On 28 Jan 2006, at 00:06, Thomas wrote:
If there is so little traffic, couldn't someone setup a 68k machine to
handle this list? It'd be cool to have a mailing list handled by a
68k that would also handle the archive in 68k friendly HTML. Is this
possible?
It's no doubt possible, but
On 27 Jan 2006, at 22:48, Chris Riedl wrote:
Out of curiosity, how much traffic do those other lists receive? I
have been on this list for a while, but sometimes adding more traffic
will chase away some of the more casual subscribers who just don't
feel like sorting through the extra
On 27 Jan 2006, at 21:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey, Dan, the link above appears to be leftover from the message
you sent to
the vintage-macs list.
Dan's idea is that there should be one unite list for 68xxx users
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On 26 Jan 2006, at 07:33, NODEraser wrote:
Whatever happened to ye-olde UseNet newsgroups? About the only use
I've heard for them lately, is pictures and video. And the
subscription fees for that are pretty nasty. I remember that many ISPs
offered free newsgroup access, but that was back in
On 25 Jan 2006, at 01:50, Shane O'Neill wrote:
4k? You were lucky.
I had to fit an entire OS into 16 bytes, four of which were shared
with the team next door. And I was only given fifteen ones. And two of
them were bent.
Very good!
You forgot to mention that two of the ferrite cores in the
On 24 Jan 2006, at 14:48, Bob C. wrote:
Stuart,
For a similar situation, I've used my Mac 512 with Red Ryder 9.4.
It
has VT-52 and VT-100 emulation, I believe. The nice thing is, it fits
on a
single 400K disk with System 3.2, Finder 5.3, the menu-bar clock,
MockWrite,
DiskInfo and
Hi!
I recently acquired a Sage IV - early 1980s multi-user computer system
running the UCSD p-System. As was the norm then, such computers used
'dumb' terminals connected using serial (RS-232) connections.
I would like to use one (or more) of my compact Macs as dumb terminals.
Hence, I'd be
On 3 Jan 2006, at 00:11, Chase Bohling wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for the some original macintosh floppies, specifically:
1. The guided tour of macintosh disk.
2. The original macintosh system disk.
3. The macwrite/macpaint disk.
4. The macwrite/macpaint guided tour disk.
(all in collectible
On 28 Dec 2005, at 05:20, Chase Bohling wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for an original macwrite manual (collectible quality).
Also, I'm looking for the some original macintosh floppies,
specifically:
1. The original macintosh system disk.
2. The guided tour of macintosh disk.
3. The
On 24 Dec 2005, at 13:22, Chase Bohling wrote:
I have a somewhat sick mac plus, and I've never opened one of these
before so I was wondering what is the best way to do it. I've seen
take apart tools on ebay, but I don't want to spend $6 plus $5
shipping for a few pieces of metal unless
On 24 Dec 2005, at 13:44, Antonio Rodríguez wrote:
I think chase refers to the hinge-like tool used to separate the two
parts of the compacts' cases. I have no need to use it, because with
my Classic I use what I call the pillow method: I remove all four
screws (with a long handle TX-15, of
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On 27 Nov 2005, at 23:23, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote:
Or consider using an intermediate machine, any early PowerPC with a
floppy drive should do the job;
FWIW I use either a 'Mystic' (CC with 575 board) or Duo 2300 with
mini-dock with Ethernet as my 'bridge' machines.
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On 21 Nov 2005, at 21:45, Anthony Moss wrote:
I'm proposing to remove all the components from the SE/30 board
that can only run at 16MHz, and to replace them with 25MHz parts
that I scavenge from a IIsi. I'd like to know if that could work
in principle, or whether there are some 16MHz-only
On 22 Nov 2005, at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IIRC, HFS supports 2Tb drives, but the following URL has relevant
information: http://chrislawson.net/writing/macdaniel/010219cl.shtml
(Copypasted for your laziness ;) )
How Large a Drive Does My Mac Support?
Originally published 19
On 20 Nov 2005, at 09:14, Eddie Smith wrote:
Hi ... I've just been given a Mac which contains a 40mb drive.
What would the largest capacity drive be that I could put into this
machine.
