Stuart Bell wrote:
No, no, no, no, no.
It'll work, but the magnetic characteristics of the formulations used
to coat 800K and 1.4Mb floppies are sufficiently different to make
unsafe the storage and long term recovery of data in the manner
suggested.
Always found this mac quirk
Hi,
Is there a way to upgrade SE/30 to PPC?
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On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Alexei Prostov wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to upgrade SE/30 to PPC?
There always _a_ way!
1. Poor Man's Grey Scale Project to make the monitor produce 640 x 480
see http://www.stuartbell.dsl.pipex.com/PowerCC/PMGSP/PMGSP.html
2. PCB and
At 21:55 -0800 on 14/01/03, Alan O'Neil wrote:
requires a reformat. BTW, this also applies to the Mac SE and Mac II,
which used a 2:1 interleave. Anything newer used 1:1 interleave.
Actually, it only applies to old hard disks, and it doesn't apply to the SE or
Mac II in most cases. I've
At 22:12 +1100 on 15/01/03, Darren wrote:
Always found this mac quirk interesting.
The amiga formats anything to 880k, I'm yet to lose anything due to
That's because the Amigas can write slightly more tracks on the drive. I
remember someone around here had a good explanation of it, but it's
At 12:02 + on 15/01/03, Stuart Bell wrote:
Is there an _economic_ way? Good question! ;-)
How about...
Install IIsi adapter to use IIci cache cards.
Install necessary pass-through/angle adapters to make IIci cache slot vertical.
Install Turbo 601 in your new vertical IIci cache slot
It was the technical support departments in both cases (it was in a
series of emails)... Who would ever listen to what a salesperson says?
All of the statements (deriding the use of HD disks in a DD drive) have
been the opinions of people who are basing their statements based on
personal
the pickle wrote:
Always found this mac quirk interesting.
The amiga formats anything to 880k, I'm yet to lose anything due to
That's because the Amigas can write slightly more tracks on the drive. I
remember someone around here had a good explanation of it, but it's nowhere
near as
At 00:34 +1100 on 16/01/03, Darren wrote:
An 800K Mac floppy drive doesn't use a strong enough magnetic field to
properly record data onto 1.44 MB disks.
Is the glass half empty or half full?
That's why you can't format 800K disks as 1.4MB; the reason you can't use disks
the other way 'round is
the pickle wrote:
An 800K Mac floppy drive doesn't use a strong enough magnetic field to
properly record data onto 1.44 MB disks.
Is the glass half empty or half full?
That's why you can't format 800K disks as 1.4MB; the reason you can't use disks the
other way 'round is due to
Greetings, Compact-Mac friends:
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:12:47 +1100, Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sadly I don't have any macs that need 800k discs to play with it myself.
Glad I kept a few of those old floppies around. To wrap my portion of
the thread, I'm glad some folks have had success formatting
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 02:22 PM, Olin Jenkins wrote:
Changing the subject, but not altogether different, I suppose it's
safe to format an 800K disk as 400K, correct? That's what I've heard,
and I've made three 400K disks on 800K media recently with success.
Yes - 800Kb floppies
...I don't care if you think it's a bad idea to use DD disks in
a HD drive... It is not what you think, it is what you know.
Derek
Having used HD disks in a DD drive on countless occasions myself with
no problems, I obviously agree with Derek. But I have a history of
being an anarchist; I
Is there an _economic_ way? Good question! ;-)
How about...
Install IIsi adapter to use IIci cache cards.
Install necessary pass-through/angle adapters to make IIci cache slot vertical.
Install Turbo 601 in your new vertical IIci cache slot inside your SE/30.
It should work, though I would
Hi,
I'm looking to upgrade my collection of Mac SE/30's. I currently
have 5 of these little gems
which I've upgraded to 128 meg / 2 gig 7200 RPM drives. Is there an
economical way of boosting
the speed? I've looked at the DiiMO 030 and cache options from Micromac
but they seem pretty
I have an SE I could get some work out of if I had 800k disks. I recently
read that they could be found at office supply stores as they were the same
as 720k PC disks. I tried an office supply place and they looked at me like
I was Rip van Winkel. Any suggestions?
Chet
You have seen the 2
Anyway of using cheaper IIsi
options for the PDS slot?
Yup, see
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/se30_pds_multiple.html
is there another good browser out there that
can handle Java and newer web sites fairly well?
I wouldn't touch this one with a 12 foot pole. :-)
Also is there a good FTP
I tried that. It didn't work.
I don't know why.
Any ideas?
johnsn
If you tried it with stock ROM simm then maybe it would work with a 32 bit
clean a ROM simm.
Gamba
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2
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I have an SE I could get some work out of if I had 800k disks. I recently
read that they could be found at office supply stores as they were the same
as 720k PC disks.
They are the same as 720 PC disks.
A lot were (are??) used in the electric typewriter/word processor type
machines, so
Good Morning Mac Friends:
I have both an old Mac Plus and a Mac Classic. Recently, I backed up all
the work I've done on the Classic's hard drive for the past three years on
some disks I picked up at Wal-mart. They said: Mac Formatted. I did not
tape over the hole, (didn't know I was
I have hundreds of 400k and 800k disks that have lots of old programs on
them as well as pre system 5 system software. There is a lot of duplication
so I am slowly working my way through the pile, transferring the files onto
a hard disk, making one good copy of all the programs and then
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:18:16 -0500
From: the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:02 + on 15/01/03, Stuart Bell wrote:
Is there an _economic_ way? Good question! ;-)
How about...
