly connected. Other than that, I've plugged my modem from one machine to another (slab to Intel). As long as you have the right modem cable for each, it's no problem. > jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu FYI: You posted as ``webmaster@starpage.com'' TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Best configuration option for Intel PC with dual SCSI bus? Date: 12 Sep 1997 04:30:33 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5vagh9$j2k$1@news.digifix.com> What is the best configuration setup for an Intel PC running an Adaptec 2940UW? I have three devices: 1 - CD-ROM 1 - 2Gb UltraWide SCSI drive (I want this to the the boot device) 1 - 4Gb UltraWide SCSI drive (currently destined to be data..) I'm figuring that putting the CD-ROM on the narrow internal SCSI connector on the card is the best plan, with the other devices on the WIDE connector. Is this the case? Any gotchas? Thanks Scott -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: ~eseale~@enteract.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can NS 3.1 for Black Hardware Install over a Network (NFS)?? / SCSI ports? / NEC 4x / thanks Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:39:30 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5vajoo$f0h@eve.enteract.com> i was wondering if i threw a cd-rom in my linux computer, exported cd cdrom's mount point, set up NFS, and so forth. after the next has booted would it mount the cd over a network and then install NS 3.1? at this time i have NS 3.0 but other the course of years i gues the people that owened it before me deleted almost everything off of the hard drive. i can not even built disks connected via the external SCSI pot. btw - is the external SCSI port on a colorstation (25 Mhz) the same speed as the internal? it seems like it should be the same controller and same speed but i was just " making sure" ps - has anyone used a SCSI NEC multispin 4X -eric
From: ~eseale~@enteract.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NS 3.1 and Black hardware with a hub. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:42:27 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5vaju8$f0h@eve.enteract.com> someone told me nexts are picky about hubs. i do not know how this can be possible, but, is this true?
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best configuration option for Intel PC with dual SCSI bus? Date: 12 Sep 1997 00:07:08 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5vam6c$ada$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5vagh9$j2k$1@news.digifix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> wrote: : What is the best configuration setup for an Intel PC running an : Adaptec 2940UW? --- snippage --- : I'm figuring that putting the CD-ROM on the narrow internal : SCSI connector on the card is the best plan, with the other devices on : the WIDE connector. : Is this the case? Any gotchas? AFAIK, the 2940UW can't support narrow and wide devices simultaneously. ICBWT. (Guess what this means. =) .................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know so much about Usenet, then why are you still posting?
From: Hidehisa Tsutsumi <tsu2mi@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: remove the 30pin SIMM from sockets of 68040 25MHz bord. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:20:28 -0700 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <3418ED3C.7392@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I want to remove 30 pin SIMM from my 68040 25MHz main bord. But I do not have tool for that. Do you have any idea for remove SIMM without tools??? Or Where can I buy kind of that tools???? I'd like to upgread memory size for my cube....... Thank you
From: "J.N. Wilford" <J.N.Wilford@ncl.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best configuration option for Intel PC with dual SCSI bus? Date: 12 Sep 1997 09:10:46 GMT Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Message-ID: <5vb0um$4ln@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> References: <5vagh9$j2k$1@news.digifix.com> <5vam6c$ada$1@xmission.xmission.com> planetary (kris@xmission.xmission.com) wrote in reply to Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>: > AFAIK, the 2940UW can't support narrow and wide devices simultaneously. I'm glad to say that it can certainly support narrow and wide devices simultaneously. What you can't do is use all three interfaces on the card. Thus if your wide HDDs are internal and the narrow CD is on the internal narrow bus you will not be able to connect anything to the external 68-pin connector - either wide or narrow. T-shaped scsi chains don't work. If you have a fairly new 2940UW the latest NeXTSTEP driver may not recognise its PCI ID. This results in a "can't get config space - aborting" messages. Adding the appropriate ID will fix this. Others have provided much useful info on this, so I won't post it all again. The OPENSTEP driver doesn't have this problem. Good luck, Neville -- Internet: j.n.wilford@ncl.ac.uk CompuServe: 100042,3501 jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk PGP 2.x public key available
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Eberhard Wolff <Eberhard.Wolff@cern.ch> Subject: Re: 21" Megapixel on IBM PC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <34191618.EC47479D@cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics References: <19970911032101.XAA09854@ladder02.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:14:48 GMT RowdyAce wrote: > > I just acquired a 21" Megapixel N4005 and I want to use it on my IBM PC. > Does anybody have a source for a cable that will make this work? > > Any help would be appreciated, > > Todd M. Tolbert, MCSE > Network Manager > Temerlin McClain > ttolbert@temmc.com Try http://www.deepspacetech.com/ . They also have the right graphics card for those fixed frequency monitor. ---------------------------------------------------------- Eberhard Wolff Eberhard.Wolff@cern.ch CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics Information and Programming Technology Group
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: remove the 30pin SIMM from sockets of 68040 25MHz bord. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:38:01 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg139760.thr-18e41400.54c5638@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <3418ED3C.7392@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg139760.thr-18e41400.54c5638.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> <bold>tsu2mi@ix.netcom.com,UseNet writes:</bold> >I want to remove 30 pin SIMM from my 68040 25MHz main bord. >But I do not have tool for that. >Do you have any idea for remove SIMM without tools??? >Or Where can I buy kind of that tools???? >I'd like to upgread memory size for my cube....... >Thank you I built an effective tool using one of the very thick paper clips--the on= es that are shaped kind of like a butterfly. By taking a needle nose plye= r, and bending a very small hook in the end of it about 3/8th of inch lon= g. Be VERY careful! -- = David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Re: remove the 30pin SIMM from sockets of 68040 25MHz bord. Message-ID: <EGEEw7.FAp@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago References: <3418ED3C.7392@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:00:07 GMT In article <3418ED3C.7392@ix.netcom.com>, Hidehisa Tsutsumi <tsu2mi@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >I want to remove 30 pin SIMM from my 68040 25MHz main bord. >But I do not have tool for that. >Do you have any idea for remove SIMM without tools??? >Or Where can I buy kind of that tools???? >I'd like to upgread memory size for my cube....... >Thank you You can go to any hardware store (such as Ace) to get a black L-shaped hex screw driver (the same type used for cube tool, but rather smaller). It's much stronger than any paper clip and more accessible than any dental tools. The size should be 1mm, I believe. Good luck.
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.announce,comp.sys.newton.marketplace,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon,comp.sys.psion,comp.sys.psion.announce,comp.sys.psion.apps,comp.sys.psion.comm,comp.sys.psion.marketplace,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.psion.programmer,comp.sys.psion.reviews,comp.sys.pyramid,comp.sys.ridge,comp.sys.sequent,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.announce,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sgi.audio,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.marketplace,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.stratus,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: cmsg cancel <34196E66.6C22@profit.com> Control: cancel <34196E66.6C22@profit.com> Date: 12 Sep 1997 16:33:20 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.34196E66.6C22@profit.com> Sender: Jimmy <jimmybob@profit.com> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 7-disc CD-ROM tower for NS/OS ? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:00:48 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <5vbsg0$dvm@agate.berkeley.edu> Keywords: CDROM tower Hi, Has anyone attached a multi-disc CDROM drive to NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP machines, like the one shown below for about $400? And it it possible to export all these drives via NFS? http://www.corpsys.com/cgi-bin/select?17186032468453&SP&CD7DI I am not looking for the type that swaps disks like jukeboxes, but an array of drives that are online all the time. If there is none that works with NS/OS, then what platforms can use this for serving via NFS? Linux, FreeBSD, or NT with some additional NFS component? Any pointers appreciated. -- Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NS 3.1 and Black hardware with a hub. Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:11:55 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5vbt4r$hha$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5vaju8$f0h@eve.enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <5vaju8$f0h@eve.enteract.com> ~eseale~@enteract.com wrote: > someone told me nexts are picky about hubs. i do not know how this can > be possible, but, is this true? I've never heard it to be true. I have a generic 5-port Ethernet hub that I used with a NeXTStation and an Intel... and I'd be willing to sell, since I don't actually need it. Drop me a note if you're interested... TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: Keith Carpenter <KCarp@ix.NOSPAM.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Compatible Laptops for Openstep 4.2 ? Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:04:20 -0700 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <3419A044.91A@ix.NOSPAM.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I want to buy a laptop that can run Openstep 4.2 Next/Apple doesn't list compatible laptops (certified systems). Nextanswers mentions things like "not compatible with NEC using newer BIOS versions". This leads me to believe that not just any laptop will work with Nextstep/Openstep. I guesss that video chipsets are the bigest problem. Of the currently available "crop", what make/models are known to run Openstep 4.2 ? thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh) Subject: Fujitsu M2694ES-512 Rev 8117 jumper settings Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EGEwEH.I9r@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:18:16 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility I have the above drive, but no manual. The drive is recognised at boot, but I cannot find jumper settings that will let me initialise the drive. I want to attach it to a mono Turbo running NS3.0 Can anyone help out? Thanks Colin Walsh University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies walshc@ecf.toronto.edu
From: nlhaukeXXXX@isomedia.com (Nelson Hauke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Color printer with Mac? Date: 12 Sep 1997 19:58:05 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: <5vc6sd$fjh@snews2.zippo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know if a NeXT Color printer will work with a Macintosh? I downloaded the Mac BJC-820 driver from Canon, but when I send a document or drawing to the printer it prints out as text gibberish. Nelson Hauke
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Stephen V. Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NS 3.1 and Black hardware with a hub. Date: 12 Sep 1997 22:15:27 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5vcetv$jth@q.seanet.com> References: <5vaju8$f0h@eve.enteract.com> Cc: ~eseale~@enteract.com In <5vaju8$f0h@eve.enteract.com> ~eseale~@enteract.com wrote: > someone told me nexts are picky about hubs. i do not know how this can > be possible, but, is this true? > > I use a 8 port Kingston Hub to connect: 1 - NeXTstation Turbo 1 - Intel NeXT 3 - Win95 1 - Win NT Server 1 - Print Server I also use a D-Link 5 port hub to connect: 1 - NeXTstation 2 - Win95 These are both unmanged hubs and have not caused problems in my mixed environment. For NFS mounts, you will see more network activety - If you see too many packet collisions, you will need to investigate the cause and maybe need to switch to managed hub. Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen V. Roller <sroller@roller.seanet.com> Stop by and visit at: Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Stephen V. Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Jazz on Next slab Date: 12 Sep 1997 22:20:12 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5vcf6s$jth@q.seanet.com> References: <340E1780.167E@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> Cc: augusto@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu In <340E1780.167E@wotan.opt-sci.arizona.edu> Augusto Rodrigues wrote: > Hi there. > > Is anyone using a Iomega Jazz drive with a NeXT Turbo slab? > If so can he/she give me some directions on how to set it up, > cables needed, format of the disks (DOS or Mac), any > disktabs needed, ... Several people from our NeXT users group use the Jaz drive for the NeXTstations. see: http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/iomega.htm Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen V. Roller <sroller@roller.seanet.com> Stop by and visit at: Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: JOHN EDMONDS<ANYWHERE@USA.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: $$$ PUT CASH IN YOUR POCKET $$$ Date: 9 Sep 1997 21:58:12 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <5v4gpk$3ij@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> YOU PROBABLY WON'T MAKE $50,000 OR $40,000 - BUT YOU CAN MAKE $30,000. I'VE DONE IT AND SO CAN YOU! IT'S EASY, AND ONLY YOU CAN SHAPE YOUR DESTINY DO IT TODAY! HERE'S HOW : Simply take a $5.00 bill and send it to each of the 5 people listed below. Do this first. Then, remove the name of the fifth person and replace the number one position with your name Then, simply mail this same letter to atleast 500 people. (of course, the more people you mail it to the more money you will make). Do you follow me so far? Imagine if only 10% of the people send you $5.00. You will be making well into the thousands. Just imagine if more than 10% send you $5.00???????? You need to mail a minimum of 500 copies of this letter either regular postal service or through a fast email service. We listed an email mailing service below that we found will only charge you 1 penny for each email they send for you. They do require a one time $20.00 set up fee to begin though. Remember, copy this letter EXACTLY as it is written, remove the name of the fifth person, and put your name in the numbe one slot. What this will do is make the number one person now become number 2 and the number 2 person now become number 3 and so on. LETS RECAP: 1) First thing you should do is send $5.00 to each of the people listed below . Do this now. 2) Now, copy this letter EXACTLY as it is written. The only change will be to permanently remove the name of the fifth person and replace the number one position with your name and mailing address. By doing this, you will move the number 1 person to the number 2 slot and move the number 2 person to the number 3 slot and move the number 3 person to the number 4 slot and move the number 4 person to the number 5 slot. 3) Now that you have done this, send no less than 500 copies of this letter to as many people as you can. The more copies you mail, the better the response and the more money you make. You can either send this letter to a mailing list via post office or you can send this letter through an email service. Do this right away 4) Now, sit back and wait for the money to come in. Suggested Email Service (They only charge .01/per email + one time $20 set up fee) MBE Email Services P.O. Box 552 Tate, GA 30177 They will send 1000 emails for only $10.00, or 2000 for $20.00 or 5000 for $50.00 and so on. You will need to include the fee + a one time $20 set up fee. Mail a copy of this ad and your money to the above address as soon as possible if you decide to send your letter by email. It is suggested that you send your letter email and regular mail to get the best results. THE FIVE PERSON LIST 1) MIKE ANDREWS 475 SKIDDER WAY JASPER, GA 30143 2) UNICOMM 104 NORTH MAIN STREET SUITE 1 JASPER, GA 30143 3) ANDREW BYRD P.O. BOX 552 TATE, GA 30177 4) JOHN EDMONDS P.O. BOX 132 BIRMINGHAM, AL 30456 5) BILL MYERS 154 LAKE DRIVE SALT LAKE CITY, UT 45634 * SEND EACH PERSON ABOVE A FIVE DOLLAR BILL TODAY - THEN, TOTALLY REMOVE THE NUMBER FIVE PERSON ANDMOVE EACH NAME DOWN PLACING YOUR NAME IN THE NUMBER ONE POSITION. GOOD LUCK -
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Laptop, networking and NS. Date: 13 Sep 1997 02:41:16 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5vcugc$8kh@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Hi, I am running NS3.3 on a Journey 7200TC laptop and I am trying to use a Xircom PCMCIA network card to connect to other NS3.3 stations. I downloaded the driver version 3.35 for the Xircom card. Everything seemed to work fine at first: the card was detected and the driver configured the en0 interface properly. The problem is that the other computers on the network (a thin coaxial net of two computers) just don't seem to catch the packets (ping's) coming from the laptop. I see the leds flash on all the computers but no one seem to really undestand the packet. Same thing if I try to ping the laptop. I see the led flash but no answer. I have the correct drivers I think: Xircom 3.35 Intel 82365 PCMCIA Adapter v.3.33 PCMCIA bus support v.3.34 The netinfo server is configured for automatic host addition. I also tried to do this manually (by assigning an address to the laptop). Nothing worked. What am I doing wrong??? Thank you, Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best configuration option for Intel PC with dual SCSI bus? Date: 12 Sep 1997 08:35:13 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5vaus1$nr$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5vagh9$j2k$1@news.digifix.com> <5vam6c$ada$1@xmission.xmission.com> planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> wrote: > Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> wrote: : I'm figuring that putting the CD-ROM on the narrow internal : SCSI connector on the card is the best plan, with the other devices on : the WIDE connector. > AFAIK, the 2940UW can't support narrow and wide devices simultaneously. No, this configuration should work fine. The 2940UW has three connectors: internal wide, internal narrow and external wide. You can use two of this three connectors in any combination. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: remove the 30pin SIMM from sockets of 68040 25MHz bord. Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EGErMz.AC2@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:35:23 GMT References: <3418ED3C.7392@ix.netcom.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <3418ED3C.7392@ix.netcom.com>, Hidehisa Tsutsumi <tsu2mi@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >I want to remove 30 pin SIMM from my 68040 25MHz main bord. >But I do not have tool for that. >Do you have any idea for remove SIMM without tools??? Get a heavy-duty paperclip and bend it so it has a long straight part with a little hook at the end. Stick the hook into the hole in the SIMM and use the paperclip like a lever on the SIMM socket. This works pretty well. You can also put a smaller paperclip into the hole and just pull up but it's easy for things to get out of control, SIMMs flying everywhere, etc. -- 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: "Alan Dail" <alandail@raex.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: OpenStep on Toshiba 430CDS? Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:32:55 -0400 Organization: Imperium Internet Message-ID: <5vd1jh$6ee@news.raex.com> Hi, I tried to install OpenStep 4.2 on my Toshiba 430CDS notebook, but I can't get it to recognise the CD-ROM drive to begin the installation. Has anyone tried to install OpenStep on this system (or something simmilar) and/or have any idea what I can do to get this to work? The CD-ROM drive is labeled as being a Tohsiba CD-ROM drive model XM-1502B, version 001, ROM ver RA61025. Please respond by email as my ISP loses a lot of newsgroup posts. I really would like to get this resolved before the developer release of Rhapsody. Alan Dail alandail@raex.com
From: jmccutch@lynx.dac.neu.edu (jeffrey mccutchen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Date: 9 Sep 1997 23:03:17 GMT Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA Message-ID: <5v4kjl$c48@isn.dac.neu.edu> Summary: next monitor Keywords: megapixle on pc Hi, I need to know if a Next megapixel (21 inch Hitachi) will work on a pc with a Matrox millenium or millenium II.. thanks in advance, Jeff
From: grape@matrix.teuto.de (Timo Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: turbo slab panics during backup on DAT Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:34:41 +0200 Organization: PoP teuto.net Bielefeld Message-ID: <199709131540565495520N@[192.168.0.2]> Hi! Almost every time I try to backup the harddisk (IBM-DPES 1080) of my NeXTstation Turbo Color to my old Wangtek 6130HS/6200HS DAT streamer, I get a panic stating "panic: (Cpu 0) dma_list: zero pfnum". The Harddisk is properly terminated and delivers TermPower. The panic occurs wether the streamer is the only external device or not. I tried different terminators (active/passive), tried every option of the streamer (SCSI-1/2, Term Power or not, SCSI parity) and tried changing the blocksize of the streamer to 512 Bytes (using stblocksize). I got at least one complkete backup without a panic, but about 15-20 tries with the same panic. After a while, my LocalApps directory went down the drain, and i formatted the whole disk, reinstalling NEXTSTEP 3.3p1, only to get another panic as i tried to restore the only complete backup I mentioned above. Luckily I had backuped the most important files to an MO, so it was no deasaster... Afterwards I searched various Usenet archives, to find at six people having the same problem (panic: (Cpu 0) dma_list: zero pfnum) during backups to DAT tapes. These problem occured between 1993 and 1997 on different hardware (Cube/Station), different OS versions (3.0-4.2) and different DAT streamers (Sony, Archive, Wangtek, HP) using different backup software (dump/gnutar). BTW: The IBM DPES 1080 I have here, doesn't have the "Disable TI sync Negotiation" Jumper any more, but a LED connector. The "OEM HARD DISK DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS" I found on the web states, that a) Target Initiated Synchronous Negotiation is disabled (page 37), b) DSN Disable Target Initiated Synchronous Negotiation is not supported by the drive (page 82) c) DSN is controlled by Bit 5 of Byte 5 of SCSI Mode Page 0, that it is 0 per default (page 80). I found some posts about trouble with older IBM harddisks, on which the "Additional Save Data Pointer Enable bit" had to be enabled to work with black hardware. Well, this bit still exists, but "This field must be set to zero as this function is not currently supported" (page 80). 1993 Uwe Meyer-Gruhl wrote on this topic: --- 1. The NeXT insists on having the internal drive supply SCSI terminator power whereas an external device should refrain from doing so. 2. The NeXT wants the drive to correctly tell the host to 'save the SCSI data pointers' prior to disconnecting from the SCSI bus. If a drive is the sole SCSI device on the bus, the NeXT keeps it from disconnecting, so that failure to do so remains unpunished in this case (this applies to external connection as well). (...) The second problem listed above applies to IBM as well as MICROPOLIS drives connected to the NeXT. I can't say how (or if) the problem is solved for the MICROPOLIS, but for the IBM, it can be circumvented by making the drive behave according to the SCSI specs. There is a proprietary mode select page number 0 in which the ASDPE bit must be set. Following is a listing of this mode select page made by 'sense -t2 -p0' ('sense' is one of the 'scsitools' programs available at better ftp servers): --- Someone else said, that the "Disable Unit Attention" Jumper of the DPES should be set, but I didn't try that yet. Anybody having an idea what's happening here, and how the problem can be solved? Bye, Timo -- Timo Hoepfner - grape@matrix.teuto.de
From: ltest@rte9-sun_5.5.1 (news_check.py) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXTstation Turbo Color Keyboard woes! Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:11:23 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Load Test Message-ID: <5v6a30$fi1@lztnsc06.att.com> In article <01bcbd58$c593c9e0$1da9cecf@duh.accessus.net> "Jay Weber" <jweb@accessus.net> wrote: > Hi, hopefully somebody can give me a hand. I have a NeXTstation Turbo > Color system > and my problem is that when getting into ROM Monitor "monitor" mode I can't Hi, hopefully somebody can give me a hand. I have a NeXTstation Turbo Color system and my problem is that when getting into ROM Monitor "monitor" mode I can't use the keyboard anymore. It doesn't accept any input. I *think* I have an ADB setup keyboard, have the soundbox, etc. I'm a NeXT newbie, so I'm not sure if thats right. But, I managed to find some info regarding requirements for ADB systems to work properly and noted the CPU Eprom has to be v74. Now when I boot, it does say my ROM Monitor is v72. Would this be an indication? And, if that *is* the case, anybody know where I might find a new Eprom. If you have any ideas.. or helpful hints.. please drop me a line. :^) Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Can NS 3.1 for Black Hardware Install over a Network (NFS)?? / SCSI ports? / NEC 4x / thanks Message-ID: <EGG0n0.EHv@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5vajoo$f0h@eve.enteract.com> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:47:24 GMT In article <5vajoo$f0h@eve.enteract.com> ~eseale~@enteract.com writes: > > i was wondering if i threw a cd-rom in my linux computer, exported cd > cdrom's mount point, set up NFS, and so forth. after the next has > booted would it mount the cd over a network and then install NS 3.1? > That depends on whether Linux could mount a write protected Berkley File System and export it properly. NEXTSTEP can run Upgrade.app over the net but you can't install (initial bootsrap from distribution media). This only works if the drive is attached to the SCSI. To put it straight, upgrading works properly if you can see the filesystem of the NS 3.1 CD on your black beauty. Doubleclick on Upgrade.app and follow the instructions... > at this time i have NS 3.0 but other the course of years i gues the > people that owened it before me deleted almost everything off of the > hard drive. i can not even built disks connected via the external SCSI > pot. > Seems that I don't get the point :-| > btw - is the external SCSI port on a colorstation (25 Mhz) the same > speed as the internal? it seems like it should be the same controller > and same speed but i was just " making sure" > It is the same bus. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Wilhelm Karl <Wilhelm.Karl@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Verkaufe Monitor Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 22:21:26 +0200 Organization: University of Augsburg, InterNetNews Message-ID: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hallo! Ich hätte einen Iiyama VisionMaster 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. Das Gerät ist in einem TOP-Zustand, ca. 15 Monate alt. (1280x1024 mit 80Hz max, 135MHz, BNC+VGA Anschluß) Neupreis: z.Z. 1599,- für VB 1250 DM Willi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (bryce sady) Subject: Linux for Black Message-ID: <EGGsKr.Jwu@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 20:50:50 GMT Does anyone know the status on Linux for Black harware? thx, bryce -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady NeXT mail Welcome (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: memory configs on turbo cube Date: 13 Sep 1997 20:58:12 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5veup4$1kuq$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <msg139705.thr-3968d8.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) wrote: >According to nextanswers, ALL turbo machines have four, 72-pin slots that >can be filled with two, identical pairs. Yes. Each bank can take pairs of either 1MB, 4MB, 8MB, 16MB or 32MB SIMMs. I don't know about 2MB but I've personally tested 1MB SIMMs and they do work. I believe any such combination will work. >One configuration I don't see is to put just two 32 megs simms in for 64 >megs. Is this possible? Yes. You don't have to have the second bank filled but the first bank must be (the first bank are the two slots nearest the power supply). - Gareth --- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Installing a second IDE drive in NS3.3 Date: 13 Sep 1997 22:45:21 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5vf521$8sf@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> HI, I would like to install a 4.3GB Quantum Fireball ST drive as a second IDE drive in a pentium based system running NS3.3. Of course BuildDisk won't do it. I therefore made a disktab entry for it: ST4.3A|QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A:\ :ty=fixed_rw_ide:nc#14848:nt#9:ns#63:ss#512:rm#5400:\ :fp#320:bp#512:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hm=tiznit:rw=a:rw=b:rw=c:\ :pa#0:sa#1542144:ba#8912:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=dos\ :pb#1542144:sb#3076096:bb#8912:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=dos\ :pc#3076096:sc#4200448:bc#8912:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\ :ic:tc=4.3BSD\ then I tried to initialize it:^ tiznit[16:52] disk -t ST4.3A -i /dev/rhd1a NEXTSTEP partition base = 6152895 NEXTSTEP partition size = 2249100 disk name: ST4.3A disk type: fixed_rw_ide hdform doesnt exist yet... writing disk label ...lseek returned -1144652288; expected 1002831361 Write of boot block 0 failed ...lseek returned -1144586752; expected 1002896897 Write of boot block 1 failed No boot blocks on disk What did I do wrong? It seems that I get the same message BuildDisk was leaving in the Console. Thank you, Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: jwlee@artsci.wustl.edu (Jung Woo Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: OpenStep 4.2 on Dos Cards Date: 14 Sep 1997 00:10:23 GMT Organization: Washington University in St. Louis Message-ID: <5vfa1f$38e$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> Does anybody know if you can run Openstep on a PDS dos card? In fact any dos dos cards? Please post experiences. Thanks in advance.
