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TidBITS#175/03-May-93
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 This week starts with Apple's announcement of the Japanese
   Language Kit, a programmer's After Dark module contest,
   PowerBooks on the space shuttle, and a warning about using two
   TelePort modems at once. Most importantly, we review the
   excellent Toner Tuner, which saves toner on each printout,
   look at how to be more environmentally gentle in your computer
   use, and investigate a strange problem affecting Quadra 800
   users with 16 MB SIMMs.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/03-May-93
    E-Machines Bundle Extended
    Japanese Language Kit Ships
    VAMP After Dark Contest
    TelePort Caveat
    PowerBooks In Space
    Toner Tuna
    Are You Computer "Green?"
    Quadra 800 RAM Quirk
    Reviews/03-May-93

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MailBITS/03-May-93
------------------

**ClarisWorks for Windows** -- This week Claris announced the
  release of ClarisWorks for Windows, the company's second
  internally-developed Windows application. ClarisWorks for Windows
  can transparently share files with the Macintosh version of
  ClarisWorks, which quickly knocked Microsoft Works out of the lead
  in the integrated product market. Claris -- 408/727-8227


**FirstClass Client for Windows** -- SoftArc announced the Windows
  client for its graphical BBS FirstClass this week, promising
  features nearly identical to those in the Macintosh client,
  including asynchronous multiple file transfers, electronic mail,
  and conferencing. FirstClass boards will requires a $295 plug-in
  option for Windows clients, and the Windows client requires a 386
  PC with at least 4 MB of RAM under Windows 3.1. SoftArc --
  416/299-4723 -- 416/754-1856 (fax) -- 416/609-2250 (BBS) --
  [e-mail]


E-Machines Bundle Extended
--------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor -- [e-mail]
     Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers

  Several months ago, Apple introduced a special bundle consisting
  of its 16" color monitor and an E-Machines DoubleColor SX graphics
  card. Apple has extended this offer from the original expiration
  date of 19-Apr-93 to 19-Jul-93.

  Apple introduced this bundle partly to offer a less-expensive
  alternative to their own 8*24 graphics card for Macintosh IIci and
  IIvx owners who need large-screen color displays. The IIci and
  IIvx don't support color monitors larger than Apple's 640 x 480
  14" Color Display, although price lists released last October
  incorrectly claimed that the IIvx supported Apple's 16" and 21"
  color monitors. The built-in video in the Centris 610 and 650
  offers eight-bit color on the 16" display, and four-bit color on
  the 21" display, which is just as well, since the DoubleColor SX
  is longer than seven inches, the limit for NuBus cards in the
  Centris 610.

  The DoubleColor SX card provides eight-bit color (256 colors or
  shades of gray) on Apple's 16" display. The bundle, which carries
  a suggested retail price of $1,799, is available through Apple
  resellers as item B5102LL/A.

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda


Japanese Language Kit Ships
---------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor -- [e-mail]
     Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers

  As we reported in TidBITS #173_, at last month's Seybold
  conference Apple introduced the Japanese Language Kit, the first
  product to take advantage of the company's WorldScript technology.
  The kit allows Macintosh users to use Japanese characters on
  non-Japanese systems, and provides all the software components
  necessary to add Japanese text-handling capability to System 7.1.
  This means that if your software supports the appropriate
  WorldScript technology, you can use Japanese characters in your
  documents.

  Rather than force people to use a fully-localized Japanese version
  of the Macintosh operating system, this new software allows System
  7.1 users around the world to input, edit, and display Japanese
  characters regardless of what language they use to interact with
  their Macs. The Japanese Language Kit is intended for those who
  need to create Japanese documents and presentations, including
  (according to Apple) people in multinational businesses,
  publishers, government workers, students, teachers, and Japanese-
  speaking people.

  The kit includes the necessary system software extension, the
  Kotoeri Japanese character input method, two Japanese TrueType
  fonts (HonMincho and MaruGothic), and the Osaka screen font, as
  well as documentation on using the Kotoeri input method. The
  Macintosh involved must have at least 4 MB of RAM, System 7.1, and
  at least 20 MB of available disk storage space.

