Re: SE/30 as webserver
At 15:25 -0800 12/12/05, Scott Baret wrote: My SE/30 server sits on a Mac II case with nomotherboard. Inside there are four SCSI disks which use the MacII power supply and tie to the external SCSI port on the SE/30. I am curious as to how this huge external disk would work. I have a ton of old hard drives that don't have Macs to go wtih, so I may make something like this. Are they all wired together inside using SCSI cables? One SCSI cable, 50 conductor ribbon wire, with pressed-on 50 pin internal SCSIc connectors. One 50 pin external blue ribbon connector to use with a standard Apple SCSI cable from the SE/30. The last disk in the row has its terminators enabled and, of course, they all have different SCSI id's. Is the Mac II modified so that there is a bunch of SCSI ports sticking out the back? Just one; and actually it's just the ribbon cable passing through a hole once used for a NuBus card. I'm sure it flunks the US FCC class B test. The Mac II power supply needs a 5 volt pulse on one of its pins to start up so I have a push button switch and the equivalent of a PRAM battery (AA cells) in the box for that. I plug the SE/30 into what was the monitor connector on the power supply so that during a power failure the whole system shuts down and doesn't come back up until a human - me - decides that power is again stable. Alternately I have a 20SC case with a dead 5.25 drive inside so I guess I could stick two 3.5 drives in there. You do have to worry about the capability of the power supply. Newer disks use less power. Make sure they don't get too hot but hot is pretty normal for older disks. For system 7 you can also worry about the size of allocation blocks on disk partitions. Above a GB you probably want to set up partitions to avoid a whole lot of wasted space. -- -- The best programming tool is a soldering iron -- -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
LC II
I have an lc ii that I bought as a hobby computer. When I go to start it, all I get is the opening bars of the twilight zone and no video output at all. I've replaced the system battery and nothing has changed. It came with an 80 meg hard drive, floppy, keyboard, and mouse all of which power up and seem to work. Any ideas of what to check for next? Thanks, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: LC II
A few questions. 1. Are you using onboard video or a card? 2. Have you upgraded the RAM lately? 3. Did you bump anything when you changed the battery? Scott --- Tim Cowper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an lc ii that I bought as a hobby computer. When I go to start it, all I get is the opening bars of the twilight zone and no video output at all. I've replaced the system battery and nothing has changed. It came with an 80 meg hard drive, floppy, keyboard, and mouse all of which power up and seem to work. Any ideas of what to check for next? Thanks, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: LC II
--- Tim Cowper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an lc ii that I bought as a hobby computer. When I go to start it, all I get is the opening bars of the twilight zone and no video output at all. I've replaced the system battery and nothing has changed. It came with an 80 meg hard drive, floppy, keyboard, and mouse all of which power up and seem to work. Any ideas of what to check for next? Is the monitor plugged into the onboard video or a PDS card? What monitor is it? The LCII onboard video requires one that supports sync-on-green, with specific pins connected (sense pins) that tell the Mac which single resolution the monitor supports. In the early years of Macintosh, all Mac monitors displayed at exactly 72 dots per inch. To do that, each size of monitor was fixed to a single resolution so to get more pixels, you had to get a bigger monitor. When NEC introduced MultiSynch monitors to the PC world, Mac videocard makers soon supported them. Apple went meh and stuck with fixed resolution monitors for a while longer. There is a cure for the older Macs. Several companies made various DB15 to HD15 adaptors with either a row of DIP switches or a rotary knob to trick the Mac into thinking a fix resolution with sense pins monitor was connected. Only the more expensive ones would make a monitor with seperate synch work with the Macs that require synch-on-green. I think Griffin still makes the best of the monitor adaptors. It can connect almost any multisync monitor to any Mac that doesn't directly support them. Unfortunately Griffin is very proud of their gizmo and wants around $50 for one. It will be total Fandemonium! August (Fri) 4th, (Sat) 5th (Sun) 6th, 2006 http://www.fandemonium.org __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
