UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA •Information Services • Volume 7, Number 7 Newsletter May1991 • Contents • News and Announcements News and Announcements HP LaserJet IIISi ........................... 129 • HP LaserJet IIISi Defective IBM Monitors ................. 136 Holiday Hours: Memorial Day ..•.•.... 136 Hewlett-Packard recently announced the LaserJet IIISi, a new 300 New IBM Laptop: PS/2 L40 SX ...... 137 dots per inch (dpi) laser printer; to date it is the fastest printer IBM PS/2 Hard Disk Errors: available through the Microcomputer Discount Program. The I 60MB & 160MB Problem ........... 138 IIISi prints at 17 pages-per-minute; this speed enables it to print Free Updates: many documents in the time it takes to physically move the paper FileMaker Pro and Claris CAD ..... 140 through the printer. The LaserJet IIISi comes with a one-year on­ ZEOS 386SX Notebook In Helpline .. 141 Novell NetWare Discount ............... 141 site warranty. At press time the HelpLine in Shepherd Labs did Microsoft Evaluation Site ............... 142 not have a IIISi available for testing. Reviews and Services A New Network Product from David Systems .................. 130 Fonts l Free Text: A Concor~ance Program The IIISi supports printing portrait and landscape oriented fonts : for the Macintosh ...................... 131 on the same page, and it comes with the fixed-width internal fonts Job Listings via Public Access .•...... 132 shown in the table below. Macintosh High Resolution Slide and Print Output ......••................ 134 1.4 Fixed-Width Fonts Portrait Landscape Training Resources ...........•............ 146 Word mark: Graphics Standard ........ 147 Courier Medium 10 point, 12 point 10 point, 12 point Courier Bold 10 point, 12 point 10 point, 12 point Columns Courier Italic 10 point, 12 point 10 point, 12 point Book Center Notes Line Printer 8.5 point 8.5 point Tech Fair Specials to May 17 ..... 142 HP PaintWriter for Mac ..••........... 143 PainUet and PaintWriter Rebate .. 143 You also get the scalable fonts shown in the table below. If your New IBM PS/2 & Laser Prices ...• 144 software supports these fonts, they can be printed in portrait or Mac External Superdrive ............ 144 landscape orientation in sizes ranging from .25-999.75 points. MultiTech 9600 bps Modem ...... 144 IBM PS/2s and 5.25" Drives ..... 144 1.3 Scalable Fonts Med. Italic Bold Bold Italic The Microcomputer Newsletter Is published monthly by y y y y the Microcomputer and Workstation Networks Center CGTimes (a/k/a Microcomputer Center) with funds provided by Univers y y y y the Minnesota Book Center. The University of Minne­ Univers Condensed y y y y sota Is committed to the policy that all persons should Zapf Dingbats y have equal access to Its programs, facilities, and ! employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, handi-cap, age, veteran status, or sexual The optional PostScript on ROM (Read Only Memory) chip must orientation. Direct comments and subscription be installed by a technician. The IIISi supports software switching cancellations, changes, and additions to the newsletter ' staff at the address on the closing page. This news­ between PostScript and HP's PCL 5 language. The language letter Is an Information resource for the University of switching feature is supported in these networks: Novell Netware Minnesota; subscriptions are free but are mailed only within U.S. The Microcomputer Newsletter does not and 3Com 3+ Open (version l.lF). represent any manufacturer, distributor, or retail outlet, and we cannot be responsible for any error or change In price, description, or availability with respect to any product or service. 0 1991 University of Minnesota c.-. News continued on...................... Page 135 Page 130 May 1991 Microcomputer ••• Purchase Rates A New Network Product Purchased through Telecommunications Services: from David Systems • ExpressNet Single Hub, 12 port $1650 • Type E Adapter (50-pin to RJ-45) $58 Kent Anderson, Telecommunication Services • Labor to install and test hub and adapter $140 62~7800, Telecommunications User Services Warranty: One year on-site warranty provided by Telecom­ 10-BASE-T Twisted Pair Ethernet munications Services. Telecommunications Services has introduced a new data Purchased by your department directly from the manufac­ communications product for use on the Twin Cities turer: campuses. This is 10-BASE-T twisted -pair Ethernet service using hardware from David Systems. This gives your • ExpressNet Single Hub, 12 ports $1377 department a new option for local area networking. • Type E Adapter (50-pin to RJ-45) $48 • Labor to install and test hub arid adapter hourly rate In the past, University departments have had to purchase the hardware needed to establish this kind of network. Warranty: Manufacturer's warranty would apply. On-site This new service offers rental of network connectivity for services provided by Telecommunications Services at time the first time, at