From: bclark@not.abnormal.com (Bill W. Clark III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can't set TP on Ethernet transiever type of NeXT Turbo color Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 23:49:12 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <341b2472.11566716@news.supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The NIC on my newly acquired NeXT color turbo 33Mhz seems to default to BNC, and I need to set it to TP. Anyone familar with how to do this menial task. I would greatly appreciate any pointers. Please reply via e-mail Bill Clark bclark@not.abnormal.com bclark@nccsinc.com Bill Clark -- Network Engineer bclark@nccsinc.com New Century Computer Solutions (816) 941-2144 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzObmYAAAAEEAKmhVqsNT7OMky/RmLA1DDLvLHJVG2m5dD+C7L6rvlr2xkjk L5cdd5tRryXnt6HBRQtNXm+/uV+MyQzixA+ojoscTFM03mb4t7OTyGqMYEOd6xq1 8wz/Ye7OYRxcxmQOe6gAb4XEULQi4M4kqgY2iK73yuqO1bI8D4nJLa4njaBdAAUR tCtCaWxsIFcuIENsYXJrIElJSSA8YmNsYXJrQG5vdC5hYm5vcm1hbC5jb20+iQCV AwUQM5ugK4nJLa4njaBdAQHSbAP9EXEi1bkX7qvcLWgYuEzg410UDkHdRmxXv4hE MqzpTlwbzQhhb80VZ5NG71m1mEYGdobYfZqMqLpSK2F+PK+9y4IZ8f5CPy8NvgNk 81S8afpJW8SliZXDJZlzePGL071qaTS53dwwUqpLF71yucHYK/s+2oxt6gmR4E+P BhfsNYG0IUJpbGwgYXQgd29yayA8YmNsYXJrQG5jY3NpbmMuY29tPg== =BsUr -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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: <8835873604833@digifix.com> Date: 14 Sep 1997 03:49:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <9488874209621@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. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. 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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. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 on Dos Cards Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 06:40:32 GMT Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <341b82a3.7150802@news.wco.com> References: <5vfa1f$38e$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> On 14 Sep 1997 00:10:23 GMT, jwlee@artsci.wustl.edu (Jung Woo Lee) wrote: >Does anybody know if you can run Openstep on a PDS dos card? In fact any >dos dos cards? Please post experiences. Thanks in advance. Alas, this won't work. The PDS cards don't actually implement all the grundgy PC hardware IO ports and whatnot, but seem to rely on their BIOS to fake things up. This works for DOS, which relies on the BIOS, but not for operating systems that don't use the BIOS (32 bit PC operating systems like OPENSTEP fall into this category. If there is a version of Windows NT for the card (e.g., someone has done a custom Hardware Abstraction Layer), you might be able to run OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows.
From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can't set TP on Ethernet transiever type of NeXT Turbo color Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 06:40:26 GMT Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <341b818d.6872972@news.wco.com> References: <341b2472.11566716@news.supernews.com> On Sat, 13 Sep 1997 23:49:12 GMT, bclark@not.abnormal.com (Bill W. Clark III) wrote: >The NIC on my newly acquired NeXT color turbo 33Mhz seems to default >to BNC, and I need to set it to TP. Anyone familar with how to do >this menial task. I would greatly appreciate any pointers. Please >reply via e-mail The NeXT hardware autodetects twisted pair on power-up (NOT reboot, but when first powered on). Connect the twisted pair cable, and disconnect any co-ax. Make sure that the other end of the twisted pair cable is plugged into a hub, and the hub is powered on. The hardware will sense the 10baseT line at startup and use it. If thsi doesn't work, you may want to try another 10baseT cable. I've been getting about 40% DOA on these cables! (Time to pick a vendor on quality, not price point, eh?)
From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: FS: NextStation Date: 14 Sep 1997 08:05:28 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5vg5s8$g7q@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5ve817$onm@camel2.mindspring.com> <5vequu$1vbi$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: : : Something ain't right here - the N4000A monitor is _non_ ADB. Either your : monitor is a N4000B or the keyboard and mouse are non-ADB (or you've got a : system that wont work :-) Might be worth checking again... : Question: is the keyboard/mouse totally dependent on what's in the monitor and independent of the cpu? Likewise for the Color/soundbox systems? The nature of this has been nagging me for a few days. -Josh
Message-ID: <341BB30D.83B552BF@docs.uu.se> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 11:49:01 +0200 From: Carl Erickson <carle@docs.uu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ThinkPad 760ED + Adaptec SlimSCSI problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm unable to install OS 4.2 on my 760ED ThinkPad with a CD ROM attached via an Adaptec SlimSCSI using the 6x60 driver on the OpenStep floppy. I get a boot message saying that the PCMCI SCSI adaptor card is recognized on the bus, but then I get an error message from the driver: 6x60: Can't find host adaptor! And of course nothing much happens after this point. I'd be very greatful for suggestions on resolving this problem. Thanks, Carl --- Carl Erickson, carle@docs.uu.se Dept of Computer Systems Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
From: willadams@aol.com (WillAdams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ThinkPad 760ED + Adaptec SlimSCSI problem Date: 14 Sep 1997 19:11:08 GMT Message-ID: <19970914191100.PAA12480@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <341BB30D.83B552BF@docs.uu.se> SnewsLanguage: English All that I can note here is that Apple tech support told me to get an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card when my 755C wouldn't install Openstep 4.2 through an Adaptec SCSI card in a ThinkPad Dock I. Are you using the expensive one for all peripherals, or the cheaper one which is just for removables? I can almost afford the latter, but would need to be certain it'd work. Apple tech support didn't reply when I asked about this. William -- William Adams http://members.aol.com/willadams Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: colorstation external cd-rom problems (please help!) Message-ID: <EGI9y9.Jt3@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5v7m1d$o8c@eve.enteract.com> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:03:44 GMT In article <5v7m1d$o8c@eve.enteract.com> ~eseale~@enteract.com writes: > > i am trying to install NS 3.1 (user) on an otherwise functional > colorstation. when i try to install the install tells me my hdd > is damaged. i tried a number of IDs on the external cd-rom but > always get the same problem. is it possible that the internall > hdd does not have an ID set? > > or is it probably really damaged? > > i tried fsck but it always tells me to reboot. when i try to shut > down i get a panic and the box must be powered down to re-start. > > ps -i can not boot with the external cd-rom attached. lest the > machine just sit and try to boot off of the cd-rom (it seems). > Ok, trial and ereror didn't work. Now lets try some logics on the few hard facts that we might have. The hard drive boots when the CD/ROM is detached but it doesn't otherwise. Now there can only be two IDs that you might hit when attaching a external device, namely the initiator (always ID 7 on black hardware) an the boot drive (normally ID 1 for internal drives). Now there should be no more than tree trials to confirm that it is not the ID of the external device that's wrong. Otherwise there could be a broken cable or a misconfigured bus termination. And there is still the possibility the external device is broken. You should always try to boot a black machine with no CD in the drive. There are some drives (the original Sony 541, for instance) that hang the NEXTSTEP SCSI driver when used with a damaged CD (for instance, my original NS 3.0 CD hangs my slabs when used with my original black drive). But before you try anything out on that machine on behalf of a CD/ROM you should try to repair your damaged root filesystem. BTW, it is perfectly ok that a BSD Unix refuses to 'fsck' a root partition while in multiuser mode. You always need to boot singleuser in order to repair the root partition. In case the 'fsck' will not cure the defect you need to rebuild the root partition from scratch. But that means you either got a working CD/ROM (insert the distribution CD and boot the off the floppy that came with the CD), or you attach either the drive to a working system or a good drive as boot device and use the usual methods to redo a root partition. And then there remains the nonzero chance that the drive has a physical defect... -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: memory configs on turbo cube Message-ID: <EGIA6J.Jvn@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5veup4$1kuq$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:08:43 GMT In article <5veup4$1kuq$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@cs.wisc.edu writes: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) wrote: > >According to nextanswers, ALL turbo machines have four, 72-pin > >slots that can be filled with two, identical pairs. > > Yes. Each bank can take pairs of either 1MB, 4MB, 8MB, 16MB or > 32MB SIMMs. I don't know about 2MB but I've personally tested > 1MB SIMMs and they do work. I believe any such combination will > work. > As long as the first bank holds the larger set! Otherwise the RAM testing assumes the second bank to be of same size as the first and you loose all the rest of the precious stuff ;-) > >One configuration I don't see is to put just two 32 megs simms > >in for 64 megs. Is this possible? > > Yes. You don't have to have the second bank filled but the first > bank must be (the first bank are the two slots nearest the power > supply). > -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: turbo slab panics during backup on DAT Message-ID: <EGIB4C.LtB@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <199709131540565495520N@[192.168.0.2]> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:28:59 GMT In article <199709131540565495520N@[192.168.0.2]> grape@matrix.teuto.de (Timo Hoepfner) writes: > Hi! > > Almost every time I try to backup the harddisk (IBM-DPES 1080) of my > NeXTstation Turbo Color to my old Wangtek 6130HS/6200HS DAT streamer, I > get a panic stating "panic: (Cpu 0) dma_list: zero pfnum". > The Harddisk is properly terminated and delivers TermPower. The panic > occurs wether the streamer is the only external device or not. I tried > different terminators (active/passive), tried every option of the > streamer (SCSI-1/2, Term Power or not, SCSI parity) and tried changing > the blocksize of the streamer to 512 Bytes (using stblocksize). > I got at least one complkete backup without a panic, but about 15-20 > tries with the same panic. > ...munch... Your original post seems to show that know about the reason but can't make up how to cure it. Now, unfortunately, I can't provide you with a short recipe and the problem is gone. But I can assure you that the problem is in conjunction with the extended comand set not being disabled on the disk drive. In diconnect/reconnect situations involving slow devices like tapes the SCSI driver somehow looses context when the disk drive disconnected, and therfore the kernel panic. As a kind of relief I can positively confirm that the problem will go away when you managed to set all the disk drives to SCSI level 1 in asynch mode. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: BongOk Kim <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Your printer cover is open Date: 14 Sep 1997 00:55:50 GMT Organization: Korea Telecom Message-ID: <5vfcmm$49j$1@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Hi, Though I closed the NeXTLaser printer cover, following message pannel appeard. "Your printer cover is open". Also I heard same voice alert. What's wrong? My printer is not dead. Thanks younghoon KIL ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (NeXTMail OK) ppai@bbs.para.co.kr(Large size NeXTMail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody Q&A & Info Board written in Korean) (The Web site contains more than 4,000 articles about NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and Rhapsody) Fax: +82-(32)-817-8965 VOICE: +82-(32)-889-0151, +82-(11)-275-0177
From: BongOk Kim <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Your printer cover is open Date: 14 Sep 1997 01:10:38 GMT Organization: Korea Telecom Message-ID: <5vfdie$lel$1@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Hi, Though I closed the NeXTLaser printer cover, following message pannel appeard. "Your printer cover is open!". Also I heard same voice alert. What's wrong? My printer is not dead. Thanks younghoon KIL ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (NeXTMail OK) ppai@bbs.para.co.kr(Large size NeXTMail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody Q&A & Info Board written in Korean) (The Web site contains more than 4,000 articles about NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and Rhapsody) Fax: +82-(32)-817-8965 VOICE: +82-(32)-889-0151, +82-(11)-275-0177
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (younghoon KIL) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Your pinter cover is open Date: 14 Sep 1997 00:14:55 GMT Organization: ppai News Message-ID: <5vfa9v$975$2@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Hi, Though I closed the NeXTLaser printer cover, following message pannel appeard. "Your pinter cover is open" What's wrong? My printer is not dead. Thanks younghoon KIL ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (NeXTMail OK) ppai@bbs.para.co.kr(Large size NeXTMail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody Q&A & Info Board written in Korean) (The Web site contains more than 4,000 articles about NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and Rhapsody) Fax: +82-(32)-817-8965 VOICE: +82-(32)-889-0151, +82-(11)-275-0177
From: BongOk Kim <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Your printer cover is open Date: 14 Sep 1997 01:01:43 GMT Organization: Korea Telecom Message-ID: <5vfd1n$ac3$1@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Hi, Though I closed the NeXTLaser printer cover, following message pannel appeard. "Your printer cover is open". Also I heard same voice alert. What's wrong? My printer is not dead. Thanks younghoon KIL ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (NeXTMail OK) ppai@bbs.para.co.kr(Large size NeXTMail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody Q&A & Info Board written in Korean) (The Web site contains more than 4,000 articles about NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and Rhapsody) Fax: +82-(32)-817-8965 VOICE: +82-(32)-889-0151, +82-(11)-275-0177
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Your pinter cover is ope Date: 14 Sep 1997 00:21:16 GMT Organization: ppai News Message-ID: <5vfals$9i5$1@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Though I closed the NeXTLaser printer cover, following message pannel appeard. "Your pinter cover is open" Also I heard same voice alert. What's wrong? My printer is not dead. Thanks younghoon KIL ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (NeXTMail OK) ppai@bbs.para.co.kr(Large size NeXTMail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody Q&A & Info Board written in Korean) (The Web site contains more than 4,000 articles about NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and Rhapsody) Fax: +82-(32)-817-8965 VOICE: +82-(32)-889-0151, +82-(11)-275-0177
From: treyNeXT@NeXT.hsv.tybrin.com Subject: ATAPI Zip Drives on NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Keywords: Zip NEXTSTEP OPENSTEP ATAPI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <O1DS9sVw8GA.154@newstoo.hiwaay.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 17:12:07 -0500 Does anyone know if NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP will work with the ATAPI version of the Zip drive? -- Trey McClendon TYBRIN Corporation Huntsville, AL treyNeXT@NeXT.hsv.tybrin.com NeXT / MIME Mail Accepted Fax: 205-837-3472 Remove "NeXT" and "NeXT." from email address to reply
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: The new Matrox driver is available on NeXTanswers Date: 15 Sep 1997 07:05:37 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Sep15022032@howard.doubleu.com> References: <5t045f$p50$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> <SCOTT.97Aug15090034@slave.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Aug28112142@howard.doubleu.com> In-reply-to: scott@doubleu.com's message of 28 Aug 97 11:21:42 In article <SCOTT.97Aug28112142@howard.doubleu.com>, scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes: In article <SCOTT.97Aug15090034@slave.doubleu.com>, scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes: The real question, methinks, is whether a Millenium-II is faster than the Millenium with these drivers, and how much faster. Anybody? Anybody? I really am interested in this, since I already have a Millenium, and am in need of a second video card. But I'm not going to pay an eighty dollar premium unless the Millenium II gets a better NXBench than the Millenium on the same hardware... So, on Sunday the CompUSA circular has a Millenium-II for $180, after $120 worth of rebates. Though I'm generally loath to go to their store, I took the chance, I bought the card. I turned down the extended warranty, even though the cashier made noises like he expected the card to break down ANY MINUTE NOW. [How can a company live with themselves. Either they're suckering you on that warranty, or they're selling you crap. I mean, if I'm buying a used 1978 Chevy Nova, that's one thing, but buying new? Sigh.] Installed the new driver. Installed the card. Was unable to get both a Millenium II _and_ an original Millenium working in the same system. Any ideas on that out there? Configure.app will let me install two instances, but Instance1.table never appears in the card's .config directory. Ran some benchmarks using NXBench2.2, on a PentiumPro166 with 128M of RAM, running NS3.3 and OS4.2/Mach. The prior versions I'm not positive on (I forgot to note them before installing the new version). I ran each trial three times, and here present the mean (ie, average) and median (ie, middle) results: NXFactor NXFactor System Driver Card mean median NS3.3 3.34 Mill 5.965 5.9935 NS3.3 3.36 Mill 6.089 6.0770 NS3.3 3.36 M-II 6.155 6.1660 OS4.2 4.00 Mill 5.158 5.2127 OS4.2 4.05 Mill 5.116 5.1538 OS4.2 4.05 M-II 5.210 5.2448 So, it appears that simply upgrading the driver may or may not speed up your original Millenium, but the Millenium-II _is_ somewhat faster. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be a hugely measurable amount faster. Indeed, my results are within the range of error, and I'm not about to go back and repeat the tests ten times per configuration just to double-check things ... Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: The new Matrox driver is available on NeXTanswers Date: 15 Sep 1997 12:36:45 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5vja4t$m1e$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5t045f$p50$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> <SCOTT.97Aug15090034@slave.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Aug28112142@howard.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Sep15022032@howard.doubleu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: scott@doubleu.com In <SCOTT.97Sep15022032@howard.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote: > Installed the new driver. Installed the card. Was unable to get both > a Millenium II _and_ an original Millenium working in the same system. > Any ideas on that out there? Configure.app will let me install two > instances, but Instance1.table never appears in the card's .config > directory. Hmmm... To get a double headed system working with two original Matrox Millenia you have to switch off the VGA support on the second card. Unusually in these days of SOFTSET2.EXE this was done by a simple toggle switch on the card. Cheers, Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NS 3.3 on Sparc? Date: 14 Sep 97 08:00:20 Organization: C.R.A.S.H. The Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of Houston Message-ID: <JASON.97Sep14080020@fisher.psych.uh.edu> Hi! I'm looking for clues on Sun hardware configurations supported by NS 3.3 and higher. Has anyone managed (attempted?) to load and use a SparcStation 1? Thanks! Jason Asbahr
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: The new Matrox driver is available on NeXTanswers Date: 15 Sep 1997 16:05:31 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Sep15115330@howard.doubleu.com> References: <5t045f$p50$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> <SCOTT.97Aug15090034@slave.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Aug28112142@howard.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Sep15022032@howard.doubleu.com> In-reply-to: scott@doubleu.com's message of 15 Sep 97 02:20:32 In article <SCOTT.97Sep15022032@howard.doubleu.com>, scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes: Installed the new driver. Installed the card. Was unable to get both a Millenium II _and_ an original Millenium working in the same system. Any ideas on that out there? Configure.app will let me install two instances, but Instance1.table never appears in the card's .config directory. I received a couple suggestions relating to disabling VGA on the second card. Unfortunately, while this was on the mark, it didn't make it work. I'm embarassed I didn't remember this, but excuse myself by pointing out that I had no problems booting through the end of the VGA section of verbose booting, so I didn't suspect any problems... I always got the card in the lowest numbered slot (NS Location sense) as the VGA console. I've now disabled VGA on the Millenium, though. The second screen I get on my machine, the one that ends with "N for NeXTSTEP, D for DOS" or somesuch, displays the PCI info for the Millenium-II card but _not_ the Millenium. No idea if this is a problem, though, because both NeXTSTEP's and OpenStep's boot process detects both PCI devices right up front (in those first eight or ten lines of verbose boot). One hint came when I had both cards installed, but only the lowest-numbered (NeXT "Location" sense of lowest) configured. NeXTSTEP3.3 was unable to complete booting, it gave me a message about kernel conflicts of some sort (sorry, I didn't write them down, too big and hairy). OpenStep4.2 was able to complete booting, and used the configured card as its display, the other display remained blank. Configure.app under both NS3.3 and OS4.2 gives me an odd Instance0.table, and no Instance1.table for the driver. Contrary to one suggestion, my experience has always been that you need both to have two Instance tables for two cards. Instance0.table always seemed to end up with the info for the _secondary_ display, not the primary. If I quit and re-ran Configure.app, only the one card showed up again. After adding the second card, both seemed to have the correct Location info and whatnot, it just wasn't saved anywhere. Weirdly enough, Configure.app was also willing to nuke my Instance1.table, when I hacked one together. I hacked together an Instance1.table for OpenStep4.2 by copying an Instance0.table and changing the Instance= line, and no go. The Location line in each Instance table was that generated by Configure, Instance0 at Dev:11 and Instance1 at Dev:12. OpenStep boot hung after the lines: Display: Mode selected: 1152 x 864 @ 90 Hz (RGB:444/16) Registering: Display0 I removed the Millenium card, and rebooted NS3.3, and now after the above line, I also got: MatroxMGA2164WDisplayDriver: Matrox MGA2064W not found Leading me to believe things _almost_ work (I hadn't removed the Instance1.table, yet). Any more ideas? -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: creschke@pscwa.psca.com (Chance Reschke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NextStep on Intel Providence Motherboard? Date: 15 Sep 1997 17:42:17 GMT Organization: PSINet Message-ID: <5vjs1p$fs9$1@client3.news.psi.net> Hi, Has anyone been successful running NextStep on Intel Providence motherboard-based machines? Using the onboard SCSI? The onboard fast ethernet? SMP support with a second PentiumPro processor installed? Thanks, Chance --- creschke@pscwa.psca.com
From: vanhove@uni2a.unige.ch (pp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NextPrinter & Spurious Packets Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:21:11 +0200 Organization: Université de Genève Message-ID: <vanhove-1509972021110001@129.194.47.64> Hello peoples, I recently connected a brand-new Next LaserPrinter to my old NextStation Color (68040). I was only able to print some blank pages and generate a flow of error messages in the Console. Something which never happened with all the other Next Printer I installed in the past.I reproduce below a sample of what I usually get: np0: spurious packet received, cmd = 87 np0: DMA Underrun; Reprinting Page np0: spurious packet received, cmd = 87 np0: DMA Underrun; Reprinting Page np0: spurious packet received, cmd = 87 np0: DMA Underrun retries exhausted Sep 15 10:12:14 janacek Server:Local_Printer[254]: Error printing page: I/O error All the mecanical parts seem to be functioning normaly. I made various checks (changed the cable,...) and went through all the litterature at my disposal but this strange behavior is persistent. Has anyone encountered this problem before ? Has anyone a suggestion on how I could solve this problem ? Any help will be greatly appreciated !! Philippe Page McGill University, Montreal, Canada
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Laptop, networking and NS. Date: 15 Sep 1997 19:43:26 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5vk34u$gok@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <5vcugc$8kh@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> In-Reply-To: <5vcugc$8kh@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> On 09/12/97, Francois Magnan wrote: >Hi, > >I am running NS3.3 on a Journey 7200TC laptop and I am trying to use a >Xircom PCMCIA network card to connect to other NS3.3 stations. I >downloaded the driver version 3.35 for the Xircom card. Everything >seemed to work fine at first: the card was detected and the driver >configured the en0 interface properly. The problem is that the other >computers on the network (a thin coaxial net of two computers) just >don't seem to catch the packets (ping's) coming from the laptop. I see >the leds flash on all the computers but no one seem to really >undestand the packet. Same thing if I try to ping the laptop. I see >the led flash but no answer. I have the correct drivers I think: > >Xircom 3.35 >Intel 82365 PCMCIA Adapter v.3.33 >PCMCIA bus support v.3.34 > >The netinfo server is configured for automatic host addition. I also >tried to do this manually (by assigning an address to the laptop). >Nothing worked. What am I doing wrong??? > >Thank you, >Francois Magnan The problem is solved. The docking station must be removed for the network card to work. But now, the display driver doesn't work anymore... arrrgh! Francois -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NextPrinter & Spurious Packets Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:48:05 -0400 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970915164156.6033A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <vanhove-1509972021110001@129.194.47.64> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: pp <vanhove@uni2a.unige.ch> In-Reply-To: <vanhove-1509972021110001@129.194.47.64> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, pp wrote: > All the mecanical parts seem to be functioning normaly. I made various > checks (changed the cable,...) and went through all the litterature at my > disposal but this strange behavior is persistent. The first thing that comes to mind is whether or not you're using a genuine NeXT cable to connect to the printer as opposed to a 9-pin serial cable. As I recall, the NeXT laser printer uses a high-speed serial protocol that is very dependent on timing - if you use a cable that's a different length or capacitance (i.e. any cable that's not the original NeXT equipment), you may see errors. Barring that, you may simply be in an environment with too much RF interference. Make sure you're using the original NeXT cable and keep the system away from any heavy-duty or unshielded electrical equipment -Isaac
