Re: LaserWriter IIf

2004-11-12 Thread Marten van de Kraats
On 12-nov-04, at 16:01, Thomas Burns wrote: Does anyone know anything about the LaserWriter IIf? I've got it hooked up to a PC running windows 2k. I'm getting several problems with it. I havent been able to print from it yet. 1. I'm occasionally getting all 4 lights blinking. I dont think

Re: Mac IIci

2004-11-04 Thread Marten van de Kraats
On 4-nov-04, at 14:24, Ian Nixon wrote: Hi, I did find out which OS it was - it was Finder 6.1.7, and System 6.0.7. The other disks did install 7.0, so I don't think I have to worry for now... Ian Worry? About 6.07? 7.0 will give you far more to worry about, It is better to upgrade to 7.1 or

Re: Change of List Nanny

2004-04-30 Thread Marten van de Kraats
On 30-apr-04, at 21:35, Mark Benson wrote: On Apr 30, 2004, at 07:11 pm, Darren wrote: Mark Benson wrote: Just to inform you i have relieved Marten van de Kraats as the list nanny. Any queries/reports/suggestions/complaints etc. should be directed to me in future Remember folks, a friendly list

Re: Who Out There Knows A Way........

2004-01-26 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I'm holding my breath waiting for a nanny to step in and squash this thread It seems to me that the price of shipping a collectable vintage mac is pretty much on topic. I myself always aim at buying the larger stuff in towns close by so I can pick it up myself. But is some time ago that I

Re: Who Out There Knows A Way........

2004-01-26 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Full circle. And again, nannies, I apologize. Maybe this thread is getting a bit boring indeed. I think everything is said now. You managed to fill some digests anyway. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven:

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread Marten van de Kraats
This maybe olde news for you. But for me it was/is new news. Therefore not knowing it was old news I shared. And from what I seem to be hear MAC doesn't have a real functional browser out there. For vintage macs netscape 4.7.x and icab are pretty functional, but not really. In general older

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-24 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Marcin Wichary wrote: Marten? you around. :) Yes I'm watching. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html

Re: ADB Mice and/or Keyboards

2004-01-16 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I have them: - Apple Square mouse = $5 - Apple Tear drop mouse=$7 - Apple Keyboard=$7 You pay shipping from CA 95829. Thanks, Terry On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:05:53 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Need any ADB Mice and/or Keyboards? Please, Take this off list or to the swap list. Marten -- Vintage

Re: DOS Card for IIfx

2003-12-05 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I didnt want to run any form of windows (maybe win 3.1 for kicks) mostly for dos just to see how it worked on the mac. The technology is old enough that I figure the cards could be found rather inexpensively. Somehow I think that running windows me or xp on a IIfx would be even more of kick! I

Re: IIsi vs LCIII

2003-12-01 Thread Marten van de Kraats
What no-body has mentioned is that the IIsi can run OS 6.0.8L, which the LCIII cannot. And 6.06, 6.07 and 6.08 plain. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html

Re: 8.1 to OS X AppleTalk

2003-11-24 Thread Marten van de Kraats
He needs to have a chat with the sysadmin and find out if the switches and routers are the managed type, which can be configured over the ethernet cable using a Telnet program or if they're fancy ones with built in mini web servers, by using a web browser. There is where the various protocols

Re: 8.1 to OS X AppleTalk

2003-11-23 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Maybe in theory, but not in practice. The hubs in my office crash when someone transfers files from or to the fileserver over appletalk. The hubs can handle AFP over IP alright but as soon as appletalk turns up its head trouble starts. Only the printing over appletalk seems to work just

Re: 8.1 to OS X AppleTalk

2003-11-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
AppleTalk and AppleShare IP are in no way the same. Their only similarity is they are both for the Mac OS and made by Apple. AppleTalk is slower and uses older routines it is also very versatile and works over more than one medium (in other similar guises such as LocalTalk). AppleShare IP is a

Re: 8.1 to OS X AppleTalk

2003-11-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
AppleTalk is not an inferior protocol at all. It is designed for simplicity and convenience on a local area network, and does the job quite well. TCP/IP never matched the convenience of AppleTalk on a LAN until Apple recently introduced Rendevous. Modern servers and clients support AppleShare over

