Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!well!swv From: swv@well.sf.ca.us (Software Ventures Corporation) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: DataViz and a Mac Message-ID: <17786@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 3 May 90 16:07:51 GMT References: <1322.26387516@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <141@cavanasic.nsc.com> Reply-To: swv@well.sf.ca.us (Software Ventures Corporation) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 27 In article <141@cavanasic.nsc.com> maul@asic.nsc.com (Robert Maul) writes: >In article <1322.26387516@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, rapickering@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes: >> I'm trying to use the DataViz program that was included in some >> of the NeXT releases. I'm using a Mac SE/30 and a standard DB8 cable >> from an ImageWriter II printer. > >DataViz supplies the proper cable when you buy it. So, I will not help >help you with the solution to this problem since you obviously did not >buy it. DataViz comes with the NeXT. You still need to buy it for your Macintosh, but it does come with the cube. Since you won't help him, I will. Basically, DataViz uses a distorted xmodem with translation protocols thrown in. This means DataVis uses their own protocol. So you need to buy it for your Mac. >If you have plugged the Imagewriter II cable into the B port you may have >damaged your board! Excuse me? Your going to have to justify this because I have been using port B for almost a year now and never had a problem. Everyone I have talked to has always agreed with me that an Imagewriter II cable is the cable to use for null-modem cables on BOTH port A and B. Michael Rutman Software Ventures #include