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Linux for Black Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EGK6ny.1rC@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:47:58 GMT References: <EGGsKr.Jwu@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <EGGsKr.Jwu@midway.uchicago.edu>, bryce sady <bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote: >Does anyone know the status on Linux for Black harware? I don't believe there is one, and there haven't been many people attacking it. Someone was all keen on OpenBSD but I don't know if he got anywhere. There is Plan 9 (for mono systems only, I believe) but that's it. -- 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: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: N4000 or N4000B? Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:16:39 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> I've got a 25MHz cube running two-headed but I'm hoping to pick up a turb= o cube motherboard. I have heard that there are two versions. ADB and non= -adb. I don't have any particular preference since I'm completely happy w= ith my existing keyboard and mouse (I've moved the mac off my desk anyway so sharing the keyboard is no long= er an issue...). I'd like to keep my N4000 monitor--it's very sharp and clear. Are any of = the turbo cube motherboards compatible with this monitor and my existing = keyboard/mouse? Nextanswers wasn't very clear on this. My assumption is t= hat I should specifically be looking for a non-adb version of the turbo motherboard but I'd like some confirma= tion from the experts. -- = David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: N4000 or N4000B? Date: 16 Sep 1997 04:52:33 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5vl3ah$ijk$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) wrote: >I'd like to keep my N4000 monitor--it's very sharp and clear. Are any of = >the turbo cube motherboards compatible with this monitor and my existing = >keyboard/mouse? A non-ADB (Turbo or non-Turbo) NeXTcube or mono NeXTstationcan run either a N4000 or N4000A. An ADB (Turbo only) requires a N4000B. Technically a soundbox can be hardware hacked to be either ADB or non I expect you could in principle hack a monitor to do the same, but its not something I'd recommend. non-ADB system <-> N4000 or N4000A ADB system <-> N4000B - Gareth --- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: The new Matrox driver is available on NeXTanswers Date: 16 Sep 1997 05:05:34 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Sep16005456@howard.doubleu.com> References: <5t045f$p50$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> <SCOTT.97Aug15090034@slave.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Aug28112142@howard.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Sep15022032@howard.doubleu.com> In-reply-to: scott@doubleu.com's message of 15 Sep 97 02:20:32 In article <SCOTT.97Sep15022032@howard.doubleu.com>, scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes: Was unable to get both a Millenium II _and_ an original Millenium working in the same system. I have conclusively proven that it's not a hardware problem in my system. I did this by setting NT4.0 up to use both cards for a 2304x864 desktop. Sort of cool, except that I had to reduce the refresh rate to allow the secondary monitor to keep up, I kept getting alert panels precisely centered on the space _between_ the monitors, and the convenient little toolbar icons are _really_ annoying when you have to traverse the burning desert to get to them :-). But hey, it worked. More and more, I suspect that Configure.app simply does not like the setup I'm asking for. It seems willing enough to let me actually configure each card. The first clue that something's wrong is that it insists on putting the Millennium driver before the Millennium II driver in the browser. A sorting problem? And when I save the configuration, only the Instance0.table is written, though so long as Configure is running, it thinks both cards are configured. It may be that I'm seeing intelligence at work in some obscure fashion. If it's not supported and Configure knows it, I'd rather it just _complained_, though! Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: siren@surf.pangea.ca (Betty Siren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT 400 dpi Level II off center Date: 16 Sep 1997 00:25:54 -0500 Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc. Message-ID: <5vl592$ahd@surf.pangea.ca> References: <5v20h8$28f$1@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu> <5v40nq$msa$1@news.tamu.edu> <5v4r4r$9bf$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.96.970909235224.25009A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> writes: >Makes me wonder if the switch that detects the position of the green tab >broke. The printer is OK otherwise. Had this problem several years ago. Snipping a wire fixed it and disabled the green tab. Printer was in a public area so this was a good thing. There was a usenet tread about this problem at the time.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NS 3.3 on Sparc? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EGKp8G.DEF@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 23:29:03 GMT References: <JASON.97Sep14080020@fisher.psych.uh.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <JASON.97Sep14080020@fisher.psych.uh.edu>, Jason L. Asbahr <jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu> wrote: > > >Hi! > >I'm looking for clues on Sun hardware configurations supported by NS 3.3 >and higher. Has anyone managed (attempted?) to load and use a SparcStation 1? > It supports MicroSPARC II and SuperSPARC only. So you're talking SS4, SS5, some SS10 and some SS20 (and Voyager). There are some caveats with the SS4 as I recall, such as no sound. But no, no SS1 support. -- 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: "nala" <tlk684@modgnik.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.os2,comp.sys.pal Subject: RE: Listen and you will smile... Date: 16 Sep 1997 07:40:22 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <01bcbec3$15d7dde0$b9bf39cc@default> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonely? Need to hear a soft, smiling voice? 1-900-255-0900, Ext 4096 $3.99 per min. Must be 18y. Serv-U (619) 645-8434 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5vm516$1o9$181@news.netlabs.net> Control: cancel <5vm516$1o9$181@news.netlabs.net> Date: 16 Sep 1997 14:36:40 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.5vm516$1o9$181@news.netlabs.net> Sender: info@hotboxx.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: gwong@eecg.toronto.edu (Gilbert Wong) Subject: Another monitor for NeXT Colorstation? Message-ID: <1997Sep16.102137.22343@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> Organization: Computer Group, Elec. Eng., University of Toronto Date: 16 Sep 97 14:21:37 GMT Hi all, Do anyone know what color monitor (other than the black FIMI, PHILIPS, SONY monitor) that can be used with a NeXT Colorstation? Thanks, Gilbert Email: gwong@eecg.utoronto.ca
From: heywood@american.edu (John Quentin Heywood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mouse for a TurboSlab needed Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:47:08 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Message-ID: <341e9889.43514770@news.american.edu> The mouse on my TurboSlab mono is going fast (cable problem, I think) and I need a new one. Does anyone sell NeXT mice anymore, and if not, is there anything I can use as a substitute? TIA John Heywood John Quentin Heywood * heywood@american.edu * Room 115 * "Madness takes its toll... Washington College of Law * American University * ...Please have exact change ready. 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW * Washington, DC 20016-8082 * vox: 202.274.4329 * fax: 202.274.4365 *
From: heywood@american.edu (John Quentin Heywood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Large EIDE disks Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:56:05 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Message-ID: <341eaae0.48209751@news.american.edu> I am thinking of buying a Maxtor 7.0 Gb EIDE (7.0 metric) hard drive for my intel NeXT/Linux/WinNT box. I know it will work with NT, I am pretty sure it will work with Linux . . . does anyone out there have any experience with these (or other very large EIDE disks and OS 4.1? If they have worked for you, have you had to use any special tricks to make it so? TIA, John Heywood John Quentin Heywood * heywood@american.edu * Room 115 * "Madness takes its toll... Washington College of Law * American University * ...Please have exact change ready. 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW * Washington, DC 20016-8082 * vox: 202.274.4329 * fax: 202.274.4365 *
From: hiatt@cig.mot.com (Don D. Hiatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Linux for Black Date: 15 Sep 1997 11:58:54 -0500 Organization: Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group Sender: hiatt@web02 Message-ID: <v6h202qbjjl.fsf@cig.mot.com> References: <EGGsKr.Jwu@midway.uchicago.edu> It is still very early, but here is where to start: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7420/ which is aliased from: http://www.black.linux-m68k.org/ don bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (bryce sady) writes: > Does anyone know the status on Linux for Black harware? > thx, > bryce > > -- > > ()-() Bryce B. Sady NeXT mail Welcome > (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady > /\o/\ > > > -- "Don Hiatt" <hiatt@cig.mot.com> http://www.cig.mot.com/~hiatt/ Key fingerprint = 72 83 9B 82 FF DB F5 97 53 78 01 00 22 4C 95 A0
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Mouse for a TurboSlab needed Date: 16 Sep 1997 18:48:55 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5vmkan$8ht$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <341e9889.43514770@news.american.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <341e9889.43514770@news.american.edu> John Quentin Heywood wrote: > > The mouse on my TurboSlab mono is going fast (cable problem, I think) > and I need a new one. Does anyone sell NeXT mice anymore, and if not, > is there anything I can use as a substitute? You can get a ``new'' NeXT mouse, or a Logitech replacement from http://www.orb.com/Access.html http://www.deepspacetech.com/Nexthardware.html > [ ten line .sig omitted ] Sigs should be 4 lines, that's old, I know, but if the post is only 3 lines, having a sig which is 3x longer is a little excessive... TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: jwlee@artsci.wustl.edu (Jung Woo Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Number Nine Revolution 3D Driver? Date: 16 Sep 1997 22:16:02 GMT Organization: Washington University in St. Louis Message-ID: <5vn0f2$imm$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> I was wondering if there is a driver for 128bit revolution video card. I know there is a imagine 128 bit 2. I heard that the revolution has backwards compatibility, if anybody has any imput please post. Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: N4000 or N4000B? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EGLuMn.DEv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:23:11 GMT References: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu>, David Herren <herren@flannet.middlebury.edu> wrote: > >I'd like to keep my N4000 monitor--it's very sharp and clear. Are any of = >the turbo cube motherboards compatible with this monitor and my existing = >keyboard/mouse? Yes, just plug it in. ADB boards like non-ADB monitors/sound boxes/keyboards just fine. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: N4000 or N4000B? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EGM185.FKt@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:45:41 GMT References: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5vl3ah$ijk$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5vl3ah$ijk$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>, <bestor@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > >A non-ADB (Turbo or non-Turbo) NeXTcube or mono NeXTstationcan run either a >N4000 or N4000A. An ADB (Turbo only) requires a N4000B. Are you sure about this? Not all Turbo machines shipped with ADB and I thought that they just used the normal non-ADB hardware. -- 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: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware From: dom@suomi.bonbit.org (Mr. Dominique Jepsen) Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: huvikumpu Message-ID: <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 19:23:18 GMT In maus.hardware Wilhelm Karl <Wilhelm.Karl@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> wrote: > Ich hätte einen Iiyama VisionMaster 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. > Neupreis: z.Z. 1599,- für VB 1250 DM 1250.- kostet der mittlerweile neu (z.B. bei Schadt, auf den Pfennig genau) dom -- dom@bonbit.org fon: +49 4347 708931 fax: +49 4347 708932 Welterster Host mit bei-Nichtgefallen-Intelligenz-zurueck-Garantie
From: entity@interlog.com (Entity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Cure my ignorance ?--more questions Date: 10 Sep 1997 15:40:17 -0400 Organization: Hybrid Designs Message-ID: <5v6t31$1pj@shell1.interlog.com> References: <5v3s2u$ai5@lace.colorado.edu> <grewal-ya023580000909971941060001@nntp.ix.netcom.com> In article <grewal-ya023580000909971941060001@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, Kawaldeep Grewal <grewal@uclink4.berzerkeley.edu> wrote: >In article <5v3s2u$ai5@lace.colorado.edu>, baldwin@kurgan.colorado.edu (Dan >Baldwin) wrote: > >>My current understanding (misunderstanding) is that there are two >>types of PCI cards to plug your monitor into : >> >> Graphics acceleration boards that accelerate >>Quickdraw and Quickdraw 3D calculations. To answer the first poster's question, yes there ARE cards that accelerate both 2D/3D AND Video all on one card. For example, the new IXmicro rocket, the ATI XClaim VR (Pro), and others will all do this. Pretty much all of the new chipsets being designed offer both 2D/3D _AND_ some sort of video acceleration as well. >when Rhapsody comes around? All the sources say that Rhapsody will use >Display Postscript instead of the normal Mac standard of QuickDraw. Will >the chipsets in our video cards have to be swapped/replaced in order to >accelerate the Postscript code for our dislplay's? In the print industry, Nope. Basically, what happens in Rhapsody is that the Display Postscript gets boiled down to 2D primitives. The postscript interpretation is done entirely by the CPU and does not get passed down to the graphics processor. Currently the way things are set up, Rhapsody is NOT set up for true 2D acceleration. The only things it'll be able to accelerate are screen-to-screen srcCopy's (eg. moving a window) and filling a region. (eg. clearing a section for a new window etc). Everything else is going to be handled by the CPU. This is obviously retarded because the 2D sits idle most of the time, whereas it SHOULD be used concurrently with the CPU for all of the drawing operations. None of this is set in stone at the moment, but that's how it's set up right now. As it was, QuickDraw acceleration wasn't done as well as it could have been under MacOS, and with Rhapsody it's a hell of a lot more pathetic. >does this mean in terms of performance on screen? I'm sure the PCI card Well, since the base machine that you're running it on has a super-fast CPU, you get fairly good response, but the point is that it COULD be MUCH better if they did a better job of adding proper acceleration hooks to Rhapsody. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Hybrid Designs entity@interlog.com
From: "Ian Farquharson" <Ian_Farquharson@stratus.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Diamond Stealth video 3000 Date: 17 Sep 1997 08:20:47 GMT Organization: European Support Centre, Stratus Computer Message-ID: <01bcc342$3e237420$c70773c6@singha.uk.stratus.com> I'm sure someone else must have smacked their own forehead over this already... I've got one pc in the office that had a failed stealth card, the supplier replaced it with a stealth video 3000 3d as the originals are out of supply. I cannot get this to work at all. Even a fresh install causes the machine to lock up when it goes from the -v white screen to the VGA mode. I've not even got to the point of the configure window. nextanswer 2385 suggests it's not handled by the virge driver, 2253 suggests it's handled by the stealth64 driver. Neither of which matter yet as it locks up under the VGA adapter driver that installing is trying to use. If there is a workaround for this in common knowledge I can't find it on diamond/enterprise.apple.com/or stepwise, drop me a line at ian_farquharson@stratus.com I'm going to bin it and get a millenium if theres no obvious solution. I've had the 'but it works under windows' argument but we all know that's no great indicator of compatibility. Thanks for reading, ian -- +44(0)181 607 1011
From: pekeler@luck.shnet.org (Christian Pekeler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Troubles with Nomai 750C Date: 17 Sep 1997 10:54:39 GMT Organization: private Message-ID: <5voctf$18m@luck.shnet.org> Hi I want to use the Nomai 750C external SCSI drive with OS/Intel. The cartridges come DOS formatted and if I try to reformat them under OS/Mach I get the following console errors: probing for DOS probing for CDROM probing for mac probing for cdaudio Sep 14 12:28:50 Workspace[742]: DeviceInitPanel - Cannot select the default (choosing NeXT instead) Sep 14 12:29:04 Workspace: Unmounted foreign disk at /unlabeled /usr/etc/disk -i -h luck -l "Nomai1" -d 751878144 /dev/rsd3a disk name: NOMAI MCD 750I 2m12 disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label can't write label -- disk unusable!: I/O error The BuildDisk.app gives me a similar error. Using sdform somehow crashed the device (wasn't able to eject or insert new media until rebooting). When I do a low level format using Nomai software under win95 I can format these low level formatted cartridges under OS without problems. Except that I only get 619MB free formatted diskspace (these are 750MB cartridges!). The same cartridge DOS formatted does have 715MB free space. Since the Nomai 750C is compatible to 270 and 135 SyQuest cartridges I tried to format a 135 Mac formatted cartridge and succeeded without troubles with about 115MB free space. Do I need a disktab entry for the 750 cartridges? scsimodes gives me the following information: SCSI information for /dev/rsd3a Drive type: NOMAI MCD 750I 2m12 512 bytes per sector 78 sectors per track 2 tracks per cylinder 4144 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders) 2 spare sectors per track 2 alternate tracks per volume 1468511 usable sectors on volume With the information found in 'Adding On without Flipping Out' from Mark Tacchi (NA#1849) I created the following disktab entry. As I still don't fully understand disktabs, can someone please confirm that the following could work or provide a better one? Can I check it out without fear for destroying a cartridge? NOMAI MCD 750I 2m12:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#4144:nt#2:ns#78:ss#512:rm#5400:\ :fp#160:bp#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a:\ :pa#0:sa#1468511:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: I'm especially unsure about the name because '2m12' represents the drive's software revision which is upgradeable. (Please don't advise me to get an Iomega Jaz instead. The Jaz 1G cartridges cost twice the price of a Nomai 750MB cartridge, isn't SyQuest compatible and the commercial says that the Nomai should be faster than the Jaz which I didn't benchmarked myself so far. ;-) Many thanks for any help! Regards Christian
From: Huber Hans <mail340@fh-rosenheim.de> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:30:15 +0200 Organization: Siemens Inc. Message-ID: <341FDB65.E3B8BD1@fh-rosenheim.de> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Wilhelm Karl <Wilhelm.Karl@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> Wilhelm Karl schrieb: > Hallo! > > Ich hätte einen Iiyama VisionMaster 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. > Das Gerät ist in einem TOP-Zustand, ca. 15 Monate alt. > (1280x1024 mit 80Hz max, 135MHz, BNC+VGA Anschluß) > Neupreis: z.Z. 1599,- für VB 1250 DM > > Den bekommt man für 1180,- neu!!!
From: sas <sas5@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: modem trouble Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:22:25 +0200 Organization: ARNES Message-ID: <341FD991.5400234F@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello, I am new to Openstep (4.2), and need help getting ppp to work. I've read the faq, .rtf about ppp... I have USR sportster 28.800 int. and I cannot (don't know) to get it recognised. I followed instructions in ppp.rtf, and I don't have text that module sucessfully installed in /usr/adm/message in the log ppp2.2.log I can see the line saying device doesn't exist in /dev/ttyda . My modem is at com4, irq3 (it works in win95). Which device is it to be used? Why isn't a report about module being successfully/not installed? Please help me, sas
From: Steven W. Schuldt <sschuldt@mediaone.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: PD440FX and SoundBlaster 16 Hell Date: 17 Sep 1997 14:45:27 GMT Organization: MediaOne -=- Northeast Region Message-ID: <5voqe7$7e5$1@brnws01.ne.mediaone.net> All: I'm trying to get a new Soundblaster 16 Basic Plug and Play to work under OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach and the system insists that it cannot find a card. I have tested the card under DOS and it works fine. The config is as follows: Intel PD440FX Portland Motherboard/ w PII 266 Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller 128 MB RAM Intel Etherlink XL NIC Matrox Millenium w/8MB VRAM Yes, the Portland's onboard Yamaha sound has been disabled via the BIOS setup. I've tried the SoundBlaster 4.00 and 4.01 drivers (Plug and Play, non-Plug and Play). I have tried Plug and Play support enabled auto and manually in the BIOS and in the EISA/ISA driver. It looks like something is claiming the same base i/o address (0x220) but I have tried removing everything save for the 2940UW and still have the problem. Nothing relevant on NeXTanswers. Anyone? Thanks!!! - Steve
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: N4000 or N4000B? Date: 17 Sep 1997 14:37:48 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5vopvs$pra$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <5vl3ah$ijk$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> <EGM185.FKt@novice.uwaterloo.ca> In article <EGM185.FKt@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, you wrote: >In article <5vl3ah$ijk$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>, <bestor@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: >> >>A non-ADB (Turbo or non-Turbo) NeXTcube or mono NeXTstationcan run either a >>N4000 or N4000A. An ADB (Turbo only) requires a N4000B. > > Are you sure about this? Not all Turbo machines shipped with ADB and I >thought that they just used the normal non-ADB hardware. Yes, some Turbo machines are ADB and others non-ADB. What I meant was if you have ADB then you must have a Turbo machine because ADB requires the accelerated 25/33 MHz Turbo motherboard design, ROM v74 or greater and an ADB monitor/soundbox cable, and ADB keyboard/mouse. You can't get an ADB system with a non-Turbo motherboard (note: some 25MHz motherboards are Turbo). And yes, non-ADB Turbo systems use the normal non-ADB hardware. The physical wiring/pinout is different between ADB and non-ADB systems so you even need the right monitor cable to get it to work - I know this because I've tried using a non-ADB cable on my ADB Turbo Color and you can power on/off but the mouse and keyboard don't work. As far as I can deduce the hardware on all Turbo motherboards is able to handle ADB and non-ADB and the difference is handled by the ROM, hence why you can upgrade a non-ADB to an ADB w/o replacing the motherboard. However, the physical wiring and pinouts are different so you need to either have the right monitor/soundbox or hack them, which apparantly can be done. You need the ADB mouse and keyboard too to send the correct signals. Here's the details from the NeXT FAQ: >5.36 How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? > > If ADB equipment are used with older NeXT systems they won't work > properly. Here are the ADB requirements: > > * A Turbo computer. > * CPU eprom version 74. > * New revision computer to soundbox/monitor cable. > > The part number is molded at both ends of the connector: > > Cable NEW OLD (Non ADB) > NeXTcube 4534 150 > NeXTstation 4535 1532 > NeXTstation color 4536 2286 > > * New revision monitor which uses a vertical scan rate of 72hz > instead of 68hz, except on NeXTdimension systems color monitor > stays 68hz. > > Monitor NEW (72hz) OLD (68hz) > 17" mono ACX (N4000b) AAA (N4000a \& N4000) > 17" color ADF (N4006) ABG (N4001) > 21" color ADB (N4005a) ABH (N4005) > > * ADB soundbox for color systems. S/N prefix ADD instead of ABN. As far as I can tell the 68/72Hz scan rate requirement is bogus, at least for color systems. I've run a older 68Hz MegaPixel on a ADB Turbo Color and a newer 72MHz MegaPixel on a non-ADB Turbo Color. NeXT monitors are _supposed_ to be fixed frequency so I have no idea why this works but nobody has been able to give me an explanation. - Gareth PS - I'm not privy to NeXT's hardware design - this is all just what I've been able to deduce. Perhaps someone who does can inscribe the truth in stone. [calling Mike P...] :-) --- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: floyd@bbaw.de (Sean P. Floyd) Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 18:25:56 +0200 Organization: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Message-ID: <floyd-ya02408000R1709971825560001@news.bbaw.de> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> <341FDB65.E3B8BD1@fh-rosenheim.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <341FDB65.E3B8BD1@fh-rosenheim.de>, Huber Hans <mail340@fh-rosenheim.de> wrote: >Wilhelm Karl schrieb: > >> Hallo! >> >> Ich hätte einen Iiyama VisionMaster 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. >> Das Gerät ist in einem TOP-Zustand, ca. 15 Monate alt. >> (1280x1024 mit 80Hz max, 135MHz, BNC+VGA Anschluß) >> Neupreis: z.Z. 1599,- für VB 1250 DM >> >> Den bekommt man für 1180,- neu!!! Und nach 15 Monaten noch mehr als die Hälfte des ursprünglichen Preises zu verlangen grenzt bei Computerzubehör an Frechheit. Sean -- ***************************************************** * Sean P. Floyd a.k.a. "the Seanizer" * * Berlin - Brandenburg Academy of Sciences * * mailto:floyd@bbaw.de * * http://www.bbaw.de * *****************************************************
From: Vladimir Knajtner <vladk@escape.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How many NeXT Turbo stations (bw/color) were manufactured? Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:39:50 -0400 Organization: J.P. Morgan & Co Message-ID: <342007D6.3D88@escape.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: luomat+next@luomat.peak.org If there is anybody who knows the answer, please respond to: vladk@escape.com. Timothy, I count on you for this one! Thanks, Vlad
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: N4000 or N4000B? Date: 17 Sep 1997 17:31:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <5vp45o$lsg@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5vopvs$pra$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> In article <5vopvs$pra$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@cs.wisc.edu writes: >As far as I can tell the 68/72Hz scan rate requirement is bogus, >at least for color systems. I've run a older 68Hz MegaPixel on a >ADB Turbo Color and a newer 72MHz MegaPixel on a non-ADB Turbo >Color. NeXT monitors are _supposed_ to be fixed frequency so I have >no idea why this works but nobody has been able to give me an >explanation. Nothing magical here. With the spatial resolution (# of pixels) unchanged, the frame rate change from 68Hz to 72 represents only a 6 % increase on each of the V (frame) and H (line) scan rates. That's still within the definition of "fixed." Most fixed frequency monitors can tolerate that degree of variability (more if you can get to internal trim pots). On the other hand, multi-sync monitors must adapt to scan rate changes often in excess of 2 - 3 times (that's 100-200 %).
