--- Andre Skarzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Here is an interesting piece a friend forwarded to
me. Very scary...
There's a STRONG argument for managing the
Apple/IBM/Motorola alliance.
If the problem is IBM's financial shuffling, then what
kind of money does
--- Liam Proven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/7/05, J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I can't believe so much is being made here of what
amounts to an unsubstantiated rumor.
WHAT? The Apple CEO announced it in his keynote at
the annual
developers' conference! What more do you
--- Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That should drastically expand the available
hardware
options for Macintosh.
~
It's like looking at a Bentley and knowing it's really
a Chrysler. Or seeing a Sterling and realizing it's a
Honda.
It's a sinking, false,
--- Simon Angling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I'd try to resurrect my old LCII but it
appears to be a bit dead.
When I first turned it on it made a few strange
noises and then the 8-note
chime. I tested the CMOS battery which was
completely dead so I replaced it
- I've read that
--- Powermac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think what makes a Mac a Mac is the tightly
integrated OS used. My
favorite Macs are of course the 68k ones, back when
Apple spent allot of
effort on hardware design and not just marketing.
68K's had a decent GUI,
hardware was PnP, Nubus was
--- Liam Proven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am amazed. It's the end of an era. Every major
computing platform in
the world will run on the same architecture. And
it's the oldest and
arguably the worst. CISC has won. One ISA to rule
them all, one ISA to
find them; one ISA to bring them all
--- Allan Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 7:47 PM -0700 6/6/05, J.S. Garrison wrote:
I can't believe so much is being made here of what
amounts to an unsubstantiated rumor.
It's pretty $##!@^ substantiated. Steve Jobs said
so at WWDC today.
~~~
Welp. You'll not see me
--- Manuel Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to get the PSU. But as I never mixed up
with real and heavy
hardware (except for some LCs I've opened), please
tell me: how hard is to
replace the PSU on the IIci? I saw something which
looked like a screw, but
I can't be sure. And how
--- Matt Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A review of the Mac LC, found at: www.lowendmac.com,
states that the LC was programmed by Apple to
support
no more than 10 MB of RAM. The review says that it
can take all the way up to system 7.5.5, but, when I
installed 7.0, I had all kinds of
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Austin Goodwill Computer Store, Computer Works,
had 8 - 10 of
those adapters in one of their bins.
I mean you could see some of the stacks of stuff
through the donation
door/loading dock or though the windowed door to the
back, but when
--- Allan Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:.
One thing I'd really like to have (again): a Mac SE
with a working
Applied Engineering 40 MHz '030 accelerator card
support for 16 MB
of RAM. Or, alternatively, a Mac SE with the
competing product of
its time, the DayStar Digital 50 MHz '030
--- classic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
? I always thought the LC couldn't 'see' more than
10 mbs of ram. Same
reason that the LC II and CC which had 4 mb on board
would only 'see' 10
mb even if you put two 4 mb strips in to make the
total 12 mb.
This thing you used wasn't called a
--- Snook, John R [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sure, I'll do it.
johnsn :oD
~``
GREAT!! I'm gone for two weeks starting Tuesday. When
I get back mid-June, I'll have my good Mac Plus here.
Jeff
Facere Compositio Ex Congeries
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Matt,
Your LC can take a ethernet card, if it doesnt
already have one, and
cannect to the net. I wouldn't suggest Web with it,
but you CAN do IRC,
FTP, and email with it just fine. And if you have a
modem, you can make it
into a nice little FAX.
--- Jennifer Worgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
they are still needed:
by students with learning difficulties who need much
repetitive practice
lower grade elementary students learning computer
skills
for historical purposes
~~~
I now volunteer for Mac Renewal in Oregon
--- classic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try eBay for 128 mb simms.
This link might be of interest to you as well.
http://www.kevinomura.com/quadra605/
Kevin
~~~
I probably oughta go to the Quadlist with the rest of
this, but first, I like what you did. And like you, I
like the
Recently a pair of Quadra 605s were given to me. I
like 'em, so I refurbished them with a new (to them) 2
GB SCSI hard disk, a 32MB stick of RAM, O.S. 7.6.1, an
LC Asante EtherCard, Network Software version 1.4 so
the Ethernet would work, and Netscape 4.08 for 68k
Macs.
