Re: IIsi and Daystar Turbo040

2001-07-26 Thread Harbourmaster
I just now finally had the opportunity to test out my IIsi with the Turbo040, thanks to the adapter John Ruschmeyer from LEMSwap so kindly sent me. As we all know, though, these things seldom go smoothly. When I started up the IIsi with the Turbo040 in it (on the adapter card, of course) and

Mac SE no boot disk

2001-07-26 Thread Tom Brown
Help a friend just dropped a MAC SE on me and when I turn it on it ask for a floppy. Where might I find OS disks for this system? Do I have to purchase from apple or are older versions released to the public? Any suggestions for an ethernet connection for this thing?

Re: Mac SE no boot disk

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew W. Hill
Help a friend just dropped a MAC SE on me and when I turn it on it ask for a floppy. Where might I find OS disks for this system? Do I have to purchase from apple or are older versions released to the public? Apple has a free download available for System 6.0.8. Use that. Then look around for

Re: Mac SE no boot disk

2001-07-26 Thread RomRider
I'm assuming you have not yet opened it up? Does it have a hard drive? if so does the drive spin up when the machine is turned on? Your going to think i'm nuts by saying this but I had to give the side of my 40meg SCSI drive a good whack to get it to boot up after it had siezed up... that was

Re: My List

2001-07-26 Thread Dana Sibera
On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 04:07 PM, Steve Conrad wrote: 512K Plus (3 working, 3 non-working) SE - USS Reliant SE FDHD LC - USS Oberth IIcx IIsi IIci - Utopia Planitia (my main machine) Performa 40 5 - USS Voyager Performa 450 Quadra 605 It seems a pizza LC or Q605 type sneaks

Re: Errors on the Mac (was Re: Most stable OS)

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Moody
At 1:44 AM -0700 7/26/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote: I've been unlucky enough to see the work of lazy Windows programmers with messages like An error has occured: Error. [OK] Can't remember what program that was. That's nothing. I have a jpg of an error window that CC:Mail for Windows 3.1 gave

Re: Mac SE no boot disk

2001-07-26 Thread Jeff Garrison
-Original Message- From: Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:54 AM Subject: Re: Mac SE no boot disk RomRider wrote: Your going to think i'm nuts by saying this but I had to give the side of my 40meg SCSI drive a good

Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs]

2001-07-26 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Absolutely i'd love to have the 7.5.5 update on floppy disks know where I can get em? Navigating through Apple's new and improved support/software section of their website is a real hair-puller, but you'd eventually wind up here: http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html

Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs]

2001-07-26 Thread RomRider
Now on to my next small probem, the three disk update floppies are .sea.bin files which when I download through my PC get mangled as many people have told me before... anyone willing to convert them to .HQX files for me so I can bring them down to floppies using my PC then transfer them to my

Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs]

2001-07-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- RomRider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's got all 10 megs of ram in it and seems to run 7.5.3 very well... I only want to update to 7.5.5 so I can get open transport going since I can't figure out how to get it on the net using DHCP and my cablemodem... You DON'T NEED 7.5.x to run Open

Bin files. Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs]

2001-07-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Hmm, MacBinary files usually download OK onto a PC. Tried dropping them onto Stuffit Expander or running Expander then using the menu commands to manually decode them? And, um, doesn't Open Transport require at least an 030 CPU? Or have I forgotten something? Haven't ever actually used a Mac II

Re: Bin files. Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs]

2001-07-26 Thread Marten van de Kraats
And, um, doesn't Open Transport require at least an 030 CPU? Or have I forgotten something? Haven't ever actually used a Mac II or LC and the only 68000 based Mac I've used was a Classic with a bad HD. Everything else has sported an 030 and newer. 68020 is minumum for OT. --

Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs]

2001-07-26 Thread the pickle
At 13:14 -0600 on 26/07/01, RomRider wrote: it's got all 10 megs of ram in it and seems to run 7.5.3 very well... I only want to update to 7.5.5 so I can get open transport going since I can't figure out how to get it on the net using DHCP and my cablemodem... Drop back to 7.1 and install OT on

Where to get RAM?