Re: 8.1 to OS X AppleTalk

2003-11-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Mark Benson wrote: Having done nothing in particular to my 7100cx I now can't mount any OS X Based AppleTalk shares that require a password, it just tells me the password is wrong. It is not (I'm pretty sure) upgrading to OS X 10.3 that did id, but might maybe 10.3.1? Connecting to both my OS

On the death of a IIfx

2003-11-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
For anyone who wondered what the life expectancy is of IIfx without a fan, I have the answer: it is short. I have tried it with a modified IIfx (no hard disk (major heat producer), very lowend video card and enough holes to get rid of heat), it didn't work. The strain on the psu was just to

Re: 8.1 to OS X AppleTalk

2003-11-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
What version is required to get the ip address button, I have no need for it and would like to point out that that Mark shouldn't either. Original where possible on my on topic macs. 3.8.x? I am not sure about the version. Someting like 3.7.x or 3.8.x... No one would cry over the loss of dell,

Re: 8.1 to OS X AppleTalk

2003-11-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Why should one want to use appletalk when running mac os 8.1 on the client machine? Appletalk is an inferior protocol that should be avoided when you have the alternative of IP. The only reason I am using it is because of my laserwriters being appletalk only and my personal server (fanless LC

Re: On the death of a IIfx

2003-11-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Marten van de Kraats wrote: For anyone who wondered what the life expectancy is of IIfx without a fan, I have the answer: it is short. I have tried it with a modified IIfx (no hard disk (major heat producer), very lowend video card and enough holes to get rid of heat), it didn't work

Re: Gray Scale SE30

2003-10-29 Thread Marten van de Kraats
on 10/28/03 9:46 PM, Michael Day at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HiI'm a lurker on this list. I have a Micron Xceed color cardit is NOT a gray-scale but it worked very nicely with a 15 Apple Multi-Scan monitor. I can't recall the resolution and I don't have a working SE/30 to test it in

Re: LC3 box - connecting it up

2003-10-29 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Hi Guys, I'm just starting into Mac world (I'm used to PCs, Windows and Linux). Welcome to the list. I have the base unit of an LC 3 (or is that LCIII) and power lead. Can anyone tell me the basics? Like: do I need a Mac versions of: - Screen - Keyboard - Mouse or can I use PC versions with the

Re: Odd 8.0/LC 475 behavior

2003-10-28 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I tried to boot an LC475 that I am setting up for acustomer from an OS 8.0 CD. I held down the 'C' key as normal and it crashed to: [Sad] [Mac] 000F 0001 Odd I thought. It was supposed to work on all 040 Macs. I rebooted assuming the hard disk (with 7.6) would boot the machine as

Re: LC vs. LC 475

2003-10-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 01:21 AM, Marten van de Kraats wrote: I, and others, have managed it from 6.0.8 to OS X (10.1.x). I have yet to repeat the trick with 10.2 sadly. It can be done. I have done it. E-Mail 1st thing in the morning - sorry. So it does work pre-8.0 to 10.2

Re: LCIII. Enet arrived. How to get software on a floppy.

2003-10-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I'm afraid that you are going to need your PC in order to make floppies to get the Mac going. I don't think he needs to do that. He just has to link his LC III to his ibook via athernet and then transfer the needed files for tcp/ip to his LC III. He can make an appletalk connection with the

Re: LCIII. Enet arrived. How to get software on a floppy.

