Re: Please be careful not to quote *too much* of the original message

2002-03-26 Thread Darren
There are three lines of advertising which is ok, but eight lines of information that could be condensed to a url on a web page. Dont read them, how hards that? Amazing how many dont.:) You might have the ability to hide them in your email programs prefs. Lastly, some are useful. Most of

Re: Information Age

2002-03-26 Thread David Wood
At 11:29 PM -0700 3/25/02, Terry Graham wrote: For lowendmac's and associates' incredible community service, to which, contrary to popular misconception, access is not part of my God-given rights, the advertising and added useful info could be twice as long as far as I'm concerned. DITTO! DW

Re: Please be careful not to quote *too much* of the original message

2002-03-26 Thread mart
There are three lines of advertising which is ok, but eight lines of information that could be condensed to a url on a web page. Dont read them, how hards that? Amazing how many dont.:) You might have the ability to hide them in your email programs prefs. Lastly, some are useful. Most of

Re: Fwd: Mac IIci OS restore

2002-03-26 Thread mart
Hi All, This is my first post. I was recently given a Mac IIci, everything seemed to be fine when I got it, until I proceeded to trash the OS. I obviously deleted a few files that I shouldn't have :-) Oops! I don't have the original setup disks that the machine came with nor any other Mac

Re: MacPayForIt

2002-03-26 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 04:10 AM, the pickle wrote: At 07:51 -0500 on 25/03/02, Eagle wrote: I googled for that and found it at MacFixIt.com - I've gotta bookmark that site and look through the rest of their system utilities. Good luck finding anything in their PAY FOR ACCESS

Re: Please be careful not to quote *too much* of the originalmessage

2002-03-26 Thread Paul Stamsen
About 5:28 pm +1200, on 3/26/02, an e-mail from Patrick Austin related: - It's an observation, not a problem. - - There are three lines of advertising which is ok, but eight lines of - information that could be condensed to a url on a web page. - - Most of the messages posted here are six

Re: MacPayForIt

2002-03-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I never found it until too late, I find it kinda dishonest charging to access stuff people chipped in for free, after all Dan pays people to write for LEM and doesn't make it compulsory to pay. If I had contributed a significant amount

Re: MacPayForIt

2002-03-26 Thread George Mogiljansky
It is a tragedy - I hope Mike Breeden has a dire need for the money he hopes to collect. You must now scour the newsgroups via Google to find info that probably isn't as good or as fresh. I expect that a boycott will emerge and the info will migrate to the newsgroups. If you don't have

Re: MacPayForIt

2002-03-26 Thread the pickle
At 13:37 -0800 on 26/03/02, George Mogiljansky wrote: It is a tragedy - I hope Mike Breeden has a dire need for the money he hopes to collect. I don't think Mike Breeden has a lot to do with MacFixIt. He runs XLR8yourmac. MacFixIt is/was Ted Landau's personal project. Google still has most

Re: Neotech IG24

2002-03-26 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
pickle wrote: There are such things as 24-bit greyscale? I always thought most stuff just used 8-bit for greyscale. Yes. 8 bit greyscale is standard. Even a 24 bit video card will not use more than 8 bits for greyscale. 8 bit is all that's necessary for 256 shades of grey, since the video

Re: MacPayForIt/and old sites in general/ Davong boat anchor

2002-03-26 Thread Dave Byrne
Try this site for the 'wayback effect'. It gets busy occasionally, so be patient. It had the MacFixit pages ;-) www.archive.org/ Does anyone have any information on drivers for an old Davong 10 Meg serial port drive for the old Mac Plus? I recently acquired one of these old 'boat anchors'

Origin....

2002-03-26 Thread Mark Benson
Well I have finally met my new acquisition, the complete LC system my dad managed to swing. It's pretty complete but sadly lacking it's packaging, but not anything else thankfully. Here is the complete stuff list I got with it: - Mac LC - 40MB Hard Disk one Floppy - 4MB RAM

Re: Origin....

2002-03-26 Thread az_desertrat_one
- Original 12 RGB screen Got mine with my LCII The RGB Screen is clear as a bell and very bright, no burn in at all. I just need to know how to adjust the horizontal width, it's not in the array of twiddly screws at the back. Go to Gamba's site, hit the manuals link, they

Re: monitor cable questions

2002-03-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Did you try using the Monitors control panel with the Performa Plus monitor to set it to color? On the monitor with the HDB15 female plug on the back, simply get a male to male, straight through VGA cable and connect it between the monitor and the adapter. Or you can get a male to female VGA

Re: Origin...

2002-03-26 Thread Keith Johnson
Well I have finally met my new acquisition, the complete LC system [...] Congr.! Museum line-up complete now? No, the Mac II is still outstanding an I don't have a Classic. As for the Flat Pack Museum I just need an LCII and an LC475 (a proper one rather than a 475 board in a III+

Re: Origin....

2002-03-26 Thread az_desertrat_one
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:14:27 + Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 01:47 AM, mart wrote: It's inside. The high voltage multiplier has a few rotary pots in/on it. One of them is horizontal screen size, IIRC. But getting the back casing off ...