Message-ID: <34202E88.1805751C@ibm.net> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:24:56 -0500 From: Ken Henry <KenHenry@ibm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,chi.forsale CC: KenHenry@ibm.net Subject: FS: NeXT ColorStation 16/1.0GB - $310 + shipping COD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: IBM.NET NeXT ColorStation 25 Mhz 68040 - $310 + shipping COD 16MB RAM Conner 1.0GB Hard Drive 17" MegaPixel Color Display Mouse & Keyboard (Non-ADB) Sound Box OPENSTEP 4.2 User+Developer Installed on HD Asking $310 Firm + shipping COD This system is in great condition and the monitor is bright and crisp. I have been using this system as a development machine and a web server for the local network but now I need the space. I would prefer to sell this in the Chicago area which would save shipping. Sorry I can't ship outside the US and would like to sell this as a system, no parts. $310 Firm + shipping COD -Ken Henry KenHenry@ibm.net
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: N4000 or N4000B? Date: 17 Sep 1997 22:24:05 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5vpla5$2u5@news9.noc.netcom.net> References: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <EGLuMn.DEv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca In <EGLuMn.DEv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote: > In article <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu>, > David Herren <herren@flannet.middlebury.edu> wrote: > > > >I'd like to keep my N4000 monitor--it's very sharp and clear. Are any of = > >the turbo cube motherboards compatible with this monitor and my existing = > >keyboard/mouse? > > Yes, just plug it in. ADB boards like non-ADB monitors/sound boxes/keyboards > just fine. > I can vouch for this. I currently have a ADB-Turbo Dimension running two headed with a N4000 monitor (non-ADB) and a NON-ADB keyboard and mouse. Cable is a 150.00. As to the monitor frequencies it appears both the monitors I have are N4005a's. And for a strange data point I have used the N4005A on a Indigo 2 Extreme @ 60Hz with no problem.. (I did have to adjust the size but it sync'd fine @ 60Hz). 72Hz would not sync AFAIK so go figure, perhaps I'll try again. Randy Rencsok rencsok (at) channelu (dot) com or even better spammers (a@) channelu (dot) com and if anyone gets bounced messages try here rencsok (a@) argus (dot] cem (dot] msu (dot] edu
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How many NeXT Turbo stations (bw/color) were manufactured? Date: 18 Sep 1997 01:45:30 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5vq13q$i3h$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <342007D6.3D88@escape.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: vladk@escape.com In <342007D6.3D88@escape.com> Vladimir Knajtner wrote: > > If there is anybody who knows the answer, please respond to: > vladk@escape.com. > > Timothy, I count on you for this one! Eeks! Me? 5,721. I would have asked Mike P, personally, since he was actually *there* rather me, who was never more than a wannabe... TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Hey Vlad check your email! Date: 18 Sep 1997 01:49:26 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5vq1b6$i3h$6@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <342007D6.3D88@escape.com> <5vq13q$i3h$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <5vq13q$i3h$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > In <342007D6.3D88@escape.com> Vladimir Knajtner wrote: > > > > If there is anybody who knows the answer, please respond to: > > vladk@escape.com. I tried to reply and got this bounce: The original message was received at Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:49:26 -0400 (EDT) from siteadm@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com [24.3.128.66] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- knajtner_vladimir@escape.com (expanded from: <vladk@escape.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 /home/home1/vladk/.forward: line 1: knajtner_vladimir@escape.com... User unknown TjL
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: N4000 or N4000B? Date: 18 Sep 1997 04:52:46 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5vqc2u$b3a$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <EGLuMn.DEv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5vpla5$2u5@news9.noc.netcom.net> In article <5vpla5$2u5@news9.noc.netcom.net>, you wrote: >I can vouch for this. I currently have a ADB-Turbo Dimension running two >headed >with a N4000 monitor (non-ADB) and a NON-ADB keyboard and mouse. Cable is >a 150.00. How do you know you have an ADB motherboard then? Is your ROM v74? Have you tried ADB stuff on it too? [honest questions there] I guess it depends on what ROM you have. Perhaps the v74 ROMs are smart enough to detect the difference in the incoming signal and can handle both ADB and non-ADB, but older ROMs are not. Of course, to hang non-ADB stuff off anything is going to require the non-ADB 150.00 monitor cable since the wiring to the monitor/soundbox is different. But I'm 99.9% certain you can't do the opposite; that is hang ADB stuff off and non-ADB motherboard, nor mix and match your monitor/soundbox/keyboard/mouse. Thanks for making me aware of this though! - Gareth --- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: Patrick Langels <langels@ds.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:37:17 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <3420DA2D.C52F53FB@ds.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Wilhelm Karl wrote: > Ich hätte einen Iiyama VisionMaster 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. > Das Gerät ist in einem TOP-Zustand, ca. 15 Monate alt. > (1280x1024 mit 80Hz max, 135MHz, BNC+VGA Anschluß) > Neupreis: z.Z. 1599,- für VB 1250 DM > Das soll doch wohl ein Witz sein , oder !!?? Den gibst doch schon für 1199,- (85kHz Version) NEU !! Bis denne Patrick
From: "Duane Bong" <duane@innocent.NOSPAM.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Check out this computer hardware guide Date: 18 Sep 1997 08:14:55 GMT Organization: ID Web Message-ID: <01bcc409$3bd38940$LocalHost@default> Check out this award winning hardware computer guide at: http://web.singnet.com.sg/~duane/indexb.htm It covers topics on processors (IDT C6, Enhanced K6, Digital Alpha etc), motherboards, video cards, AGP, hardisks, ram, cdrom, dvd, overclocking, cooling and thermodynamics, recommendations etc. If access is slow from your part of the world, try the mirror site at: http://www.angelfire.com/co/dhh/indexb.html The mirror site does not contain as much information as the main homepage.
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From: "Alexander L. Kossar" <alex@ssi.kiev.ua> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help find Linux for Next Date: 18 Sep 1997 12:28:34 GMT Organization: Schafer Shop Distribution: world Message-ID: <01bcc41a$cf76e280$08a22cc2@supervisor> Help find Linux for Nextstation turbo 68040 Best Regards Alex L. Kossar alex@ssi.kiev.ua
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help find Linux for Next Date: 18 Sep 1997 15:40:33 GMT Organization: none Distribution: world Message-ID: <5vri1h$s1u$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <01bcc41a$cf76e280$08a22cc2@supervisor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alex@ssi.kiev.ua In <01bcc41a$cf76e280$08a22cc2@supervisor> "Alexander L. Kossar" wrote: > > Help find Linux for Nextstation turbo 68040 Does not exist, although there was some early work done on it. This was mentioned 3 days ago under ``Linux for black'' which should still be in your newsfeed under this same group It is still very early, but here is where to start: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7420/ which is aliased from: http://www.black.linux-m68k.org/ -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: pkobel@gmx.net (Peter Kobel) Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Followup-To: de.alt.flame Date: 17 Sep 1997 19:03:59 GMT Organization: Strahlemann & Soehne - Atomtransporte Message-ID: <5vp9iv$slf@stulpi.stuttgart.netsurf.de> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@student.uni-augsburg.de>, Wilhelm Karl <Wilhelm.Karl@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> writes: > Ich hätte einen Iiyama VisionMaster 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. Welcher Schwachkopf hat Dir die Newsgroups:-Zeile diktiert? Tschüß! -- Reset-Knopf? Ich habe kein Windows!
From: hornof@hawaii.irisa.fr (Luke Hornof) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: WANTED: NeXT printer Date: 18 Sep 1997 19:36:39 +0200 Organization: IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE Sender: hornof@hawaii.irisa.fr Distribution: world Message-ID: <wejen6mbk2g.fsf@hawaii.irisa.fr> I've got a NeXTstation and would like to add a printer. Will any Mac or IBM printer work? Will I need to buy any additional hardware? Otherwise, what's the best way to find a (preferably used) NeXT printer? My main goal is to print out .dvi or .ps files (generated by LaTeX, of course!) Luke
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: N4000 or N4000B? Date: 18 Sep 1997 17:43:43 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5vrp8f$hgt@news9.noc.netcom.net> References: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <EGLuMn.DEv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5vpla5$2u5@news9.noc.netcom.net> <5vqc2u$b3a$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> Cc: bestor@cs.wisc.edu In <5vqc2u$b3a$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > In article <5vpla5$2u5@news9.noc.netcom.net>, you wrote: > >I can vouch for this. I currently have a ADB-Turbo Dimension running two > >headed > >with a N4000 monitor (non-ADB) and a NON-ADB keyboard and mouse. Cable is > >a 150.00. > > How do you know you have an ADB motherboard then? Is your ROM v74? Have you > tried ADB stuff on it too? [honest questions there] Yes AND yes. > I guess it depends on what ROM you have. Perhaps the v74 ROMs are smart > enough to detect the difference in the incoming signal and can handle both > ADB and non-ADB, but older ROMs are not. Of course, to hang non-ADB stuff off > anything is going to require the non-ADB 150.00 monitor cable since the > wiring to the monitor/soundbox is different. But I'm 99.9% certain you can't > do the opposite; that is hang ADB stuff off and non-ADB motherboard, nor mix > and match your monitor/soundbox/keyboard/mouse. I havn't even tried the ADB monitor cable I could if you really want to know. As to hanging ADB on a non-ADB system I'm pretty sure it just would not work since I think you'd need the ADB bootstrap code in the v74. Perhaps Mike P will comment as I'm not completely sure of this.. I probably should check the pinouts on the cables just to be sure.. > Thanks for making me aware of this though! No problem. Something else for the FAQ. Randy rencsok (at) channelu (d0t) com (or if this fails - send origional w/ accompying errors to) rencsok (At) argus (d0t) cem (d0t) msu (d0t) edu spammers works and is preferred BTW
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: LS-120 floppies and NeXTSTEP Date: 18 Sep 1997 19:05:52 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Sep18140714@slave.doubleu.com> I figure it's worth a shot... if only barely. Anyone running an LS-120 floppy with NeXTSTEP/OpenStep? If not as a 120MB floppy, how about as a plain-old floppy? I think that ths LS-120 drives are ATAPI, and the ATAPI CD-ROM support is (AFAIK) based on the SCSI CD-ROM support, and there's support for SCSI removables, so... I suppose a related question is whether ATAPI Zip drives work. Thanks, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PD440FX and SoundBlaster 16 Hell Date: 18 Sep 1997 19:10:55 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5vrubv$npa$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5voqe7$7e5$1@brnws01.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <5voqe7$7e5$1@brnws01.ne.mediaone.net> On 09/17/97, Steven W. Schuldt wrote: >I'm trying to get a Soundblaster 16 Basic Plug and Play to work under >OPENSTEP 4.2 and the system insists that it cannot find a card. I had this prob under 3.3 and found an old post that covered the issue: ------------------------------------------------------ ƒ Subject: SB16 PnP recognized but not working ƒ From: _Rakesh_Dubey@NeXT.COM_ ƒ Date: 28 Mar 1996 05:24:07 GMT ƒ Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware ƒ Reply-To: _Rakesh_Dubey@NeXT.COM_ I have seen various reports about SB16 PnP not working with NEXTSTEP 3.3. If you are having this problem please try to get the latest EISABus driver from NextAnswer and disable PnP. If this did not help try adding the following to your Instance0.table file. "Bus Type" = "PnP"; "Auto Detect IDs" = "CTL0028" (or whatever is printed by the kernel at boot-up). Now Configure should auto-detect your hardware. Leave Plug and Play enabled in Configure. Reboot. ------------------------------------------------------ I installed the latest EISA and SB drivers and did as Rakesh said, namely I checked /usr/adm/messages for the PnP ID (CTL0070 in my case) reported by the SB card at bootup. I edited this into the "Auto Detect IDs=" line in the SoundBlaster.config/Instance0.table. This did the trick under 3.3, maybe it'll work for you too. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. (403) 492-2834 gfin@psych.ualberta.ca http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 100 MB/sec network cards under NS 3.3 Date: 18 Sep 1997 19:18:43 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5vruqj$100k$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> I'd like to upgrade my Web server to a new Intel machine with a 100-Base-T network card, but would like to stay with NS 3.3. I see that there is at least one netcard driver in NEXTANSWERS (DECchip21140, NA 1927) that claims to work with some 100 MB/sec cards, like the Cogent EM100 and 110, DEC DE500, and SMC 9332 and SMC Etherpower 10/100. I'd like to hear reviews (good or bad) of running at 100 MB/sec under NS 3.3. If you've tried it and had trouble, or if you're using it without any trouble, please let me know. Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. (403) 492-2834 gfin@psych.ualberta.ca http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 100 MB/sec network cards under NS 3.3 Date: 18 Sep 1997 14:31:07 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5vs32b$9l$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5vruqj$100k$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam wrote: : I'd like to hear reviews (good or bad) of running at 100 MB/sec under : NS 3.3. If you've tried it and had trouble, or if you're using it : without any trouble, please let me know. Thanks. I run an Intel EtherExpress/100B at work. It functions, but I have never seen any increases in network performance. At bootup, the DriverKit interrogates the EE/100 and reports that it is running happily at 10MBs/s no matter how I configure the card in Configure.app. ......................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know so much about Usenet, then why are you still posting?
From: jwlee@artsci.wustl.edu (Jung Woo Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Ultra ATA Drive work with an EIDE Driver? Date: 18 Sep 1997 23:51:12 GMT Organization: Washington University in St. Louis Message-ID: <5vsepg$a20$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> I just wanted to know if the EIDE driver for openstep 4.2 will work with a Ultra ATA Drive...in this case 5.2 Maxtor. Please post all experience thank you in advance.
From: "Tony Wosnjuk" <Tony_Wosnjuk@Novell.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT 400 dpi Printer on a PC. Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:22:21 -0600 Message-ID: <34217fad.0@gronk.provo.novell.com> Can I use the NeXT Printer on a PC. WIN_NT. What driver should I use. Is there a program that I could use to turn it on and off. (nppower like utility for WINNT). Thanks, Tony Wosnjuk.
Message-ID: <3421E849.28BE3ADC@ibm.net> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:49:45 -0500 From: Ken Henry <KenHenry@ibm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,chi.forsale Subject: Re: FS: NeXT ColorStation 16/1.0GB - $310 + shipping COD References: <34202E88.1805751C@ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: IBM.NET Sold.
From: zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: no devices detected on port 1f0 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:21:11 -0400 Organization: personal Message-ID: <34220BC7.496C@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have openstep 4.2 working on a 2GB scsi diak. I got a free seegate 3541a 540MB ide disk from somewhere and wanted to use it as a SWAP disk. however, the booting message says: "no devices detected on port 1f0." does that mean this ide disk is bad or not compatible with openstep's ide disk driver 4.01? thanks in advance, ZiZi
From: heythere@nowhere.com (goofy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: paint for black hardware Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:37:12 -0500 Organization: don't you know? Message-ID: <heythere-ya023580001909970037120001@news.cc.emory.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit anybody out there know where you can get paint for black hardware? thanks--
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT 400 dpi Printer on a PC. Date: 19 Sep 1997 04:21:41 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5vsukl$s1u$9@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <34217fad.0@gronk.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <34217fad.0@gronk.provo.novell.com> "Tony Wosnjuk" wrote: > Can I use the NeXT Printer on a PC. No. Rendering is done on the NeXT. Printer is just an engine. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: goforit@savetrees.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What if . . . Date: 16 Sep 1997 04:23:29 GMT Organization: The Alliance Message-ID: <5vl1k1$nn9$522@news.insnet.com> Ten years ago, you could have bought 36 shares of Microsoft for 28.01 per share. That $1,008.36 would be $198,126.00 now. What if you had another chance to invest in a company with that much potential? If you leave your email at "http://theprofitcenter.net/stock" you could get the chance to consider an Internet investment with tremendous potential.
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5vl1k1$nn9$522@news.insnet.com> Control: cancel <5vl1k1$nn9$522@news.insnet.com> Date: 19 Sep 1997 09:16:19 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.5vl1k1$nn9$522@news.insnet.com> Sender: goforit@savetrees.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: "Michael Engelhart" <engel@bga.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Boot from CD for OS4.2 install?? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 04:52:33 +0000 Organization: Dreamscape Solutions Inc. Message-ID: <5vti8t$gvs$1@news3.realtime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all - Before I go and buy OpenSTEP 4.2 for my NeXT TurboStation, can anyone tell me if you can boot up the installation CD from a SCSI CD-ROM? I have an old Apple 300e CD player that I can use. Also, any idea how large the install of the User/Developer is? thanks, Mike
From: Manuel Bouyssou - The Sea Otter <manuel@cnam.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 32 MB Upgrade Help !... Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:57:52 +0100 Organization: Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers Message-ID: <342284E0.E7F@cnam.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Newsgroup, I'm desesperately looking for help regarding the 32 MB upgrade of my NeXTstation. After several years being stucked to 20 MB, I've decided to buy 4 x 8 MB SIMMs and put these on my machine. Unfortunately I'm having troubles to know where are the slots #'s exactly and where to put the SIMMs. Can somebody help ? The NeXTanswers on the Apple WEB is far from being precise on this subject.I'm also using 4 x 1 MB SIMMs to fill the empty slots but whatever I do all I can get is 20 MB instead of 36 MB ! Please e-mail privately since I can't hardly get the news from the time being. Thank You very much in advance for any help you can provide ! - Manuel Bouyssou - Unix Daemon running on Babbage's Difference Engine- " Le Present est Gros de l' Avenir " e-mail: manuel@cnam.fr ------------ Leibniz ------------- or : manuel@pasteur.fr IRC : SeaOtter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Re: paint for black hardware Message-ID: <EGrCJs.AF5@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago References: <heythere-ya023580001909970037120001@news.cc.emory.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:38:16 GMT In article <heythere-ya023580001909970037120001@news.cc.emory.edu>, goofy <heythere@nowhere.com> wrote: > >anybody out there know where you can get paint for black hardware? > >thanks-- Any good paint store (shop) carries great selections of black paints, not only the kind mentioned in NeXT FAQs. Check it out.
From: abc478@agora.ulaval.ca (Fabien Cornillier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mac on NeXT ? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:41:32 -0500 Organization: Universite Laval Message-ID: <abc478-1909971141320001@poste30-61.residences.ulaval.ca> Hi, Is it possible to install MacOS System 7.5 or more on NeXT 68040 based ? Thank's
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Mac on NeXT ? Date: 19 Sep 1997 17:06:20 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5vubec$qup$1@news.seicom.net> References: <abc478-1909971141320001@poste30-61.residences.ulaval.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: abc478@agora.ulaval.ca In <abc478-1909971141320001@poste30-61.residences.ulaval.ca> Fabien Cornillier wrote: > Is it possible to install MacOS System 7.5 or more on NeXT 68040 based ? No, except you own a Daydream Emulator which plugs some Mac LC ROMs into the DSP port, then you can run 7.5 on the emulator, but 7.6 and 'better' won't work -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: N4000 or N4000B? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:05:44 GMT Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <3422ccb8.16661357@news.wco.com> References: <msg141208.thr-39f790.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> <EGLuMn.DEv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5vpla5$2u5@news9.noc.netcom.net> <5vqc2u$b3a$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5vrp8f$hgt@news9.noc.netcom.net> Let's see if I can get this all right. To do ADB, you'll need 1) A CPU board with the Turbo chipset. The Turbo chipset includes the ADB transceiver. Most Turbo systems are 33 MHz 68040 boxes. There are a few hundred systems with the Turbo chipset that run at 25 MHz. 2) A v74 or later ROM This is the first production ROM that contains the code that probes for the presence of the ADB keyboard. (I've run across a few machines in the field that do ADB with v73 ROMs, but these were pre-production 'science experiment' ROMs, complete with bugs.) 3) A new cable. The ADB bus uses a previously unused pin on the cable between the Sound Box or monochrome monitor and the CPU board. The newer cable adds a conductor on the previously unused pin. The newer cables will also work with non-ADB equipment. Cable ADB Old Non-ADB NeXTcube 4534 150 NeXTstation 4535 1532 NeXTstation color 4536 2286 4) ADB sound card You'll need an ADB sound card in your Sound Box or monochrome monitor. These can be identified by the ADB jack (4 pins + locator) used for the keyboard connector, and by serial number prefix. Sound boxes manufactured with the ADB sound card are series ADD. Monochrome monitors with the ADB sound card are series ACX (going by the one sample I found!) When using ADB peripherals with the NeXTStation Turbo Color, the monitor vertical refresh rate is set to 72 Hz rather than 68 Hz. NeXT switched monitor models when the ADB keyboard was introduced, and used the keyboard type as a cue for what monitor was connected. When used with a 68 Hz refresh 17 inch display, the only visible effect is a slight distortion of the top 1/2 inch of the display. (Assuming the hardware was OK before, of course!)
From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: no devices detected on port 1f0 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:05:48 GMT Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <3422ccbc.16665633@news.wco.com> References: <34220BC7.496C@worldnet.att.net> On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:21:11 -0400, zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >I have openstep 4.2 working on a 2GB scsi diak. I got a >free seegate 3541a 540MB ide disk from somewhere and wanted >to use it as a SWAP disk. however, the booting message >says: "no devices detected on port 1f0." does that mean >this ide disk is bad or not compatible with openstep's >ide disk driver 4.01? The EIDE interface is not turned on in the BIOS settings. Note that if you do turn it on, the darn PC BIOS will set it to be Drive C and insist on booting from it. You could partition the internal drive, putting a small NEXTSTEP partition on the disk and setting it up to boot onto your SCSI drive. There's a NeXTAnswer describing the process in gory detail. You can also use a PC utility called System Commander, which lets you con the system into believing that any drive you select is Drive C, allowing you to boot from the SCSI disk while ther IDE drive is enabled.
From: Alex King <king@cube.phy.uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Boot from CD for OS4.2 install?? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:51:13 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970919134656.17985A-100000@cube.phy.uic.edu> References: <5vti8t$gvs$1@news3.realtime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Michael Engelhart <engel@bga.com> In-Reply-To: <5vti8t$gvs$1@news3.realtime.net> If the official OS4.2 CD is the same as the one included in Prelude2Rhapsody, the boot starts from a floppy containing nothing but the boot block for the CD-ROM. Then the boot files are read from the CD (SCSI OK). bak On Fri, 19 Sep 1997,Michael Engelhart wrote: > Hello all - > > Before I go and buy OpenSTEP 4.2 for my NeXT TurboStation, can anyone tell > me if you can boot up the installation CD from a SCSI CD-ROM? I have an old > Apple 300e CD player that I can use. Also, any idea how large the install > of the User/Developer is? > > thanks, > Mike > > -------------------------------------------------------------- |************************|***********************************| |B. Alex King III |University of Illinois at Chicago | |email: aking@uic.edu |Department of Physics (M/C 273) | |************************|***********************************| --------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: A different kind of optical drive death Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EGpwtq.J6M@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:01:01 GMT Organization: University of Waterloo I don't think I've seen this OD failure mode described before... This OD has seen about four months of casual use--I bought it "new" last spring. It's worked well for me--no lockups, disk problems, etc. (well, once inserting a disk panicked the machine, but I was fooling around with some DSP stuff at the time.) Anyway, over the last couple of days I've been fiddling with another SCSI disk, had the cube open, cleaned the fan (wow--was that ever dusty!), and so on. Now, when I stick in a disk the machine hangs right away unless I'm at the ROM monitor. The disk doesn't spin up--things just freeze. If I then break to the ROM monitor, eject the disk using "eo", and the "continue" I am back in business. However, it takes two "eo" commands to spit out the disk. The first does nothing, the second does the job. If I stick the disk back in I again have to use "eo" twice to get it out. The drive isn't making any strange noises so I don't think it's mechanical. I tried another OD cable and that made no difference. Anyone have any ideas? -- 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: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 32 MB Upgrade Help !... Date: 19 Sep 1997 21:31:01 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5vuqul$s1u$11@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <342284E0.E7F@cnam.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: manuel@cnam.fr The SIMMs should be in groups of 2, the larger ones closer to the power supply. At least that's what I think. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: Manuel Bouyssou - The Sea Otter <manuel@cnam.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 32 MB Upgrade help Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:50:55 +0100 Organization: Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers Message-ID: <342301CE.50BF@cnam.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Timothy and all, In your last mail you write : > The SIMMs should be in groups of 2, the larger ones closer to the > power supply. - Actually it seems that my B&W NeXstation doesn't handle 8 MB SIMMs, so I've to deal with 8 x 4 MB SIMMs instead. Unless someone else knows a good way to bypass the 32 MB limitation of the NeXstation ?... Thank you for your kind help !... - Manuel Bouyssou - Unix Daemon running on Babbage's Difference Engine - " Le Present est Gros de l' Avenir " e-mail: manuel@cnam.fr ------------ Leibniz ------------- or : manuel@pasteur.fr IRC : SeaOtter
From: Stefan Siebert <ssiebert@ixpoint.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: PCMCIA - Network Card and OPENSTEP 4.2 Date: 19 Sep 1997 08:56:51 GMT Organization: iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH Message-ID: <5vteoj$209$1@ixpoint.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have OPENSTEP 4.2 running on a Toshiba 730XCDT Laptop computer. Does anybody know which PCMCIA network adapter works with this combination? I tried a 3Com card which was supported before, but they changed the chip set slightly and it doesn't work any more. Therefore I want to be sure before ordering a new card. Thanks for your help -- --- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Stefan Siebert | | iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH | | Daimlerstr. 3 76275 Ettlingen Germany | | phone: ++49 7243-37750 | | Email: ssiebert@ixpoint.de | | (NeXTmail & MIME welcome) | | WWW: http://www.ixpoint.de | +-------------------------------------------------------+
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 32 MB Upgrade help Date: 20 Sep 1997 04:18:58 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <5vviri$s1u$20@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <342301CE.50BF@cnam.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: manuel@cnam.fr In <342301CE.50BF@cnam.fr> Manuel Bouyssou - The Sea Otter wrote: > Hi Timothy and all, > > In your last mail you write : > > > The SIMMs should be in groups of 2, the larger ones closer to the > > power supply. > - Actually it seems that my B&W NeXstation doesn't handle 8 MB SIMMs, so > I've to deal with 8 x 4 MB SIMMs instead. Unless someone else knows > a good way to bypass the 32 MB limitation of the NeXstation ?... Oh yes! sorry, I was misunderstanding.. I thought you had eight 4-meg-each SIMMs. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Black hardware and modems Date: 20 Sep 1997 17:56:52 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <6012p4$pce@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii After checking out DejaNews for modem suggestions to go with my color turbo slab, I'm a little confused. Some posts seemed to indicate that most newer mac modems and modem cables will work (handshaking and all) and some posts indicated that you had to build your own cables. What gives? Right now I have a Zyxel U-1496E with NXFax. I would *love* a faster modem, but I don't want to lose any of the functionality that I now have. Is anyone using a newer modem with NXFax? If so, did you have to do anything special to get it working? If its not possible to use other modems with NXFax, is it possible to have a modem on each port, and use one for faxing via NXFax and the other for data calls? ---- Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <6015am$8b4600@volta.nmhu.edu> Control: cancel <6015am$8b4600@volta.nmhu.edu> Date: 20 Sep 1997 19:54:18 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.6015am$8b4600@volta.nmhu.edu> Sender: Andy<ss21@usa.net> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (Mr. B. N. Bondoc) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: hardware repair request/info Date: 20 Sep 1997 18:33:21 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <xn3zpp7lioe.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Hello, I have in my possesion a SCSI Color NeXT printer, it starts up, beeps and then sais "SERVICE 50" form previous questions I asked on this newsgroup it is clear to me that the printer cannot reposition its head, probably some optical sensor is either burned or in the best case just dirty I am looking to find a place to send it for repairs preferably Canada but since the US is much bigger I will consider places down there too. Should you be in possesion of more information about this particular error message, I wellcome your input. Should you have how-to instructions leading to fixing this problem I would be more then happy to try them. I am also looking for copies of manuals for this particular printer too ... we could excange something perhaps. thank you in advance nick -- B. N. Bondoc pager: 514 - 930 - 1385 ===================================================== office addr: Ernest Rutherford Physics Building Physics Department, McGill University 3600 University Street, Room 223 Montreal, PQ, Canada, H3A 2T8 phone: 514 - 398 - 5938 fax: 514 - 398 - 7022 =====================================================
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black hardware and modems Date: 20 Sep 1997 22:12:58 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <601hpa$bng$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <6012p4$pce@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com In <6012p4$pce@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> Mark Trombino wrote: > After checking out DejaNews for modem suggestions to go with my color turbo > slab, I'm a little confused. Some posts seemed to indicate that most newer > mac modems and modem cables will work (handshaking and all) and some posts > indicated that you had to build your own cables. What gives? I'd trust those who say you need your own. You can get them ($25) from either www.orb.com or www.deepspacetech.com > Right now I have a Zyxel U-1496E with NXFax. I would *love* a faster modem, > but I don't want to lose any of the functionality that I now have. Is anyone > using a newer modem with NXFax? If so, did you have to do anything special > to get it working? Sure I was using a SupraFaxModem (28.8, flash upgraded to 33.6) with NXFax TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Boot from CD for OS4.2 install?? Date: 19 Sep 1997 17:24:20 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <5vucg4$qtm$2@ocean.cup.hp.com> References: <5vti8t$gvs$1@news3.realtime.net> In article <5vti8t$gvs$1@news3.realtime.net>, Michael Engelhart <engel@bga.com> wrote: >Before I go and buy OpenSTEP 4.2 for my NeXT TurboStation, can anyone tell >me if you can boot up the installation CD from a SCSI CD-ROM? If 4.2's boot blocks is the same as 4.2PR2, then it won't boot on black machines. You'll get cksum, version, etc errors. Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue M/S 44UR Enterprise Systems Division Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.1053 Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
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: <9488874209621@digifix.com> Date: 21 Sep 1997 03:49:30 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12335874814429@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. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <6026gl$lud@new1.sundial.net> Control: cancel <6026gl$lud@new1.sundial.net> Date: 21 Sep 1997 04:10:40 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.6026gl$lud@new1.sundial.net> Sender: SEX APPEAL INSTANTLY<jason@compuserve.com> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Eberhard Wolff <Eberhard.Wolff@cern.ch> Subject: Re: Help find Linux for Next Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "Alexander L. Kossar" <alex@ssi.kiev.ua> Message-ID: <3424FF06.6AC0BD4C@cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics References: <01bcc41a$cf76e280$08a22cc2@supervisor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 11:03:34 GMT Alexander L. Kossar wrote: > > Help find Linux for Nextstation turbo 68040 > > Best Regards Alex L. Kossar > > alex@ssi.kiev.ua Take a look at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7420/ event though I think the work on the port is not that advanced. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Eberhard Wolff Eberhard.Wolff@cern.ch CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics Information and Programming Technology Group
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <34250334.5@news1.abac.com> Control: cancel <34250334.5@news1.abac.com> Date: 21 Sep 1997 11:17:09 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.34250334.5@news1.abac.com> Sender: Me Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Black hardware and modems Message-ID: <EGuq8C.F84@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <6012p4$pce@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 09:26:36 GMT In article <6012p4$pce@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) writes: > After checking out DejaNews for modem suggestions to go with my > color turbo slab, I'm a little confused. Some posts seemed to > indicate that most newer mac modems and modem cables will work > (handshaking and all) and some posts indicated that you had to > build your own cables. What gives? > You need your own cable. Read man-page on 'zs' for a starter. > Right now I have a Zyxel U-1496E with NXFax. I would *love* a > faster modem, but I don't want to lose any of the functionality > that I now have. Is anyone using a newer modem with NXFax? If > so, did you have to do anything special to get it working? > I doubt that you could get more throughput using a faster modem. The serial port is the limit. > If its not possible to use other modems with NXFax, is it possible > to have a modem on each port, and use one for faxing via NXFax > and the other for data calls? > Sure. It's just a matter of setup. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Windchaser <windchsr@cyberspace.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Strange Mouse Woes Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 20:13:42 -0500 Organization: ---------- Message-ID: <3425C645.30CE9CC3@cyberspace.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My NeXT mouse (non-ADB) has just failed in a unique (and rather frustrating) manner. When I move the mouse left, the pointer moves left; and when I move the mouse right, the pointer moves left. I tried cleaning the mouse as best I can, and cleaning the mouse ball. No help. Has anyone experienced this before and managed to fix the rebellious rodent? I'd rather not shell out for a replacement used mouse if I can help it...
