Re: Source for Diode MR824

2002-09-10 Thread Hardy Menagh
On Mon, Sep 9, 2002, 9:35pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the pickle) wrote: Well, Digi-Key won't make you too happy either because their minimum order is $25 unless you want a $6 service charge... -- the pickle $25 can go quickly in that catalog though, eh? Hardy -- Compact Macs is sponsored by

Re: Mac Classic II

2002-09-10 Thread Darren
Gamba wrote underneath this: Does anybody know what may be wrong with my Mac? Anything that I should replace that might be causing the problem? Thank you for your help, Liam Hatton Perth, Australia This just a wild guess, I would suspect the power supply. A voltmeter would be handy to

Bunch o' Macs

2002-09-10 Thread Bill Brown
Yo compacters everywhere, Check this out! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2051689106 No, I have no connection with this. It sure looks on-topic. Surely someone of us lives within pickup distance of this. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/.

Re: Bunch o' Macs

2002-09-10 Thread Phil Hosie
Yo compacters everywhere, Check this out! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2051689106 No, I have no connection with this. It sure looks on-topic. Surely someone of us lives within pickup distance of this. Bill Saw that. To ship or post to Western Australia

Some people will give anything away....

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Benson
I went out to get somebody connected to the internet today. They were running an old Dell with Windohze 98 Sadists Edition on it. It was pretty easy although I had to un-install IE 5.5 to re-install the connection package - really constructive! Anyway! I looked on the desk behind me and there

Speaking of Mac Classics...

2002-09-10 Thread Snook, John R
In the pile of Mac Classics I'm giving away. I still have a few left. I have a classic with a very dark display. The control panel is set at maximum. What is the cause of this? Also 4 of the classics had no HDD. They had a SCSI terminator in the internal SCSI port. What do you think they were

Re: Bunch o' Macs

2002-09-10 Thread Scott . Tyack
I live in Australia and I think I ALMOST live close enough to drive and pick up a haul like that! Is that what they call a Mac Cube? Scott. Geelong, Australia. -Original Message- From: Bill Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 1:48 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: 128K 512K Plus Analog Upgrade-DigiKey Parts.

2002-09-10 Thread Hardy Menagh
Update to previous post: Bill Walsh of Digikey tells me that indeed there is a suitable Larry Pina upgrade replacement for the diode at CR1 and CR5 on the analog board (Pina Part # MR 824 5-A). Part # FR604CT is a higher-amperage-than-the-original repacement that they carry. He further tells me

Re: Source for Diode MR824

2002-09-10 Thread the pickle
At 06:50 -0400 on 10/09/02, Hardy Menagh wrote: On Mon, Sep 9, 2002, 9:35pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the pickle) wrote: Well, Digi-Key won't make you too happy either because their minimum order is $25 unless you want a $6 service charge... -- the pickle $25 can go quickly in that catalog

Re: Ques: Original SE30 HD's

2002-09-10 Thread Bill Brown
Yo compacters everywhere, To Gamba's thread looking for SE/30 HD power numbers, our Philip Stortz [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded: ...i think more power is easily available though, i've put in considerable larger drives that drew much more in the past without problems. I'll second that. When I

Re: Bunch o' Macs

2002-09-10 Thread Philip Stortz
any one interested could of course email the winner to see what he plans on doing with all those macs, likely they plan to test and sell them somewhere or they may just enjoy a challenges. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Australia and I think I ALMOST live close enough to drive and pick

Re: Mac Classic II

2002-09-10 Thread Liam Hatton
This just a wild guess, I would suspect the power supply. A voltmeter would be handy to measure the voltages before and after the pop that makes it work. Hi Liam Any luck? If you find the power supply at fault and have trouble finding a replacement board drop me a line. Darren Melb/Oz

Re: Bunch o' Macs

2002-09-10 Thread Philip Stortz
damn, i just checked yellow freight and it would be about $270 for them to bring me the pallet, oh well, it was worth checking. and i'm just in wyoming, i'm sure i could drive there for that much! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Australia and I think I ALMOST live close enough to drive

Re: Making a compact bilingual

2002-09-10 Thread Joe Welling
Bill Brown wrote: Now I have need to configure an SE running System 7.1 and a PPC running MacOS 8.1 to do our Mac thing in Hipanic Spanish as well. WhaddoIdo? Hi Bill: My wife is an Ecuadorian botanist, and she does a lot of writing in both English and Spanish. I end up doing a lot of page

SE/30 large HDD problem

2002-09-10 Thread Josh Litherland
I recently got an se/30 and set to upgrading it... got the network card and the ram upgraded easily, but I'm having problems with the hard drive. I've tried to add any of the many extra SCSI drives I have lying around, which range in size from 425mb to 4.2gb. After much, much futzing, I

Re: SE/30 large HDD problem

2002-09-10 Thread J.S. Garrison
I recently got an se/30 and set to upgrading it... got the network card and the ram upgraded easily, but I'm having problems with the hard drive. I've tried to add any of the many extra SCSI drives I have lying around, which range in size from 425mb to 4.2gb. Thanks in advance !

Re: SE/30 - HDs Problems

2002-09-10 Thread Josh Litherland
In article a05111a00b9a478e3ba67@[64.172.128.149] you wrote: I too have had problems with formatting/reformatting HDs for several SE/30s. I have tried many different HD Utilities, and found several that have worked, including setting up partitions. Hm. Is it your thinking that I need to

Re: Mac Classic II

2002-09-10 Thread J.S. Garrison
This just a wild guess, I would suspect the power supply. A voltmeter would be handy to measure the voltages before and after the pop that makes it work. Hi Liam Any luck? If you find the power supply at fault and have trouble finding a replacement board drop me a line. Darren Melb/Oz

Re: Some people will give anything away....

2002-09-10 Thread J.S. Garrison
I get most of my toasters that way these days. Just fixed one up for a lady on disability. Classic II, Stylewriter 1200. She's quite happy with it. Just the way it should be! Jeff There ya go. I got her home and ran her up only to be deafened by the sound of very dry drive bearings (c'mon

Re: Mac Classic II

2002-09-10 Thread Liam Hatton
See above. He must be willing to go you one cheapers enough? The power supply is on the analog board, the one that stands on its side in your Mac. Just unscrew and swap it with another. Jeff I will have a go at replacing the analogue board and see - I've taken a closer look and it looks like