2003-10-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
OT 1.1.2 will work just fine on a LCIII running 7.1. I guess you were using some other Mac. Actually I never tried because: 1) Many people are so adamant that Classic networking was better than OT. They were wrong. Classic networking is only better if you have little ram to spare. 2) the only

Re: LC vs. LC 475

2003-10-21 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I'm no expert on this, I think the only 68k Mac that can be brought forward to a PPC is the Quadra 800, and that takes saving the upper case, throwing out the rest and putting the upper case on a PM 8500. The back and the bottom will not work on a 8500. (I tried years ago, and bought the mobo

Re: LC vs. LC 475

2003-10-21 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I, and others, have managed it from 6.0.8 to OS X (10.1.x). I have yet to repeat the trick with 10.2 sadly. It can be done. I have done it. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven:

Re: LC vs. LC 475

2003-10-19 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I have just found two old LCs. I would like to rejuvenate them so that students and lab assistant can use them. In our environment we have already moved to OS X, airport etc..., however I believe these vintage Macs are worth a few bucks for upgrading them. So the idea is to upgrade the LC

Re: LW 4/600 pinter

2003-09-23 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I can't find the on/off switch. Boy do I feel silly. Can anyone help me? -- You don't need it. That model turns off itself automatically after usage as you might have noticed. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6

Re: Apple 2 GS?

2003-09-12 Thread Marten van de Kraats
If you wanna discuss the Apple 2 you are advised to subscribe to the apple2list. There are probably more people there that can help you with that machine. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven:

ImageWriter I profile (concept) (was re: printers)

2003-09-11 Thread Marten van de Kraats
As promised: the profile of the ImageWriter I. It is of course just a concept. Feel free to comment. We are now in the process of developing a guideline for the profiles of all other (vintage) mac compatible printers we are going to write profiles on. ImageWriter I The ImageWriter I is more

Re: printers

2003-09-10 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Hey, I'm still in. I have a Personal LW, a LW 16/600, a Color Stylewriter 2400, a LW Select 300, and an Imagewriter I. Do you have a preference of which one I should do first? I'd imagine the 16/600, which is probably the most relevant to the greatest number of people (of the printers I own).

Star NL 10

2003-09-01 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Anyone know wether it is somehow possible to print to this thing (star nl 10 matrix printer) from a Mac running a macintosh system? Greetings, Marten van de Kraats -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re:

2003-08-31 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Anyway, my (list qualifying) LCIII cannot read the floppy. Neither will my other Mac, but I fear reprisal if I mention its model... That thing with the Quadra 650 was my mistake. I should not have jumped at it the way I did. Don't make such a fuss about it. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny

Re: LC II as a server?

2003-08-28 Thread Marten van de Kraats
An LC or an LCII makes a great little headless server. To get around the need for a monitor to boot, I made a small flat-bottomed U-shaped jumper out of a paperclip, just large enough to short pins #7 and #10 on the monitor connector. That makes it think a 640x480 display is attached. I don't

Re: LC II as a server?

2003-08-28 Thread Marten van de Kraats
pin 7 and 10 work for me. Thanks, Bob. Now I can finally put my fanless LC to work as a server. Since sleeper puts the hard disk to snooze after only one minute it truly is a silent server that only awakens when it is called for duty. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny

Another toy

2003-08-28 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Since this evening I am the proud owner of an Apple ImageWriter I. It is a downright heavy piece of equipment and seems to have build to last. I got a set of cables that allows to hook it both to a 512k and Macs with the more standard modem and printer port. Just printed a letter to the tax

Re: LC II as a server?

2003-08-28 Thread Marten van de Kraats
What is sleeper? That is a control panel that allows you to have the hard disk set to sleep automatically. This way you can reduce heat, noise and energy usage. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven:

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-25 Thread Marten van de Kraats
system 7.6.1 is flawless, and easy to maintain. Like you say, Norton of that era does a great job of keeping it up and running like a charm (and an occasional desktop rebuilding). That is exactly my problem. I don't find it normal that one needs to keep an OS a float with Norton. IN my office I

Re: new toy

2003-08-23 Thread Marten van de Kraats
The Quadra 650 certainly IS a part of this list. It's a 68k Mac in the ugly metal box whose motherboard is a GREAT replacement in a Quadra 700 a much prettier box. Discusssons about this ugly machine are acceptable according to the LEM page, but they are not the main focus of this list. --

