Re: OT: Small monitor gloat. ;)

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/5/01 9:50 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine too, works beautifully at 640X480. Freaks out at 512X384 won't centre right at 832X624. Design flaw? Yup, same monitor. Its the Apple Multiple Scan 14 Display model

A Question

2001-08-06 Thread Steve Conrad
OK, I have a question. I saw this and while I recognize most of these OSes I see some I am unfamiliar with and my reference books do not mention them at all. I came into the Apple fold running System 7. I upgraded every time one was offered, 7.1,7.2,7.3,7.5,7.55,7.6, 8, 8.1, 8.6. Pardon if I

Vintage Mac Sound.

2001-08-06 Thread Adam
Hi all, THE STORY: I recently got my hands on a decommisioned drain crawler which is a type of human controlled, robotic sled originally designed to travel up and down the stormwater/sewerage drainage system in search of cracks and what-not. Thinking this would be a cool thing to mess around

Re: OT: Small monitor gloat. ;)

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/5/01 11:55 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, same monitor. Its the Apple Multiple Scan 14 According to both AppleSpec and the Apple Online Museum, that monitor's max resolution is 800x600. Huh. Then why am I

Re: Drain Crawler

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- tesla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam: I have to wonder if perhaps you could generate those tones with your trusty touchtone phone? If it responds to DTMF tones there might be a DTMF tone generator program for Mac. There are several PC ones. = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why

Re: A Question

2001-08-06 Thread Dana Collins
From: Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 03:16:56 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs) Subject: A Question OK, I have a question. I saw this and while I recognize most of these OSes I see some I am unfamiliar with and

Re: Drain Crawler

2001-08-06 Thread Bob C.
Even the oldest version of HyperCard could produce valid DTMF tones.:-) Bob - Original Message - From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Drain Crawler If it responds to DTMF

Searching the old TIL articles.

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Articles prior to November 1997 can be searched without signing in by going here. http://karchive.info.apple.com/ I also sent them a feedback about how I dislike their new setup, especially the signing in bit. :P = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is

Re: OT: Small monitor gloat. ;)

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dana Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speakers worked but of course were cheezy (not talking KRK or JBL here!). Best regards, Dana They sound better than the mono built in speaker of most Macs. :) 'Course most of the all in one Performas had decent stereo speakers built in. = The

Re: DTMF Re: Drain Crawler

2001-08-06 Thread Bob C.
Yes, my SE using HyperCard actually dials quite reliably that way, just by holding my phone's mouthpiece up to the speaker on the front of the Mac. Doesn't work as well on my Plus, since the speaker is deeper, and on the side. :-( Those pocket phone dialers were really useful! When many pay

Re: A Question

2001-08-06 Thread the pickle
At 03:16 -0600 on 06/08/01, Steve Conrad wrote: OK, I have a question. I saw this and while I recognize most of these OSes I see some I am unfamiliar with and my reference books do not mention them at all. I came into the Apple fold running System 7. I upgraded every time one was offered,

Re: OT: Small monitor gloat. ;)

2001-08-06 Thread the pickle
At 10:54 + on 06/08/01, Dana Collins wrote: Mine too, works beautifully at 640X480. Freaks out at 512X384 won't centre right at 832X624. Design flaw? Yup, same monitor. Its the Apple Multiple Scan 14 Display model M4222. Anyone have one of these working right at? I recently sold

Re: A Question

2001-08-06 Thread Amber Rhea
on 8/6/01 4:16 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have a question. I saw this and while I recognize most of these OSes I see some I am unfamiliar with and my reference books do not mention them at all. I came into the Apple fold running System 7. I upgraded every time

AVOID MemoryToGo

2001-08-06 Thread the pickle
They spammed me, therefore MemoryToGo.com is evil. I strongly suggest you all take your business elsewhere if you were considering dealing with them. Not only did they spam me, but they did it in HTML format ...argh... **SPECIAL** COMPUTER MEMORY PRICES was the subject. If anyone else got

Re: Vintage Mac Sound.

2001-08-06 Thread Clark Martin
Where this becomes relevant to the list is that I'm planning on digging out my old PowerBook 100 and using it to generate the necessary tones and control the robot. I plan on hooking a cable to the audio-out jack and wiring this to the robot. The only problem is that the robot's control circuits