Re: Dead IIci

2001-07-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I rebooted into NetBSD, the machine's main OS, and tried to compile a kernel as a test. After two hours, it froze solid, and now it won't boot at all. By this I mean I get a chime from the system, and I can hear the HD come up to speed, but the screen stays totally black. --

Re: Most stable OS

2001-07-24 Thread Michael J. Flaherty
I have lots of FINDER crashes Try allocating more RAM to the finder, an operation that requires the FinderFixer control panel or something similar. Download it here. http://www.hidacc.av.org/pages/suggest_fw_and_sw.html#Finder%20Fixer MJF -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: non mac monitors

2001-07-24 Thread Clark Martin
From: Anand Keathley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:34:26 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs) Subject: non mac monitors Thanks for the feed back everybody. I tried, http://www.compgeeks.com but things froze up. I'll make a

128k etc

2001-07-24 Thread Nick Canterucci
have a couple of questions. Looking for a good 128 k motherboard. anyone on this list have one or know where to ? (besides Ebay Herb J) on some 128k motherboards, extra ram was soldered on..bringing it to 512k..has anyone on this list de-soldered one, returning it to 128k ? Color

Re: Wierd old external hard drive..

2001-07-24 Thread Mike Evans
Thanks for all the replies on this (and sorry if it was a bit OT for VintageMacs, in that it involves a Plus...)... I will plug it into the floppy port (briefly) to see what happens... BTW, the ports on the drive have no markings or icons... ditto (I think) the cable Will give it a shot anyway.

Re: LCIII type 28 error

2001-07-24 Thread Chelley Vician
Addendum to Gregg's comment I made up a special Conflict Catcher set -- system 7-7.5.5 only PLUS the FWB CD-ROM Toolkit group --- and tried booting with this setup. Here is the message I got: An unexpected error occurred, because an error of type 28 occurred. The CD-ROM drive is the

Re: LCIII type 28 error

2001-07-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Chelley Vician [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Addendum to Gregg's comment I made up a special Conflict Catcher set -- system 7-7.5.5 only PLUS the FWB CD-ROM Toolkit group --- and tried booting with this setup. Here is the message I got: An unexpected error occurred, because an

Re: Price drops. Re: LCIII Memory

2001-07-24 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
--- Steve Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got that 32MB SIMM cheaper than an 4 MB SIMM cost 5 years ago. For as long as I've been playing with computers, I can never get used to how fast prices drop on old technology. Quite True. I had an electronics Teacher once, who said,

Re: Dead IIci

2001-07-24 Thread the pickle
At 07:48 -0700 on 24/07/01, Cameron Kaiser wrote: The machine has a Daystar '030 50MHz PowerCache + FPU, 128MB RAM, two You're lookin at the first suspect right there. Pull the PowerCache and see if that fixes it; I bet it does. p _ the

Re: Dead IIci

2001-07-24 Thread the pickle
At 10:20 -0700 on 24/07/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The machine has a Daystar '030 50MHz PowerCache + FPU, 128MB RAM, two Farallon EtherWave NuBus cards in slots C and E, a 2.05GB Quantum Fireball and uses internal video only. Suggestions? I will

Re: 128k etc

2001-07-24 Thread the pickle
At 13:48 -0400 on 24/07/01, Nick Canterucci wrote: has anyone ever maxed a SE/30 to 128 megs ? Yes. It takes forever to boot (RAM testing that you can't turn off) but it's nice once it's running :) p _ the pickle The FAQ

Re: LCIII type 28 error

2001-07-24 Thread the pickle
At 12:43 -0400 on 24/07/01, Chelley Vician wrote: When you startup an LCIII, and get an error message (Type 28), what does that mean? Background: I have an LCIII that is maxed out in RAM and has a 270MB drive. It has been sitting in storage for a bit. I set it up yesterday and it booted fine,

Re: Most stable OS

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Moody
At 8:26 AM -0500 7/24/2001, David Robinson wrote: Hey speaking of the most stable OS around, I have a PM 8500 with a XLR G3 Upgrade running at 333 mhz and 240 mgs of RAM. I have lots of FINDER crashes with System 9.1. Anybody know what to do about this stupid problem. I have already tried that

Re: Format a PC IDE Drive

2001-07-24 Thread the pickle
At 19:36 -0400 on 24/07/01, Steve Moody wrote: At 9:41 PM -0400 7/23/2001, the pickle wrote: Anyone here try that for swapping an internal SCSI drive with a 10gb IDE in a vintage Mac? As I said, Peter Haas over on Quadlist has at least one 950 running with a 40GB IDE drive in it with this

Handgun ban sig

2001-07-24 Thread Paul Stamsen
At 7:40 pm -0400 7/24/01, regarding Re: Most stable OS, Steve Moody penned sagely: - Handgun crime in Britain has increased more than 40% since the - handgun ban of 1997. What percent of the crimes were violations of the ban? IOW, did the *ban* cause the crimes? Just a thought. . .

Re: Most Stable OS

2001-07-24 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Wait a minute It just happened again. This time I was working in Photoshop 5.5 with Pagemaker 6.5 open and Netscape open, working a photo from an internet download into Photoshop. (Î was editing the photo at the time of the crash.) This is when most of my crashes occur. David Wait a minute

Re: Most Stable OS

2001-07-24 Thread James S Jones
Part of the problem with Netscape 2.0 to 4.7x is that it was designed to be internally multithreaded, using a Netscape thread manager, rather than a system one*. The root of this came from Mac System 7 and 16-bit Windows. Those systems didn't have thread managers. The result is a monstrously