  The Japanese Language Kit retails for $249 and is available in the
  United States from Apple resellers and some other software
  resellers.

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda


VAMP After Dark Contest
-----------------------
  VAMP (Vereniging Actieve Mac Programmeurs - Association for Active
  Mac Programmers), a Dutch non-profit association, is organizing a
  programming competition for After Dark module programers.

  Unlike similar contests sponsored by After Dark developer Berkeley
  Systems, VAMP will choose a winner based solely on programming
  creativity and skill, rather than visual aesthetics. Perhaps the
  best comparison would be with the annual MacHack contest for best
  hack.

  Entries must consist of a completed After Dark module accompanied
  with full source code that runs with After Dark 2.0w or later, on
  a Macintosh using System 6.0.7 or later.

  VAMP must receive entries before 31-Dec-93, and judging should be
  complete by April of 1994. Prizes consist of $500 for the overall
  winner and $250 for the runner-up, along with the "Symantec
  Special Prize" (the winner's choice of a Symantec Macintosh
  Development Environment). Entries will also be submitted to
  Berkeley Systems for publication, which may result in additional
  prize money.

  For more information via automatic reply, please send email to:

    [e-mail]

  Information from:
    John W. Sinteur -- [e-mail]


TelePort Caveat
---------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor -- [e-mail]
     Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers

  Readers who have an ADB model of the TelePort modem from Global
  Village Communication and are about to install one of Global
  Village's newer serial modems (the TelePort/Silver or
  TelePort/Gold) should be aware of problems with using both modems
  with one Macintosh.

  The first problem occurs when you install the TelePort serial
  software - the installer erases the TelePort ADB software during
  installation. (This caused extra confusion because I had received
  my latest software update electronically and didn't have a copy on
  disk!) The second problem appears when you boot the Macintosh and
  find that the ADB and Serial Control Panels each refuse to load if
  the other is present.

  A Global Village representative quickly responded to an email
  query about the issue (a good indication of their highly-
  responsive level of support), and said a fix is being prepared for
  a future software release. In the meantime, if you need to use
  both modems from the same Mac, you should use the ADB TelePort's
  software normally, and use the serial TelePort as a standard modem
  with no software. This means you'll be able to send and receive
  faxes only from the ADB modem.

    Global Village Communication -- 800/736-4821 -- 415/390-8300
      [e-mail]
      [e-mail]
      [e-mail]


PowerBooks In Space
-------------------
  by Mark Gavini -- [e-mail]

  I recently attended an interesting talk about PowerBooks in space.
  It was given by Bill Shepard, a NASA astronaut and shuttle crew
  member, who took a PowerBook 170 up with him on his flight last
  year. The PowerBook ran a custom position tracking program called
  MacSPOC that pinpointed the shuttle's location on a map and showed
  both the flight path and which window gave the best view for that
  particular moment. It also ran a custom Aperture database that
  provided graphical information on the shuttle's storage locations
  and the contents of each area - this program was painfully slow on
  the screen redraw.

  Bill's 170 was modified slightly with a positive connect power
  coupling for the AC adapter, a thermal cutout (?) for the battery
  system to prevent it from going into thermal overload, and a
  modified trackball retainer ring that kept the trackball firmly
  seated against the rollers in zero-g. Bill also designed the
  mission patch in FreeHand on the PowerBook.

  Someone asked when the next PowerBook was scheduled to go up and
  Bill replied that he wasn't sure when the next PowerBook would go,
  but a Macintosh Portable will go up [when it's weightless, who
  cares? -Adam] sometime this summer with a European Space Agency
  mission designated D-2. He also stated that although he was sold
  on the Macintosh interface, NASA already has Grid PC-compatible
  laptops for use aboard the shuttle and that it's difficult to get
  Macs included due to budget constraints and testing requirements.

  Bill showed a video of the mission that included footage of the
  170 firing a floppy disk across the crew compartment and hitting
  another crew member in the head - some eject mechanism, eh? The
  rest of the video included Earth shots and the standard "let's
  play with food in zero-g" antics. All in all, an interesting talk.


