Finder 7.1.3 Re: Stuffit Expander

2001-08-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it's just 7.1. I have the 7.1.3 update disk but never got off my lazy butt :-P You're certain of that? :) The current Drag Manager package's docs say it doesn't come with Finder 7.1.3, but then there is a folder with (surprise

Ads Re: Eudora

2001-08-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew Michael MacTao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Stansen wrote: Tuck 'em into a corner and practice ignoring 'em. That's how subliminal advertising works best... Your conscious mind doesn't notice, but, days or weeks later, you find yourself with an impulse to buy

OT: County Fairs. Re: Eudora

2001-08-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
This year's theme for the Western Idaho Fair was 2001: A Fair Odyssey. The billboards and posters all had a pig sitting in a flying saucer on them. :P = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the

The outfit responsible for Apple's new website.

2001-09-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Amazing what you can find in PC Magazine. From the current September issue, page 12 of the iBiz section. (Would that iEverything just DIE NOW please?) User Interface Engineering of Massachusetts http://world.std.com/~uieweb (Sure inspires confidence when a company that charges $40K to $150K

Re: Rocket Share

2001-09-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know where a guy could download a copy of Rocket Share for the Radius Rockets (not Rocketware, have that...) I saw a new in box, unopened copy of RocketShare on eBay last night. :) No bids yet then. = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why

Re: Slots in LC III

2001-09-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew W. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude, you want me to send you two LCIIs? I can't afford the shipping, but if someone else pays that theyre yours. For the experiment, naturally. I'm not in the habit of giving free computers away for no reason. Um, no. I'll pass on them.

Re: the power of a vintage laserwriter

2001-09-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's exactly the reason I went looking for a laser printer. This Epson printer eats cartridges like there is no tomorrow. The output looks great, but $50-60 to replace both cartridges every few weeks/months is way too much. Try a Xerox or

Re: the power of a vintage laserwriter

2001-09-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 22:42 +0200 on 03/09/01, Marten van de Kraats wrote: The apple spec database doesn't mention the scsi port, only a The SCSI is for a font disk. The IIg wasn't the only one that had a SCSI port; I think *most* of the II series had that 50-pin

Re: Format interleave

2001-09-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying a pretty fast hard disk in a LC... Which format interleave is the best: 1, 2, 3, 4??? 1:1 interleave is fine for all Macs except the Plus and SE. The Plus normally uses 3:1 and the SE 2:1 but that isn't really a factor with newer,

Re: Upgrading LC475

2001-09-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- William Hatchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Quadra 640AV recently expired and I'd like to move as many of the working components from it to my LC475 as possible. I began by maximizing RAM using modules from the Quadra. Next, I'd like to know how to replace the LC040 processor of the

Re: the power of a vintage laserwriter

2001-09-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it works fine from system 6 to mac os 9.1, but mac os x is giving me nothing but postscript errors. Somebody on the Macnn forum with a IIg had no problems though... Maybe it has something to do with the IINT only handling postscript level 1 and

Re: Upgrading LC475

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- From: the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs) Subject: Re: Upgrading LC475 Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2001, 6:24 PM At 18:20 -0700 on 04/09/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Apple never used a ZIF socket

Re: Hard drive upgrade

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Tell us the make and model of the drive, then I or someone can dig up a website with all the settings and tell what should work. (Unless the drive is a real old one from a long dead company that wasn't bought by some other company that is still around.) = The earth swarms with inhabitants.

Future Expansion. Re: the power of a vintage laserwriter

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Desert Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting port on the LaserWriter IIntx is ADB. In the manual, it says that it can be used for future expansion. It's amazing how much computer hardware from the 80's and early 90's had ports and connectors for future expansion or for future use.

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Too bad the Mac TV is like a LCII- (minus). :P Only 8megs RAM, limited to 8bit color in computer mode. Will the TV/Video stuff work with some other 5xx series board shoved into the case? IMHO the Mac TV is the computer equivalent of painting a Yugo black and sticking on a spoiler and plastic

Re: Upload vs. Download

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew Michael MacTao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Just a curious question... One that has always puzzled me. Does anyone know the specifics, why uploading a file to a server takes so much longer than downloading the same file? Because with a 56K connection your upstream

Re-coloring Macs.