The hard disk was prepped
--- classic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm if you had more 680X0 vintage machines you
could turn it into an
appletalk bridge, eg run Apple's internet router sw
which btw doesn't have
anything to do with the web but allows you to hook
up phonenet style
networks to your ethernet network. Can
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious about finding a CD drive to use with an
LCIII that I have - I assume
it will be of the external SCSI variety. Can anyone
point me in the direction of
one? Bear in mind that I live in the UK.
Nathan
Apple makes a couple I've used.
on 8/13/04 2:09 PM, Tim Maloney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found a great place for advice and chat about Compact and Classic Macs.
Somebody banned this nitwit, Right?!
JSG
--
Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |
on 8/8/04 11:15 AM, Randall Thomas at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
~~~
The biggest problem you're having is that the fpu is a 68882. That's dog
slow to a 68040 CPU. It is being snobby, refusing to acknowledge the
presence of that grandpa chip.
I see your point. So..., I suppose
on 8/8/04 8:39 AM, Randall Thomas at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've got a IIsi, 64meg, Presto 040, 7.6.
The Presto has a nice riser board with 2 PDS connectors which, I'm
assuming, allows the use of an additional PDS card. However, when I plug my
Asante MacConII (adaptor w/68882
on 8/6/04 4:33 AM, Robert J. Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got my Mac LC 580 running.
It has a 810 MD IDE Drive. I want to de-install the printer that is on
it and install a Color Stylewriter 2400 or a H/P Deskwriter 540 [have
floppy for H/P]
How do I go about de-installing Printer
I have mentioned a couple of times in past messages that Drive Setup
sees the drive. I assume that's what you mean by the Mac seeing
the drive -- maybe I am wrong? If I am, what does it mean to see the
drive? Anyway, three Macs have identified the drive yesterday through
Drive Setup: the
on 8/4/04 5:59 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It'a a Yamaha CD-Rewritable Drive Model No. CRW6416S-NB
~
What I've just done is set the CRW4416 I have into an old external hard
drive case, selected the SCSI ID as 2, no parity, no block setting.
When I
--
From: J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:41:54 -0700
To: J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI CD Drive: jumpers
on 8/4/04 8:37 AM, J.S. Garrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I've just done is set the CRW4416 I have into an old external hard
on 8/3/04 3:00 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, is this an issue affecting vintage Macs only or, rather, older
systems? This CD recorder have been working OK connected to a 6500
(8.1-8.6) and a G3 bege (9.2.2), without the use of any third party
drivers, except for the
on 8/3/04 6:53 AM, Ken at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, is this an issue affecting vintage Macs only or, rather, older
systems? This CD recorder have been working OK connected to a 6500
(8.1-8.6) and a G3 bege (9.2.2), without the use of any third party
drivers, except for the Toast CD
on 8/3/04 10:27 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I opened the CD drive case. Although it says Glyph on the outsinde,
there is a Yamaha machine inside. In the back of the drive there are
three pairs of jumper-type pins. The pair with the jumper reads
Parity; the pairs w/o
on 8/2/04 2:45 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I connected this external CD drive to my IIsi but CDs inserted don't
show in the Desktop. The drive is the last device in the SCSI chain:
Zip Drive (ID 5 termination OFF)
CD drive (ID 2 with terminator).
The Zip discs
on 8/2/04 6:05 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is an extension I didn't mention named Apple CD-ROM. There
is no Apple CD Extension. Should there be one?
It's a CD recorder. I was going to try switching the SCSI ID, as you
suggested, but now it seems the HD is
I've just received three LC 580 All-In-One Macs from a local school.
These have no CD ROMs and no spot for them except externally.
They have IDE hard drives. (!)
They were locked out by Fool Proof, so I nuked and paved the hard drives.
Time to test their Internettability...
Jeff G
--
on 7/19/04 6:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About a month ago a posted a comment on this and another newsgroup letting
people know that I had 3 IIGS monitors available that I was going to let
go of for cost of shipping. I wanted to let those people know that I
hadn't
on 7/16/04 5:17 AM, Randall Thomas at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I decided to throw this PCI Radius card into my G3 Workgroup Server
(which I didn't want to do because it's been running smoothly for 5 months
without a restart) to run System Profiler and see if it gave a clue. Not
much
on 7/14/04 5:51 PM, Hans Anwikar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I just got an IIci and want to upgrade that box somehow.
