Table of Contents for this issue:
Global Village Teleport Platinum
New Version of Mac Bible with those 128K Pics
LaserWriter Cartridge
Rescuing the SE Data: This Should Work
SE/30 Video Adjustments
Mac Plus HD Interleaving
Rebuilding Zip Desktop Files
Decoding Files; MacWeb 2.0 Problems
128K and an External 400K Floppy Drive
Rebuilding the Desktop on ZIPs...
What is this 'Communications Toolbox'?
Debuggers and Video Deflection Coils
Mac SE Support Pages
Classic Mac User's Group Page?

Hello, all:

I have recently acquired a 28.8 Global Village Teleport Platinum modem for
my SE. I _thought_ that everything would be fab-o and I could simply set up
MacPPP and surf away, but I was wrong. Interestingly enough, it is not my
software that is giving me the trouble. The modem refuses to connect to
almost anything above 1200 bps, and obviously 1200 bps is rather
insufficient for my needs, and is absurd coming from a 28.8K modem!
Sometimes it can connect at almost any speed; it can do so with Tymnet
sites, with CompuServe's PHONES site, and with our local library's 9600 bps
modem connected to an IBM S/36 mainframe. The successes are few and
diverse. When I try to dial SpryNet (same site as for CompuServe), however,
the modem gronks; warbles; gronks again; warbles at a different pitch;
gronks a third time; warbles hoarsely, then hangs up with a solid
high-pitched tone. Hmmm. When I do get in, the modem stays connected just
long enough to get past the "Establishment" phase of MacPPP, and when it
actually starts to send data--Click! It hangs up, and my frustration ups
itself a few notches. I have tried all the variations of init strings
supplied in my manual, and while playing with the &Q function, I got it to
connect to SpryNet--but MacPPP hung on the "Establishment" part until I
forced it to hang up. This is testing my patience. I have contacted Global
Village, and they say to return it, but I honestly do not believe this to be
a hardware problem--it feels more like an init string problem, but I can't
vary it just right to achieve a solid connection (besides, I'm not a modem
god). I contacted various people who said that CompuServe (this and SpryNet
being used interchangeably, since they utilize the same sites) uses
aggressive MNP detection and that my init string in MacPPP should only be
"ATZ^M", but this doesn't help. Can anyone who is in a similar situation
(only a more successful one) offer me some advice on what to do before I
pack the thing away to Global Village?

Thanks in advance,
Nathan Marler

I just noticed The Macintosh Bible has a new version while in a bookstore
today. It has a section in it on how to get at the hidden photos and stuff
in the older Macs ROMs put there by the developing crews. I'll write the
stuff down next time I'm in there and post it if I remember.

T.J. Patterson
http://www.primenet.com/~monoply/credit.html

Pierre Olivier asked:
what the weight of an empty (and
full, if you know..) LaserWriter cartridge is? I'm trying to
figure how much life there's left in the cartridge I got with
my LW...

Depends on which LW you have. The Laserwriter marque is attached to a
large number of Apple printers which use about six or seven different print
engines. If you have the original Laserwriter or Laserwriter Plus, you
have the Canon CX engine. The cartridge looks like a little suitcase. I
pulled an empty off the shelf and it weighed in at1400gr. I would guess a
full one would be about 1600 gr. This type also has a little indicator
dial on the side that changes to red as it nears empty. If you have any of
the Laserwriter II series, you have the Canon SX engine. That empty will
weigh in at about 1150gr and a full one at 1400gr. If the printer you have
is any other than these, drop me a note and I'll look it up - I have a shop
full of cartridges of all types empty or full. Cartridge Tip: Even if the
cartridge (on this or any printer) appears empty, you can still get a
hundred or more pages out of one by removing it and gently tapping it.
Gives you time to order a new recycled unit from your friendly neighborhood
cartridge remanufacturer.

george
http://www2.gol.com/users/mudshark/

you Wrote

From: Meyerson
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:15:14 -0500 (EST)
To: classic-post@hitznet.com
Subject: Saving Data from a Dead-Screen SE

After 7-1/2 years, a Mac SE's screen has gone dead (it slowly collapsed
horizontally until all that remains is a thin vertical line). The disk drive
and OS survive, but the screen is unreadable.

It'll be replaced--I think--with a modern Mac (PowerPC, separate monitor).

Given that we can't *see* the contents of the old machine (it's a
stand-alone, no network)...what's the simplest/easiest way to transfer the HD
contents from the SE to the new machine?

Please respond to me and I'll respond to the list.

Thanks.
Charles Meyerson

If AppleTalk was active AND Sharing was active AND Guest is set to ALLOW
GUESTS TO CONNECT then... hook up your new machine to the dead SE and
mount the drive and click and drag.