Re: powerbook

2003-08-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Just curious. I am interested in a CHEAP Powerbook. I'd like color. I think I am most interested in a 540c, but I know lots of people like the 1400cs. I'm just curious as to what people on this list think is a good all around starter Powerbook. The main purpose would be entertainment,

new toy

2003-08-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I just picked up a Apple cd sc plus for only Euro 2.50. It looks pretty cool and looks nice with the IIci, the apple scanner one, the laserwriter IIg and my apple rgb monitor. Don't know if it works yet. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny

broken apple cd sc plus

2003-08-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
The apple cd sc plus I picked up today does not work. The tray won't pop out. The curious design makes it impossible to just pop in another cd player because head phone port and the cd eject button are not built into the cd but are put on a small separate board. To complicated for me to repair

Re: broken apple cd sc plus

2003-08-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
why not disconnect the second board and wire that direct to the new cdrom? that should be only 5 soldier points. 8 if you have a volume control You overestimate me, I am not much of a repair man. Anyway, one of these days I will bump into a working one. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny

Re: new toy

2003-08-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
What is the fastest CD-ROM unit that can be placed into a Quadra 650? Can a SCSI burner be placed in there? The Quadra is an off topic machine for this list. In theory the fastest scsi cd player you can find I guess. You can also put a cd burner in that off topic machine. I suppose both the

Re: new toy

2003-08-22 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I'm not sure what the once removed rule means. Me neither. It is a strange rule. I suppose it means that discussions about 68040 are less off topic than discussions about powermacs or powerbooks but we still prefer people to go to the quadlist with those machines. I understand this list is a

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-21 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Of course it reeks of flipping Linux, it was ported to OSX. Like many things adopted by OSX, they're just ported from somewhere else. I may be wrong and you dont need X11 to run OpenOffice but I doubt it. I have once run OpenOffice just to have a peek. I needed X11 to do so. I can't find my

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I've found my Turbo 601 upgraded IIci to be a much less twitchy computer than my Radius 81/110, which itself is far less troublesome than my 7300/200. Every time I do _anything_ to the 7300 I find myself having to do a clean OS reinstall. Had it going good then dropped in a USB 1.1 card and

Re: 24 bit addressing !@#$!?

2003-08-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I've just confirmed that my Classic II, running OS 6.0.8L, has a total memory of 10,240KB, the largest free block is 9,102KB, Finder uses 160KB, while the system uses 978KB. Does this elevate the Classic II from Road Apple status as a OS 6 machine? :-) In my book no Mac that can run system 6

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
OpenOffice1.10 runs well so far on both the quad and the 7300, might have to ask Gregg about this source for apple 10/100 nics though. Well the bits I've tried have so far. :) Ah. OpenOffice. But that reeks of linux. Or what? Linux might run pretty well on those machines, contrary to the Mac OS.

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
And to keep things on topic, I STILL run back to my accelerated IIci and Quadra 700 for that 68k feeling. I must be a 68k elitist since my 68k collection consists of a IIfx, 840av, and a 950/AWS. He he he. An accelerated IIci can be faster than a 840 av. One of those turbo 040 cards for the

Re: IIfx sound card

2003-08-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
That Mac has built-in sound. No card necessary. I was hoping for stereo sound, plus sound input would be nice so I can use the videospigot card I have in the corner. The built-in sound is stereo. Are you looking for something like this?

Re: 24 bit addressing !@#$!?

2003-08-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Forget it. 6.08L probably won't install on it anyway. See gamba's system 6 page for ideas on how to deal with to much memory or setup a ram disk and make your mac fly. I don't know about the L but 6.0.8 should install on a IIci, or at least 6.0.7 will. Of course 6.0.8 will run on it, so will

Re: 24 bit addressing !@#$!?

2003-08-20 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Once upon a time there was some software that would let you use up to 14Mb on a IIci and others of that vintage. It did it by snagging the space normally allocated to NuBus slots Anyone know anything about this? Marten Forget I asked. He was of course talking about maxima. Marten -- Vintage

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-19 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I have vintage macs as email servers, dns, and incoming fax machines. And they do it every bit as well as a G5 could, if not better. Now, the fact that I paid over $9,000 for my IIfx when it was brand new is another story... You still use a machine that you bought 14 years ago? cool! Marten --

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-19 Thread Marten van de Kraats
One of the best things about the vintage and quadra macs is the fact they are still very useful, as OSX becomes more mature software is slowly drying up for the classic OS, I spend much more time in the internet archieve than I do on real sites now which I think is a real shame, the fact the

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-19 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Those older Macs..Satisfying, less filling and only HALF the calories. And these newer macs..Well? :( These newer macs? The Macs Apple produced since the first G3 (late 1997) have been pretty good. Much better than the average computer anyway. They are only a bit expensive.