I already got a 7.6 CD and hope I win a Supermac Thunder24 on ebay.
I am still looking for a Sonnet Presto CPU upgrade and a Nubus Fast Ethernet
card;
it seems
on 7/7/04 3:46 PM, Montalto, Joe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This list has been rather dry and barren of posts on
the Macs it covers.
Well I guess I could get the ball rolling for some time fillers!
Question 1: Who here owns a Mac Classic? I've heard that they have
dangerous CRT's inside
on 7/8/04 1:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Macintosh II I have been trying to post on
the LEM swaplist.
Regardless of the type of e-mail I send (webmail,
plain text 7-bit, plain text 8-bit, etc. etc.,
my listing never shows up. It does not bounce
back from
on 7/4/04 9:34 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 21:12 -0700 04/07/04, J.S. Garrison wrote:
on 7/4/04 11:02 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you all for the help. The problem was indeed with the floppy
drive. I replaced with a working one (thank you
on 7/5/04 6:12 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Thanks to all who helped me to resurrect the Mac Plus. I first
replaced the floppy drive, then I formatted the external HD on
another computer (6100), installed System 6.0.8 and the bumblebee
(as Jeff would call it) is
on 7/4/04 7:19 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
A friend just gave me a Mac Plus. It came with an external HD. First
I tried to start from a floppy. So I inserted over a half a dozen
startup floppies, all 800k or 400k with several different System
versions, from 4 to
on 7/4/04 8:41 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 08:15 -0700 04/07/04, J.S. Garrison wrote:
on 7/4/04 7:19 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
A friend just gave me a Mac Plus. It came with an external HD. First
I tried to start from a floppy. So I
on 7/4/04 8:54 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 08:15 -0700 04/07/04, J.S. Garrison wrote:
The problem's gonna lie in a dirty or malfunctioning floppy drive.
If you can get one, replace the floppy drive. OR, dismantle the existing one
partially and clean and lube
on 7/4/04 11:02 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you all for the help. The problem was indeed with the floppy
drive. I replaced with a working one (thank you Jeff) and it worked.
But I only know it worked because the floppy disk was not expelled,
and I heard the drive
on 6/16/04 8:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi this is mi first post i will try to explain this.
I have expirience with classic macs i have a q950 a classic a se and also a
power mac 6500.
The problem is that i have also a macintosh IIcx with a cpu expancion card
and a
on 6/12/04 8:26 AM, THE ROCK at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try these guys in Santa Ana: http://www.acpswapmeet.com/
There's also the TRW swapmeet in El Segundo:
http://members.cox.net/stengel/swapmeets.html
I hope these helps.
~
Boy, bingo! There's a good one. Thanks
First, please forgive the semi-off-topic question. I am pretty desperate to
find an answer.
I'm looking to find swap-meets in So. Calif. that you may have seen people
selling Macs, Clones and PCs at.
I have a large group of machines and parts that need to go within the next
60 days and I'm
on 6/4/04 4:54 AM, DEFRANCE François at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to install System 7.5.3 on a LCIII. The internal HD was dead. I
booted with the Network Access7.5 floppy from Apple's website. The HD was
unreadable, so I formatted it. But the HD is now locked (with
on 5/14/04 8:51 AM, Andrew McCall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pretty much as the subject says :)
I picked up a complete LC system (for £4.20 from eBay!) in order to use
the design keyboard, desktop bus mouse and 12 RGB monitor on my Mac
IIci. Everything works, but the 12 RGB monitor
on 5/14/04 9:00 AM, Andrew McCall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have a spare Apple Macintosh LC that is up for grabs! I will also
strip for parts if anyone needs a specific item.
Its a tidy system with an original 40Mb SC Apple hard disk, and I am
not sure about the RAM off hand.
on 5/11/04 12:47 PM, John Niven at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now when I turn it on, the the lights flash OK, go through a sequence,
which ends with the green (activity?) light flashing. I think this is
the machine preparing a start-up page. then the green light goes out
and paper and roller
on 5/10/04 4:55 PM, Doug Anderson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never used external SCSI devices before. Is my hunch that the
cable is bad correct, or am I missing a config or compatibility issue?