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:02:04 -0600 From: Jihwan Rhie <flama@lily.yonsei.ac.kr> Subject: Display Driver doesn't work. (CT65550) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <874893121.24336@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service I bought a 166MMX notebook using CT65550 chipset as its video output. After building NEXTSTEP 3.3j on my machine, I couldn't see any right characters on my LCD pannel with Bifrostworkstations' CT6555X display driver. Although they said that they support only protage and tecra serieses, i think it's possible if i select right Memory map addresses or right resolutions. And I could see the following strings while -v option-booting. CT65550 chip detected Video Memory mapped 0xff00000 (i can't remember how many 0s) 2MB VRAM detected LCD 800x600/24bpp detected I'll wait for your nice solutions. Thank you for your future help! NOTE: Please E-mail me with ASCII codes -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: robert brooke gravitt <rgravitt@macconnect.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Memory on a Colo NeXT Station Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:13:36 -0500 Organization: None Message-ID: <3425FE80.4EE3@macconnect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What are the possible confgs on a Color 040 NeXT Station?
From: "Jan Husak" <jan.husak@swisstelecom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Harddiskkit for Nextstation Date: 22 Sep 1997 07:04:37 GMT Organization: Swiss Telecom Message-ID: <01bcc725$c9bf3500$cf95be8a@gd2zxk.swissptt.ch> hi there, I bought lately a new hard disk (Seagate 2 GByte) for my NeXTstation but with no kit to install it. Can anybody tell me where to find this kit or has anybody one left to send me? Regards ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Informatik TELECOM Tel.: ++41 (0)31 342 11 28 Jan Husak, IS-PM-3 Fax.: ++41 (0)31 342 08 50 Postfach 3029 Bern email: Jan.Husak@SWISSCOM.ch ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Eberhard Wolff <Eberhard.Wolff@cern.ch> Subject: Re: Memory on a Colo NeXT Station Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <342625B0.7524D7B5@cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics References: <3425FE80.4EE3@macconnect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 08:00:48 GMT robert brooke gravitt wrote: > > What are the possible confgs on a Color 040 NeXT Station? Look at http://peanuts.leo.org/FAQ/NeXTFAQ.104.html . -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Eberhard Wolff Eberhard.Wolff@cern.ch CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics Information and Programming Technology Group
From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 32 MB Upgrade help Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 00:07:55 GMT Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <3423133b.5679837@news.wco.com> References: <342301CE.50BF@cnam.fr> On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:50:55 +0100, Manuel Bouyssou - The Sea Otter <manuel@cnam.fr> wrote: >> The SIMMs should be in groups of 2, the larger ones closer to the >> power supply. >- Actually it seems that my B&W NeXstation doesn't handle 8 MB SIMMs, so >I've to deal with 8 x 4 MB SIMMs instead. Unless someone else knows >a good way to bypass the 32 MB limitation of the NeXstation ?... Aha! A monochrome NeXTStation with 8 SIMM slots. This model uses 1 or 4 Mb 30 pin SIMMs rated at 100 ns (or faster, but it clocks them at 100 ns). There is a 32 Mbyte hard limit on the amount of memory that can be installed. That's all the address lines that come out of the memory controller (which is the same as is found on the 68030 and 25 MHz 68040 Cube (X-15) boards. 32 Mbytes seemed like a lot of memory at the time (1990)...
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: The new Matrox driver is available on NeXTanswers Date: 22 Sep 1997 11:07:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <606c44$iif@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <5t045f$p50$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> <SCOTT.97Aug15090034@slave.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Aug28112142@howard.doubleu.com> <SCOTT.97Sep15022032@howard.doubleu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: scott@doubleu.com In <SCOTT.97Sep15022032@howard.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote: > So, on Sunday the CompUSA circular has a Millenium-II for $180, after > $120 worth of rebates. Though I'm generally loath to go to their > store, I took the chance, I bought the card. I turned down the > extended warranty, even though the cashier made noises like he > expected the card to break down ANY MINUTE NOW. [How can a company > live with themselves. Either they're suckering you on that warranty, > or they're selling you crap. I mean, if I'm buying a used 1978 Chevy > Nova, that's one thing, but buying new? Sigh.] Just a short comment on that... CompUSA is joining the not-so-new trend in retail called the "extended warantee". What isn't so nice about it is that salespeople are pressured by management to sell these things (sometimes with punitive measures is enough aren't sold). Profit margins on these range from 33-75% or more. It's ruined retail shopping like infomercials ruined (what isn't ruined already) what was on TV. -- 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/
From: "Curtis A. Johnson" <curtisj@insync.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Looking for Hayes ISDN TA for NeXT DSP Port Date: 22 Sep 1997 19:03:09 GMT Organization: INSYNC Internet Services Message-ID: <01bcc78a$6f6f2320$f3d0fdcc@shiner.insync.net> Does anyone know where I can get one of the old Hayes ISDN TAs that connected to the NeXT DSP Port. I am planning on turning my NeXTslab into a router. Thanks, -- Curtis A. Johnson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Directof of Marketing PGP Finger Print: RSA: 1024bit: 07/26/97 Insync Internet Services, Inc. 4F79 9AB9 1CAB 591B D962 76B7 F424 40D7 curtisj@insync.net PGP Key : finger curtisj@insync.net
From: Bjorn Kallarsson <bjarne@takhisis.solace.mh.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NE2k and Matrox Mystique Date: 22 Sep 1997 19:37:16 GMT Organization: Solace Computer Society Message-ID: <606hdc$a22$1@fizban.solace.mh.se>
From: Bjorn Kallarsson <bjarne@takhisis.solace.mh.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NE2k and Matrox Mystique Date: 22 Sep 1997 19:43:50 GMT Organization: Solace Computer Society Message-ID: <606hpm$a22$2@fizban.solace.mh.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi. I just got hold of a copy of OpenStep 4.2 for Mach and thought I'd give it a try. The problem is that I've got an Matrox Mystique gfx card and a NE2000 compatible network card. My questions are: are there any drivers available for either of these? I've found a NeXTStep 3.3 driver for NE2xxx cards. Does it work under OpenStep also? Is it possible to hack a Mystique driver from the Millennium driver and/or Linux Mystique driver? Please reply via email also. Thanks in advance. / Bjorn bjarne@solace.mh.se
From: jamie@mocha.ucsd.edu (James Gerber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Printers with NS 3.3 Date: 22 Sep 1997 21:44:01 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Message-ID: <606or1$6em$1@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Hello, I would like to get a printer for my Pentium system that would be compatible with NS 3.3. The hardware compatibility guide implies that one needs a postscript printer to work with NS but I would prefer not to have to purchase a full postscript printer. Does anyone know of a list of non-postscript printers with which NS is compatible? Are printer drivers required to use such printers? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, -- ===================================================================== jamie gerber ucsd department of physics mail code 0319 5120 mayer hall 9500 gilman drive (619)-534-0752 la jolla, ca 92128 =====================================================================
From: Inderjit_S_Gahir@rl.gov (Inderjit "Indy" Gahir) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PD440FX and SoundBlaster 16 Hell Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:27:50 GMT Organization: Fluor Daniel Northwest Message-ID: <606nsv$1t5@columbia.rl.gov> References: <5voqe7$7e5$1@brnws01.ne.mediaone.net> Take a look at StepWise, http://www.stepwise.com Under the link for StepWise FactBase. It worked for me! http://www2.stepwise.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Stepwise/FactBase. woa/987239119107790724613083643031956/TopicsPage.wo/4889718402856/1.1. 5/-/digifix Good Luck! In article <5voqe7$7e5$1@brnws01.ne.mediaone.net>, sschuldt@mediaone.net wrote: >All: > >I'm trying to get a new Soundblaster 16 Basic Plug and Play to work under >OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach and the system insists that it cannot find a card. I >have tested the card under DOS and it works fine. The config is as follows: > >Intel PD440FX Portland Motherboard/ w PII 266 >Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller >128 MB RAM >Intel Etherlink XL NIC >Matrox Millenium w/8MB VRAM > >Yes, the Portland's onboard Yamaha sound has been disabled via the BIOS setup. > >I've tried the SoundBlaster 4.00 and 4.01 drivers (Plug and Play, non-Plug and > >Play). I have tried Plug and Play support enabled auto and manually in the >BIOS and in the EISA/ISA driver. It looks like something is claiming the same > >base i/o address (0x220) but I have tried removing everything save for the >2940UW and still have the problem. Nothing relevant on NeXTanswers. Anyone? > >Thanks!!! > >- Steve
From: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Turbo Slab ROM revisions? Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:31:45 GMT Organization: (dis)organised Message-ID: <606rkh$1ga@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> I've just acquired a non-ADB turbo colourstation to join my mono slab. This has ROM revision 3.0 v70. I know 3.0 v74+ is needed for ADB. The FAQ tells me that (late?) turbo slabs can detect memory speed and adjust their timings to suit - though they may have problems with 60ns parts. Mine does not do this and resolutely runs my 70ns SIMMS clocked as though they were 100ns. Is this timing sensitivity merely a feature of the ROM revision or is extra circuitry required which won't be on my mainboard? Now for the optimistic bit :-) IF it's just the ROM, does anyone have a v74 ROM from a dead board or surplus in other ways which they would consider selling, swapping or even donating to me. Many Thanks, Neville -- Internet: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk CompuServe: 100042,3501 j.n.wilford@ncl.ac.uk PGP 2.x public key available
From: Paul.J.Buckley@columbia.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HD scanners for black hardware Date: 23 Sep 1997 01:55:55 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <6077jb$3cr$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> I'm looking for a color scanner to use with my black computer. MetroScan works with UMAX 630, 840, 1260 scanners; anyone selling one? --
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut" <webmaster@starpage.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: modem setup? Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 10:51:18 -0600 Organization: StarPage LCC Message-ID: <34255086.D720A83A@starpage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've finally got the modem and appropriate cable for my black NextStation. Now I just can't figure out how to get connected for Internet service. Could someone please point me in the right direction? The manual talks about using the "tip" command. I've also tried the FAQs, which talk about SLIP and PPP. Do I use tip at all, or drop it in favor of PPP? If I go with DialupIP, am I missing out on anything I'd get from a pay-package? I've been shopping for ISPs and while I guess they're all unix/Next compatible, I have yet to find one that is "friendly." Some have said I need to pay more than IBM/MAC users for an IP address. Do they all do this? I'm not afraid of unix or manuals, but I am a beginner when it comes to modem/PPP setup. Where do I start? thanks, Jesse jesse@starpage.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PD440FX and SoundBlaster 16 Hell Date: 23 Sep 1997 03:36:59 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <607dgr$9rp$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5voqe7$7e5$1@brnws01.ne.mediaone.net> <606nsv$1t5@columbia.rl.gov> In-Reply-To: <606nsv$1t5@columbia.rl.gov> On 09/22/97, Inderjit "Indy" Gahir wrote: >Take a look at StepWise, http://www.stepwise.com >Under the link for StepWise FactBase. It worked for me! > >http://www2.stepwise.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Stepwise/FactBase. >woa/987239119107790724613083643031956/TopicsPage.wo/4889718402856/1.1 . Note that only the first part of the URL will get you what you are after.. http://www2.stepwise.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Stepwise/FactBase The rest is state information... >5/-/digifix > >Good Luck! > > >In article <5voqe7$7e5$1@brnws01.ne.mediaone.net>, sschuldt@mediaone.net >wrote: >>All: >> >>I'm trying to get a new Soundblaster 16 Basic Plug and Play to work under >>OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach and the system insists that it cannot find a card. I >>have tested the card under DOS and it works fine. The config is as follows: >> >>Intel PD440FX Portland Motherboard/ w PII 266 >>Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller >>128 MB RAM >>Intel Etherlink XL NIC >>Matrox Millenium w/8MB VRAM >> >>Yes, the Portland's onboard Yamaha sound has been disabled via the BIOS setup. >> >>I've tried the SoundBlaster 4.00 and 4.01 drivers (Plug and Play, non-Plug and >> >>Play). I have tried Plug and Play support enabled auto and manually in the >>BIOS and in the EISA/ISA driver. It looks like something is claiming the same >> >>base i/o address (0x220) but I have tried removing everything save for the >>2940UW and still have the problem. Nothing relevant on NeXTanswers. Anyone? >> >>Thanks!!! >> >>- Steve > -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Looking for Hayes ISDN TA for NeXT DSP Port Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:20:30 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <607g2e$dqt$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <01bcc78a$6f6f2320$f3d0fdcc@shiner.insync.net> Curtis A. Johnson <curtisj@insync.net> wrote: : Does anyone know where I can get one of the old Hayes ISDN TAs that : connected to the NeXT DSP Port. I am planning on turning my NeXTslab into : a router. Don't know if you can get 'em any more. I was thinking about doing the same thing, but for the money spent on a five-year-old, unsupported product, I could get a Diamond Supra NetCommander and a PC *or* a low-end ISDN router. I ended up using upgrading to a Pentium Pro machine and turning my old 133 into an NT Server box that acts as a router. I like it. ...............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know so much about Usenet, then why are you still posting?
From: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Hey, is my NeXTstation cooked or what? Date: 23 Sep 1997 05:40:56 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <607kp8$rhh$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> My 25MHz mono slab seems to power on ok, shift-lock LED's flash, screen background goes to dark (75%) grey as usual, but then... nothing. Nothing ever appears on the display, can't get into NeXT ROM monitor, doesn't respond to any keyboard input, keyboard nerve pinch (alt-tilde) doesn't work (although the left alt-command-* does give a reset). Dead as if it were on Mir. Power supply voltages check out ok (+/- 11.85V, 5.13V), drive spins up ok. Lithium battery steady at 3.00V. Removing/replacing SIMMS doesn't change anything. Nothing noteworthy preceded the failure. Any one else seen this failure mode? Doesn't sound power-supply related. Don't say it's over! I canna take it. It's my favourite NeXT. Chris -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ARG! Broken AGAIN?! Date: 23 Sep 1997 05:54:57 GMT Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene Message-ID: <607ljh$mpt$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Alright...I just got my *second* Color Slab from DeepSpace Tech (the first one froze at "testing system..."). This one doesn't power up at all. Both supposedly worked when they left DST...I'm getting sick of waiting 6 working days for UPS to get the machine here and spending money sending them back. *PLEASE* if you have an idea of how I can fix this on my own, let me know. I'm about ready to just ask for my money back and give up on haveing a NeXT. sean ------ Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu Student Director of Orientation 372 Oregon Hall University of Oregon Office of Orientation 541-346-1159 http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~uointro/
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: memory for turbo cube Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 14:33:23 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg146786.thr-3ae770.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg146786.thr-3ae770.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> I recently posted a question about memory configurations for the turbo cube, and first, thanks to all who answered. New problem. I took delivery of a turbo cube motherboard and four 32-meg 70ns simms. Unfortunately, they don't fit. The simms are two sided (with chips on both sides) and although they fit and function in my ND board, they don't fit in the turbo motherboard. The chips on the back side of the simm hit the simm slot bracket before they click into place. The 8 meg simms from my ND fit, but they're single sided. Attempting to boot the machine reports 0 megs of memory and that it cannot continue without functional memory. (frankly, I was shocked to see this message in the first place--the darn thing boots enough to light both monitors and report the error.). They are functional since the ND sees them (does one really need 128 megs of ram on an ND...gee, if I bought 4 more I could have 256 megs of video ram!!) Back to reality. When I send back these 32 meggers, what can anyone recommend regarding specifying simms that will fit? Thanks. -- David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: memory for turbo cube Date: 24 Sep 1997 00:42:58 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <609nmi$1q4@news9.noc.netcom.net> References: <msg146786.thr-3ae770.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Cc: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu In <msg146786.thr-3ae770.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> David Herren wrote: > I recently posted a question about memory configurations for the turbo cube, and first, thanks to all who answered. > > New problem. > > I took delivery of a turbo cube motherboard and four 32-meg 70ns simms. Unfortunately, they don't fit. The simms are two sided (with chips on both sides) and although they fit and function in my ND board, they don't fit in the turbo motherboard. The chips > on the back side of the simm hit the simm slot bracket before they click into place. The 8 meg simms from my ND fit, but they're single sided. Strange as I've had everything from 16-24 chip SIMMS in my Turbo Cube w/o any problems. Sure the 24chip SIMMS were a bit difficult due to the wings over the snap brackets not being easily accessable (this was in a Color Turbo Slab).. What I find strange is that most of those SIMM sockets are standard size so I find it hard to believe the people would place chips on the SIMM so that it wouldn't insert. Much less for someone to sell them with a Turbo (perhaps you got them from a 3rd party and not with the Turbo).. > Attempting to boot the machine reports 0 megs of memory and that it cannot continue without functional memory. (frankly, I was shocked to see this message in the first place--the darn thing boots enough to light both monitors and report the error.). They > are functional since the ND sees them (does one really need 128 megs of ram on an ND...gee, if I bought 4 more I could have 256 megs of video ram!!) Back to reality. Now I really would like to know if this was true since 128M RAM in my ND would be a cool thing to play with.. I thought 8x8M Simms = 64M was the maximum so I'm doubtful that 4x32M would give 128M in a ND.. Not to mention if you didn't have RAM in the MB you couldn't get the Turbo to boot (perhaps you swapped the 8's with the 32's though ;) > When I send back these 32 meggers, what can anyone recommend regarding specifying simms that will fit? > Never had to specify special SIMMS, and never had any problems except with a couple SIMMS that had the snap holes slightly too high. I had to make sure the SIMMS were well seated DOWN in the socket before the SIMMS would snap into place properly. Randy rencsok (at) channelu (d0t) com
From: creschke@pscwa.psca.com (Chance Reschke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Step on IBM Thinkpad 560? Date: 23 Sep 1997 19:34:18 GMT Organization: PSINet Message-ID: <6095jq$cb2$1@client3.news.psi.net> Hi, Any success stories from folks running NeXT Step on the IBM Thinkpad 560? - Chance --- creschke@pscwa.psca.com
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ARG! Broken AGAIN?! Date: 23 Sep 1997 19:36:58 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <6095oq$9uc@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> References: <607ljh$mpt$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu In <607ljh$mpt$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Sean Harding wrote: > Alright...I just got my *second* Color Slab from DeepSpace Tech (the first > one froze at "testing system..."). This one doesn't power up at all. > > Both supposedly worked when they left DST...I'm getting sick of waiting 6 > working days for UPS to get the machine here and spending money sending > them back. > > *PLEASE* if you have an idea of how I can fix this on my own, let me know. > > I'm about ready to just ask for my money back and give up on haveing a NeXT. My friend had the exact same problem and it turned out that he had installed the cable that connects the slab to the monitor and sound box backwards.... -- Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (NEXTMail, MIME Mail okay)
From: Clint Boggess <cboggess@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Step on IBM Thinkpad 560? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 21:29:38 -0400 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <34286D02.61BD5C16@ix.netcom.com> References: <6095jq$cb2$1@client3.news.psi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit if you look at the laptop that steve jobs was using for the last appleconf you'll see he is. drop him a line and ask him how he got it running. Chance Reschke wrote: > > Hi, > > Any success stories from folks running NeXT Step on the IBM Thinkpad 560? > > - Chance > > --- > creschke@pscwa.psca.com
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Here to find info for modem on NextStep ? Date: 24 Sep 1997 11:36:32 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <60au00$86i$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <01bcc786$933a2e20$131710ac@ae023019> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ruipmartins@mail.telepac.pt In <01bcc786$933a2e20$131710ac@ae023019> "Rui Martins "Muad´Dib"" wrote: > Where can i find information about an installation/configuration of a > SupraFAX Modem 288 in Pentium machines? Assuming you have the correct modem cable, you just need to plug it in and turn it on. If you are going to use PPP, here are the chat strings I used with my SupraFaxModem AT OK ATQ0H0 OK AT&D2 OK ATW1 OK ATM0 OK however you may want to use different ones (this one turns off the speaker, since the modem negotiation noise bothers my wife to no end) checkout the modem manual. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 06:51:12 -0600 From: stefan.osterman@upnet.se Subject: CD burner software Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <875101381.3356@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service Hi there Does anyone know if there is any cd-burner software for NS/OS out there, and which hardware to use? //Stefan -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: oschirr@abm12.abm.de (Oliver Schirrmeister) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: swapfile.front Date: 24 Sep 1997 12:25:53 GMT Organization: Nacamar Data Communications Message-ID: <60b0sh$qmv$1@news.nacamar.de> Hello, what is the /private/vm/swapfile.front file good for? On my computer it has a size of a little more than 1 GB. Is that ok? Thanks Oliver
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD burner software Date: 24 Sep 1997 13:06:34 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <60b38q$l07$1@news.seicom.net> References: <875101381.3356@dejanews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: stefan.osterman@upnet.se In <875101381.3356@dejanews.com> stefan.osterman@upnet.se wrote: > Hi there > > Does anyone know if there is any cd-burner software for NS/OS out there, > and which hardware to use? For cheap you may use my port of cdwrite-2.0 (a linux command line tool) to NS. See Area 51 (http://www.this.net/~frank) in the Download Area. You get what you pay for... :-) For a bit more money there is AerePerennius by Markus Stoll et al. (markus@isolde.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de) and for more there is CDDesigner by Gehle software. I like AerePerennius, it does what you think it should do, reliable and fast. I have not tested CDDesigner yet, but from the CDDesigner.ps documentation (I used as test document for my <PLUG> PS to PDF converter because it shrinks from 12 MByte as PostScript to 270 kByte in PDF without loss of content </PLUG>) it appears quite good to me too. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: grape@matrix.teuto.de (Timo Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ARG! Broken AGAIN?! Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:31:54 +0200 Organization: PoP teuto.net Bielefeld Message-ID: <1997092316301314105410N@[192.168.0.2]> References: <607ljh$mpt$1@pith.uoregon.edu> > Alright...I just got my *second* Color Slab from DeepSpace Tech (the first > one froze at "testing system..."). This one doesn't power up at all. > > Both supposedly worked when they left DST...I'm getting sick of waiting 6 > working days for UPS to get the machine here and spending money sending > them back. > > *PLEASE* if you have an idea of how I can fix this on my own, let me know. > > I'm about ready to just ask for my money back and give up on haveing a NeXT. As I got my Turbo Color slab, the first thing I did wrong, was to connect the Y-Cable (Monitor - Soundbox - Slab) the wrong way... The result was that I couldn't power on the slab... Bye Timo --- Timo Hoepfner - grape@matrix.teuto.de