It's running system OS 7.0.1 at the moment
ISTR the limit for that OS is 2Gb. OTOH, you'd be pushed to
On 20 Nov 2005, at 01:29, Anthony Moss wrote:
Does anyone have any information on how to clock chip a SE/30
to make it run at 25MHz? I have a IIsi that I can raid for parts.
AFAIK can't be done; all the other stuff (video, ports etc) would be
u/s.
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On 5 Nov 2005, at 02:41, Anthony Moss wrote:
You can't really compare the Classic with the original Mac 128K!
I just did!
The Classic came out four years, ten months after the Plus; and these
two computers are pretty close in specification. If the Classic was
a Road Apple, and obsolete at
On 3 Nov 2005, at 18:04, Anthony Moss wrote:
On ebay at the moment is an auction for a Mac Colour Classic.
Starting price 29.99 pounds plus 19.99 pounds postage.
Bearing in mind that I've just picked up a SE/30 for ten quid
delivered, is a Colour Classic actually worth that much?
One went
On 2 Nov 2005, at 21:50, Anthony Moss wrote:
I would like to dispute the Mac Classic's inclusion in the list of
The Ten Worst Macs Ever, and state that if the Mac Plus had not been
kept on life support for the best part of five years, the cheap
machine intended to bring Mac computing to the
On 30 Oct 2005, at 05:52, Mike Bybee wrote:
Actually, if it could be fixed, or if there was a way to get hold
of the 800k version of System 5 or 6 that would be of interest as
well. I couldn't find a way to actually write to those old floppies :)
Thanks
Mike Bybee
Where are you in
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I'm off for a week's holiday. This list is usually s well behaved,
that I don't expect there will be any problems. If there are, the
nannies of other lists who subscribe to this list have my full
authority to assume power and use every
On 15 Oct 2005, at 22:36, Russell Shannon wrote:
I was sitting here this warm funny Saturday, watching The Untouchables
on TBS when suddenly, there was a commercial for a Bell and Howell ZX4
electric shaver (and nose hair trimmer!).
Is this the same Bell and Howell for whom Apple made the
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On 6 Oct 2005, at 19:57, Richard Clark wrote:
I think it is a PDS slot, or at least that is what i think it is
called i got mine online for about $25.00. I gave my CC to a friend.
Really miss that unit.
\
It is - LC PDS slot.
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On 6 Oct 2005, at 20:21, Gary F. Daught wrote:
OK, right, PDS not PCI. I always got those confused. My key question
remains. Stuart, by mentioning LC are you then suggesting positively
that an LC ethernet card would be compatible with the Color Cassic?
Thanks!
Absolutely certain.
Stuart
On 28 Sep 2005, at 04:23, John Niven wrote:
For a moment there I thought this was one of those junk mails from
somewhere in Africa :-)
I did think that, had hit the 'junk' button, and only rescued it to
read it after seeing _this_ email. Oops!
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On 24 Sep 2005, at 01:44, Noah Wood wrote:
The email was wrong. When I initialize my Disk on the Mac Plus, then
I insert it in my INTERNAL drive on my Power Mac 6400 with Mac OS 8 It
will not read it. By the way, my Mac Plus is running Finder 4.1
It should do. You have a problem of some
http://www.the-innercircle.com/mac/macintoshclassicii/
ipodspoof320x240.mov
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On 23 Sep 2005, at 21:26, Mike wrote:
Hello,
I am thinking about picking up a cheap (and small) laser printer for
use with my networked macs, it would also be great if my XP and Linux
boxes could print to it as well . Does anyone know of any suitable
*cheap* laser printers that I could
On 23 Sep 2005, at 21:32, Noah Wood wrote:
Okay I got an email saying that Mac OS 8 would work with 800k Floppies
if it was an internal drive. Am I correct?
I don't know about you, but the email was. ;-)
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On 22 Sep 2005, at 01:49, whitman3 wrote:
Ken,
Thanks for your response. So if I get an external 1.4meg floppy drive
and a
newer machine, it will be able to read the data off the 800k floppy?
Will I
have a problem with the OS or are they all backward compatible?
External USB drives
On 19 Sep 2005, at 03:34, Andrew Cramer wrote:
Hi, I'm a newby on this list so I'm really not sure if
this is where I should be sending this type of email
i'm really sorry if this is just another email
clogging up your inboxes.