Since the cables are relatively cheap I ordered another one online so I
can test my hunch.
on 5/8/04 5:03 PM, Michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 05/08/2004 02:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey folks-
I just installed a Radius PrecisionColor 24XP NuBus video card into my Mac
IIsi. I know the card works because I pulled it (working) out of a Quadra
on 5/6/04 11:48 PM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The LC was a good Low Cost Mac in it's day, and they last an last as a
lesson in computer robustness, but the LCII, IMHO, was a sad effort. I
haven't found a single LCII that hasn't died of Caps of Death in the
sound area yet, and
on 5/7/04 12:08 AM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Performa 600 with a Radius rocket 33MHz card. The Rocket has
20MB and so does the P600. If I used the Rocket as the main accelerator
will it combine both RAM pools and use all 40MB?
My experience has been that the only RAM
on 5/5/04 10:40 AM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 4, 2004, at 05:50 pm, J.S. Garrison wrote:
Be THAT as it may, I can't get a 386/40 to email.
*cough* Linux.
You mean GUI or Command-Line?
I have a RedHat 5.1 I should give it a go.
Meanwhile, I'll still delight
:
On May 4, 2004, at 05:50 pm, J.S. Garrison wrote:
Be THAT as it may, I can't get a 386/40 to email.
*cough* Linux.
Oh come on, that's cheating when you have resort to using an after
market
OS on a PC. :^)
Michael
You cant use Windows 3.1 with tcp/ip add-on to do email
on 5/2/04 5:28 AM, A.Tuazon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey folks,
A few questions regarding my IIsi:
1) Which OS would be the most optimal for this machine? 6? 7.0? 7.0.1? 7.1?
7.5? etc.
~
7.1 or 7.5.3 are my choices.
~
2) I just got in my possession an old IBM 4019
on 4/30/04 6:53 AM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a turbo040 card in my Performa 600 that I am trying to build
into a Super 68k Nubus machine. It registers in every info tool I've
tried in Mac OS as 40MHz, even in the QuadControl 2.2 panel. The CPU is
clearly a XC68040HRC33M
on 4/28/04 2:54 AM, R. A. Cantrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just about Chipmunk'd myself blind and cannot get a definitive answer
on some 30 pin simms. They all have 8 OKI 514100A-70SJ chips (20625069A9Z)
I just need to determine the size (meggage) of each stick. Anyone got some
of
on 4/28/04 5:13 AM, Robert J. Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Macintosh LC 580 but it won't turn on. It has a 810 MB HD. How does
this compare to a Quadra 700. Is it worth trying to FIX. Is there a Fuse in
side. I see that the Monitor section has screws. Can that section be slid
on 4/26/04 10:27 AM, DavidU02 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My 8500 won't boot from a CD. I have the CD selected as the startup drive
and I also have held down the C key while booting but the machine always
starts up from the internal HD.
I can get the same CD to boot from my BW G3 but not
on 4/19/04 5:51 PM, Derek R. Morton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my nightly search of eBay I came across this beauty:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItemcategory=4610item=4125514187rd=1
A mint condition ScuzzyGraph! Amazingly rare... which the BuyItNow
prices attests to.
on 4/14/04 11:50 PM, Marcin Wichary at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I just joined the system6 list, but my first post (below) got bounced
: (LIST module(list system6) reports:
: account is full (quota exceeded)).
:
: Is this list dead?
Coincidentally, LisaList seems dead from November,
on 4/7/04 7:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey folks-
Thanks for the input. As I suspected, there doesn't appear to be anything
wrong with my hardware.
By upgrading to System 6.08 from 7.1, I seem to have eliminated all the
symptoms I have been experiencing as far
on 4/4/04 11:54 PM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 1, 2004, at 07:47 am, J.S. Garrison wrote:
I like my misshapen IIcx. I cut the floppy slot wider and am using a
trap-door style floppy drive from a Performa 600 in it. It's nestled
in a
IIci case, so the video hole
- Original Message -
From: bob gary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 5:16 PM
Subject: Mac SE/30 with no sound...
Hello Mac people!