Toner Tuna
----------
  OK, so I'm being facetious. The real name of Working Software's
  new extension is Toner Tuner, and there is nothing fishy about it.
  In fact, it's one of the easiest-to-understand utilities I've seen
  in a long time. Toner Tuner puts a slider bar in your Print dialog
  box that lets you set the darkness of your printouts, so you don't
  have to waste toner printing drafts. How's that for simple?

  Toner Tuner provides two controls (along with an About button) in
  your standard Print dialog box. The first control, the slider bar,
  goes from 0% to 100% in slightly odd increments. The second
  control is a checkbox that determines if that particular print job
  will use Toner Tuner or not. The checkbox defaults off each time
  you print, so you have to manually tell Toner Tuner you want to
  print a draft each time, although if you click the Print button
  with the option key held down, Toner Tuner turns the checkbox on
  for you. Toner Tuner also automatically checks the box for you if
  you change the slider setting. Toner Tuner remembers the darkness
  setting of the slider bar between prints.

  Toner Tuner allows me to reduce the amount of needless waste from
  my printer when I print drafts that don't have to look good. You
  wouldn't use Toner Tuner when doing those last layout drafts where
  every hairline counts; you would use it when printing the 30 page
  draft of your scintillating memo collection. Toner Tuner's
  settings correspond to the amount of toner used, so if you print
  all your drafts at 50%, you'll save a good deal of toner over the
  life of your cartridge.

  Toner Tuner seems to be utterly moron-proof. I can't imagine how
  anyone who could figure out how to buy Toner Tuner could screw up
  using it. [Adam often installs new software on "our" Mac, and
  sometimes it throws me for a loop; other times I can figure it out
  fairly quickly. Toner Tuner didn't slow me down for a second.
  -Tonya] Even the 16-page manual (only 13 pages are used) can only
  find enough material to talk about using Toner Tuner for three
  pages. The rest of the pages cover installation, table of
  contents, glossary, index, "please don't pirate" statement, and
  other filler.

  The only thing I don't like about Toner Tuner is that its slider
  bar isn't proportional. 25% sits smack dab in the middle because
  percentages below 10% have another decimal place. Whee, I can
  print at 3.8% darkness! The reason for this is that high-
  resolution printers can print reasonable graphics at those low
  darkness settings. Text at 10% looks like a dot matrix printout
  that used an old ribbon and then sat in the sun for several
  weeks - barely readable. 25% and 33% darkness are both ugly for
  text, but readable in good light. 50% is still pretty ugly, and
  67% still looks like dot matrix printing, but I can handle 67%
  perfectly well, and 75% and 90% are lovely, so to speak. Graphics
  are probably better at lower percentages if you're testing for
  position since you don't have to read them.

  Working Software can give you ResEdit instructions on how to make
  a Toner Tuner setting the rule rather than the exception. I asked
  about this initially because there are plenty of sites that print
  almost nothing for real, and there's no reason to waste toner
  unnecessarily. Tech support therapists often do a lot of test
  printouts, and university public computer rooms often have a
  specific draft printer. In both of those cases, the organization
  could save a fair amount of money by forcing most everything to
  print at even 50% darkness. Figure out how much you spend on new
  toner cartridges or refills, halve that number, and then decide if
  Toner Tuner can save you money after taking its cost into
  consideration.

  Toner Tuner theoretically works with all printers, although the
  ReadMe said that Working Software was working (well, I would hope
  so!) on making it compatible with the HP LaserJet 4M. I imagine
  there are other printers that Toner Tuner doesn't work with, but
  Working Software says that if Toner Tuner doesn't work as
  advertised in the manual, they will either fix the problem or
  return your money. Can't beat that, and besides Working Software
  does tech support online, something we at TidBITS approve of
  highly. On CompuServe they are in MACBVEN, and on America Online
  use the keyword "Working" to find their support forum. Toner Tuner
  retails for $49.95 (it's also available via mail order); Working
  Software also has six- and twelve-copy packages available at
  reduced prices for small offices, and big sites can spring for the
  100-copy pack for $1,000. If you go through toner cartridges like
  chocolate chip cookies, you need Toner Tuner.