No - this is _exactly_ the kind of message that this list is
On 17 Sep 2005, at 23:49, Louis Labrie wrote:
I have tryed all of this including using the 575 board. same resluts
green light flashes on off. The faint sound is more like a sizzle than
static. I do believe it is a bad a/b..
This sucks! I just had it running earlyer this week!
Got a spare
On 18 Sep 2005, at 19:04, Louis Labrie wrote:
Stuart what options are there for replacment a/b I have alot of macs
and mac monitors/parts?
Nothing is a direct replacement, apart from the a/b from another CC.
People have used the a/b from an old Apple 640 x 480 monitor but you do
need
On 17 Sep 2005, at 18:12, Louis Labrie wrote:
Can anyone please help I went to start up my CC as I want to do the
575 MB upgrade.
And all I get is the green light in front flashes and goes out no
chime no video.
Itested the pram battery and it is 3.66 good. but swapped it with a
brand new one
On 17 Sep 2005, at 18:44, Louis Labrie wrote:
Yes this is with the standard logic board. Checked all connections to
the a/b and hard drive, Also checked the PCB on back of the CRT is
seated good. Still getting just a green flash. I also tryed connecting
the keyboard to the other ADB port and
On 17 Sep 2005, at 22:19, Louis Labrie wrote:
This did nothing. If I hold the power button down the green light just
keeps flashing.
When I push the power button I hear a faint static sound.
The a/b isn't powering up properly, I think.
Try reseating the a/b, and check for anywhere that
On 15 Sep 2005, at 14:33, Gary Danko wrote:
Everytime I try to send to the list from gmail I get this:
Failed to deliver to 'compact.macs@mail.maclaunch.com'
LIST module(list compact.macs) reports:
Your message cannot be posted.
It has the content-type: multipart/alternative,
and this list
On 13 Sep 2005, at 22:34, Don Robert House wrote:
I would like to obtain the needed enablers to use the 575 mother board
in my Color Classic.
You got mail.
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On 12 Sep 2005, at 02:40, Don Robert House wrote:
I have a Mac LC 575 that I tried to update the color classic with but
it starts to boot and bombs. I have to do more investigating. Some
of the articles mention the Performa 475 and some the LC 575.
Almost certainly an OS issue. Try
On 9 Sep 2005, at 22:39, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote:
Hi all,
I do not want to sign up to the Lisa List for this and I think the
ones possibly interested this side of the pond are listening here.
Forwarded to the LisaList, just in case!
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On 9 Sep 2005, at 00:39, John Niven wrote:
AFAIK no officially OSX capable machine has anything other than USB or
Firewire connections, so this isn't going to happen. Best plan is to
ethernet all old Macs.
Beige G3s were OK up to 10.2, ISTR.
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On 5 Sep 2005, at 22:08, Gianluca Abbiati wrote:
I have it
version 1.0 and 2.x
On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:06 PM, Nat Hall wrote:
Hey folks..
I need a copy of the old Microsoft BASIC application. There is a
link for it on System 6 Heaven, but it points to the VieuxMac Archive
which no longer
On 6 Sep 2005, at 09:39, Luke Ross wrote:
Hi,
I recently bought a Mac Plus on eBay, and it all works fine except the
mouse (sadly rather a major flaw). It comes with an early optical
mouse,
marked A+ mouse, but sadly not the pad for it. Does anyone have any
thoughts on ways to get either a
On 5 Sep 2005, at 21:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But what possible use would I have for a Mac with less than 4M of
memory?
Suggestions as to what I can do with it would be most wlcome.
Who needs more than 640Kb? ;-)
Load a suitable system and MacWrite on a suitable floppy, and write War
On 1 Sep 2005, at 20:57, Kacy Conant wrote:
Back OT... My SE/30 was made before 1989 therefore it
did not have a FDHD. It was 800k. Yesterday I went
down to PowerOn computer services (www.poweron.com)
and got myself 2 auto inject floppies. One for the
SE/30, and one for my external 800k
On 31 Aug 2005, at 00:01, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote:
Everything later than those models, up to the iMac, have superdrives,
including the SE/30.