I have recently obtained a running vintage SE/30 that
has 20mb of memory and a 40mb hard drive. There
on 3/31/04 8:40 PM, E. Seth Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Vintage Macs wrote:
I'm sorry, I should have been more clear with my original message. Jumper
block W3 is definitely not the same thing as W1, the ROM SIMM jumper.
(And, no, there's not a W2 that I could
on 3/27/04 11:12 PM, E. Seth Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings-
Recently, I acquired a IIcx which I unfortunately discovered
doesn't work. When I go to power the computer on, the fan will spin for
as long as I hold in the power button, and then stop spinning. A slight
click
on 3/21/04 2:09 PM, Phil Beesley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You buy a Mac on eBay and it turns out to be the former property of an
Applemaster.
http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/iifx.html
Phil
Pretty cool, Phil.
Jeff G.
--
Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/
- Original Message -
From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:27 PM
Subject: List of NuBus SCSI cards?
Is there a list somewhere of all the NuBus SCSI cards
that were made?
So far, the only ones I've heard of are
on 3/12/04 5:22 PM, Eva Kosinski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...for getting rid of my macIIci's -- now I have
someone trying to get a book off some old
400k floppies and I don't have a drive that
can read them.
-Eva
We LOVE to say I Told You So.. ;^)
Jeff G.
--
Vintage Macs is
on 3/4/04 10:28 PM, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:04:50PM -0800, J.S. Garrison wrote:
The 6100 uses a differing file system than the IIsi. For best results you'll
need to put the drive into the IIsi and format it, then add your operating
on 3/4/04 8:24 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I need help with the following:
I got these two external SCSI Hard Disks yesterday, with 520M and 2G
capacity. I connected them to a PowerMac 6100 and formated both in
Mac OS Standard format. Then I tried to make them work
on 2/29/04 10:04 AM, Vanessa Stern at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some people here may remember that I posted a while back about my problems
with my LCIII. This machine was running system 7.6.1 with no problems up
to now.
I am tired of messing with this. I do have an external SCSI drive,
on 2/29/04 10:22 AM, Vanessa Stern at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to make a correction to my post about my LCIII. Orignally, when the
external HD was still attached to the machine, on trying to boot up, I was
getting the message The startup disk will not work on this Macintosh
model.
on 2/23/04 6:15 PM, Jim Raper at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Y'All,
Is there anyone who KNOWS a 64MB chip, 72-pin of course, won't work
in an LCIII? I just want to know. I'm an eBay rummager and want to know
before I just have to bid on a chip and find out for myself.
Jim
In the
--
From: Bob C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How about a 64MB chip in an LCIII?
Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 5:30 PM
Jeff,
That must be an LCIII+ Plus! :-)
All my LCIII's have a 68030... hence the III.
Right. But a friend of mine had and shared
on 2/24/04 10:35 AM, Bob C. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, I see what you mean. Could it possibly be that someone had put a real
Quadra 605 motherboard in that LCIII case?
I think they fit perfectly.
In any event, I was always under the impression that the LCIII+
designation stood for
on 2/16/04 3:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Performa 550, all in one, running OS 7.5, doing well. It will
recognize the CD ROM drive, the Zip Drive and it's own hard drive, but it
doesn't
recognize it's floppy drive. When I put a floppy in the slot the only
on 2/5/04 4:55 AM, Jim Raper at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Y'All,
I bought an LCIII to fix up as a simple game, word processing,
fiddle-with computer for my granddaughter. I've added a larger HD,
raised RAM to 36 MB total, and installed 7.5.5. If I can figure out how
to do it, I will
on 2/4/04 10:27 PM, musicbox at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
read a thread a while ago about compaq drives...tried last year to
format a compaq CFP2105s for my 7100 w/o any success.
anyone got any hints on how to go about doing this?
many thks for any pointers
Well, the one I formatted with
on 2/4/04 8:01 PM, Vaughan Bromfield at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks
I just got my hands on an unopened Macintosh System 7.1 Upgrade Kit
M1731LL/A, (C) 1993 Apple Computer Inc. Designed to upgrade from 7.0 to
7.1 according to the box it's 800K disks.
The box itself is normal height and
on 2/3/04 1:45 PM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My IIci has caught the 'turn on when it feels like it and won't turn
off' bug. Is it the board or the PSU that causes that?
It's probably the switch at the rear. Turn it a degree or 45 and see if it
makes the problem vanish.