a cost equivalent to basic telephone and materials rates. service. These connections will be available at a monthly rate of Please Note $20 per port, with a onetime charge of $20 per port at This service provides connectivity only within 11loclllllre11 installation. Telecommunications Services will install them network. It does not provide a connection to the campus­ where a minimum offour ports will be used. The hard­ wide Ethernet backbone. However, the David System hub ware for this service consists primarily of a hub controller is equipped with a standard AUI (thick Ethernet) interface, and twisted-pair wiring. Each 12-port hub can serve up to which makes it ready to use when campuswide connectivity twelve workstations. Multiple hubs can be used where is needed. additional workstations are needed. Installation of wiring from the hub to the workstation will be provided at regular Connectivity to the campus-wide Ethernet backbone is time and material rates (typically $125 to $150 per station, available via LAN mark service or a fiber optic connection. depending upon your building). Installation of a LAN mark LDI 400 device is a simple and cost effective way to provide this access. Purchase and installation options are also available. Tele­ communications Services will purchase this equipment for you and install it if you wish, or it will install equipment Figure 1: 10-BASE-T 12 Port Hub with Type E Adapter and LDI400 you have purchased directly. Purchase prices and installation costs are outlined below. Power OUtlet Rental Rates 12 A minimum of four ports (using one twisted-pair ethernet port for each workstation) is required. ports • One-time cost, per port $20 • Monthly cost, per port $20 Power supply, cables, adapters, transceivers Wiring will be installed at the cost of and interface cards are the responsibility of time and materials. the requesting department. Some of these items may be available from stock at Telecommunications or at the Bookstore. ••• Newsletter May 1.991. Page 1.31. An LDI 400 is available for $58 per month. Stanup costs appear in Pane B (similar to a key-word-in-context concor­ include a one-time charge of $75, plus materials and labor dance). For example, when I clicked on the word presup­ to install this equipment. Telecommunications Services position in Pane A, Pane B displayed all occurrences of that will waive these stanup costs ifan LDI 400 is ordered and word. Ifyou click on a line in this pane, Pane C will installed at the same time as a hub. A fiber optic connec­ display the surrounding text of that occurrence. You can tion is available where needed at $75 per month, with also conduct more complex searches. For example, you installation costs dependent upon your building and can ask for a list of occurrences of the word focus that location. occurred near the word presupposition and you can define what you mean by near (e.g. within 12 words, within 100). Free Text was designed for interactive exploration of a text. If you are interested in producing a printed concor­ dance, Gencord (for PC compatibles) would be a better Free Text: A Concordance program to use. Program for the Macintosh For More Info Ron Zacharski, Academic Computing Services (ACS) If you have any questions about Free Text, Gencord, or internet e-mail: [email protected] text analysis in general, contact ACS Special Projects Group Free Text is a public-domain text analysis 1 Nicholson Hall, 625-8332 package written for the Macintosh by Mark Zimmermann. This package will work on any Free Text is available for downloading from the Microcom­ Mac that has a hard disk and HyperCard. puter Center's Mac Information Server. Look in the Applications folder on the volume called information. Free Text consists of two programs: an index builder and a concordance browser. The index builder prepares your text document by creating a list of each distinct word, the number of times it occurred, and pointers to each occur­ rence of that word. The concordance browser uses this Figure 1.: The Browser Display index to perform fast 8 presupposed searches ofyour text iO presupposition file. The browser's 5 presuppositional A 5 presuppositions display consists of 2 pretend three panes as shown 1 pretense in Figure l. (Al­ ints out, the account of focus and presupposition developed in Cho•sky 1971 and J though not shown in rhaps clai• that (38d) defines the presupposition shared by the question and answ this simplified figure, ect HP cannot be excluded fro• the presupposition. (iO) a. He dropped out the all panes have stan­ B e ti•e of the utterance, i.e. the presuppoeltlon is co•plete. If this is the c ft construction is a paradig•atic 'presupposition-inducing' construction. It is dard Macintosh scroll ension of other standard types of 'presupposition,' e.g. factive co•ple•ents. Th bars.) exa•ples •hether we can sti I I clai• there to be a variable in the ••bedded Pane A displays an clause as the value in question is known at the ti•e of the utterance, i.e.