I read this as excluding the iMac and later models. IOW, the beige
G3s including the AIO which is marginally on topic here were the
latest Macs to have
On 1 Sep 2005, at 05:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Afraid not, although Father Dougal didn't want you to be disappointed,
so he's
written ED in felt tip pen next to where it says Macintosh Plus!
;-)
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On 29 Aug 2005, at 23:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's still Monday, so I'll just point out that if anyone in the UK
wants to do me a
favour, you can buy any compact Mac from the Plus to the Performa 200
from
me, before they disappear forever into the recesses of my parents'
attic.
No
On 30 Aug 2005, at 17:18, Kevin Mansfield wrote:
Hi I have the same problem with my SE/20 the problem is if it was made
before 1989 it only has a 800k drive in it and the ones made after had
a
1.44 in them so check your manufacture date on the mac
-Original Message-
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I thought you might need something to cheer you up! ;-)
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On 29 Aug 2005, at 12:53, Darren wrote:
Stuart Bell wrote:
I thought you might need something to cheer you up! ;-)
Remember the fat lady?
'She' never stopped spinning, but missed support.
Stuart in England, leaving US and Canadian members mystified, no
doubt.
very ot. ;-)
Very
On 29 Aug 2005, at 15:41, Robert Patterson wrote:
This is so incredibly hilarious, I'm wondering when the hundreds of the
rest of us will be let in on this fantastic gut-punching joke?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/4192224.stm
We also must remember this when Stuart
On 25 Aug 2005, at 19:22, Joachim Krebs wrote:
Hello,
Please find the item at eBay at the following URL:
http://cgi.e
First that's not for sale, it's for auction.
Second, for sale and wanted adverts are permitted on this list on
Mondays only. No auction URLs.
Thanks,
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On 22 Aug 2005, at 22:58, Scott Baret wrote:
As a retirement gift I got a Mac Classic from our
storage closet. I'm probably going to set it up on
Friday but I wiped the hard drive two months ago. As
such, I need to install an OS and then some programs.
I am torn between System 6 and System 7.
On 19 Aug 2005, at 13:43, Jack Gallemore wrote:
Some day you are going to have to update your website to include you
collection (and your progress on your SE/475 project as well G).
Indeed. Still haven't found a very very simple web-page creator/editor
for Mac OS X. :-(
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Indeed. Still haven't found a very very simple web-page creator/editor
for Mac OS X. :-(
Stuart
Stuart, wouldn't BBEdit or BBEdit Lite do the job for you?
-J
I really don't want to see the HTML unless I have to; PageMill was fine
under 9.
On 1 Aug 2005, at 04:29, Scott Baret wrote:
4. As a retirement gift I got a Color Classic from my
coworker. Is it worth less as a collectable with an
LC 550 motherboard inside of it?
The value of CCs as collectables has dropped seriously in the past
couple of years. :-( There are still a
On 30 Jul 2005, at 12:23, Darren wrote:
we have the ashes yet again, how dull.
One match does not make a series.
It's not over till the fat lady spins.
Stuart
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On 30 Jul 2005, at 17:56, Lavode wrote:
G5 is running OS X 10.3.9,
Just wait till you install Tiger! ;-)
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On 28 Jul 2005, at 05:03, Antonio Rodríguez wrote:
Many old Ethernet cards (including most of the ones done for the
SE/30) are incompatible with nowadays autosense 10/100
hubs/switches/routers. Maybe putting a plain old 10 Mbps hub between
your SE/30 and your main 10/100 switch will solve
On 27 Jul 2005, at 04:05, Spoolman Nancy wrote:
In 1984 our school district bought an Imagewriter for $486.50. In 1985
they were $473. In 1986 we bought our first Imagewriter II for $480.
I am sooo impressed that people keep records like that! Any more
ancient Mac prices to share with us?
On 26 Jul 2005, at 13:39, Daniel Daplincourt wrote:
Hello to all :-)
It was about a MacintoshPlus on whom is adherent a label in relief. On
this
label it is written: 'Mac Education'. Do you know this Mac? Some does
Macintosh Plus 'Mac Education' have they been sold with this label?
You
LEM lists seemed to be down, but I've just had a message on the UK Macs
list. If you see this, OK, Compact Macs is back up.
