Executive Contact List From the Editor Please feel free to contact any of the following individuals if you have comments or questions relating to Macintosh Users East or Macintosh computing in general. Another MaUsE season has come and gone and the Summer break is upon us again. There will be no regular meetings during the warm months but the Double Click will continue to publish monthly. Position/Name Phone# BBS Administrator President Jim Foster Hm: (905) 432-0921 Courtice Email: jimfoster@mac.
Performa 580CD PowerPC Upgrade Here’s a very worthwhile Mac upgrade that anyone can do. The trick here is one of taking a 33 Mhz 68LC040 Performa 580CD and boosting it to a 75 Mhz PowerPC Performa. The entire operation takes less than an hour if you gather up the bits and pieces beforehand. The pieces you will need to acquire are readily available. Firstly, if you don’t already have one, you will need a Performa 580CD.
Once the plastic is off the back of the box its possible to undo the two retainer screws and the motherboard can be slid out of the chassis. There is a wire pull that flips down to form a handle to draw out the board with. Rattling it just a bit helps free the board from the power socket. Installing the new board is simply a matter of reversing the procedure. there are a pair of grooves along the left and right sides inside the CPU to guide the board straight to the power socket.
e r o f Be In both pictures the comparison system is a 33 Mhz Quadra 950 with full 68040 processor with built-in FPU. Note that although the actual Processor speeds are 75 and 33 Mhz, the 75 Mhz 603 PowerPC chip is rated as if running at 3.67 times the speed of the 33 Mhz 68LC040.
e r o f Be As part of the upgrade I bid on and won a pair of 32-Meg SIMMs. They went for $15.50 U.S. plus postage, which added another $3.00 to their purchase price. Small price to pay when you consider that this will bring the RAM up to 64 Megs. Besides installing the two eBay 32-Meg SIMMs, the only change I made to the motherboard before installing it was the addition of a small aluminum heat-sink on top of the PowerPC processor itself.
an established value of 1 for the sake of these comparisons. It should be noted as well that a few of the programs that I tried to install on the 580CD, like Bryce 2, ran fine on my old Quadra 950 with its full 68040 processor but would not run on the Performa 580CD at all because of the 68LC040's missing Floating Point Unit (FPU). After the 5200CD motherboard is installed the change is dramatic. The overall score for this same computer with the Performa 5200CD motherboard in it is 2,646.
Virtual 1.5.4 title of the folder open in each or the name of the document with an image of its creator application's icon. This is what Virtual 1.5.1 does: In the little window in one corner of your screen, (see pictures), it draws as many virtual screens as you like, and the windows of open applications inside them. When you instruct Virtual to switch virtual screens, it moves the application windows so as to give you the illusion of working on the new virtual screen. Here's one I'm sure you'll like.
organize them in work groups, make some windows sticky, or assign whole applications in a particular virtual screen. VirtualDog is a companion extension that communicates with Virtual to make applications open their windows on the virtual screen of your choosing. Virtual is an adaptation to the Mac of an idea that was introduced by Sun Microsystems when they did their window manager olvwm.
Kutoka Interactive and Mia Mouse For the few who got out to the May 22nd MaUsE meeting Gloria Jones gave us a wonderful presentation of Mia, Kutoka Interactive’s award-winning software. Mia is one of the few Canadian edutainment success stories. Designed for children aged 5 to 11, this threetitle series of CD-ROMs combines story-telling, exploration and learning (math, science, reading) into one brilliant and engaging interactive experience for the entire family.
Apple Personal Diagnostics v1.1.3 The one program that has appeared most often in the Double Click since I became Editor is Apple Personal Diagnostics 1.1.3. Back when I first found out about the MaUsE club Jim Foster had an on-line auction on the club BBS. I won this program in one of Jim’s auctions and it has been in just about every Mac that has come into the house since.
It's also the only diagnostic product available that's based on the same powerful testing programs Apple uses in manufacturing Macintosh computers. Regular use of the program can reduce system downtime, minimize support calls, and help you identify the source of problems. Apple Personal Diagnostics combines hardware testing, system profiling, disk directory repair, and software checking in one easy-to-use package.
•ROM •Apple Desktop Bus circuitry •Sound output (mono and stereo) •Hard disk drives •Floppy disk drives •Monitors (displays test patterns) •Software •Detects and repairs corrupted disk directories •Detects damaged system files System information •Macintosh model •Processor type and speed •Coprocessor type (if any) •Memory addressing mode •Virtual memory status (if available) •Memory size (installed memory plus virtual memory) •Keyboard type •NuBus card type and slot number •SCSI device name, type, and ID nu
Automated diagnostics •Logic board test •Memory test •Hard disk drive test •Software check Reports Apple Personal Diagnostics Software reports can be customized to provide: •Hardware information •Software information •Diagnostic test results •Benchmark results • A u t o m a t e d Diagnostics history Continuously monitor performance with Apple's Automated Diagnostics. During moments of system inactivity, this powerful diagnostic tool tests your computer's memory, hard disk, logic board, and software.
The New Emac The eMac all-in-one design has some tremendous advantages. For instance, there aren’t a lot of extra cords, so setup is simple — and desktop clutter is kept to a minimum. And in addition to the stunning 17-inch display, the AirPort-ready eMac comes with a built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port for high-speed Internet access, FireWire, USB and amazing stereo speakers — all in one compact computer that’s smaller than most stand-alone PC displays.
including the critically acclaimed Microsoft Office for Mac OS X. •Digital lifestyle applications •The eMac has everything you love about Apple products — including iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, AppleWorks, FireWire, USB with the legendary Apple ease-of-use — plus the features and attributes you’ve asked for in a computer, at an affordable price.
June MausE Meeting Just a quick note to remind everyone of two important things about our June MaUsE meeting, coming up on Wednesday, June 26th: 1) The June meeting will NOT be held at our usual Henry Street High School location. Instead, we will be holding the meeting in the Lecture Theatre of the Durham Skills Training Centre, located at 1610 Champlain Avenue in Whitby. This is the very modern looking facility which you see on the north side of Highway 401 just east of the Thickson Road interchange.