Working Watermarker
  My conversation with Working Software also revealed that they have
  a somewhat similar product in the works. Called Working
  Watermarker, the $49.95 extension will appear in your Print dialog
  just like Toner Tuner, but will let you print a EPS or PICT
  graphic over each page in the print job, even in applications that
  don't support graphics. The obvious use is printing "TOP SECRET"
  in light gray letters across the text of every page you print,
  especially your love letters, but you could also use it to print a
  fancy letterhead in a word processor that doesn't support fancy
  graphics, or perhaps a company logo on invoices from an accounting
  program that doesn't let you customize your forms. The first page
  can have different graphics at different intensities than other
  pages, which is ideal for the uses I just mentioned. Working
  Watermarker should be available by June, so contact Working
  Software in a bit for more information.

    Working Software
    408/423-5696
    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]

  Information from:
    Working Software propaganda
    Toner Tuner manual


Are You Computer "Green?"
-------------------------
  by Don Rittner -- [e-mail]
     Copyright 1992 Don Rittner, MUG NEWS SERVICE

  More than 75 million Americans own a personal computer, and this
  number is rapidly climbing as computers become more affordable.
  Many more use computers in their workplace (more than 40 million
  Intel-based PCs and seven million laser printers use 18.2 billion
  kilowatt/hours of electricity per year).

  Most people think of computers as relatively pollution-free, but
  the _act_ of computing is not. Here are a few tips to help make
  your computing a bit more environmentally gentle.


The Computer
  If you work in an office where there are many terminals with
  monitors turned on, turn down (or even off) your heat in the room
  during winter months. Enough heat comes from the monitors to keep
  the room warm. If you work at home or with one computer at a time,
  turn off the monitor if you can when not using it, which will save
  a fair amount of power. This is also a good idea for servers and
  other machines which stay on all the time.


Electronic Mail
  If your office does not have your computers networked together, do
  it! The use of electronic mail for inter-office correspondence can
  save a tremendous amount of paper. American offices last year
  generated more than 775 billion pages of paper - that equals 14
  million tons of paper a year, or 238 million trees.


Computer Magazines
  Don't throw away old computer magazines. You can recycle them by
  donating them to your local public library, user groups, doctor's
  office, health clubs, or even laundromats. Think of it as
  educating the masses.


Floppy disks
  Do you have 3.5" floppies that just don't hold data any more?
  Well, don't throw them away. They make great coasters for your
  morning coffee! [Several years ago the staff at American
  Demographics Magazine in Ithaca, New York had a permanent exhibit
  of fancifully decorated floppy disks whose days as data carriers
  were long over. -Adam]


Disk Storage
  Don't buy disk storage boxes. If you or a friend has a newborn
  child (or know someone who has), the rectangular "baby wipes"
  boxes make great disk storage containers. You can fit about 50
  disks in a box. Soak off the labels, and you can write on the box
  using a magic marker.


Printers
  If you use a dot matrix or laser printer there are a few things
  you can do. Be sure to use recycled paper (and envelopes and
  labels) in both types of printers, and remember to use the blank
  back side of sheets that you print as drafts. There is nothing
  wrong with using the second side of the sheet, and this can cut
  your consumption of paper by as much as half. Proofread your work
  before you print! Most wasted paper is from stupid typographical
  errors.

  If you use cloth ribbons in your dot matrix printer, you can
  usually re-ink those ribbons. In fact, you can get up to 15-20
  re-inks per ribbon and the quality of the print is usually darker
  than newer ribbons. This also reduces the cost per ribbon. Many
  computer user groups have re-inkers and charge about $1 to re-ink
  (versus $5-$15 per new ribbon). Many people have had luck
  refilling ink cartridges for ink-jet printers, but the
  manufacturers of those printers don't generally recommend that you
  do that.