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On 23 Jul 2005, at 00:21, Jack Gallemore wrote:
Silly. Absolutely just silly. I have a hard time shaking loose that
much money for a car, much less a (near) useless computer. Think of
how many SE/30's (or the infamous ED versions!)
There are no ED versions of the SE/30! Tut, tut! ;-)
On 22 Jul 2005, at 22:06, Russell Shannon wrote:
Check it out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItemitem=5791473252category=80075 rd=1
$20,000 starting price? My gut reaction is that an auction that
started at $5000 might get to $20,000, but that's an awfully high
hurdle
Anyone know what's happened to AppleFritter?
A couple of days ago. it came up with a splash screen suggesting that
the site had been hacked. Now there's nothing at all.
Anyone know anything more?
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On 19 Jul 2005, at 07:23, Darren wrote:
This thread would be better on the vintage list, the compact list has
to many on-topic mac users who do not want this traffic in their
digest - I may be wrong?
As list-nanny, my take is that this thread may be off-topic for this
list, but given that
On 17 Jul 2005, at 03:34, NODEraser wrote:
Thank you for the conversion. I was just wondering, since eBay used to
automatically post the price in both the native currency and USD.
If I access US pages through ebay.co.uk, I get the conversion to ££.
If I access US pages directly via
On 15 Jul 2005, at 09:09, Geraint Searle - Mac ((Yahoo)) wrote:
Has anyone any Ideas ? (Modems aren't Country specific, are they ?)
My vague memory is that the earliest were, because different countries
used different standards, but that by the time we got to 28KB or
thereabouts, they were
On 16 Jul 2005, at 04:41, NODEraser wrote:
What happened to eBay offering currency conversion to your country?
Bah.
:-)
I was doing it for those who can only think in $$$!!
Another ED with a Plus back made £70+.
Stuart
On 7/8/05, Stuart Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8 Jul 2005
On 13 Jul 2005, at 00:42, Jack Gallemore wrote:
The list nanny could have stepped in a while ago, but I guess he
hold his breath just as I did
Yep - I'm still here, not wanting to curtail traffic on a quiet list,
but keeping an 'overview' of conversations! ;-)
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On 12 Jul 2005, at 12:27, Luke Brennan wrote:
Compact Macs.. That'd be MacOS 6.x or 7.x yeah? :-)
Or 3, 4, 5, 8 or 9! ;-)
6 on a 128K Mac is not a good idea.
9 on a 'Taco' Colour Classic is quite nice
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On 10 Jul 2005, at 22:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible that ED meant something other then educational? Could
it have meant European Edition or Distribution, or EnhanceD or
Enhanced Distribution, or something to that effect?
No!
I find it interesting that I can't find a single
On 11 Jul 2005, at 02:19, Nat Hall wrote:
The Classic II is a nice little computer, perhaps my favorite out of
all the compacts.
Nah! The SE/30 was earlier yet faster and more expandable!
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On 11 Jul 2005, at 08:05, Stuart Bell wrote:
The 'P' could well indicate 22v rather than 11v models?
Or even 220v vs 110v!
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On 11 Jul 2005, at 10:58, Daniel Daplincourt wrote:
My apology to all, I wrote a mistake. On the facade of MacintoshED, the
pictogram of the multicolored apple is not in a gray square with
corners
rounded. This pictogram is like on the MacintoshPlus.
The pictogram of keyboard, engraved in
On 11 Jul 2005, at 11:43, Jack Gallemore wrote:
I waffle back and forth on this one. While I think the SE/30 is the
greatest expandable compact ever, the Classic II is the pinnacle of
what the compact began as. Thinking back to the 128k, the Classic II
maintained the design ideas of the
On 11 Jul 2005, at 18:41, Peter da Silva wrote:
The Color Classic with its welding mask fascia is not even worth
talking about.
Now that _is_ fighting talk!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Hi!
As some list members will be aware, there were two incarnations of the
'ED': In the US it was a rebadged Plus, and in some European markets it
was a rebadged 512ke.
I have had for some time one of the 512ke based EDs, which is in
platinum and has a 'newer' front case from the Plus (i.e.
