Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-17 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 17/05/04 01:24, Jeff Greffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original PowerBook G3 Series has the ability to use two expansion bay devices and run from the AC adapter with no main battery installed. Note: The PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard)and PowerBook (FireWire) do not have this

Re: Numeric keypad drivers for my Pismo's Calculator (Mac OS X) ?

2004-05-17 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 10:39 AM -0500 5/14/04, James Rohde wrote: snip I have searched Targus' site (no luck, and they haven't responded yet to my email) and a couple of Mac OS X apps sites (I'd have to check my browser history, but I think SourceForge was one of them), but nobody seems

Villagetronic cardbus video card

2004-05-17 Thread csean
on 17/05/2004 09:42, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out www.villagetronic.com They have a cardbus 32meg DDR DVI/VGA video card that works from Wallstreet up for about $250. I'm considering a G4/550 upgrade and had the same concerns as you (Pismo500/1gig, RAM/20gig HD, Panther).

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-17 Thread James Rohde
On 5/16/04, Amanda Ward wrote: I was going to ask about the 107 model, they seem fairly abundant on Ebay. Is Pioneer reasonably Mac Friendly? Amanda On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 01:32 PM, James Sanderson wrote: If your in the market and have some dinero, go to easybuy.com. They have the

Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-17 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 17/05/2004 00:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: on 17/05/04 01:24, Jeff Greffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original PowerBook G3 Series has the ability to use two expansion bay devices and run from the AC adapter with no main battery installed. Note: The PowerBook G3

Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-17 Thread malcolm cornelius
The original PowerBook G3 Series has the ability to use two expansion bay devices and run from the AC adapter with no main battery installed. Note: The PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard)and PowerBook (FireWire) do not have this capability. Which is the original PowerBook G3 Series?

Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-17 Thread Thomas Ethen
That would be the 3400, not the Wallstreet! Tom Which is the original PowerBook G3 Series? Wallstreet -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks |

Re: PISMO main battery, my lombard works without battery

2004-05-17 Thread Andrew in Ann Arbor
Directly from Apple support site: The original PowerBook G3 Series has the ability to use two expansion bay devices and run from the AC adapter with no main battery installed. Note: The PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard)and PowerBook (FireWire) do not have this capability. My Lombard running OS

Re: Adding RAM to WS II

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Kauspedas
You're right, it brings back to memory all that A+ stuff I learned... they don't teach you a whole lot on how Macs work though, that was disappointing because its real interesting. Know any good links for how the hardware in a Mac works? What kind of controller does the motherboard use to

Re: Adding RAM to WS II

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Kauspedas
This is true... Mike On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 09:02 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 13/05/04 22:37, Nils at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are getting closer.. Well, for my part, the reason I suggested to get 66MHz chip was that the density was likely to be smaller with those older chips.

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-17 Thread Charles Meyerson
I've been successful getting MY unauthorized CD-RW machine to work using the tips on these pages: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010506172701999 http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021015065316805 Good luck. CM On Sun, 16 May 2004 12:16:49 -0700, Amanda Ward

Re: Wallstreet DVD Drive

2004-05-17 Thread Ted
I'd be interested in buying that drive decoder card. All the best, stanton I tried sending you an email and it bounced. This is the eBay auction # 4131936353 Just go to ebay.com and inter the # into the search. Ted -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-17 Thread Jeff Greffe
Just use patchburn one-click-easy ! Info on xlr8yourmac.com site Jeff On May 17, 2004, at 10:48 PM, Charles Meyerson wrote: I've been successful getting MY unauthorized CD-RW machine to work using the tips on these pages: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010506172701999

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners (For Powerbook G4?)

2004-05-17 Thread Jeff Hubatka
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikael=20Bystr=F6m?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mac CD-RW Burners (For Powerbook G4?) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 02:10:27 +0200 So what CD/DVD-RW is possible and preferred to replace the one in the early Powerbook G4's (400/500 and so on)? There aren't very many slot-loading

WiFi...Why Apple over 3rd party

2004-05-17 Thread illovox
on 5/16/04 3:03 PM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: ...WiFi why?. Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 10:43:40 -0700 Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and at least two Apple Stores. I am

Pismo Battery

2004-05-17 Thread illovox
on 5/17/04 12:42 AM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeff Greffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PISMO main battery Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 08:24:05 +0800 Directly from Apple support site: The original PowerBook G3 Series has the ability to use two expansion bay devices and run

Re: WiFi...Why Apple over 3rd party

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Kauspedas
I have a US Robotics router and a gulp Microsoft wireless card that I use for WS II. I had to pay a little more for the 3rd party driver to work the MS card, but I was still $30 cheaper than an airport that won't work in my system anyway. The router has a 108Mb capability and was only $40

Re: WiFi...Why Apple over 3rd party

2004-05-17 Thread Andrew Kershaw
on 5/16/04 3:03 PM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: ...WiFi why?. Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 10:43:40 -0700 Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and at least two Apple Stores. I am

Re: ...WiFi why?.....

2004-05-17 Thread Jim Eddy
On May 17, 2004, at 8:09 AM, James Rohde wrote: Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and at least two Apple Stores. I am getting ready to go home wireless with my Pismo, and in reading the Sunday paper

Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-17 Thread Clark Martin
At 8:48 AM -0500 5/17/04, Thomas Ethen wrote: That would be the 3400, not the Wallstreet! Tom Which is the original PowerBook G3 Series? Wallstreet Uh, NO. The first in the PowerBook G3 Series is the WallStreet. The Original PowerBook G3 (no Series) is the Kanga, AKA 3500. The 3400 is

What is a Lombard DVD card?

2004-05-17 Thread Ted Mann
I have a 333 Mhz Lombard and when I recently upgraded the CD-ROM drive to a DVD drive, I found that it actually played DVD movies. Cool! Subsequently, I noticed that in the Apple System Profiler, it states that there is a DVD card present. My question is this: Is this DVD card a part of the

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-17 Thread Amanda Ward
Hi Jeff, I used patchburn and iTunes refuses to see any supported burned. There are identical part numbers for the Iomega drive under Lite-On and Philips, but they don't seem to make any difference. Amanda On Monday, May 17, 2004, at 07:58 AM, Jeff Greffe wrote: Just use patchburn

Re: Numeric keypad drivers for my Pismo's Calculator (Mac OS X)

2004-05-17 Thread James Rohde
On 5/17/04, Bob wrote: Jim, You might try an app called USB Overdrive (independent USB Drivers): http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=4701db=mac It seems to be primarily aimed at smaller USB devices like mice and gamepads. But it just might work with a keypad as well, It ought to

Re: What is a Lombard DVD card?

2004-05-17 Thread John Kamimura
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/04 19:03 PM I have a 333 Mhz Lombard and when I recently upgraded the CD-ROM drive to a DVD drive, I found that it actually played DVD movies. Cool! Subsequently, I noticed that in the Apple System Profiler, it states that there is a DVD card present. My question is

Re: Pismo Battery

2004-05-17 Thread Clark Martin
At 3:01 PM -0700 5/17/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/17/04 12:42 AM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeff Greffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PISMO main battery Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 08:24:05 +0800 Directly from Apple support site: The original PowerBook G3 Series has the

Re: What is a Lombard DVD card?

2004-05-17 Thread Ted Mann
Normally a 333 Lombard requires a DVD decoder card that is inserted into the PC Card slot in order for a DVD to play if you have a DVD drive. It might be that you have a 400 Lombard that has a 333 CPU replacing the orignal 400 CPU. The 400 had the decoder hardware on the