Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #251 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 19 Nov 97 Volume 15 : Issue 251 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#405/17-Nov-97 (Q) Recommendations for architectural drawing [A] 8500 Stock 2GB HD [Q] SE/30 color problem EtherTalk and LocalTalk Floppy drive problem Mac-Win Icons? old old software for macintosh512k Timer popup? workshop scheduling The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. For more information, visit the Info-Mac Web site at . 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We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #251" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:54:55 -0800 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#405/17-Nov-97 TidBITS#405/17-Nov-97 As Adam celebrates his 30th birthday on Tuesday, you can read the Eudora tips and tricks he provides in honor of the release of his latest book, the Eudora Visual QuickStart Guide. Also in this issue, Jeff passes on additional comments about onscreen typography; we welcome Cyberian Outpost as our latest sponsor; report on the response to the Apple Store; and announce the release of PowerBook Zip drives, a lower price for Eudora Pro, and LetterRip 2.1.1. Topics: MailBITS/17-Nov-97 Web Reading Requires More than Just Character(s) Eudora Tips & Tricks [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-405.etx; 29K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:32:00 -0800 From: Greg Lyzenga Subject: (Q) Recommendations for architectural drawing Hi Info-Mac Folks: My sister-in-law has asked me to recommend to her a reasonably-priced Mac program for simple architectural drawing. The main constraint here (besides price) is that she has an old 68K-based Mac with a maximum of 10 meg of RAM. Does there exist such a product that anyone feels good about recommending? Thanks! - Greg Gregory A. Lyzenga, Dept. of Physics, Harvey Mudd College -> lyzenga@thuban.ac.hmc.edu <- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:43:39 +0100 From: Bo Bjulen Subject: [A] 8500 Stock 2GB HD At 22.09 -0600 1997-11-13, Jason Torrey wrote: >Does someone know the specifics of the 2GB hard drive that Apple >included >with the 8500s (i.e. make, model, manuf., etc.)? "Whatever was available when the machine was assembled". Apple has by purpose not specified anything except the size. -- Bo Bjulen mailto:bbjn@pobox.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 14:54:11 -0500 From: srh@iname.com (Stephen R. Holmes) Subject: [Q] SE/30 color problem I recently upgraded my SE/30 (System 7.1) with a Micron Exceed PDS color card and an external color monitor (Seiko CM1445). Yes, I know I'm on the extreme trailing edge here, but I have a problem I could sure use some assistance on: Opening the 'Color' control panel to set the highlight color, or indeed using any application's color-selection mechanisms, usually "scrambles" *all* the colors. Red becomes green, green become fuschia, orange becomes purple, etc. Often (but not always), opening the 'Monitor' control panel and switching from "256 colors" to "B&W" and back again restores the proper colors. Occasionally, the colors will get "scrambled" for no apparent reason (i.e., in the middle of running any old application). The problem is seen even if the system is started with extensions disabled. The problem does not seem to be with the monitor itself, which is otherwise very nice and doesn't misbehave if it's tapped or jiggled about. I'd really appreciate any advice, suggestions or hard-won wisdom on what I might do to stabilize my color display; reply to the digest or e-mail me at . Many thanks in advance... /steve holmes ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:46:07 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Dineen Subject: EtherTalk and LocalTalk Most of the machines my son's class uses are on an ethernet together; one machine is not. It appears that I can not simply install a two node LocalTalk network between the ethernetless machine and one of the ethernetted machines because, at least at first glance, the Network and/or AppleTalk control panels will not allow both network media to be in use on one machine at the same time. Maybe the necessary routing layer is not available by default? Anyway is there any available hack to support File Sharing and Program Linking over an EtherTalk/LocalTalk hetero network? Also, as an aside, why does ProgramLinking not permit two machine's to launch the same application? Thanks, Terry Dineen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:46:28 -0800 From: Darrell Greenwood Subject: Floppy drive problem Mark Allen wrote: >I have the strangest problem with my floppy drive. I have a Power Mac 7500 >running OS 8.0. Sometimes the floppy drive reads an inserted disk just fine >and sometimes, when the same disk is inserted, the system says the disk is >unreadable or the diskette icon does not appear on the desktop or the >system freezes after the icon appears. For one application I received four >800 K disks to do the installation. All but one of these disks are read >fine each time they are inserted into the floppy drive. The one disk >freezes the system upon insertion 3 times out of 4 (note: but not always). >On the other hand, this same disk can be read fine in another Mac. I had an identical set of symptoms with a 7100. The hardware tech replaced the floppy drive twice. The third time he brought another floppy drive, but we booted without extensions first. The problem was an obscure extension whose name I have forgotten but I remember clearly that it had absolutely nothing to do with floppy drives. Nevertheless, it was able to cause an apparent intermittent hardware fault in a floppy drive very well. :-) Good luck Cheers, Darrell -- Darrell Greenwood, Vancouver, BC Darrell_Greenwood@mindlink.net My web homepage... http://www.nyx.net/~dgreenw/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:36:05 -0700 From: Gordon Moynes Subject: Mac-Win Icons? I am looking to convert some Mac icons to Win icons (if possible). Does anyone know of software to accomplish this, or can anyone point me to a location where I can get some specifics for this task? tia, Gord I was going to buy a copy of "The Power Of Positive Thinking", but then I thought, "What the heck good would that do?". ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:21:20 +0000 (GMT) From: "A.I.Hughes" Subject: old old software for macintosh512k Dear mac users I have recently rescued a fatboy from a scrap yard and have now got the operating system 0.01(after much searching!) and would now like you all to send any old software/manuals/information or anything else you may find relevant (NO insults please:) so I throw myself on the kindnesses of strangers once again. One point all downloads will be made to an AMIGA machine so any type of amiga/macintosh cross talk programmes would also be appreciated. So amiga heads I call on you also! SO The ADDRESS is A.I.Hughes@e-eng.hull.ac.uk I thank you for your time... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:00:37 -0500 From: Wade Williams Subject: Timer popup? I'm looking for a specific type of timer program. I've looked in the archives, but haven't found one that looks like what I'm looking for. I need a program that upon hitting a certain key combination, will bring up a floating window with a countdown timer. Optimally, hitting the key combination again would bring up a second, separate timer. This timer needs to operate "on top of" another application. Therefore, it can't be an application itself. Anyone seen anything like this? Wade wwilliam@cisco.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:21:40 -0600 From: bsegal@mcs.com Subject: workshop scheduling hi all, last year in our high school - about 300 students - we ran a few special "workshop days". on those days, regular classes were suspended, the day was divided into a number of periods, and instead students went to special workshops of their choice each period. for various reasons it was important to get students to sign up in advance. certain workshops were only offered specific times, while others were offered each time. also many of the workshops had limits to how many they would accept. last year this registration process was done by hand. each student filled out a registration form and a volunteer went home and somehow assigned each student their schedule there has got to be an easier way. is there something available? even commercial if it is relatively inexpensive. is there some insight that might make doing this "manually" with a database program straight forward? tia ben bsegal@mcs.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************