On 10 Jul 2005, at 17:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most interesting about your 512ke EDs being platinum. I had always
thought the 512ke ED was the last of the old style case back and was
discontinued shortly after the conversion to Platinum which I thought
only the Plus made. Whatever the
On 10 Jul 2005, at 21:52, Daniel Daplincourt wrote:
Before, the logo of the multicolored apple
is in a gray square with some corners rounded. Next to this square is
written: Macintosh ED.
That is interesting, as it would imply an 'early' case front, not a
Plus-style.
What is the logo by
On 10 Jul 2005, at 21:52, Daniel Daplincourt wrote:
Hello. Yes, indeed, in Holland one finds a lot of 'Macintosh ED' et
'Macintosh Plus ED'. The two good addresses in order to find these
Macintosh
is here:
http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php3?url=/markt/hardware/apple.htm
A 512Ke ED comes
See
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=5214741826
No connection with seller or buyer; just a bit surprised! A couple of
people must have had gaps in their Compact collections!
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On 8 Jul 2005, at 14:17, Stuart Bell wrote:
See
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=5214741826
No connection with seller or buyer; just a bit surprised! A couple of
people must have had gaps in their Compact collections!
Winner in Japan; second bidder in US. I
On 4 Jul 2005, at 09:43, Darren wrote:
Be sure to always post a complete faq link relating to a topic, the
nanny gets upset at me if I just post http://macfaq.org/index.shtml
just me, lucky I guess.
Aha! So Darren is a re-incarnation of the pickle! ;-) ;-) ;-)
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On 20 Jun 2005, at 06:16, NODEraser wrote:
A few offerings on Half.com, somewhat reasonably priced:
http://search.half.ebay.com/Pina-
Larry_W0QQmZbooksQQqueryZPinaQ2cQ20Larry
But click on DMS from $3.00, and it becomes from $10.99!
Stuart
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On 20 Jun 2005, at 06:16, NODEraser wrote:
A few offerings on Half.com, somewhat reasonably priced:
http://search.half.ebay.com/Pina-
Larry_W0QQmZbooksQQqueryZPinaQ2cQ20Larry
Interesting that for MRUG you have a choice of $9.94 or $103.41. . . .
. . . .
Stuart
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On 20 Jun 2005, at 06:33, Scott Baret wrote:
Since there aren't that many machines that match the
description of the two I wish to list (along with some
Apple II stuff), I was wondering what a good price may
be. I was thinking about starting about $5-ish for
both, but if that's too high let me
I took these photos at the Exploratorium in SF a few weeks ago, but
kept forgetting to upload them. Enjoy!
Stuart
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/prod/dialspace/town/pipexdsl/o/aouq46/
explora1.jpg
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/prod/dialspace/town/pipexdsl/o/aouq46/
explora2.jpg
I have
On 19 Jun 2005, at 06:57, Jeff Walther wrote:
MRUS is probably more, but it's worth checking Amazon before bidding
on Ebay.
Pina books don't make the prices they used to on ebay - certainly on
ebay.co.uk.
In the last couple of weeks, I've picked up the Dead Mac Scrolls for
2.20 and
On 19 Jun 2005, at 16:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think that trend speaks well for the size of the vintage Mac
community. It seems to imply that more of these books are being dumped
on the market as people unload their classic Macs and no longer need
the text.
Indeed. An
Just thought people might be intrigued to know that on eBay.co.uk last
week, a 512Kb Mac made 132 - say $220! Yet CCs now make less than 50.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItemcategory=51046item=5204372521rd=1
Stuart
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On 17 Jun 2005, at 12:10, Jack Gallemore wrote:
Hmmm...I thought all Macs (from that era) had auto-switching PSUs.
ISTR there's a jumper on the analogue board which switches between 240v
and 110v mains. I run my 110v 128Kb Mac in the UK using a transformer.
Stuart
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On 17 Jun 2005, at 12:41, Jack Gallemore wrote:
Ah.
Possible dumb question Does running it at 110v extend the life of
circuits? /Possible dumb question
I doubt it makes any difference. I bought the transformer before
knowing about the a/b jumper. I run it like that to 'be original'!
On 17 Jun 2005, at 21:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Curious about that one myself ... I thought all Macs of that era had
different analogue boards for US and International. I think the
international version is the only one with a convertible 120/240 power
supply via the jumper Stuart
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