Install IIsi adapter to use IIci cache cards.
Install necessary pass-through/angle adapters to make IIci cache
At 01:04 +1100 on 16/01/03, Darren wrote:
Why doesn't the 800k DD format hold on a HD floppy? Is it the media or
100% media; the magnetic coercivity of the recording layer is different.
poor transfer due to the drive? Formatting 1.44mb disks as 720k is easy
as pie as is 880k, so whats the macs
At 09:22 -0500 on 15/01/03, Olin Jenkins wrote:
Changing the subject, but not altogether different, I suppose it's
safe to format an 800K disk as 400K, correct? That's what I've heard,
and I've made three 400K disks on 800K media recently with success.
Yep, because 400K disks are 800K disks that
At 14:25 + on 15/01/03, Stuart Bell wrote:
I remember debates at the time as to whether you could use both sides
of a 400Kb floppy in a 800Kb drive. In the days when floppies were £2
or $4 each.
Some people said no. Others said yes. Sound familiar?
The main reason was - and I'm not
At 07:57 -0800 on 15/01/03, Gamba wrote:
is there another good browser out there that
can handle Java and newer web sites fairly well?
I wouldn't touch this one with a 12 foot pole. :-)
Nor will any 68K browser ;)
The last version of Flash for the 68K is far too old to be useful now and the
At 08:00 -0800 on 15/01/03, Gamba wrote:
I tried that. It didn't work.
I don't know why.
Any ideas?
johnsn
If you tried it with stock ROM simm then maybe it would work with a 32 bit
clean a ROM simm.
The same setup has worked fine in a IIcx for people I know, and I could
probably try this at
At 16:43 + on 15/01/03, Chris Lever wrote:
to put everything on to a 800k disk. I have made a disk image with disk
copy and have also mounted the image with MountImage. When I make a new
disk, disk copy reformats the blank 800k disk into a 400k disk.
See if you can convert the image into
At 11:33 -0500 on 15/01/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have both an old Mac Plus and a Mac Classic. Recently, I backed up all
the work I've done on the Classic's hard drive for the past three years on
some disks I picked up at Wal-mart. They said: Mac Formatted. I did not
tape over the hole,
on 16/1/03 1:37 AM, the pickle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 16:43 + on 15/01/03, Chris Lever wrote:
to put everything on to a 800k disk. I have made a disk image with disk
copy and have also mounted the image with MountImage. When I make a new
disk, disk copy reformats the blank
Subject: Re: 800k discs
An 800K Mac floppy drive doesn't use a strong enough magnetic field to
properly record data onto 1.44 MB disks.
Is the glass half empty or half full?
That's why you can't format 800K disks as 1.4MB; the reason you can't use disks
the other way 'round is due to
At 02:08 + on 16/01/03, Chris Lever wrote:
on 16/1/03 1:37 AM, the pickle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 16:43 + on 15/01/03, Chris Lever wrote:
to put everything on to a 800k disk. I have made a disk image with disk
copy and have also mounted the image with MountImage. When I make
Thank you thank you, I was beginning to sweat some big drops over that one.
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Marten van de Kraats wrote on Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:24:34 +0100:
They are the same as 720 PC disks. And who is Rip van Winkel? It
sounds Dutch. In Dutch 'Winkel' means 'shop'.
Rip Van Winkle refers to an early American story about a man living in
colonial America who is cursed into a long sleep
Howdy Mac Friends:
Along with the gift of a Quadra 605, I was also given an old Mac SE. For
years, (since 1988), I've used Write Now version 1.0. I copied this version
of Write Now onto the hard drive of the SE so I could use it as a spare or
back up computer in case the Plus or Classic
Hello again friends:
Everything I've read says the Mac Classic has a 40MB hard drive. But my
Classic says I have 18,017 in disk and 21039 available. What happens when
I go over the 21,000? Did I happen to get a small hard drive and it's about
full?
Thanks again.
Pastor Glenn.
At 22:01 -0500 on 15/01/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Everything I've read says the Mac Classic has a 40MB hard drive. But my
Classic says I have 18,017 in disk and 21039 available. What happens when
I go over the 21,000? Did I happen to get a small hard drive and it's about
full?
That's
Boy, do I feel stupid!! As soon as I read your e-mail, I had a major moment
of clarity. Now I get it - thanks again!
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got me a copy of macminix off the ol internet...i am proposing to try it on
my number two powerbook 100 and/or the classic, has anyone got any
experience/advise/words of wisdom/jokes for me? is it even possible? are
there better unix versions for the powerbook??
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At 02:43 PM 1/16/2003 +1100, you wrote:
got me a copy of macminix off the ol internet...i am proposing to try it on
my number two powerbook 100 and/or the classic, has anyone got any
experience/advise/words of wisdom/jokes for me? is it even possible? are
there better unix versions for the
...to anyone who has sent me something off-list since about the beginning of
October. With the demise of @mac.com e-mail addresses, there were some kinks
that didn't get worked out with [EMAIL PROTECTED] until tonight. As such,
I checked the e-mail address for the first time since October this
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