Re: tons o questions

[Gregg Eshelman]

--- Peter Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 pickle et al,
 
 Re a certain thread in the compact macs list, but to
 keep on topic I'm
 posting here to vintage.
 
 what exactly does a  GPIB General Purpose Interface
 Board, DO?.

http://www.microlink.co.uk/gpib.html

GPIB (Or IEEE-488) was originally developed by
Hewlett Packard as HP-IB then changed to GPIB when
the interface was accepted as an IEEE standard.
It's primary use has generally been in industrial,
medical and scientific equipment. 

If you can find one, you could most likely hook up
an HP ThinkJet GPIB printer to your Mac. ThinkJets
are tiny inkjet printers that print about as good
as a 9pin dot matrix, but without the noise. Since
nobody really wants the GPIB or serial ThinkJets,
they're usually available on a Take it before
I throw it away. basis. ;) (The parallel version has
a tiny but loyal following so they usually sell
for a little money.) There are five types of ink
for the ThinkJet. Black for ThinkJet paper and
black, blue, red and green for plain paper. Since
you can't (AFAIK) get ThinkJet paper anymore,
that type of black ink is pretty well useless. ;)

I have a parallel ThinkJet and I've toyed with the
idea of attempting to do RGB seperations of an
image then print three passes through it on a
transparency. :) Dunno what else I'd do with those
colors of ink.

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Re: tons o questions

[the pickle]

At 22:45 -0400 on 01/05/02, Peter Stephenson wrote:

It's a 12 nubus for IIFX size computer (or aircraft carrier) and am
wondering what it does.it do? Actually, what can I do with it?  I downloaded

Lots of stuff, if you're handy with electronics ;)  Control various pieces
of equipment, run custom circuits, that sort of thing.  Not a lot for the
non-technical user, however.

I also have a supermac thunder/8 video card. Anybody know what those 4 64
pin simm slots are for? the IIfx memory fit in there but does it need

VRAM, but IIfx RAM doesn't work, and I've never seen the proper VRAM (or
specs for it).

One other thing. I have a crappy CD burner which can br seen by toast 3.5.6
but doesn't make anything but very slow coasters. Is there any way to clean
it in case that is a possible problem? It is a crappy 2 x/4x which reads but

A commercial lens cleaning disc might help, but my guess is the RAM buffer
isn't large enough.  Try setting it higher, to the extent that you can with
only 20MB RAM.

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