If not, then crack the case, yank the drive, get an external hard drive
case, put your drive in it (Make sure you change the SCSI ID to something
other than 0), plug in the power cord, plug in the SCSI cable and power
it up. Then fire up the new machine and you should see the old HD. Then
click and drag...

Been there, done that, and it worked!

Scott Williamson
Cape Cod, MA

In response to:

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 20:39:44 -0500 (EST)
To: classic-post@hitznet.com
Subject: Thompsons SE/30 Video Problems

You have to be willing to take your machine apart to fix your fuzzyness.
Remove the back of the case and you will see on the upright analog board
that there are several monitor adjustment dials. You need a small
screwdriver to adjust these settings. There is one that specifically
adjusts fuzziness. Adjust it, it will be fine. You might as well adjust
them all till you have a perfect picture. One of these is the gross
adjustment for brightness. Make sure that when you adjust the brightness
that the fine adjustment knob located in the front bezel still ranges
from absolute black to plenty bright. Sometimes you may want to use this
knob to totally dim your screen to prevent burn-out

Did the gentleman from South America receive the SE motherboard I sent
you? If not, it is on its way. I forgot to put cookies in the box for
customs agents though. I spent $6 USA for postage if you would care to
return the favor.

Thomas

I have read in several places, including this list, that any HD attached to a
Mac Plus MUST be set for an interleave of 3:1, or it won't work (especially as
a boot disk).

I have TWO Quantum drives (a 52 MB and a 165 MB) that are BOTH formatted to a
1:1 interleave ratio and both run FINE as boot disks for my Plus. In fact, my
formatting software (APS Power Tools) DOES NOT give me the option of changing
the interleave ratio!

A Mac HD Management book I bought years ago stated that the Quantum mechanisms
(circa late 1980's early 1990's) were "hardwired" to a fixed 1:1 ratio. A
similar comment was made in the manual that came with the 52 MB mechanism
(from APS).

Does anyone out there have any DEFINITE answers on this? Are 1:1 Quantum
drives the only 1:1 interleave drives that will work on a Plus?

Regards,
Robert Eye

bjbear wrote:

Tue Apr 1 15:29:38 1997
From: B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin
Subject: Rebuilding the Desktop on ZIPs...

In response to:

I have found out the hard way that a Zip disk is no substitute for a HD.
The Zip is like a glorified floppy...however, there is no way to rebuild
the desktop like you can with a floppy. I ruined a whole bunch of files
by using a
Zip disk as a HD...destroyed the resource fork on some of them.

I'm curious to know why this is so (about not being able to rebuild the
desktop, that is....) It was my impression that you can rebuild the
desktop on any Mac media whatsoever. I certainly am able to do it on my
Syquest cartridges.
--bj

I have rebuilt the desktop on my 100 MB Zip cartridges many times on a IIcx,
IIci, and once on an early dual 800K SE. No problems, but that's not a
guarantee, but it was slow - "cup of coffee time".

Regards, Ron Carlson

[earlier correspondent; lost the attributions]

I was wondering what you use to prepare your Mac Shareware files for
distributing them over the Internet. [...] but neither StuffIt Expander
nor BinHex 5.0 had any luck in expanding them.
I have never had any success with straight-up .SIT
files on the Internet

SIT files *should* at least be encoded using MacBinary or BinHex. Netscrape
on a PC has trouble with *most* binary files; it seems to work better on a
Mac (big surprise there, huh? :-).

T.J. lists his helper apps:

For decoding files taken from the web, newsgroups, etc.. I keep the
following apps on my hard drive and one of them is bound to decode
whatever I need to:

BinHex (makes & extracts .hqx files)
Shrinkwrap (makes & mounts disk images)
Stuffit Expander (automatically decodes files)
ZipIt (zips stuff for use on a PC)
UUencode (never needed this one, decodes uu encoded files I think)

For me, add Stuffit Lite (one of the few sharewares I use & paid for) to
the list. I downloaded MacWeb 2.0 from Jag's archive last night; Stuffit
Expander wouldn't play with it but Stuffit Lite unpacked it just fine.

I can't imagine how it would be for Internet Explorer types; I hear it
completely ignores MIME file types in favor of looking at the extension
of the file... so seeing .hqx, it would download in text mode (bad news).
So Jag, I think you might want to actually binhex those files. It's a
great archive, with just that one glitch.

Anyway, I got MacWeb unpacked & run it off the Jaz drive last night,
testing it on my own Web pages. Looks good, but maybe a little
pokier than Netscape(!) when laying out a page for the first time. A
small price to pay for a browser that supports tables but thumbs its
nose at frames and JavaScript. :-) I'll be moving Netscape onto the
Jaz & MacWeb onto the hard drive.