2001-07-26 Thread Kevin Altenhofel
Where can I find 80ns 30-pin SIMMs? Either 4 or 16 MB. This is something that I thought I could find in the FAQ, but I didn't (this doesn't mean it's not there, just that I didn't find it). I'm new to the list, so be gentle. Thanks. --- Kevin -- Eschew Obfuscation -- --- -- Vintage Macs is

Re: Where to get RAM?

2001-07-26 Thread Desert Fox
Try www.datamem.com/datamem. -- Paul/. 95 black 3000GT VR-4 98 VFR800F, TBR aluminum hi exit formerly reasonable and prudent on 7/26/01 16:04, Kevin Altenhofel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled: Where can I find 80ns 30-pin SIMMs? Either 4 or 16 MB. This is something that I thought I could

Re: Where to get RAM?

2001-07-26 Thread KADaggett
My Reply follows quote. On 26/07/2001 15:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Altenhofel) Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Where can I find 80ns 30-pin SIMMs? Either 4 or 16 MB. This is something that I thought I could

Re: Hi there!

2001-07-26 Thread Chris the Listnanny(tm)
Already banned him. (Again.) Hi Steve! Make that a lifetime ban... Oh, and if you care to notice, Steve's private correspondence was never posted to this list by me or Dan... cl Chris Lawson, Low End Mac Listnanny, Compact.Macs and Vintage.Macs

Re: Hi there!

2001-07-26 Thread Chris the Listnanny(tm)
And to follow up on that, I think maybe Steve ought to check the archives to show the rest of us just exactly WHERE it was that Dan posted Steve's private correspondence to the list. http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/vintage.macs/Message/12383.html is the only message I could find from Dan

Re: Mac SE no boot disk

2001-07-26 Thread Clark Martin
What are the differences between the Finder and MultiFinder in 6.0.8? Which does what the other can't? Please, someone fill me in on this. I have nothing to read on it. Is there a FAQ somewhere? I need to learn this. Finder is what we all know as Finder (suprise). MultiFinder was an add on by

Re: IPNetSentry: no 68k version :(

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew W. Hill
So if a significant amount of fellow 68k users clearly tells them that they're interested in a firewall solution for their 68k Macs, maybe they'll reconsider their position... Whats the correct email address to send a query? Peace, Aqua -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/

Re: Where to get RAM?

2001-07-26 Thread Amber Rhea
on 7/26/01 9:19 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well you don't need 80ns SIMMs. You need 80ns or FASTER SIMMS. This means you can buy SIMMS from places such as MacConnection or MacMall (if you don't mind their prices) as long as they are faster than 80ns; that is 70ns, 60ns or

Re: Where to get RAM?

2001-07-26 Thread Terry Mathews
In a nutshell, either the RAM will work faster than its rated speed, or you will start to get random errors on your Mac. For comparison, try checking around PC forums and see how people overclock their RAM. Today its no big deal, but back in those Mac's era, RAM didn't really overclcok more than

Re: I AM A ****NUT!

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew W. Hill
My most profuse apologies! That was supposed to go to a different mailing list! Sorry for the language and non-vintage content. Peace Aqua -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus

Re: Mac SE no boot disk

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew W. Hill
Vintage Macs wrote... From: Andrew W. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mac SE no boot disk Help a friend just dropped a MAC SE on me and when I turn it on it ask for a floppy. Where might I find OS disks for this system? Do I have to purchase from apple or are older versions released to the

Re: Where to get RAM?

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew W. Hill
on 7/26/01 9:19 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well you don't need 80ns SIMMs. You need 80ns or FASTER SIMMS. This means you can buy SIMMS from places such as MacConnection or MacMall (if you don't mind their prices) as long as they are faster than 80ns; that is 70ns,

So that others might know

2001-07-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Here's a learn from my mistakes dept. entry. A Mac IIci mysteriously starts dying with a weird line pattern on the screen, invariably after a lot of hard disk activity. Seems fine when quiescent, and stayed up all night when the disk is quiet. Thrash the disk with a lot of activity, and it comes