  For laser printer users, many toner cartridge manufacturers now
  recycle used cartridges and donate money to environmental
  organizations. Some even pay you, and most pay for the UPS
  shipping as well. Also, there are companies that will recharge
  your toner cartridge for considerably less than the cost of a new
  one ($40 compared to $90). Considering that more than 98% of the
  15 million cartridges sold in 1991 ended up in landfills, and only
  a fraction recycled, you can see how important it is to recycle
  those toner cartridges. [Also consider using Toner Tuner,
  discussed above, to extend the life of your toner cartridges.
  -Adam]


Toner Cartridge Recycling

  [This is probably not an exhaustive list, but it's a good start.]

Apple Clean Earth Campaign -- 800/776-2333
  Donates $0.50 to National Wildlife Federation and Nature
  Conservancy per cartridge. Call them and they send you a prepaid
  UPS shipping label.

Canon Clean Earth Campaign -- 800/962-2708
  Canon has the same deal as Apple.

Dataproducts Imaging Supplies Division -- 800/423-5095
  Dataproducts will pay you $10 for each Canon SX cartridge plus the
  shipping if you send 28 or more cartridges at a time.

Lexmark Operation Resource -- 800/848-9894
  Recycles cartridges for the six IBM Laser Printer models in its
  4019 and 4029 series. Lexmark will send you a postage paid
  container. They give the returned cartridges to a workshop for the
  handicapped which makes money by selling the parts to recycling
  companies.

Qume Corp. -- 800/421-4326
  Large organizations can designate an employee fund or charity to
  receive the money from their recycling effort.

Recycleneur Institute -- 305/539-0701
  For every used cartridge collected from local organization, they
  donate $2 to a scholarship fund to help entrepreneurs break into
  the recycling business. The institute will mail you a list of
  cartridge recycling companies in your area.

  Don Rittner is the author of "EcoLinking - Everyone's Guide to
  Online Environmental Information," published by Peachpit Press.


Quadra 800 RAM Quirk
--------------------
  Some early adopters of Apple's most powerful Macintosh, the Quadra
  800, have run into a bit of a problem with RAM. The 800 can
  address up 136 MB of RAM if you pop four 32 MB SIMMs in alongside
  the 8 MB soldered on, although 16 MB SIMMs are a bit more common.
  The Quadra 800 is optimized for speed, and thus cares a great deal
  about what type of SIMMs it uses, but it's unclear quite where the
  problems lie. First, some background.

  Since it's still prohibitively expensive to produce the 16 megabit
  DRAM chips needed for non-composite 16 MB SIMMs, most 16 MB SIMMs
  use 32 of the more common 4 megabit chips along with additional
  circuitry to fool the Mac appropriately. This method of using
  multiple smaller DRAM chips to create a large SIMM results in
  composite SIMMs, in contrast to non-composite SIMMs that use the
  same size DRAM chips (4 megabit DRAM chips making up a 4 MB SIMM
  gives you a non-composite SIMM; 4 megabit DRAM chips making up a
  16 MB SIMM gives you a composite SIMM). Interestingly, the new
  72-pin 8 MB SIMMs are non-composite - the 72-pin SIMMs have two
  banks, so the 8 MB SIMM is essentially two non-composite 4 MB
  SIMMs. So what's the problem? We're getting there.

  The Quadra 800 requires 60 nanosecond RAM, and the composite SIMMs
  are indeed clocked at 60 nanoseconds, but remember that additional
  circuitry I mentioned? It appears to add a slight amount of
  overhead, which has the effect of slowing the SIMMs slightly,
  which is not good, since that means in essence that the Quadra 800
  expects information from RAM at a certain speed, but receives it
  slower. That's when all hell breaks loose.

  In addition, and sources at RAM vendor Technology Works wouldn't
  discuss this further other than to say they were working on it
  with Apple, there is a power problem. I don't understand this
  fully, not being a hardware guru, but I gather the Quadra 800
  isn't designed to power 32 chips per SIMM, so there's some sort of
  power problem that occurs when you put two or more 16 MB composite
  SIMMs in the Quadra 800. Other vendors claim to be working on a
  solution as well, so I don't expect this to last for too long, but
  beware if you're buying these 16 MB SIMMs right now.

