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From: otts@spp2.UUCP (Chuck Otts)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Visit to Yesteryear (Mac XL request)
Message-ID: <976@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 23:46:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 16 23:46:21 1986
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Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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[Eat this line eater, if you still exist]

Lets travel back in time to the good'ole days of slow ROM, 16K
chip memory, and disk access in 10Mb chunks.  When boys were boys
and Macintosh was XLisa.

I am the PROUD (not that proud) owner of a Macintosh XL running Macworks
3.0 that I picked up from a friend for a song (gold record stuff).  The
machine has lots of out of date software and no manuals; but all seems to work
just fine.  What I am looking for are any and all hints, suggestions (please
don't suggest a Mac+), literary references, software to make things faster,
hardware to make things prettier, or anything else that might make my XL work
'just as good as the real thing'.

Problems:

	-  Sound is bad on a XL!  Crash or hang on most programs with digitized
	   sound.  Am I destined to run deaf software only?

	-  Speed (or lack there of) of disk access is very slow with 6+ Mb on
	   disk.  Anything I can do to speed the disk (MockHFS, faster drive)?
	   Tried SuperCharger with limited success (20% increase in application
           start-up).

	-  Is there really a Pixel fix?  Is it worth getting?

Requests:

        -  Any suggested titles for XL documentation; hardware and Macworks?
	
	-  Any papers, diagrams, or XL stuff that might be laying around
	   not being used?  Postage Guaranteed!

Offer:

	-  Any educational institutions, research groups, or such interested
	   in donation of 1983 Lisa software (new in box) on 5 1/4" floppy.
	   Titles include: LisaProject, LisaWrite, LisaGraph, LisaCalc and
	   LisaList.  Please do not request unless you can use it.  You pay
	   postage.

	-  Many thanks for all information, good or bad.

	-  Reply via E-mail so as not to bore all the owners of slick new Mac+
	   and I will summarize to the net (if anybody else needs this info).

				- chuck -

			"My Mac is bigger than yours..."
	
	

Chuck Otts
TRW
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