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: swapfile.front Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 10:18:42 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg147374.thr-cf42ab3d.54c5638@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <60b0sh$qmv$1@news.nacamar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg147374.thr-cf42ab3d.54c5638.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> oschirr@abm12.abm.de,UseNet writes: >what is the /private/vm/swapfile.front file good for? >On my computer it has a size of a little more than 1 GB. >Is that ok? That is the compressed version of your swap file. In actual fact, it doesn't really take up any space on your drive, despite what values may be reported. I quote NextAnswer 1020: the swaptimizer Also called the paging optimizer, the swaptimizer is a new feature of NeXTSTEP Release 3 that compresses pages as they're being sent out to the backing store file. The assumption is that it usually takes less time to compress a page, write the compressed page, and read and decompress the page, than it takes to write and read the unaltered page. The faster the CPU is relative to the disk, the greater the potential benefit of enabling the swaptimizer. By default, the swaptimizer is enabled if main memory is less than or equal to 12 MB on monochrome computers and 16 MB on color computers. The compress option in swaptab forces use of the swaptimizer regardless of the amount of main memory. By the way, when you enable the swaptimizer, you'll see an extra file apparently being created on your disk. This file will have the samename as the backing store file being used by the swaptimizer, with .front appended. This isn't really an extra file: It's a mount point used by the swaptimizer and actually takes up no real space on your disk. The ratio of the apparent size of the .front file and the size of backing store file provides a measure of the effectiveness of the swaptimizer's compression. -- David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: David Takesuye <dtakesuye@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: yet 'nother memory question Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 12:47:44 +0000 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <60bfv2$9lb@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> References: <342301CE.50BF@cnam.fr> <5vviri$s1u$20@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been using my 25MHz 8MB NeXTstation as a print/file server for my Macintosh network. Now that I've connected a PC (running Intercon's tcpCONNECT4) to the network, I feel the need for a RAM upgrade. When I call for a memory configuration on the ROM monitor, it tells me: memory sockets 0-3 have 4MB SIMMs installed 4-7 have 4MB SIMMs installed 8-11 have no SIMMS installed 12-15 have no SIMMs installed When I crack open the slab, there are 8 slots, all filled with SIMMs -- presumably 1MB each. The FAQs on this subject say to achieve 16MB, replace the first 4 slots closest to the PS with 4MB SIMMs. Reading through this thread, I gather that the next 4 1MB SIMMs won't be recognized. If I replaced all slots with 4MB SIMMs, will I have reached the max. 32? TIA ::::: David Takesuye :::::
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: yet 'nother memory question Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 17:12:06 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <EH0vs8.Mur@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <60bfv2$9lb@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> In article <60bfv2$9lb@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> David Takesuye <dtakesuye@worldnet.att.net> writes: > I've been using my 25MHz 8MB NeXTstation as a print/file server for my > Macintosh network. Now that I've connected a PC (running Intercon's > tcpCONNECT4) to the network, I feel the need for a RAM upgrade. Ouch... I remember 8Meg. It was a bit tight for running 2.0! > When I call for a memory configuration on the ROM monitor, it tells me: > memory sockets 0-3 have 4MB SIMMs installed This is a throwback to the Cube boards which had different slot configurations. Ignore it. > When I crack open the slab, there are 8 slots, all filled with SIMMs -- > presumably 1MB each. That was the standard shipping config. > The FAQs on this subject say to achieve 16MB, replace the first 4 slots > closest to the PS with 4MB SIMMs. Yep... >Reading through this thread, I gather > that the next 4 1MB SIMMs won't be recognized. Not true. You have to work in blocks of four but 4x4 + 4x1 = 20 works fine, and is(was?) VERY common (20 is a nice amount for running 3.X). >If I replaced all slots with 4MB SIMMs, >will I have reached the max. 32? 8x4 =32 is the max that a standard mono slab can hold. $an
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Crossposting (was Re: swapfile.front) Date: 24 Sep 1997 21:27:13 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <60c0jh$86i$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <60b0sh$qmv$1@news.nacamar.de> <60c07i$86i$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: oschirr@abm12.abm.de Ok, I didn't realize at first that this message was crossposted. Please refer to http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html and do not crosspost within csn.* and if you MUST crosspost, set a Followup-To line. Why is this important? Well, in this instance, someone else had already responded on csn.hardware when I read csn.software and read the original post. The other person had not sent the followup to csn.software, so I didn't see the answer, and duplicated the effort to answer the question all over again. Now I'm posting yet another crossposted message, to demonstrate how blind with power I am. (smiley implied) TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: swapfile.front Date: 24 Sep 1997 21:20:50 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <60c07i$86i$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <60b0sh$qmv$1@news.nacamar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: oschirr@abm12.abm.de In <60b0sh$qmv$1@news.nacamar.de> Oliver Schirrmeister wrote: > Hello, > > what is the /private/vm/swapfile.front file good for? > On my computer it has a size of a little more than 1 GB. > Is that ok? I refer you to http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/FAQs/swapfaq.html my first experience with HTML... some 15 pages long (all one really long page) and then I accidentally deleted it before I had a backup. Man did that suck. Anyway it points to a ``must read'' which is: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1020.htmld/1020.html ``optimizing virtual memory with swaptab'' and it says: > By the way, when you enable the swaptimizer, you'll see an extra > fileapparently being created on your disk. This file will have the samename > as the backing store file being used by the swaptimizer, with .front > appended. This isn't really an extra file: It's a mount point used by the > swaptimizer and actually takes up no real space on your disk. The ratio of > the apparent size of the .front file and the size of backing store file > provides a measure of the effectiveness of the swaptimizer's compression. It's a really good page for reading up on such things. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 100 MB/sec network cards under NS 3.3 Date: 24 Sep 1997 01:55:18 GMT Organization: LavaNet, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <609ru6$paa@mochi.lava.net> References: <5vruqj$100k$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam wrote: > I'd like to upgrade my Web server to a new Intel machine with a > 100-Base-T network card, but would like to stay with NS 3.3. > I see that there is at least one netcard driver in NEXTANSWERS > (DECchip21140, NA 1927) that claims to work with some 100 MB/sec > cards, like the Cogent EM100 and 110, DEC DE500, and SMC 9332 and > SMC Etherpower 10/100. > I'd like to hear reviews (good or bad) of running at 100 MB/sec under > NS 3.3. If you've tried it and had trouble, or if you're using it > without any trouble, please let me know. Thanks. A NS 3.3 medical image software developer who needs to move large images around a network installed a 100-base-T NS network. The best performance he experiences is about 30 mbps whereas the same hardware running Windows performs at up to 80 mbps. He asked NeXT about this problem. He was told that the BSD 3.3's TCP/IP stack just isn't able to produce 100 mbps throughput (it was designed when only 10 mbps Ethernet was available, after all). Supposedly, the BSD 4.4's TCP/IP stack used in Rhapsody performs much better. Art Isbell NeXT/MIME: arti@lavaDOTnet Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 808 394 0511 (for whom I don't speak) Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495 NT managed care solutions US Mail: Honolulu, HI 96825-2638
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From: Jeremy McMillan <aphor@ripco.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Broken Black 400dpi Printer Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:33:14 -0500 Organization: Very Loose Message-ID: <3429BF5A.167EB0E7@ripco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a black printer that won't power up. I was wondering if anyone out there with any experience could tell me what it might be? I haven't been inside it yet (pretty involved construction) but if it's just a case of replacing some buried burnt-out diode, fuse, or varistor I'm all for it. Thanks in advance!
From: gh@middlemarch.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD burner software Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 01:24:57 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <3429F5A9.63EE@middlemarch.net> References: <875101381.3356@dejanews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: stefan.osterman@upnet.se stefan.osterman@upnet.se wrote: > > Hi there > > Does anyone know if there is any cd-burner software for NS/OS out there, > and which hardware to use? There is CDDesigner, a commercial app, which is very nice. And there is also cdwrite, a shareware app, but I have not tried it. Both can be found on the peak ftp site. --Greg
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Turbo Slab ROM revisions? Date: 23 Sep 1997 20:22:55 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <6098ev$hk5$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> References: <606rkh$1ga@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> In article <606rkh$1ga@phaedrus.demon.co.uk>, Neville Wilford <jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> wrote: >This has ROM revision 3.0 v70. I know 3.0 v74+ is needed for ADB. 3.3 v74 is the version. >Is this timing sensitivity merely a feature of the ROM revision >or is extra circuitry required which won't be on my mainboard? It's dependent upon the circuitry and memory you have, if I recall. For instance, my 60ns SIMMs are known as 70ns to the turbo I have. >IF it's just the ROM, does anyone have a v74 ROM from a dead board >or surplus in other ways which they would consider selling, >swapping or even donating to me. I don't think a PROM swap will do what you want, but if you want one, call DecisionOne at 800.499.NEXT. Not sure how the number will work since you're in the UK. Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue M/S 44UR Enterprise Systems Division Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.1053 Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
From: zamora@vnet.ibm.com (Tony Zamora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Errors initializing new internal hard drive in NeXTstation Date: 25 Sep 1997 12:47:36 GMT Organization: IBM Global Services -- Lexington KY Message-ID: <60dmh8$i30$1@news.lexington.ibm.com> I have replaced the internal disk drive in my original (25 MHz) NeXTstation with a Seagate ST32107WC (Cayman, also known as a Conner CFP2107E) and am having trouble initializing it. I installed the drive, booted from another disk and used the following command to try to initialize it: disk -t CFP2107E -i -b /dev/rsd0a I got the following output: disk name: CFP2107E disk type: fixed_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/boot creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd0a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd0a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd0a 2097152 63 10 8192 1024 16 10 120 2048 t sd0 (1,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x21 SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch) write error: 2097151 wtfs: I/O error /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd0a failed (status 1) Here is the disktab file that I am using: CFP2107E|CONNER CFP2107E:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3999:nt#10:ns#63:ss#1024:rm#7200:\ :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=hexagon:\ :pa#0:sa#2097152:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#2048:ra#10:\ :oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD: Before I used this disktab file, I got the following error when I tried to initialize the disk: boot block extends past front porch I figured putting fp#160 in the disktab file would fix this, but I don't know what the error from mkfs means (is it suspicious that both errors I've gotten say something about the front porch?). I don't think it's a media error because running "disk -F /dev/rsd0a" didn't report any errors. Has anyone gotten this disk to work in a NeXT? What do I need to do? Tony
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Broken Black 400dpi Printer Date: 25 Sep 1997 13:08:55 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <60dnp7$aci$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <3429BF5A.167EB0E7@ripco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: aphor@ripco.com In <3429BF5A.167EB0E7@ripco.com> Jeremy McMillan wrote: > I have a black printer that won't power up. I was wondering if anyone > out there with any experience could tell me what it might be? > > I haven't been inside it yet (pretty involved construction) but if it's > just a case of replacing some buried burnt-out diode, fuse, or varistor > I'm all for it. There is a fuse in there... maybe even 2. I've never had mine go, thankfully, but others have mentioned it, so perhaps they will be able to say whether or not this sounds like it. If there are no noises at all coming from it, then a fuse seems like a good candidate to me. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
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From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <342a6ca0.0@news.together.net> Date: 25 Sep 1997 16:12:00 GMT Control: cancel <342a6ca0.0@news.together.net> Message-ID: <cancel.342a6ca0.0@news.together.net> Sender: <webmaster@webvermont.com> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: "J.W.Bruce" <jwbruce@ee.unlv.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: booting OS4.2 from a boot disk Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:03:22 -0700 Organization: Dept. of ECE at the UNLV Message-ID: <342A9959.0@ee.unlv.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been installing OS4.2 on my PPro-180 clone and I already have NT4.0 installed on the 2gig IDE HD. So I elected to use a couple of old 500MB IDE HD to hold OS4.2. Now, here'e the dilemma: I currently can not back up the data, build a mini-partition and restore the 2 gig HD for various reasons. How do I go about building a boot flopply with the appropiate configuration file so that the machine will recognize the cheezy dual IDE busses and see my two old 500MB HDs and the IDE CD-ROM drive???? I am new to NS/OS for white...... Things are much easier if not slower on my cube ;-) If you could also reply via email as my news browsing connection is often dead! Thanks, JW
From: soonam@list.gmu.edu (Soonam Kahng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Step on IBM Thinkpad 560? Date: 25 Sep 1997 18:36:00 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax,VA Message-ID: <60eaug$p0d@portal.gmu.edu> References: <6095jq$cb2$1@client3.news.psi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chance Reschke (creschke@pscwa.psca.com) wrote: : Hi, : Any success stories from folks running NeXT Step on the IBM Thinkpad 560? : - Chance : --- : creschke@pscwa.psca.com I have heard many people using NeXTStep on 560. Here is the list of drivers you need to run NeXTStep with 560. - IBM ThinkPad 560 Display Adapter[v 3.31] More Info : http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2491.htmld/2491.html Downloads : http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/2468.compressed - PS/2 Mouse Driver [v 3.33] More Info : Not Needed Downloads : Not Needed - Adaptec PCMCIA 6360 SCSI Adapter[v 3.32] More Info : http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1761.htmld/1761.html Downloads : http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/1972.compressed - ESS Audio Driver[v 3.30] More Info : http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2026.htmld/2026.html Downloads : http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/2027.compressed - PCMCIA Bus Support[v 3.34] More Info : http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1801.htmld/1801.html Downloads : http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/2150.compressed - Intel 82365 and compatible PCMCIA chipset [ Intel 82365 PCMCIA --> PCI Bus Bridge[v 3.33] ] More Info : http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1800.htmld/1800.html Downloads : http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/2127.compressed - EIDE and ATAPI Device Controller[v 3.35] More Info : http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1839.htmld/1839.html Downloads : http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/1977.compressed - ISA/EISA Bus Support[v 3.35] More Info : http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1947.htmld/1784.html Downloads : http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/2061.compressed - Port Server Driver[v 3.30] More Info : http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1947.htmld/1947.html Downloads : http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/1946.compressed - PS/2 Keyboard [v 3.30] More Info : Not Needed Downloads : Not Needed - On board Serial Driver [v 3.30] More Info : http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1943.htmld/1943.html Downloads : http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/1942.compressed <Soonam>
From: powell@aoml.noaa.gov (Mark Powell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Seagate Hawk ST 52160N OK with turbocolor slab? Date: 15 Sep 1997 21:02:54 GMT Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML Message-ID: <5vk7pu$hnn@nil.aoml.noaa.gov> If anyone has had any bad experiences or has any particular advise to offer on these I'd really like to know. Thanks! -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Mark D. Powell powell@aoml.noaa.gov Atmospheric Scientist, AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist (Member, NOAA '96 Olympics Marine Forecast Team) NOAA Hurricane Research Division (appropriate disclaimers apply) Miami, Fl 33149 Voice (305) 361-4403 Fax (305) 361-4402
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: lars@gsblas.uchicago.edu (Lars A. Stole) Subject: Adaptec slim SCSI (PC-MCIA card) and laptop with NS 3.3 --- HELP! Message-ID: <EH2wGu.Ju6@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:22:06 GMT Title says it all. I've got a NEC Versa P75 laptop running NS 3.3. I recently purchased an apaptec slim SCSI card under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that the AIC6x60 driver (v.3.32) would let me use it with my laptop. Unfortunately, when I boot up, I get the message "AIC6x60 host adaptor not found"! Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. By the way, I trying to connect to an external SCSI Jaz drive if that matters. Lars A. Stole University of Chicago, GSB 1101 E. 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 U.S.A.
From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Strange Mouse Woes Date: 25 Sep 1997 05:31:51 GMT Organization: LavaNet, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <60ct07$md1@mochi.lava.net> References: <3425C645.30CE9CC3@cyberspace.org> Windchaser <windchsr@cyberspace.org> wrote: > My NeXT mouse (non-ADB) has just failed in a unique (and rather > frustrating) manner. When I move the mouse left, the pointer moves left; > and when I move the mouse right, the pointer moves left. This behavior isn't unique any more now that NeXT mice are VERY mature. > I tried cleaning the mouse as best I can, and cleaning the mouse ball. > No help. Has anyone experienced this before and managed to fix the > rebellious rodent? I'd rather not shell out for a replacement used mouse > if I can help it... Your problem is probably due to broken conductors where the cable exits the mouse. Despite a strain relief that attempts to protect the cable from excessive bending, years of use result in metal fatigue that causes the conductors to break. I have fixed my mouse twice (used almost daily since May, 1990). The fix involves cutting out the broken section of cable and splicing it back together. If you really want a neat repair job, you can cut away only about 1.5" of cable sheathing and push/pull the cable into the inside of the mouse. Then cut out the bad cable and solder the ends to the connector inside the mouse. The conductors are tiny, so a very small soldering iron and some patience are required. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: arti@lavaDOTnet 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: "Fred Puryear" <fredpuryear@usa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: FS: Mustang 2.5 Gig HD Date: 25 Sep 1997 21:24:36 GMT Organization: Wilmington Internet Service Enterprises, Inc. Message-ID: <01bcc9f9$82dea400$5acb19ce@farmermk.onslowonline.net> Upgraded to 5 gig so have reliable Micropolis Mustang Model 4525A, 2.5 Gig, 6 months old. Asking $175, plus $10 shipping in USA. Money Order or Western Union Only. Boxed & ready to go. E-Mail responses to farmermk@onlsowonline.com
From: R.J.Patel@DOTmassey.ac.nz (Raj Patel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problem with SMCEtherEZ Card and OS4.1 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:47:56 +1200 Organization: Massey University College Of Education Message-ID: <R.J.Patel-2609971048110001@ce-mac130.massey.ac.nz> Hi all, My p5 has OS4.1 installed on a partition and works flawlessly however I've been unable to get it to work with my SMCEtherEZ 8416 ethernet card. The BIOS picks it up, OS configure.app picks it up and the driver installs OK. I've set it to the same settings which work on win95 and NT on the same machine (on different boot partitions). I'd like to be able to telnet & ftp into it from my powerbook via a crossover cable. At the moment I ftp into the NT side and copy the files to the 95 partition and reboot into OS4.1 and copy the files from the 95 partition to my OS partition. I've tried pinging the laptop from OS and the transmit light on the card blinks away but I get no response. I try telnetting/pinging from the laptop and the receive light blinks away but I can't pick up the OS box. I've tried NeXTAnswers without any luck. Any ideas/suggestions gratefully accepted. Raj.
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From: Darren Vader<sales@dotcom-xpress.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: DotCom: Your Internet Solutions Provider Date: 26 Sep 1997 02:15:30 GMT Organization: DotCom Internet Servcies Message-ID: <60f5s2$3iv@news.onramp.net> DotCom Internet Services is proud to announce our annual anniversary log-a-thon! DotCom Internet Services offers internet users the absolute BEST value to be found anywhere when it comes to web design, web hosting, server co-location, high bandwidth installations, intranet/LAN consulting and local dial-up acces! We'll do whatever it takes to keep our customers 110% satisfied! It's our anniversary and we want to celebrate by offering you super discounted rates for a limited time only on nearly all services... here is just a small sample: Web Hosting: Our domain: $10/month Your Domain: $20/month including cgi-access, 10megs of web space, and whatever else you might need! We also have more involved web hosting packages geared towards business' of every size starting at only $15/month! Server Co-Location: normally $425/month now only $350/month! For those of you in the Dallas area, we are offering unlimited dial-up access utilizing our all 56k digital network for only $17.50/month! Including multiple emails accounts, 10megs of web space and much more!!! The DotCom-Xpress Partnership Network offers you $9 for every customer you refer to us! Ask about our FREE! unlimitet trial accounts & our AOL Graduates Program! Call or email for more info: 214-220-2936 DotCom Internet Services Your Personal Internet Provider sales@dotcom-xpress.net http://www.dotcom-xpress.net
From: lacsap@spammedia.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Step on IBM Thinkpad 560? Date: 23 Sep 1997 21:50:56 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <609dk0$dg3@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <6095jq$cb2$1@client3.news.psi.net> In article <6095jq$cb2$1@client3.news.psi.net> creschke@pscwa.psca.com (Chance Reschke) writes: > Any success stories from folks running NeXT Step on the IBM Thinkpad 560? Works fine for me except audio. If anyone knows how to make the audio work correctly on it please let me know (remove spammedia from hostname) pasc
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From: toezmysoul@aol.com (Toezmysoul) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: DotCom: Your Internet Solutions Provider Date: 26 Sep 1997 03:51:40 GMT Message-ID: <19970926035101.XAA05608@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <60f5s2$3iv@news.onramp.net> SnewsLanguage: English Oh joy. Now we have the provider themselves doing the spamming. Its gonna get worse before it gets better folks.