  Errors range from an immediate sad Mac on startup to weird system
  enabler errors during startup to bus errors when launching or
  using applications. Sources have said that the errors vary with
  different SIMMs, different arrangements of SIMMs, and different
  SIMM vendors. Needless to say, this sort of problem makes the
  Quadra 800 owner unhappy. Sometimes the errors even go away
  entirely for a session, only to return after a cold boot.

  Dale Adams, one of the designers of the Quadra 800 at Apple, has
  said that Apple has never claimed that the Quadra 800, or any Mac,
  would work with composite SIMMs. David Limp, Apple's Quadra
  Product Manager said that Apple has a tech note about not using
  composite SIMMs on Quadras, although I was unable to find it on
  the March Developer's CD or ftp.apple.com. David did say that
  Apple would reissue that note again soon, presumably with updated
  information. The matter is exacerbated by the fact that most, if
  not all, memory vendors sell only composite 16 MB SIMMs; non-
  composite 16 MB SIMMs with 16 megabit chips are uncommon, and when
  you can find them, expensive. Try $1,200 for a true 16 MB SIMM,
  versus $680 for a composite 16 MB SIMM. A true 32 MB SIMM is
  proportionally cheaper, at $2,000 per SIMM, not that it's much
  comfort. I've heard of even higher prices, and since few vendors
  have the 32 MB SIMMs yet, non-composite SIMMs are not financially
  feasible at this time.

  So buying new SIMMs isn't really a reasonable financial solution.
  The 4 MB SIMMs all work fine, but if you need to use 16 MB SIMMs,
  what are you to do? We've heard of a strange solution that is by
  no means guaranteed to work (but tell us if it does). There's this
  desk accessory from 1987 called RAM-Zero, and when you run it, it
  clears memory and restarts the Mac. We have no idea why it was
  originally developed, but it appears to be freely distributable,
  and one person said that after he ran RAM-Zero, his Quadra 800
  with 16 MB composite SIMMs worked fine until the next cold boot.
  Who am I to argue with success? RAM-Zero is available at <sumex-
  aim.stanford.edu> for anonymous FTP as:

    /info-mac/da/ram-zero-20.hqx

  Despite RAM-Zero, I can't currently recommend that you buy a
  Quadra 800 with the intention of immediately filling it with RAM.
  The price will come down on the true 16 MB SIMMs eventually; it
  always does, and as David Limp said, "Composite SIMMs (of any
  density) are not supported on ANY Macintosh computer." It's not a
  popular statement, and it's one you might want to keep in mind if
  memory vendors talk about their composite SIMMs being approved by
  Apple. There's no telling what's what in this case.

  We haven't had any reports of problems with the Centris 650, which
  uses the same interleaved memory scheme as the Quadra 800 (the 610
  doesn't do interleaved memory, according to Apple's Developer's
  Notes). Nor have we heard of the problem cropping up on the Quadra
  700, 900, and 950, despite David Limp's warning. However, the
  Centris 650 can take 80 nanosecond SIMMs, so that might reduce any
  timing problems, and the earlier Quadras don't use the 72-pin
  SIMMs, which might make a difference. There's just something about
  the Quadra 800 and 16 MB composite SIMMs, and I suspect the same
  thing will apply to the Apple Workgroup Server 80, which is
  essentially the same machine.

  As an aside, David Limp also mentioned that many of the composite
  SIMMs are made in form factors that are too tall to fit properly
  into the Quadras. This affects all Quadras, and judging from
  several reports from users, installing these tall SIMMs can be a
  major pain, if possible at all. Check that before buying.

  Information from:
    Pythaeus
    Dale Adams -- [e-mail]
    David Limp -- [e-mail]


Reviews/03-May-93
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 26-Apr-93, Vol. 7, #17
    MacWrite Pro -- pg. 55
    DayMaker 2.0 -- pg. 55
    addDepth 1.0.1 -- pg. 58
    artWorks 1.0 -- pg. 60
    On the Road 1.0 -- pg. 61


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