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I had a thought the other day about how to alter the color of a Mac case in a way more durable than paint. :) Melt down some of the same sort of plastic in the color of your choice then use a heated spray gun to paint the case. Of course you'd definately want to wear a good chemical filter

Re: can't connect

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Don Hawryluk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: can't connect what the #$%?$@# am i doing wrong? thanks don. Did you have a look at the chooser to ensure that AppleTalk was turned on, and the AppleTalk control panel to ensure that the Modem port was selected? = The earth swarms

Joining the LC475 club. :)

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I'm going to be given an LC475 with monitor, keyboard and mouse. What to do with it? Heck if I know! :) I need a bigger table plus a bigger room to put it in. Currently the MegaTower 2000 PC and the not so mega but just as heavy tower Radius 81/110 occupy the table I have. The Power IIci sits

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew W. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Terry Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, the Macintosh TV chassis is basically the same as an LC5xx machine. The video and TV input is located on the motherboard, but there is the Apple Video system for the LC5xx series. As

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- billy j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yea, i know what scsi looks like 50 or 68 pin ribbons. what i can't remember is what did the older IDE look like? they didn't have ATA back then, did they? hell, i should know i'm 50 year old EE! IDE/ATAPI has always used a 40 pin dual row 0.1

Re: Upgrading an LC II

2001-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very cool! I don't have any LC IIs to try this on, though. Sounds like a good move, seeing as the LC II was a bit of a crippled machine. (You meant 32MB, right? Not 32k..) If you ask me, though, changing a mobo is changing the whole computer. I like using

Mac port pinouts?

2001-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Is there a site that has the pinouts for _every_ type of internal and external port ever used on a Mac from the 128K through the latest model? (Including the mini DIN 7 ports on the x100 PowerMac AV PDS card.) If there isn't such a site, it's about time one was created. I know the AV card

Re: play mp3's on 020 or up Macs

2001-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
There is just no way an 020 (meaning a Mac II or LC) is going to play MP3 in realtime. Even if it is super optimized a IIci with a 50Mhz DayStar 030 is going to struggle. --- Terry Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's a full port of mpg123, it should play any MP2 or MP3 audio. Terry

Re: can't connect

2001-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Check the AppleTalk control panel to make sure that it is set to the port your Modem is plugged into. Check the Chooser to make sure AppleTalk is Active. If you aren't using Open Transport, check the Network control panel. If you are using Open Transport check the TCP/IP control panel to be sure

Re: play mp3's on 020 or up Macs

2001-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I think about it, you can play MP3s on a 486. Not particularly well, but a 486/100 will do it real-time. I've hit a brick wall on the 475. mpg123 crashes out due to a lack of FPU (At least that's what it says) and all of my Quadras

601 upgrade notes. Re: Performa 575, and system 7.1

2001-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Sai kee Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clipped stuff about 601 upgraded mystic LC575 into it. Any tricks to install the 7.1 into LC575 ? Nope. The 601 upgrades for 68k Macs require a minimum of System 7.5. Apple's 601 upgrade control panel is designed only for 040 Macs. If you use it on

Re: Speaking of Mobo Swapping..

2001-09-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:54 -0700 on 07/09/01, Cameron Kaiser wrote: I've got both a loaner 7100 and my IIci open, and I'm unconvinced. Yes, much of the slots are in the same place, like Terry said, but the boards are not all that much alike in my opinion. Does Apple

Re: Performa 575, system 7.1 or 8.1 ?

2001-09-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Sai kee Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And for the 601, it could use 7.5 up to 8.1, with 36MB RAM, which is better ? 7.6.1, 8.1 if you want to use a large hard drive formatted HFS+. = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so

Re: mpg123 update

2001-09-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- JAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have posted the update from Mark - here are the results: http://www.jagshouse.com/68kmp3.html thanks jag If it's a pure 68k app and needs an FPU it won't work on a PowerMac because Apple wimped out and Mac OS on PPC only emulates an 020, according to

OT: this is funny. :)

2001-09-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
http://www.450productions.com/url/evilzug/workit/index.html And yes, it's clean. ;) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets? Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ICQ# 16024947

The sequel to the DMCA.

2001-09-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
As if the DMCA (Digital Milennium Copyright Act) wasn't bad enough, now a Democrat from South Carolina and a Republican from Alaska are trying to get something far worse passed into law. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/08/0238200 http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html

Re: LC 575 Mobo diagram?

2001-09-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:39 -0400 on 07/09/01, D.L. Miller wrote: Presenter 575 for the Mac LC 575. Is this to allow a external monitor? The cable attached to it is 14 pins, about 1 to 1.25 inches long. Yep, allows for video mirroring on an external display IIRC.

Re: Performa 575, system 7.1 or 8.1 ?

2001-09-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:11 -0700 on 07/09/01, Sai kee Wong wrote: How about the 575 (Mystic) ? Is the 7.1 only has the advantage of using less RAM over the 8.1 ? How about the speed ? If the speed are within 5%, then may be I should consider to use 8.1 rather

Re: DayStar IIsi adapter

2001-09-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:57 -0700 on 09/09/01, Gene Osburn wrote: I have a DayStar IIsi PDS adapter with two PDS slots. Can anyone tell me if this will allow me to install a IIci cache card, as well as an 040 card? Will the slot marked 'DayStar' accept a Sonnet 040

Re: DayStar IIsi adapter

2001-09-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, where'd you get that? I wonder how it would run with two 040 Cards. It won't. The top slot is still the IIsi type and would fry any IIci card like a Turbo 040 or 601. = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an

Re: About a RAM selling company

2001-09-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- François Delcoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone! I would like to know your advice about Coast-to-Coast MEMORY (18004-Memory). Are they clean and serious? From Belgium, I cannot manage to call them in order to know the price of a 64MB kit of IIfxRAM (ref. S30N016IIFX-4).