Jeff
--
on 1/31/04 6:52 AM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItemitem=2779557850category=16178
He claims it's not Mac Compatible. I looked it up on Seagate's site
here:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/st32550n.html
And it looks
on 1/27/04 7:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got my LCIII running good here at home, now (with a different hard drive)
and I'd like to take it online across my home network. It's got an Asante
ethernet card installed, and that's as far as I've gotten. Open Transport
I spent the evening trolling through eBay. There were a few units I would
have bought, but the shipping has become such that it can be triple or more
the asking price of the unit offered.
Wonder if there can't be established a special shipping fee by all
commercial shippers that would be set so
on 1/26/04 5:56 AM, R. A. Cantrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 1/26/04 7:55 AM, J.S. Garrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone out there have connections to agencies that might pick up on this and
implement it??
I ship via FedEx Ground on heavy stuff and it is reasonable, though
on 1/26/04 6:47 AM, R. A. Cantrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 1/26/04 8:19 AM, J.S. Garrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well what irked me was the seller wanted $30.00 shipping for a $9.99 item.
Many or most of them do. I want a special pricing section for computers
older than, say
on 1/26/04 7:47 AM, Powermac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Their strategy is to make it worth their time to package and ship cheap
computers. While a hobbyist probably doesnt mind the time to securely pack a
computer and take it to the post office once and a while when you sell in
bulk I bet it
on 1/26/04 9:35 AM, Powermac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as finicky buyers go, it doesnt matter what they purchased or how
cheap it was, if it shows up broken or scratched up they will complain.
Insurance takes time and the buyer just gets his money back leaving a bad
taste in his
on 1/26/04 8:48 AM, GaryC at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am an eBay seller and the thing most buyers aren't aware of is the expense
involved just to list. Shipping is not cheap. If you don't think so try
checking with UPS and FED-X for charges to ship the weight in question, then
figure in
on 1/26/04 3:57 PM, Chris Weinkauf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey everyone. I just pulled my snow iMac out of the washing machine and
just wondered what the best setting would be to dry it on in my dryer.
Tumble dry? Permanent Press? ^_^
Cheers ^_^
-Chris
Aww, c'mon. YOU know the
on 1/25/04 7:51 AM, Darren at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Benson wrote:
Ignoring all that off topic stuff
Marcin, its a 68k list so windows 3.1 is about as close to topic as
possible and that would require a 040.
I think you will find the parallel equivalent to an 040 is a 486,
on 1/25/04 5:14 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clip
I've had bad, bad luck with Netscapes from 1.1n to
4.76.
4.8 pretty much got all the long standing bugs
squashed and is apparently going to be the absolute
final version
on 1/25/04 4:02 PM, Powermac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with microsoft is that old browsers are being retired (as in not
available for download from microsoft). I recently tried to get a browser
for my Win 3.11 test box and found microsoft doesnt have it for download
anymore
on 1/19/04 9:00 AM, Glenn McGaha Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to get email and possibly web browsing working on my
PowerBook 170. Downloaded ClarisEmailer and iCab. As far as I can tell I
also need something called InternetConfig based on the iCab readme,
but I can't seem to
on 1/19/04 5:33 PM, Linda Tooker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Icab on a 170 are you nuts?
Well, Internet Explorer 2.0 will work on that 170. I recall
using it on my 165 with 8MB RAM. External Modem.
Jeff
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Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog Electronics
on 1/18/04 7:27 AM, Robert J. Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I Inherited a Mac LC II and a friend brought me a LC 580. I got both
running but having been a PC user fixer for many Years I'm not real
familier with the MAC's. Is there a good source for a Tutorial. All I
have is the Getting
on 1/17/04 11:40 PM, Terence Dennis Sherman at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
just a real quick question -- after washing my IIcx's motherboard in the
washing machine (It had progressed to the point that it could no longer
turn on at all), how long should I let it dry? I know that at least a few
on 1/17/04 8:50 PM, Jim Raper at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I bought a couple of LCIII's to fix up for my little Mac LC lab. I
upgraded memory to 20 MB, put a 250 MB HD in one - 500 MB HD in the
other, and installed OS 7.5.5 on each of them. Everything was working
fine. Noticed time was wrong
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