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From: Jan.Adams@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jan Adams)
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Subject: Anti-Apartheid Newspaper Needs Advice
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Date: 19 Oct 90 17:13:00 GMT
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Subject: ANTI-APARTHEID NEWSPAPER. . . MAC IIci CONFIGURATION
 
1.   We are an anti-apartheid organisation and we are proposing
to purchase the following equipment and to use it to compose
semi-weekly tabloid newspaper 32 pages in length:
 
     3 x MAC IIci, 80 Mb Hard Drive, Estended keyboard
     3 x Daystar Fastcache IIci CPU cards
     2 x RasterOps Clearvue 19" mono monitors with cards
     1 x RasterOps 19" colour monitor
     1 x RasterOps 708 8-bit driver card for colour monitor
     1 x Colour Video Accelerator Card
     1 x Microtec 300z 256 greyscale/colour scanner
     1 x Varityper VT600W laser printer (A3/Tabloid size)
 
     Does anyone have any comments about the overall
configuration, any experiences of problems with this equipment or
any suggestions of improvements within the same overall budget?
 
2.   Does anyone hae any tips or comments about the use of the
Daystar Fastcache IIci cards? Are there any incompatibility
problems with any major DTP applications?
 
3.   Similarly with the Accelerator for the RasterOps 8 bit video
card. I heard a rumour that there are problems when using this
card with Aldus Illustrator's preview function. Does anybody know
anything about this?
 
4. I also heard that users of IIci machines ahve encountered some
problems with SCSI devices. Can someone summarize the problems
along with any solutions?
 
5. What are the advantages of a 650 Mb Sony Optical Disc Backup
System over a Syquest Drive, apart from capacity? Are there any
disadvantages other than cost?
 
6. Does anyone have any experiences (positive or negative) of the
Nutmeg 19 or Sampo Office Pro II 19" mono screens as alternatives
to RasterOps Clearvue?
 
7. Currently we input news copy on a suite of PC clones and
transfer the stories one by one via floppies to a single AT
networked to our Macs with TOPS. Clearly we want to network our
PCs, but are reluctant to include them all in the TOPS network
for fear of slowing it down. Is there a good (and not too
expensive) way to network the AT to our other PCs as a file
serve, whilst keeping it on the TOPS network and therefore
accessible from our Macs?
 
Thanks for any and all responses! 

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