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-19 Thread Marten van de Kraats
It wasn't until the Mac decided to use more PC-oriented components that it's been REALLY problematic. There is nothing problematic about today's Macs. How much experience do you have with imacs, g3's, g4's, ibooks? Using pc-oriented components like ide and pci is not a bad thing, it is cheaper

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-19 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Marten van de Kraats wrote: It wasn't until the Mac decided to use more PC-oriented components that it's been REALLY problematic. I did not write that, Darren, and I don't agree with it either. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check

Re: Free stuff up for grabs

2003-08-18 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Replies like this should be off list and please don't include the entire original message when replying. Leave only the info that is essential to your answer (which, as i said, should have be given off list in this case). Marten Hi Todd, This would be shipping in the USA only? Matt Von:

vintage quality

2003-08-18 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I don't use OCR programs often, but today I needed to OCR three pages. I used the imac 400 Mhz and the agfa snapscan I have at work. The OCR program I used was Omnipage pro 8.0. The result was a mess. A total mess. The text files omnipage pro 8.0 produced were totally worthless. I wondered what

Re: new pride and joy

2003-08-16 Thread Marten van de Kraats
How much did the upgrade cost? 19 euro Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html -- -- Vintage Macs is

Re: Printer profiles/reviews

2003-08-16 Thread Marten van de Kraats
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Here is a list of all apple printers ever made (the vast majority You left out the DeskWriters which were Mac versions of HP DeskJets. They will come in time. First concentrate on the apple branded ones. The list is already long enough

Printer profiles/reviews

2003-08-15 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Sometime ago we talked about the necessity to have Apple printer profiles/reviews on the Web, and decided we should make them ourselves. Yesterday I heard that lowendmac would be very happy to host such profiles, so now it is time to start working. We have to decide who is going to write which

new pride and joy

2003-08-15 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Today my Daystar PowerCache arrived. It is the 50 Mhz version. I am really happy with it. At first speedometer didn't notice much change, but then I discovered I did need a driver (a control panel) after all. Now the cpu of my IIci is twice as fast. The FPU even more than that and the video is

cute new purchases

2003-08-14 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I am now the proud owner of a copy of Pina's Dead Mac Scrolls and a black and white apple scanner that still functions perfectly and works very well with system 6. I bought the scanner because I had to do a lot of black and white scanning some days ago. Of course I could have used my snapscan

Re: Im trying to install 6.0.7

2003-08-14 Thread Marten van de Kraats
6.0.8L was made to work with the Classic II and others. Those others being the LCII and the powerbook 100. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html

omnipage

2003-08-14 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Someone around here has OmniPage, version 3 or lower? It is OCR software. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html

Re: cute new purchases

2003-08-14 Thread Marten van de Kraats
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also won bids on a daystar powercache for my IIci What Mhz? I hope you got at least a 40Mhz with the FPU chip too. The speed is a mystery. I only know it was used to speed up a IIci, so it should be faster than 25 Mhz. Jugding from

Re: IIci L2 cache, and other questions!