From: paul@softland.demon.co.uk (Paul Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Advansys SCSI supported? Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 05:14:39 GMT Message-ID: <342b44b8.81323@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Are Advansys PCI SCSI adapters supported under OpenStep 4.2 for Intel? Paul
From: shaffer@durer.phyast.pitt.edu (C. David Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HD scanners for black hardware Date: 23 Sep 1997 12:31:27 GMT Organization: University of Pittsburgh Message-ID: <SHAFFER.97Sep23083127@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> References: <6077jb$3cr$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> In-reply-to: Paul.J.Buckley@columbia.edu's message of 23 Sep 1997 01:55:55 GMT Paul, I would recommend the Microtek ScanMaker E3 or E6. I have "ported" (the effort was minimal) mtekscan, a command line driven scanner driver for many of the Microtek scanners, to NEXTSTEP and I would be happy to send you the ported code. It compiles fine under NS3.3 and I could send you a binary if you like. It has worked perfectly for all of my applications and I seldom miss the fancy GUI. If you're not interested in this scanner/software combo I recommend that you look through Dejanews for a post that I made to comp.sys.next.hardware a while back regarding scanner experiences with black hardware. I can send you the post if you can't find it. David -- David Shaffer Department of Physics Wayne State College Wayne, NE 68787 shaffer@phyast.pitt.edu NeXTMail/MIME welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: leffert@cs.uchicago.edu (Jonathan B. Leffert) Subject: LaserJet 5L and 4.2 Intel Message-ID: <EGyF8w.EFB@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:19:44 GMT I'm attempting to get my HP LaserJet 5L to work under OpenStep 4.2 on Intel. I know that non-PostScript printers are not officially supported, but I've heard that there is a GS Print Filter that will work. I've installed GS 5.01 and the GS Print Filter package and I ran the install script in the print filter. However, printouts do not appear at my printer. Has anyone had any luck with this and could they give me more detailed instructions? Thanks. -j
From: Ryan Nelson <ryan@shell.inch.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ROM Monitor Date: 26 Sep 1997 15:21:24 GMT Organization: The Internet Channel Message-ID: <60gjtk$5jh$1@news.inch.com> References: <slrn62guol.hhf.dmv@ravenstrum.transient.net> In comp.sys.next.hardware Dan M. Vogel <dmv@ravenstrum.transient.net> wrote: : what i am interested in really what you can do with the rom. what : useful things can you do with the commands? is there any kind of : documentation for it? : the other thing, which i feel really silly about, is what should the : Boot command: be? I seem to have nulled out the previous one, and its : a bit frustrating (cause I can't get to the system anymore)... i'd HEARTILY recommend checking out (and printing out, and hanging near your slab) http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1085.htmld/1085.html
From: spl@no.mo.spam.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: K6 performance Date: 26 Sep 1997 15:06:18 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <60gj1a$g4r$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, If you have a K6 would you mind posting some NXBench results? i'm trying to get a feel for the video performance to see if there's any need for something like Omni's FastVideo driver on a K6. If you could include the configuration of your machine (along with chipset of the motherboard if you know that) with the results I'd appreciate it. You can get NXBenxch at the following places if you don't already have it: (USA) ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/benchmarks/NXBench.NI.b.tar.gz (Germany) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/performance/NXBench.2.0.NI.b.tar.gz Thanks much, Ian P. Cardenas -- I don't read the mail sent to the From: address in this post. If you would like to get a hold of me by email here's what you do: EITHER point your PH client to ns.uiuc.edu and query ian cardenas OR telnet to ux1.cso.uiuc.edu; login as phones; query ian cardenas
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: DotCom: Your Internet Solutions Provider Date: 26 Sep 1997 15:33:12 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <60gkjo$6nr$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <60f5s2$3iv@news.onramp.net> <19970926035101.XAA05608@ladder01.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: toezmysoul@aol.com In <19970926035101.XAA05608@ladder01.news.aol.com> Toezmysoul wrote: > Oh joy. Now we have the provider themselves doing the spamming. Its gonna > get worse before it gets better folks. Of course, we can do something about it, namely contact the admin who service these "people" news@news.onramp.net, support@onramp.net and ask them to terminate this customer for breaking the terms of their Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) found at http://www.onramp.net/about/policies/ under ``Usenet Policy and Acceptable Posting Procedures'' and ``Spamming'' which says, in part, that they are enjoined from > To post a single article or advertisement to more than ten (10) Usenet or > other newsgroups, forums, email mailing lists or other similar groups or > lists; and since they posted this to all the comp.sys.next.* groups, as well as comp.mail.sendmail, comp.security.unix, comp.unix.questions, I'd say they broke 10 easily. Don't be dismayed, fight back against Usenet abusers! TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Hey, is my NeXTstation cooked or what? Date: 23 Sep 1997 13:10:18 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <608f3q$9oa$11@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <607kp8$rhh$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: croehrig@House.ORG Immediately on seeing the shift keys blink, do command-command~ to get into the ROM monitor, and then boot verbosely. (Aside: this is why I recommend everyone boot verbosely all the time, it makes it much easier to figure out where in the process things went wrong). See where it stops booting, and maybe that will help... TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: turbo cube memory redux Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:47:15 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg148491.thr-3b48b0.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg148491.thr-3b48b0.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> After making dozens of phone calls looking for 32 meg 70ns simms that were tall enough to fit my turbo motherboard, I finally found a vendor in Texas, MacTel. I was on the phone with them for 20 minutes explaining the situation that much information I had found told me that I absolutely had to have 70ns and not 60ns simms, but that all of the 70ns simms that I had found wouldn't fit because the chips were mounted too close to the connectors and they interfered when tilting the simms back into the slots. I spoke to a very nice saleswoman and she contacted their tech support (some may recall that I ordered memory from another vendor and had to send it back because it simply wouldn't fit). The Mactel people told me they understood the situation and they would be happy to order me some 70ns memory--they only stocked 60ns, and they would make sure the simms were of the tall variety. They said it would take a week or so. This was yesterday. Today a package arrived at my office from MacTel. I opened it up and there was my order. I was excited--next day service when they said it would take a week. Then I opened the package--60ns low profile simms. I called them and explained the error. They were _very_ nice and said I could return them. On a whim, I decided to see if they would fit (they looked a bit taller than the 70 ns simms I had received a couple of days before from the Chip Merchant--they also treated me very nicely) and see what the turbo roms said about the memory. Apparently some turbo motherboards would not recognize memory faster than 70 ns and would assume it was 100ns instead. The simms fit fine and in a couple of minutes I was booting the cube. The ROM monitor reported 128 megs at 60ns! They worked just fine. Apparently this motherboard is new enough that it does recognize the faster memory--now whether it recognizes it and takes advantage of it is another story. Thanks to all for their suggestions and recommendations. -- David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: modem setup? Date: 23 Sep 1997 13:20:56 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <608fno$9oa$12@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <34255086.D720A83A@starpage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: webmaster@starpage.com In <34255086.D720A83A@starpage.com> "Jesse D. Hurlbut" wrote: > I've finally got the modem and appropriate cable for my black > NextStation. Now I just can't figure out how to get connected for > Internet service. Could someone please point me in the right direction? North (sorry, couldn't resist) > The manual talks about using the "tip" command. I've also tried the > FAQs, which talk about SLIP and PPP. Do I use tip at all, or drop it in > favor of PPP? If I go with DialupIP, am I missing out on anything I'd > get from a pay-package? Repeat after me: tip is to communications what vi is to word processing. That is, if functional, too clunky for most folks (except the zealots who will reply with an 8 page email on why I should know and love and adore all things vi... or tip) Get kermit. It's on peak and it is much nicer. Of course, you will only use it for diagnostics in setting up PPP. SLIP is pretty much dead under NS, since the one software package is no longer supported, and it was a pain to get it to work with dynamic IPs. > I've been shopping for ISPs and while I guess they're all unix/Next > compatible, I have yet to find one that is "friendly." Some have said I > need to pay more than IBM/MAC users for an IP address. Do they all do > this? The only reason you might pay more is if you want a static IP. Most ISPs ask you to bend over fully to for them to give up one of their precious IPs (my ISP kept me waiting for an answer for 3 months... or should I say, my *former* ISP). There's no reason you should pay any more for a regular dynamic PPP than any sm*ck running Win/Mac. > I'm not afraid ``You will be.... you will be'' (1000 points for the first person to correctly identify this movie, which I just watched for the 847th time over the weekend ;-) > of unix or manuals, but I am a beginner when it comes to > modem/PPP setup. Where do I start? goto http://www.peak.org/next/ppp/ and read up on that. Grab the PPP package and install it. That's not usually where folks have trouble. It's the chat script.... *scary music and screams in the background* Think of the chat script as the dance partner who expects you to do certain steps, but doesn't always make it clear what they want, when they want it, or why they want it. That's where kermit comes in. You connect using kermit, and enter all of the information by hand, and slowly you are let into the labyrinth of questions & answers. You can even start the PPP session using kermit, but you won't want to do that for long. Read through all the README files that come with the PPP package, join the PPP mailing list, and fire your questions away! TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: toezmysoul@aol.com (Toezmysoul) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: DotCom: Your Internet Solutions Provider Date: 26 Sep 1997 16:31:49 GMT Message-ID: <19970926163101.MAA03766@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com References: <60gkjo$6nr$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> SnewsLanguage: English I've already forwarded this spam to the provider. I hope everyone else will do the same. I just found it particularly annoying to have a "provider" spam newsgroups. With any luck they'll be looking elsewhere for access to the net in the near future. j.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: ARG! Broken AGAIN?! Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EH1oA3.L7L@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 03:27:38 GMT References: <607ljh$mpt$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <607ljh$mpt$1@pith.uoregon.edu>, Sean Harding <sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu> wrote: >Alright...I just got my *second* Color Slab from DeepSpace Tech (the first >one froze at "testing system..."). This one doesn't power up at all. > Does it make any sort of noise when you fire it up? DId you try opening it and taking out the lithium battery, leaving it out overnight, and sticking it back in? -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Hey, is my NeXTstation cooked or what? Date: 23 Sep 1997 17:10:53 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <608t6t$sl9$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <608f3q$9oa$11@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> In article <608f3q$9oa$11@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) writes: > > Immediately on seeing the shift keys blink, do command-command~ to get into > the ROM monitor, and then boot verbosely. >(Aside: this is why I recommend everyone boot verbosely all the time, it >makes it much easier to figure out where in the process things went wrong). I also always boot my NeXTs verbosely. This one doesn't ever come up in the ROM monitor. It's dead before I can use command-command~. In fact, it looks like it dies just before the ROM monitor window comes up. Maybe it's a problem with the ROM? The fact that the shift LEDs blink on and off again suggest to me that the CPU isn't entirely dead. Maybe I should try unseating and seating the ROM chip. --- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: yet 'nother memory question Date: 26 Sep 1997 21:14:59 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <60h8kj$pk@news9.noc.netcom.net> References: <60bfv2$9lb@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> <EH0vs8.Mur@cam-ani.co.uk> Cc: ians@cam-ani.co.uk In <EH0vs8.Mur@cam-ani.co.uk> Ian Stephenson wrote: > In article <60bfv2$9lb@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> David Takesuye > <dtakesuye@worldnet.att.net> writes: > > I've been using my 25MHz 8MB NeXTstation as a print/file server for my > > Macintosh network. Now that I've connected a PC (running Intercon's > > tcpCONNECT4) to the network, I feel the need for a RAM upgrade. > Ouch... > > I remember 8Meg. It was a bit tight for running 2.0! > > > > When I call for a memory configuration on the ROM monitor, it tells me: > > memory sockets 0-3 have 4MB SIMMs installed > >When I call for a memory configuration on the ROM monitor, it tells me: > >memory sockets 0-3 have 4MB SIMMs installed > >4-7 have 4MB SIMMs installed > >8-11 have no SIMMS installed > >12-15 have no SIMMs installed !! > This is a throwback to the Cube boards which had different slot > configurations. Ignore it. I don't remember seeing this on the slabs I've had, and unfortunately I don't have any on hand to check. I wonder if that would mean that one in theory could have 64MB on the mono 25Mhz stations provided one cobbled some extra simm slots on a secondary card.. Yes it would require a soldering iron!! Care to comment Mike? Randy rencsok AT channelu D0T com PS. Anyone out there with any schematics for black e-mail me!
From: tj@oro.net (Thomas Ferreira) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help: Connect Newton PDA to NeXT hardware Date: 26 Sep 1997 21:24:56 GMT Organization: "oronet, Penn Valley, CA" Message-ID: <tj-2609971424490001@i479.oro.net> Is anyone familiar with connecting a Newton PDA to NeXT hardware. I understand there is an application Newtl 1.8 that through a serial cable lets a Newton PDA and NeXT hardware communicate but with the download I received, there are no instructions on the connection and use of the software. Please email me at tj@oro.net of you have done this connection successfully. Thanks Tom
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: turbo cube memory redux Date: 26 Sep 1997 21:10:26 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <60h8c2$1kp4$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <msg148491.thr-3b48b0.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) wrote: >I was on the phone with them for 20 minutes explaining >the situation that much information I had >found told me that I absolutely had to have 70ns and not 60ns simms, To quote Moses (i.e. Mike P.): >> I've seen many posts regarding 60 vs. 70ns RAM in >> turbo NeXT hardware, but never a clean resolution... >> >> A few people have stated that the ROM monitor recognizes >> 60ns RAM on power-up, but is the hardware utilizing it at 60ns, >> 70ns, or 100ns? > >The hardware will run RAM it recognizes as 70 ns or faster at 70 ns, and >slower RAM at 100 ns. All installed memory should be 70 ns or faster to >get the 70 ns timing. > >-- > Mike Paquette (mpaque@wco.com) Personally, if Moses says its so then thats good enough for me - he's been up the mountain! :-) >Apparently some turbo motherboards would not recognize memory faster >than 70 ns and would assume it was 100ns instead. I have never heard of this. - Gareth --- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: dwy@ace.net (David Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Connect Newton PDA to NeXT hardware Date: 26 Sep 1997 22:27:05 GMT Organization: 21st Century Software, New York City Sender: daver@138.202.212.111 Message-ID: <60hcrp$kr5$2@darla.visi.com> References: <tj-2609971424490001@i479.oro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Sep 1997 17:27:05 CDT Cc: tj@oro.net In <tj-2609971424490001@i479.oro.net> Thomas Ferreira wrote: > Is anyone familiar with connecting a Newton PDA to NeXT hardware. I > understand there is an application Newtl 1.8 that through a serial cable > lets a Newton PDA and NeXT hardware communicate but with the download I > received, there are no instructions on the connection and use of the > software. The NeXT black hardware needs a special cable wired for its RS-423 ports. I made my cable by cutting and re-wiring the Macintosh cable that should come with your MessagePad; you can find documentation on the NeXT serial pinouts at man zs, and the Newton side of the cable is a standard Mac serial port. On the software side, it's a bit trickier. Newtl/Newtonlink/Newton.app (plug) use Steve Weyer's Slurpee applet for communications, which makes package installation next to impossible. "lpkg" for Linux uses the native Dock applet instead; you might want to look into that as well. -- :: d a v i d y o u n g ::::: smtp dwy@ace.net http www.ace.net ::
From: "Robert Barnett" <pcreview@sonic.net> Newsgroups: comp.software.testing,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.windows.garnet,comp.windows.interviews,comp.windows.misc Subject: PC-Review Online Site Update (9-26-97) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 97 22:43:21 GMT Organization: PC-Review Online Message-ID: <60hdmp$qp3$3@ultra.sonic.net> The PC-Review Online web site has been updated. We have added 7 new reviews including, U-lead iPhotoExpress, Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0, Lotus Smart Suite 97, U.S. Robotics Sportster X2 Famodem and more. We have also added some new links to the "Links" page. There are new images in the "Art Gallery" and there is a new Bryce 2 scene, as well as a new screen saver. http://www.sonic.net/pcreview Thanks, The Staff of PC-Review
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int%rauug.mil.wi.us@bofh.int> Newsgroups: comp.software.testing,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.windows.garnet,comp.windows.interviews,comp.windows.misc Subject: cmsg cancel <60hdmp$qp3$3@ultra.sonic.net> Control: cancel <60hdmp$qp3$3@ultra.sonic.net> Date: 26 Sep 1997 22:52:32 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.60hdmp$qp3$3@ultra.sonic.net> Sender: "Robert Barnett" <pcreview@sonic.net> My From: line has been fudged because many test newsgroup autoresponders respond to control messages. My apologies! Please see the X-Cancelled-By: line for my proper address. Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (Mr. B. N. Bondoc) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help: Connect Pilot PDA to NeXT hardware Date: 26 Sep 1997 19:22:01 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <xn3pvpvoe3q.fsf_-_@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> References: <tj-2609971424490001@i479.oro.net> <60hcrp$kr5$2@darla.visi.com> In-reply-to: dwy@ace.net's message of 26 Sep 1997 22:27:05 GMT Hello, anybody know if the Pilot can be connected to the NeXT? nick -- B. N. Bondoc pager: 514 - 930 - 1385 ===================================================== office addr: Ernest Rutherford Physics Building Physics Department, McGill University 3600 University Street, Room 223 Montreal, PQ, Canada, H3A 2T8 phone: 514 - 398 - 5938 fax: 514 - 398 - 7022 =====================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: tsikes@netcom.com (Terry Sikes) Subject: Preparing for Rhapsody Message-ID: <tsikesEH52C1.DvD@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:24:00 GMT Sender: tsikes@netcom23.netcom.com Hi folks. My Apple Developer application is on its way to Apple, and I'm anxious to get started building an Intel machine to run Rhapsody. I'm making the assumption that Rhapsody RDR for Intel will have as good hardware support as OpenStep 4.x. If anyone knows differently, please let me know! My system configuration is planned to be: Pentium 133 (already have it, to be upgraded soon) Asus TX97 motherboard 64 MB SDRAM 5.1 GB Maxtor ATA-33 HD (already have it) 4x IDE CD-ROM (already have it...sigh ;-) Matrox Millenium 4 MB (already have it) 3dfx Voodoo daughtercard (not for Rhapsody, at least immediately ;-) Logitech 3-button mouse Ergonomic keyboard My questions revolve around the motherboard, SDRAM, and whether or not I can use the ATA features of the hard disk. I looked at NeXTanswers, but didn't see anything about TX based motherboards. Has anyone used OpenStep successfully with a configuration like this? Am I looking for trouble? Would I be better off going with an HX based motherboard? Thanks for any help. Please e-mail me as well as posting. Terry -- tsikes@netcom.com
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: more turbo cube memory questions Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:15:21 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg146859.thr-3aed29.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg146859.thr-3aed29.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> I have been looking for memory that will fit my turbo cube motherboard. The Chip Merchant assures me that their 60ns memory will fit and that they are aware that their 70ns simms are too low profile to fit. However, I have heard from others here that the turbo cube doesn't recognize 60ns simms and so assumes they are 100ns and you get serious performance hits. Can I get additional confirmation of this? The only reason that I question this is that I downloaded the "Ordering SIMMs from NeXT" document from NeXTAnswer 1081 and the 32 meg simms they list are listed as "70ns or faster". Should I stop worrying about it and get the 60ns? -- David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: Hari Rajagopal <grimgant@kodak.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: modem setup? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:25:39 -0500 Organization: Eastman Kodak Company Message-ID: <342841E3.1E0F@kodak.com> References: <34255086.D720A83A@starpage.com> <608fno$9oa$12@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > In <34255086.D720A83A@starpage.com> "Jesse D. Hurlbut" wrote: > > I've finally got the modem and appropriate cable for my black > > NextStation. Now I just can't figure out how to get connected for > > Internet service. Could someone please point me in the right direction? > ``You will be.... you will be'' (1000 points for the first person to > correctly identify this movie, which I just watched for the 847th time over > the weekend ;-) > > I thought there was a 'heh' after that, Yoda of course :) TESB
From: Paul Naton <pnatona@cts.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can I Use My Next Sony Monitor on My Mac? Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:34:06 +0100 Organization: CTS Network Services Message-ID: <342C1C2B.1D00@cts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: wagasa.cts.com!unknown@putccb1241113.cts.com I would like to use my low-hour Sony 17" color monitor from my Turbo Color Station and hook it up to my Power Tower Pro Mac. I remember some one a while back that made a cable adapter that allowed you to plug into the Mac video port. I am running a IMX Turbo M8 card which has VGA and Mac video out terminals. If anyone knows how to do this or where there is a source of this magic cable, I would sure like to get the info. Please reply to the group or privately. Thanks In Advance. Paul Naton Cloudbreak Design "I just don't turn on the Next as much as I used to"
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Connect Pilot PDA to NeXT hardware Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:58:38 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970927005428.6565A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <tj-2609971424490001@i479.oro.net> <60hcrp$kr5$2@darla.visi.com> <xn3pvpvoe3q.fsf_-_@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Mr. B. N. Bondoc" <nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <xn3pvpvoe3q.fsf_-_@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> On 26 Sep 1997, Mr. B. N. Bondoc wrote: > > Hello, > > anybody know if the Pilot can be connected to the NeXT? > > nick Hi, have a look at ftp://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/pub/PalmOS/ and grab a copy of pilot-link.0.6.6.tar.gz Compiles and runs just fine on NS 3.2 (I have black station, but Intel etc should work as well). The later versions don't compile on NeXT 3.2. There might be a cure to that, but I didn't care to explore that ... Good luck. Rudy.
From: liuyi@dragon-dance.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 60ns Simms Do Work on Turbo, My Experience [Was Re: turbo cube memory redux] Date: 27 Sep 1997 09:22:49 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <slrn62pk34.en.liuyi@caiman.dragon-dance.com> References: <msg148491.thr-3b48b0.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:47:15 -0400, David Herren <herren@flannet.middlebury.edu> wrote: > [...accidental discovery that 60ns 32MB simms works...] > The simms fit fine and in a couple of minutes I was booting the > cube. The ROM monitor reported 128 megs at 60ns! They worked just > fine. Apparently this motherboard is new enough that it does > recognize the faster memory--now whether it recognizes it and > takes advantage of it is another story. UPS delivered the 60ns simms I ordered from TCM Friday afternoon: 2 sticks of 32MB (8x32-60, part# 7300). Ten minutes later my ND Turbo Cube (ROM v74) was powered up with the new memory in it. 60ns was recognized and configured. That was a Phillies-Marlins ballgame + 8 hours ago. I've tested all the user+dev applications I've got on the machine, and done some compiling, gzipping, tarring, and etc --- thrown everything I've got against it. As far as I can tell, the 60ns' aren't making it any slower than the 70ns'. I'm going to wait a couple of weeks before buying another 2x32MB-60ns from TCM, as the price is still dropping. But barring catastrophic failures of my Cube between now and then, there's no doubt in my mind that 60ns works just fine on Turbo board. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@dragon-dance.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:51:41 -0600 From: jbl@andrew.cmu.edu (John B. Lee) Subject: NeXT monitor durability Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <875386042.12013@dejanews.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University How well have the NeXT 21" displays (Hitachi) held up over the years? I'm purchasing a NeXTStation and would like to know what I can expect out of used/aged monitors. Thanks. John Lee jbl@andrew.cmu.edu -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: mbradley@usit.net (Mike) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ATAPI CD-Rom Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 18:55:22 GMT Organization: United States Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <343f567f.9358958@news.usit.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope some one here may be able to help me. I have an old 486 50mhz computer I am wanting to fix up for my grand kids, it's to good just to trash. It had a 2x cd-rom in it that had quit working, the kind that hooked up to an IDE controller on the sound card. I bought an ACER 8x ATAPI CD-Rom to replace it. I set the CD-Rom's jumper as a slave drive to the hard drive. Now I keep getting a error massage at boot that says - No boot sector on hard disk- Press F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility. I don't have the jumper configurations for the hard drive, but I have tried setting them at every possible setting with the same result. The Hard drive is a Seagate, Marathon I believe, modal ST3491A. There are 8 jumper pins, none of which are marked. The CD-Rom works with music CDs with no problem, and will run a game for a while before starting to act up, or frizzing up the system. There is no conflict in Windows either. When it is working I don't believe I am getting 8x speed out of it, this could be because of a slow system though. Could the old IDE controller not support the ATAPI format? Am I wrong that you don't need to set up a CD-Rom in your BIOS? I am thinking of just getting a newer IDE card to put the CD-Rom on as a master, and being done with it. Would this be the easiest way to dill with this problem? Any help, or advice is vary much appreciated. Thanks, Mike
From: mike@phys.ufl.edu (Mike Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: non-NeXT monitor on black slab - requesting advice Date: 27 Sep 1997 21:04:38 GMT Organization: University of Florida Message-ID: <60jsd6$8i5@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> In June I bought one of those $250 color NeXT stations that were advertised in comp.sys.next.marketplace, and I really like it. But the monitor (NeXT MegaPixel 17-inch Color Display) just broke. I'd like to buy a new non-NeXT monitor to use with the black slab. I've seen the relevant info in the NeXT FAQ -- Black Hardware questions 5.16 and 5.17 -- such as 1280x1024 resolution, 68 Hz vert scan rate. I'm looking for some advice or recommendations. For example, I saw on the www.viewsonic.com site a model 17PS that would seem to fit the description, and prices seem to be about $650. If anybody has positive or negative experiences about putting some particular currently available non-NeXT color monitor on a black slab, I would appreciate hearing about it. If the answer is something like "practically anything fitting the FAQ 5.16 description will work", then I'd like confirmation of that. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. Mike Jones
From: dh73353@goodnet.com (Rueiwun Tu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can I Use My Next Sony Monitor on My Mac? Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:45:39 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona Message-ID: <dh73353-ya02408000R2709971445390001@news.goodnet.com> References: <342C1C2B.1D00@cts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <342C1C2B.1D00@cts.com>, pnatona@cts.com wrote: > I would like to use my low-hour Sony 17" color monitor from my Turbo > Color Station and hook it up to my Power Tower Pro Mac. > > I remember some one a while back that made a cable adapter that > allowed you to plug into the Mac video port. I am running a IMX Turbo > M8 card which has VGA and Mac video out terminals. > > If anyone knows how to do this or where there is a source of this > magic cable, I would sure like to get the info. > > Please reply to the group or privately. > Hi, You might want to check the following URL: http://www.Nashville.Net/~griffin/ I found the company called "Griffin Technology" doing such a great job in hooking all kinds of monitors on Mac. They are even selling Black NeXT monitor for Mac on their web site. Hope this will help... -Ray-
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: non-NeXT monitor on black slab - requesting advice Date: 28 Sep 1997 02:35:22 GMT Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin Message-ID: <60kfpa$c9m$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> References: <60jsd6$8i5@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> Mike Jones <mike@phys.ufl.edu> wrote: > >If anybody has positive or negative experiences about putting some >particular currently available non-NeXT color monitor on a black slab, I use Iiyama Visionmaster Pro (9017) for my turbo color slab, thru the BNC input, and on the regular HD15 I plug my intel box (so I can switch back and forth on those). FWIW, Paulus
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: monitor for ND Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:13:39 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg149373.thr-3b7dbb.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg149373.thr-3b7dbb.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> I've asked this before and never received a satisfactory answer. Is it possible to connect a _new_ (ie, just manufactered and distributed) monitor of any variety to a nextdimension board? I have a two-headed cube and the color monitor is dying. I could, of course, buy a used NeXT monitor from one of the usual suppliers, but I would honestly prefer to purchase a new monitor with more life in it. Is this just a cable issue? Anyone doing this? What monitors might be recommended? -- David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
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: <12335874814429@digifix.com> Date: 28 Sep 1997 03:48:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <27562875419231@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. 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From: Gerald J Holdsworth <gholdsworth.atsa@gtnet.gov.uk> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:39:58 +0100 (BST) Organization: Mercury Communications Message-ID: <ant272358b49Pj&G@aq31.gtnet.gov.uk> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII In article <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org>, Mr. Dominique Jepsen <URL:mailto:dom@suomi.bonbit.org> wrote: > > In maus.hardware Wilhelm Karl <Wilhelm.Karl@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> wrote: That I understand. > > > Ich hätte einen Iiyama VisionMaster 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. > > Neupreis: z.Z. 1599,- für VB 1250 DM Duh! > > 1250.- kostet der mittlerweile neu (z.B. bei Schadt, auf den Pfennig genau) You what? > > dom > Sprechen Ze English or whatever it is... -- Any opinons expressed are mine and not linked to my employers. Gerald J Holdsworth on an Acorn RISC PC 700 gholdsworth.atsa@gtnet.gov.uk http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~jon/bnr
From: davidb@computer.org (davidb) Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:32:07 GMT Organization: ... Message-ID: <342f862c.83811960@news.swbell.net> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org> <ant272358b49Pj&G@aq31.gtnet.gov.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Heir Oberest Pfeiffer de Compaqo heil monitor ze taiwan piece of shitzu. Heil ! On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:39:58 +0100 (BST), Gerald J Holdsworth <gholdsworth.atsa@gtnet.gov.uk> wrote: >In article <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org>, Mr. Dominique Jepsen ><URL:mailto:dom@suomi.bonbit.org> wrote: >> >> In maus.hardware Wilhelm Karl <Wilhelm.Karl@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> wrote: > >That I understand. > >> >> > Ich hätte einen Iiyama VisionMaster 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. >> > Neupreis: z.Z. 1599,- für VB 1250 DM > >Duh! > >> >> 1250.- kostet der mittlerweile neu (z.B. bei Schadt, auf den Pfennig genau) > >You what? > >> >> dom >> > >Sprechen Ze English or whatever it is...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Hey, is my NeXTstation cooked or what? Message-ID: <EH85Bs.Aww@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <608t6t$sl9$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:21:27 GMT In article <608t6t$sl9$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG> writes: > In article <608f3q$9oa$11@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> nospam@all.please > (Timothy J. Luoma) writes: > > > > Immediately on seeing the shift keys blink, do command-command~ > > to get into the ROM monitor, and then boot verbosely. > >(Aside: this is why I recommend everyone boot verbosely all the > >time, it makes it much easier to figure out where in the process > >things went wrong). > > I also always boot my NeXTs verbosely. This one doesn't ever > come up in the ROM monitor. It's dead before I can use > command-command~. In fact, it looks like it dies just before > the ROM monitor window comes up. Maybe it's a problem with the > ROM? The fact that the shift LEDs blink on and off again suggest > to me that the CPU isn't entirely dead. Maybe I should try > unseating and seating the ROM chip. > There are four diagnostic LEDs on the edge of the main board (close to the fan, AFAIR). And I remember that there was a description of their meaning in a posting to one of these news groups. Try out the known archives on this behalf. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Looking for Hayes ISDN TA for NeXT DSP Port Message-ID: <EH85MF.AxL@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bcc78a$6f6f2320$f3d0fdcc@shiner.insync.net> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:27:50 GMT In article <01bcc78a$6f6f2320$f3d0fdcc@shiner.insync.net> "Curtis A. Johnson" <curtisj@insync.net> writes: > Does anyone know where I can get one of the old Hayes ISDN TAs that > connected to the NeXT DSP Port. I am planning on turning my NeXTslab > into a router. > That would amount to a major programming effort. And the necessary libraries are only available with NS 3.0. Due to changes to the kernel in transition from 3.0 to 3.1 they certainly won't run on later versions. Not to mention that all changes to ISDN in the past four or five years are not supported... -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: John Näslund <lovemyk6@jienn.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware Subject: WWW.JIENN.COM Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 19:48:23 +0200 Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Message-ID: <342E9867.55A@jienn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HTTP://WWW.JIENN.COM
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <60m67m$4th@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> Control: cancel <60m67m$4th@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> Date: 28 Sep 1997 18:04:39 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.60m67m$4th@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> Sender: DHEA SEX LIKE 18<hart@sunbell.com> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Looking for Hayes ISDN TA for NeXT DSP Port Date: 28 Sep 97 12:59:35 Organization: C.R.A.S.H. http://www.crash.org Message-ID: <JASON.97Sep28125935@fisher.psych.uh.edu> References: <01bcc78a$6f6f2320$f3d0fdcc@shiner.insync.net> <EH85MF.AxL@nidat.sub.org> In-reply-to: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org's message of Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:27:50 GMT In article <01bcc78a$6f6f2320$f3d0fdcc@shiner.insync.net> "Curtis A. Johnson" <curtisj@insync.net> writes: > Does anyone know where I can get one of the old Hayes ISDN TAs that > connected to the NeXT DSP Port. I am planning on turning my NeXTslab > into a router. > >Peter Nitezki replies: That would amount to a major programming effort. And the necessary libraries are only available with NS 3.0. Due to changes to the kernel in transition from 3.0 to 3.1 they certainly won't run on later versions. Not to mention that all changes to ISDN in the past four or five years are not supported... Yep. It's easier and cheaper (in hours spent, if nothing else) to pick up something like the Ascend Pipeline family of ISDN devices. I have a P75 on my local area network, and I can't say enough good things about it... Check http://www.cmpexpress.com for some of the best prices on Pipelines. Jason Asbahr jason(@)crash.org
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From: davidb@computer.org (davidb) Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 19:22:55 GMT Organization: ... Message-ID: <3433adb0.93929157@news.swbell.net> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org> <ant272358b49Pj&G@aq31.gtnet.gov.uk> <342f862c.83811960@news.swbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit | |''''''''''''' |____|____ | | ..........| | Heil Pfeiffer !! On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:32:07 GMT, davidb@computer.org (davidb) wrote: >Heir Oberest Pfeiffer de Compaqo >heil monitor ze taiwan piece of >shitzu. Heil ! >On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:39:58 +0100 >(BST), Gerald J Holdsworth ><gholdsworth.atsa@gtnet.gov.uk> >wrote: > >> >>> > Ich hätte einen Iiyama 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. >>> > kostet der mittlerweile neu
From: Frontpage <Frontpage@SPAMMaol.com> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor(translated) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:46:29 -0400 Organization: The Man, trying to bring you down Message-ID: <342EB415.833F4491@SPAMMaol.com> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org> <ant272358b49Pj&G@aq31.gtnet.gov.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit For those of you who don't speak German.... Gerald J Holdsworth wrote: > In article <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org>, Mr. Dominique Jepsen > <URL:mailto:dom@suomi.bonbit.org> wrote: > > > > In maus.hardware Wilhelm Karl <Wilhelm.Karl@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> > wrote: > > That I understand. > > > > > > Ich hätte einen Iiyama VisionMaster 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. > > > Neupreis: z.Z. 1599,- für VB 1250 DM > I have a Iiyama VisionMaster 17-inch monitor to sell > > > > 1250.- kostet der mittlerweile neu (z.B. bei Schadt, auf den Pfennig > genau) > It cost 1250 (presumably German marks) when it was new. For example, at Schadt (a store), this is correct to the penny.