BUT... MacWeb wouldn't let me change a few preferences. I want it to
start up with a blank page like Netscape, for example, but it wouldn't
let me do that. Is this a "feature," or did I do something wrong? If
it's a feature, it's still a small price to pay etc.; I can always hit
the Stop button first thing.

Tradewave really ought to loosen up distribution of MacWeb; it's pretty
close to ideal.

Larry

Greetings,

I have a 128k Mac and an external 400k floppy. My problem is when I
connect this drive the internal constantly whirrs like it is trying to
access the disk. It was suggested that I check the internal floppy cable
to make sure it has a yellow stripe. It does. When I substituted one
with a red stripe matters are far worse. Is my yellow stripe cable bad?
Or do I need some sort of system init? There was some referrence to this
on the web, but it did not mention a file name. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Tim

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:25:36 -0800
To: classic-post@hitznet.com
From: B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin
Subject: Rebuilding the Desktop on ZIPs...

In response to:

I have found out the hard way that a Zip disk is no substitute for a HD.
The Zip is like a glorified floppy...however, there is no way to rebuild
the desktop like you can with a floppy. I ruined a whole bunch of files
by using a
Zip disk as a HD...destroyed the resource fork on some of them.

I'm curious to know why this is so (about not being able to rebuild the
desktop, that is....) It was my impression that you can rebuild the
desktop on any Mac media whatsoever. I certainly am able to do it on my
Syquest cartridges.

--bj

I don't know why, you are not able to rebuild the desktop of your Zip
disks.

I do it all the time using either "TechTool" or by just "command option"
at restart.

Restart the Mac with extension off and with the Zip disk in the drive
,first it will ask if you want to rebuild your Mac HD, and after that if
you want to rebuild your Zip disk...

try .. see what happens.

LF

Could someone please explain to me what this "communications toolbox" is?
It keeps turning up in old System folders on Sys6 startup floppies. Is it
related to these other seemingly-unneeded things I have sitting around,
which have names like "Serial Tool", "Apple Modem Tool", and "ZModem Tool"?

Note to anyone using a b&w 68000 Mac, who thinks sHe might want to use a
simple FTP program rather than a web browser to get files: the current
version of "Anarchie" which is around doesn't work. "Fetch" does. Kinda
neat.

David Buchner

From: "RINSVELDT DAVID"
To: classic-post@hitznet.com
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:41:25 +1100
Subject: Mac Plus: The Second Button Mystery

I have a Macintosh Plus 1 MB with system 6.0.3 and an external HD.
My question deals about a mystery about the mac.

Probably everyone knows that you can add two buttons on the side of
the Mac on a "hidden" plug, on the left. The first button reboots the
Mac, but the second one makes a small window appairs with just "".

I never found anything in any book about what it could serve or how
use it. The only thing I know is that you can exit it by typing "G".

This button gets you into a Debugger program that allows you to look
directly at memory etc. For more info look up Macs Bug or MacBug.

PBJ

From: Meyerson
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:15:14 -0500 (EST)
To: classic-post@hitznet.com
Subject: Saving Data from a Dead-Screen SE

After 7-1/2 years, a Mac SE's screen has gone dead (it slowly collapsed
horizontally until all that remains is a thin vertical line). The disk drive
and OS survive, but the screen is unreadable.

It's an easy technical fix, usually an internal connector problem.
Search out someone who has done this thing before, and they shouldn't be
hard to find! or ask a TV repair person to check the connector on the
power board that connects to the Video Deflection coils. It will be the
one near the top of the board. It will have a Bad Joint or a Bad
Connector.

PBJ

Anyone still using a Macintosh SE might like to try the Mac SE Support Pages at:

<http://www.edprint.demon.co.uk/se/>

Right now they include information on Web browsing with an SE, and beefing
up your machine by adding a hard disk or removable drive, extra RAM, or a
Superdrive for people stuck with 800k floppies. There's also a hyperlinks
page to useful suppliers and net resources.

I'd be grateful if some list-members with SE experience could check out the
information there, and maybe add some of their own using the forms on the
pages.

Thanks.
Chris Adams

Raul Gutierrez recently wrote:

I recently uploaded much of this software to Terrance Higgins and to the
Classic Mac User's group. Hopefully some of this software will be posted
on their respective home pages soon

<http://www.uwm.edu/~thig/plus.html>,
<http://192.216.191.21/SiliconValley/Heights/7275/home.html>

I tried the second URL and got the a message from GeoCities that it
couldn't locate the page and wondering if I had typed it correctly. This
happened when I tried to locate this same page last week in response to
another posting. Any one know what I am doing wrong. I'd really like a look
at the Classic Mac User's group page.

Thanks.
Charles T. Smith