2003-07-31 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Since I have an empty PDS, are/where/is there any interesting alternatives to fill it with (that would still be compatible with OS 6)? The DayStar Turbo 030 Universal Power Cache manual (Version 2.0A) does not mention System 6, but the card will work with A/UX. They were made in 25, 33, 40

Re: LaserWriter Select 310 problems

2003-07-31 Thread Marten van de Kraats
All the printer info already exists in the AppleSpec database. http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.html The old legacy stuff that we're interested in is at http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.legacy/index.html We are familiar with these pages. The idea for reviews of the apple

Re: LaserWriter Select 310 problems

2003-07-30 Thread Marten van de Kraats
On 7/29/03 9:52 PM, Bryan Kattwinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is definitely a weird model, a postscript printer that works by direct serial connection (no localtalk). We put one on an 8600 running 8.6 and it seemed to be ok there, but I don't recall printing from SimpleText. This surprises

Re: LaserWriter Select 310 problems

2003-07-30 Thread Marten van de Kraats
How odd. I thought it would be a normal network printer, considering it did postscript according to apple's specifications page. What maddness drove them to build that thing? LEM has all these nice pages about all the different Macintosh models ever build. We need something like that for

Re: LaserWriter Select 310 problems

2003-07-30 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Maybe we should just do it. Any volunteers? I suppose we could best offer the content to Lowend Mac. I'll ask Dan what he thinks about it. I guess we must limit ourselves to the Apple printers because otherwise there would come no end to the amount of reviews we should have to write. Any

Re: LaserWriter Select 310 problems

2003-07-30 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I think we need to delegate the writing of reviews to those people who actually own or have serviced the printers. You are right about that. I can help with the layout and if there is a site available that won't blast us with add ware or spy ware that we can use then that is where it should be. I

Fwd: [6] Re: SixBrowser

2003-07-30 Thread Marten van de Kraats
For all you people interested in the development of a webbrowser for system 6 (and who isn't?): This message was posted on the system 6 list, but because there are also a lot of system sixxers on the compact mac and vintage mac lists I have forwarded it. It's from a German developer wondering

Re: turbo and powercache

2003-07-29 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Thanks for the very comprehensive explanation. I am of course in the market for a faster 030 or a 040 on my IIci, because the ppc 601 won't run system 6. I'm trying to find something on ebay. Anyone here have such an accelerator for sale? Marten Daystar's main 68k accelerator/upgrade

Re: browser and email

2003-07-29 Thread Marten van de Kraats
can anyone suggest a faster browser and a faster email program for running on a lc520 running system 7.5.5. for those who dont know, the lc520 is powered by an 030. i am running netscape 3 (not gold) and it is like molasis, mostly due to the size of the program. Switch to icab (www.icab.de) for

Re: IIci and Cable Modem?

2003-07-28 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Yes, I have installed Open Transport 1.1.2 over OT 1.1.1, as well as finally finding the driver for my Ethernet card - thanks to another subscriber who supplied me the information offlist. Now, I suppose all I have to do is get my wife to shut down the PowerBook so that I can turn everything

Re: LaserWriter Select 310 problems.

2003-07-28 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Is this a Vintage list question? The printer is on topic, the computer not. Oh well . I just picked up one of these printers. Looks smart, came with s/w (version 1.0) and the users guide. So I tried to use it with my Performa 6360 under OS 9.1 (yes, this is not very vintage but its the

turbo and powercache

2003-07-28 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I am more of a software than a hardware guy, so I don't know much about accelerators. I have never used one so far, but would like to equip my IIci with one. Not because I really need it, but because it seems fun. I noticed daystar made two types: powercache and turbo. I suppose the

Re: LaserWriter Select 310 problems.

2003-07-28 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I'm kinda-sorta with you on the system 6 thing. Now I have my OSX PB G4 12 I'm losing interest in my older Macs - especially the 'middle years' ones. That's what the IIci is about. I have been playing with a IIsi and OS 6.0.8 but I'm fed up with the single slot. I need ethernet and a graphics

Re: IIci and Cable Modem?

2003-07-27 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Since I have one more port available on the router, I am wondering if it is possible to connect my IIci to high-speed Internet service, as well. The IIci is, as of now, configured with System 7.1.1, 128MB of RAM and has an Excellan EtherPort II card installed (assuming I can find a driver to get

[WARNING} Re: fed up rant was Re: Notes from the List Mom

2003-07-26 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Alex and Dan are suspended for the next 48 hours. They will not be able to post during that time. This thread was officially closed, they ignored my warning. Now they must face the consequences. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check