From: "Ron Green, Jr." <rgreen@firstnethou.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP LaserJet 4M and NEXTSTEP 3.3 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:18:14 -0500 Organization: FirstNet Message-ID: <342EC996.4BE683EA@firstnethou.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm trying to get my HP LaserJet 4M to work as a stand alone printer with my Intel computer running NEXTSTEP 3.3. I checked out the FAQ and it says that I need to re-wire my serial cable. Can anyone tell if this is absolutely necessary or if there might be another possibility. Thanks in advance, Ron Green
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From: "Michael Loose" <Michael_Loose@public.uni-hamburg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro and Sidewinder Pad trouble Date: 29 Sep 1997 00:03:39 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Message-ID: <01bccc6a$a1f021c0$402b6486@michaell> Hello! I can´t use my Sidewinder Pro and my Sidewinder Game Pad together. When I press the 'mode' button on my game pad, then the 3d Pro won't be recognised. You can select every other joystick but not the Sidewinder Pro. Even without the game pad, the 3D Pro is not working. The problem is that the game profiler (Version 1.5) doesn't recognise the 3D Pro. It is only working with the old 1.0 Version. I am using a Terratec Maestro 32/96 but only heard that there would be trouble with Aztech soundcards. Does anyone has the same problems? Michael
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Disk Errors? Or is it just me? Date: 28 Sep 1997 18:37:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <60n0ns$qj6@nntp02.primenet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I recently resurrected my NeXT Turbocolor which until recently was serving as a Mix Answering Machine & Print server. Part of the minor reconfiguration was consolidating the external HD's files onto the relatively unused internal. The problem is, that while the system used the external disk, there were no problems with disk accesses, it all worked fine. Here is the config on my Turbocolor: The internal (an HP Sure-store, formatted into two 1.something gig partitions). Originally, the 1st partition was the boot drive, the 2nd partition had a backup of my Daydream disk image, and was never really used. The external had: /usr/local, /LocalLibrary, /LocalApps, and all the other 3rd pary files. What I did was copy the local stuff onto the 2nd partition, and now I get the following errors on heavy (and sometimes not-so-heavy) disk access: Target 0: BUSY; retry 1 Target 0: BUSY; retry 1 Target 0: BUSY; retry 1 Target 0: BUSY; retry 1 Target 0: BUSY; retry 1 Target 0: BUSY; retry 1 It never goes past the 1st retry, and since this problem surfaced, the machine has had 2 suspicious total lockups. These lockups happened while I was on the net, and could be panics related to the serial ports. Some more info: The internal drive has been configured as a SCSI-I device, with active termination power taken from the drive. There are no other SCSI devices on the computer. fsck can scan both partitions (each is about 60% full) with no errors at all. No "busy" errors occur during system startup. Could this problem just be the SCSI in the machine griping over having to wait for the heads to swing back & forth? -- //-----------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows I'd rather starve!" //-----------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: "F.J.Herrmann" <felix@fresnel.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Q:Installing NeXTStep 3.3. on Gateway 2000 model G6-233 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 13:48:40 -0700 Organization: Department of Mathematics, Stanford University Message-ID: <34282B28.4CCBF8A7@fresnel.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For a long time I have been trying to bring to live a Quantum fireball SCSI 3.2 GB harddisk on a Gateway 2000 model G6-233. The hardware specifcs are: Pentium II 233 MHz adaptec 2940 ultra SCSI adapter 3c509B Ethernet STB verge/GX 3D graphics card The problem is that during the installation the cd-rom and scsi devices are not being recognized. During the boot inspection with cntrl a the controller and drives are correctly shown. However after booting with the NeXTstep booting disk and choosing the corect driver the installation is unable to locate the scsi devices let be the adaptec controller. The errow being given goes along the lines:could not allocate space for the adaptec. This errow occurts with the original version of the boot and driver floppies whereas the error: Bios error 0x10 @ 2700, c:75 H:0 ...... occurs when I use the new boot and driver images. I undertook, amongst others the following actions: adjusted the speeds and other settings of the scsi device by using the cntl a utillity disabled bios cd disabled advanced power management Of course the scsi id's are correcly set. Unfortunately all of this does not seem to work. Does anybody have a suggestion??? Thanks in advance, Felix -- ===================================================================== Felix J. Herrmann telephone (work) : (+1) 650 723 6769 Department of Mathematics voice mail (private): (+1) 650 903 9685 Stanford University fax : (+1) 415 725 4066 Building 380 email : mailto:herrmann@math.stanford.edu Stanford CA 94305-2125 url : http://wwwak.tn.tudelft.nl/~felix USA or : http://math.Stanford.EDU/~herrmann =====================================================================
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <342f99ba.0@news.inreach.com> Control: cancel <342f99ba.0@news.inreach.com> Date: 29 Sep 1997 12:52:08 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.342f99ba.0@news.inreach.com> Sender: aslfjdslkj@dflksadjflsd.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: Leo L Turetsky <leo+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Experience with S24 on AFX Bus Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:16:55 -0400 Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Eo=vVLi00YUz04qVs0@andrew.cmu.edu> Hey. Has anyone tried using NeXTSTEP 3.3 or OPENSTEP 4.2 with a Sparc 5 and an S24 graphics card? I hear the things are abysmally slow with X under Solaris and it makes me think it would be even slower under NeXT. It sure would be nice to get 24-bit color for under $500 though. leo. Leo Turetsky leo@uni.res.cmu.edu Carnegie-Mellon U., Math. OPENSTEP Systems Administrator
From: zamora@vnet.ibm.com (Tony Zamora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Errors initializing new internal hard drive in NeXTstation Date: 29 Sep 1997 15:40:14 GMT Organization: IBM Global Services -- Lexington KY Message-ID: <60oi4u$b7u$1@news.lexington.ibm.com> References: <60dmh8$i30$1@news.lexington.ibm.com> In article <60dmh8$i30$1@news.lexington.ibm.com>, Tony Zamora <zamora@vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >I got the following output: > >disk name: CFP2107E >disk type: fixed_rw_scsi >writing disk label >Writing /usr/standalone/boot >creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd0a >/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd0a >/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd0a 2097152 63 10 8192 1024 16 10 120 2048 t >sd0 (1,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 >sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x21 > SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch) >write error: 2097151 >wtfs: I/O error >/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd0a failed (status 1) It looks like the SCSI error means that I was trying to write beyond the end of the disk. I got it to work by reducing the number of disk blocks in the partition. Here's the disktab I ended up using. CFP2107E|CONNER CFP2107E:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3999:nt#10:ns#104:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=hexagon:\ :pa#0:sa#4193984:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#2048:ra#3:\ :oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD: Tony
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Looking for Hayes ISDN TA for NeXT DSP Port Date: 29 Sep 1997 16:30:36 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <60ol3c$j8i@news9.noc.netcom.net> References: <01bcc78a$6f6f2320$f3d0fdcc@shiner.insync.net> <EH85MF.AxL@nidat.sub.org> <JASON.97Sep28125935@fisher.psych.uh.edu> Cc: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu In <JASON.97Sep28125935@fisher.psych.uh.edu> Jason L. Asbahr wrote: > > In article <01bcc78a$6f6f2320$f3d0fdcc@shiner.insync.net> "Curtis A. > Johnson" <curtisj@insync.net> writes: > > Does anyone know where I can get one of the old Hayes ISDN TAs that > > connected to the NeXT DSP Port. I am planning on turning my NeXTslab > > into a router. > > > > >Peter Nitezki replies: > That would amount to a major programming effort. And the necessary > libraries are only available with NS 3.0. Due to changes to the kernel in > transition from 3.0 to 3.1 they certainly won't run on later versions. > Not to mention that all changes to ISDN in the past four or five years are > not supported... I beg to differ but at least up to 3.3 (not tried 4.x yet) all one had to do was copy the appropriate libraries from 3.0 and everything would work fine. I only used the device for testing, and was hoping to modify Phone.app or was that PhoneManager.. So that one could use the box for a voice mail system.. Faxes are a whole different matter.. But Mix has a nice complete solution for black.. As to networking I've never even bothered since my understanding was that you needed another Hayes ISDN on a NeXT at the other end to set things up.. AND I had no clue whether one could use the NeXT as a gateway EVEN if you had a subroute of IP's with this box.. I suspect masquerading was completely out of the question. All in all the hassle in time wasn't worth the moderate of $$ saved.. Also you only get 64Kb/sec > Yep. It's easier and cheaper (in hours spent, if nothing else) to pick > up something like the Ascend Pipeline family of ISDN devices. I have > a P75 on my local area network, and I can't say enough good things about > it... Check > {{\xurl http://www.cmpexpress.com > }<} > http://www.cmpexpress.com for some of the best prices on Pipelines. I have to concur! I use a P 50 (I have dedicated IP's BTW) and can't say anything but good things about it.. BTW: Ascend has some new products so check their web pages before buying.. Randy Rencsok rencsok (@t) channelu (d0T) com (or if this fails send origional with errors to.. rencsok (@t) argus (d0T) argus (d0T) cem (d0T) msu
From: popov@elnet.msk.su - no spam Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 19:57:17 GMT Organization: Elvis-Telecom, Co. Message-ID: <342ff7f1.16095724@news.telekom.ru> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org> <ant272358b49Pj&G@aq31.gtnet.gov.uk> <342f862c.83811960@news.swbell.net> <3433adb0.93929157@news.swbell.net> On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 19:22:55 GMT, davidb@computer.org (davidb) wrote: [ Some shit skipped] >>> >>>> > Ich hätte einen Iiyama 17"-Monitor zu verkaufen. >>>> > kostet der mittlerweile neu Stop post this shit!!!!!!!!!! Else red flag will be again in Berlin at Reihstag :-) Cheers, \Fedy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: 100 MB/sec network cards under NS 3.3 Message-ID: <cdoutyEHACoE.717@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom References: <5vruqj$100k$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 19:55:25 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom15.netcom.com In article <5vruqj$100k$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, <gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam> wrote: >I'd like to hear reviews (good or bad) of running at 100 MB/sec under >NS 3.3. If you've tried it and had trouble, or if you're using it >without any trouble, please let me know. Thanks. I have not done any quantative tests, but 100Mbs ethernet does seem to perform better. As Art Isbell <arti@lavaDOTnet> said in another reply, NS does not seem to use the available data rate as efficiently as linux or windows, but that seems to endemic to all I/O operations. What I can say is that I used to shephed a complex system generating lots of DO and NFS traffic. Switching to 100Mbs cards significantly reduced network collisions and improved application performance. Make sure to get the latest DECchip drive (v3.36 I believe) since it supports the SMC9332B which earlier versions do not. It also supports autosensing 10Mbs or 100MBs operation. Your biggest challenge will be to get network cards which are supported by the driver. I am not sure that the current SMC or Cogent models will work. Good luck, Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ATA PCMCIA Cards From: noone@iphysiol.unil.ch (Sean Hill) Message-ID: <34300ecb.0@cisun2000.unil.ch> Date: 29 Sep 97 20:25:47 GMT Has anybody figured out how to get ATA/IDE Flash PCMCIA cards to work with NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP? Thanks! sean
From: seanlNoSpam@carmi.cs.umd.edu (Sean Luke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Strange Mouse Woes Date: 29 Sep 1997 20:38:07 GMT Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Distribution: world Message-ID: <60p3jf$mog$8@walter.cs.umd.edu> References: <3425C645.30CE9CC3@cyberspace.org> <60ct07$md1@mochi.lava.net> Art Isbell - remove "DOT (arti@lava.DOTnet) wrote: >Windchaser <windchsr@cyberspace.org> wrote: >> My NeXT mouse (non-ADB) has just failed in a unique (and rather >> frustrating) manner. When I move the mouse left, the pointer moves left; >> and when I move the mouse right, the pointer moves left. > > Your problem is probably due to broken conductors where the cable exits >the mouse. Despite a strain relief that attempts to protect the cable from >excessive bending, years of use result in metal fatigue that causes the >conductors to break. This is exactly correct. I've had four NeXT mice die that way: through delicate use of solder and glue guns, I've been able to make a FrankenMouse out of the remains of them which works nicely. But I would recommend instead that you get one of the Logitech replacements: bite the bullet! It's not that much, and NeXT's mouse is terrible anyway (don't ya love the deteriorating rubber ring getting onto your hands?). _____________________________________________________________________________ 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." seanl@nospamcs.umd.edu URL: http://nospamwww.cs.umd.edu/~seanl/
From: "Michael A. Thompson" <mthomp@sndart2.cemi.unt.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Modem cable? Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:02:17 -0700 Organization: University of North Texas Message-ID: <34301759.41C6@sndart2.cemi.unt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anybody know were I can get a NeXT Modem cable? Thanks, Michael Thompson
From: "Ron Green, Jr." <rgreen@firstnethou.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4M and NEXTSTEP 3.3 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:26:56 -0500 Organization: FirstNet Message-ID: <34301D20.288F7942@firstnethou.com> References: <342EC996.4BE683EA@firstnethou.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to everyone who replied. As several people suggested, the simple way to do this is simply use the parallel port. Thanks again, Ron
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <34302700.0@news.inreach.com> Control: cancel <34302700.0@news.inreach.com> Date: 29 Sep 1997 22:46:51 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.34302700.0@news.inreach.com> Sender: fjasdfjs@lajfoiere.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: KartographieHarms@t-online.de (Harald Harms) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Hardware and Next? Date: 29 Sep 1997 12:05:01 GMT Organization: Telekom Online Internet Gateway Message-ID: <60o5hd$f17$2@news01.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ingenieurbüro für Kartographie Harms Industriestr. 3 76870 Kandel Tel.: 07275/8201 o. 8202 Fax: 07275/8954 E-Mail: KartographieHarms@t-online.de Who has info about hardware for next-systems? Is there a hardware compatibility-list for Openstep, similar windows NT? If yes, where can I get it? What about Openstep and Pentium II (with MMX)? Thank you very much Dirk Walter
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From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <342EC996.4BE683EA@firstnethou.com> Control: cancel <342EC996.4BE683EA@firstnethou.com> Date: 30 Sep 1997 01:22:10 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <60pk82$m8g@agate.berkeley.edu> cancel
From: Timothy J. Luoma <nospam@all.please> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Modem cable? Date: 30 Sep 1997 01:23:34 GMT Organization: @Home Networks Message-ID: <60pkam$q0l$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <34301759.41C6@sndart2.cemi.unt.edu> In-Reply-To: <34301759.41C6@sndart2.cemi.unt.edu> On 09/29/97, "Michael A. Thompson" wrote: >Anybody know were I can get a NeXT Modem cable? Sure www.orb.com or www.deepspacetech.com. www.orb.com is in CA so shipping would probably be less to you. I think they both sell them for $25 TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT monitor durability Date: 28 Sep 1997 18:41:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <60n0vd$qmk@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <875386042.12013@dejanews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jbl@andrew.cmu.edu In <875386042.12013@dejanews.com> John B. Lee wrote: > How well have the NeXT 21" displays (Hitachi) held up over the years? I'm > purchasing a NeXTStation and would like to know what I can expect out of > used/aged monitors. Thanks. While mine was purchased used, it was made in Dec. 1991. Quite sharp, but it seems to be dim in strongly lit rooms or rooms lit by sunlight (the monitor is out of any direct lighting). I never saw a new one of these, but comparing it to a recently purchased Sony 200SX monitor, it's like night and day, the Sony seems *much* brighter. The Hitachi is still plenty bright though. -- //-----------------------------------------------------------------// 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: Jens-Michael Schuh <schuh@trytec.bo.uunet.de> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.music-lover.audiophile.hardware,at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.amiga.hardware,de.markt.comp.hardware,fido.ger.hardware,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,microsoft.public.microsofthardware.products,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,tw.bbs.comp.hardware.marketplace,tw.bbs.comp.hardware,t-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,nl.comp.hardware,z-netz.rechner.amiga.hardware,z-netz.alt.rechner.amiga.hardware,uk.org.starlink.hardware,z-netz.rechner.hardware,z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: Verkaufe Monitor Date: 30 Sep 1997 09:13:52 GMT Organization: TryTec! Microsystems Germany Message-ID: <60qfsg$377$4@goof.de.uu.net> References: <341AF5C6.59F4CB6D@Student.Uni-Augsburg.de> <EGKDuu.JCL@suomi.bonbit.org> <ant272358b49Pj&G@aq31.gtnet.gov.uk> <342f862c.83811960@news.swbell.net> <3433adb0.93929157@news.swbell.net> <342ff7f1.16095724@news.telekom.ru> popov@elnet.msk.su - no spam wrote: >Stop post this shit!!!!!!!!!! Else red flag will be again in Berlin at >Reihstag :-) Reichstag! Jens
From: jbf@frazer.com (James Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT monitor durability Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 07:32:20 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-3009970732360001@frazer.com> References: <875386042.12013@dejanews.com> <60n0vd$qmk@nntp02.primenet.com> In article <60n0vd$qmk@nntp02.primenet.com>, rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) wrote: > While mine was purchased used, it was made in Dec. 1991. Quite sharp, but it > seems to be dim in strongly lit rooms or rooms lit by sunlight (the monitor > is out of > any direct lighting). I never saw a new one of these, but comparing it to a > recently > purchased Sony 200SX monitor, it's like night and day, the Sony seems *much* > brighter. The Hitachi is still plenty bright though. This is more a matter of vendor style than aging. Sony monitors are "just that way". Always have been.
From: Oliver Hoeffleur <ohoeff@studi.unizh.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ROM Monitor Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:00:38 +0200 Organization: University of Zurich, Switzerland Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970930145459.5184B-100000@goblin.studi.unizh.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi I just bought a Color Station and have a little problem: I can't get into the ROM Monitor! The Color Station is equipped with an ADB Keyboard, that is with one Command bar located below the space bar and the ~ key on the lower right end of the left part of the keyboard. The System starts with the "Testing System" message. I then press Command-~ and nothing happens. A few seconds later (whether I press the comination or not) the system says "Booting from Network..." and that's it. But I do not want to boot from network... I did not get any manuals with the system and I connected my ICL Monitor to the SpeakerBox, no NeXT Monitor. (Although I don't think that matters...) So please let me know your ideas... Oliver
From: Timothy J. Luoma <nospam@all.please> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Hardware and Next? Date: 30 Sep 1997 13:41:49 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: <60qvit$hcq$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <60o5hd$f17$2@news01.btx.dtag.de> In-Reply-To: <60o5hd$f17$2@news01.btx.dtag.de> On 09/29/97, Harald Harms wrote: >Who has info about hardware for next-systems? Is there a hardware >compatibility-list for Openstep, similar windows NT? If yes, where >can I get it? What about Openstep and Pentium II (with MMX)? I'd check out http://enterprise.apple.com/cgi-bin/NABrowse?/Compatibility_Guides aka NeXTanswers for the definitive ``This is what we say will work'' guide. Other hardware may or may not work. TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: Robert Nicholson <steffi@shell8.ba.best.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Adaptec slim SCSI (PC-MCIA card) and laptop with NS 3.3 --- HELP! Date: 30 Sep 1997 09:50:51 -0700 Message-ID: <yl3en66hhjo.fsf@shell8.ba.best.com> References: <EH2wGu.Ju6@midway.uchicago.edu> I've used the adaptec with a tecra with no problem. I think I'm using the 1542 or whatever that adaptec offering is.
From: John Hermann <jhermann@msp.sc.ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Next Serial Ports: 28800 bps drivers available? Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:31:59 -0500 Organization: Texas Instruments Message-ID: <3431378F.5C4D@msp.sc.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I remember reading a long long time ago about the black NeXT serial ports possibly being able to handle 28800 BPS modems. Was a driver ever available for 28800 communications? If so, how does one obtain and install this. Thanks, John Hermann

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