[WARNING} Re: fed up rant was Re: Notes from the List Mom

2003-07-26 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Supposedly these three guys are right and the list mom made a mistake (he too is human after all), they are making it increasingly difficult for me to do something for her. That's what I meant when I wrote about not going into open warfare. BTW This IrixX guy has also been suspended. Did that

Re: presto 040

2003-07-26 Thread Marten van de Kraats
According to: http://www.sonnettech.com/downloads/proc_upgrds_sw.html#p040 it goes down to only 7.1. Gamba OTOH this http://www.sonnettech.com/support/read_me/presto_read_me.html mentions using it with 6.0.8. Thanks, this means it might work after all. Cool. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny

[WARNING} Re: fed up rant was Re: Notes from the List Mom

2003-07-26 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Alex and Dan are suspended for the next 48 hours. I meant of course Alex and Darren. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html

Re: Zip dive on SE-30

2003-07-26 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I have an SE 30 with 4 MB of RAM running system 7.1. Is there a way to connect my external SCSI Zip drive to it. There is no driver below system 7.5 on the Iomega site. There are older drivers around on the web. You can find one here:

presto 040

2003-07-25 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Anyone know wether the sonnet presto 040 upgrade for the IIci works with system 6? Greetings, Marten van de Kraats -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299

[WARNING] Re: fed up rant was Re: Notes from the List Mom

2003-07-25 Thread Marten van de Kraats
This thread is now officially closed. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html -- -- Vintage Macs is

Dear list members

2003-07-25 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Dear list members, If you have problems about the way these lists are managed, please contact me off list, do not begin sending numerous messages to the list. Most list members don't want to be bothered with personal vendetta's or problems, they just want to read about vintage macs. BTW Off

Re: fed up rant was Re: Notes from the List Mom

2003-07-24 Thread Marten van de Kraats
i'm sorry, but while i do appreciate the time you and our list nanny put in to maintaining these lists, i'm getting really fed up at the childishness and unneccessarily heavy handed discipline. even a parent knows that one must let go and trust a little for a child to grow - thinking of the

Re: MacIIsi data transfer

2003-07-18 Thread Marten van de Kraats
What methods are available to me for transfering data from my mac IIsi, 7.6 to a more current platform...(such as Mac OS 9.0 or .10.0) You can either use disks or a network connection. Marten -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: getting files off LC-II

2003-07-14 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Threes different solutions have been offered for this problem, but it seems to me the first one (offered by Ken) is by far the most simple one. The LCII is equipped with a so called superdrive, a floppy drive that can read and write both DOS and Mac formatted floppies. You need a certain piece

System 6 Heaven update

2003-07-08 Thread Marten van de Kraats
The broken links on all pages except for the pages in the main download area have been fixed. Some minor changes were made. The repair of broken links in the main download area will follow shortly. After that I am planning some new things. Marten van de Kraats

Re: Software Site

2003-07-07 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Isn't the .sig file in breach of netiquette? Yes, it is. Marten van de Kraats Vintage Mac List Nanny Steve Conrad 810 Main Henrietta, MO 64036 816-494-5692 http://sasha91.0pi.com www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/stonekeep/600 It is no secret (nor should it come

[WARNING] Re: Get a life

2003-07-07 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Here is a guy (Steve) providing valuable information to the list (or at least to me), and you hack on him for his non-political, non-controversial sig? A sig he has been using for quite some time without complaint? If you have nothing useful or at least constructive to say (and this wasn't), SHUT

[WARNING] Re: Get a life

2003-07-07 Thread Marten van de Kraats
This thread is now officially closed. I don't want to hear anymore about it. Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny -- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html

Re: System 6- Missing AppleShare resources?

2003-06-18 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I hauled out one of those old LCs the other day and found it with pretty much its original System 6.0.7 installation on it. I got a few cockamamie ideas and decided to attempt networking it with my other machines, using an Asante' MacCon-i LC-10baseT card I found. First I used NSI 1.4.5 to

Re: is system 6 capable of color?

2003-06-18 Thread Marten van de Kraats
is system 6 capable of displaying color like system 7 or 8? Of course. Millions of colors if you want (depending on hardware naturally). Marten -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot

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