Re: DayStar IIsi adapter

2001-09-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gene Osburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 21:32:18 -0400 Subject: Re: DayStar IIsi adapter From: Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just mailed one of these to Will Ahearn! One's a PDS and one's a cache, but I don't have a good enough mental picture of the thing

Re: Zenith EasyPC

2001-09-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Two URLs that may be helpful to scratch that itch you may have to tinker with the genesis of the Dark Side. ;-) http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ (Check out the helpline.) and http://www.oldskool.org = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an

Re: Welcome to Foster Farms!

2001-09-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found what was apparently an LCIII in a dumpster (sort of) today. I Clipped stuff about Foster Farms What the hell is this thing? Coolness! Sound like you found a pre-release developer's version LCII which for some reason has had the lid replaced with

Re: DayStar IIsi adapter

2001-09-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gene Osburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wasn't listed as compatible. But I'm still confused by the fry your card and/or mobo warnings as they relate to the DayStar two slot adapter The IIsi PDS, and the top slot on the DayStar dual slot adaptor, are wired different that the Cache/PDS

Re: Quadra 605 monitors

2001-09-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Receipts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give me a list of Apple monitors that would work well with a Quadra 605 (besides the 12 RGB monitor)? I'm looking for a nice 14 - 15 monitor that would go well with this box. Thank you. The AppleVision 14 with built in speakers is quite

LC on the LAN. Re: Mass Murder in the states...

2001-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Make sure AppleTalk is Active in the Chooser. The AppleTalk control panel should be set to Ethernet. Macs often have a nasty tendency to switch AppleTalk from ethernet to the modem or printer port if they don't detect other computers (even if they aren't Macs) on the network when booted up. :P

Re: Apple IIe emulator card

2001-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Apple ][e card software here. ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Apple_II/For_Macintosh/ (Is it just me or does ftp.apple.com flat out not work with Netscape anymore?) Sounds like you're missing the external cable to connect an apple ][ 5.25

Re: TreadManager

2001-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- KinematiK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can u tell where i can find the TreadManager and Drag manager?? i need it for my lc3. I'm triyng to run a web browser which require those managers I used to know, but Apple axed that page of their site and moved everything around. :P I know you can

Re: Apple IIe emulator card

2001-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:02 -0700 on 13/09/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: (Is it just me or does ftp.apple.com flat out not work with Netscape anymore?) And you're not using a real FTP client why? Netscape's FTP has NEVER been particularly reliable on ANY server. I

Bolo. Re: LC on the LAN

2001-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 22:32 -0400 on 13/09/01, rlf9 wrote: From: the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LC on the LAN. Re: Mass Murder in the states... At 09:55 -0700 on 13/09/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: P.S. I like computer games that can ply themselves

Re: TreadManager [sic]

2001-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- rlf9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try http://devworld.apple.com/sdk/. Bob F Ha! They put that page back. Probably under protest as it had been taken down as part of Apple's website manglement. It doesn't even have the aqua style tabs at the top. :) = The earth swarms with inhabitants.

Re: Apple IIe emulator card

2001-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- rlf9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vintage Macs wrote... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apple IIe emulator card Message-id: 3B8F102F@mailserv66 It's my understanding that the IIe software requires non-32bit access. Am I wrong? Will a Q605 do this? True, the IIe software

Flags Across America, possible new e-mail virus.

2001-09-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I just got a call from a customer who's Outlook Express program no longer works correctly after he tried to open an attachment to an e-mail with the subject Flags Across America. Something just flashed on the screen breifly now Outlook won't automatically dialup even though all his internet

Re: Thanks all

2001-09-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- KinematiK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all have been very helpfull :) found Treadmanager :)) can't seem to find dragmanager 'do... no matter just keep looking. really love my lc ;) Drag Manager is on there, listed in alphabetical order. = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why

Re: The New York Attack

2001-09-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marten wrote: But, the United States set up a naval blockade around Japan preventing them from bringing in food and supplies. A naval blockade, by the by, is an act of war. So, the United States had already committed an act of war against Japan. Japan

Re: To Speed Up An All-In-One

2001-09-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good, but for the cost of the 550 mobo and a 68040 chip at 33mhz or higher, you could buy two accelerators. Those are really a better buy unless you're dead set on stability .. or you need a higher RAM ceiling. I'm very happy with the performance on

Re: To Speed Up An All-In-One

2001-09-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, there are no adapters for IIci cache cards to go in anything but a II series, unless JAG has seen something in his years at Goodwill that no one else has ever heard of. My 030 PowerCache manual shows an adaptor for the LC pizza boxes. :) I

Re: Flippin out floppy (Was:To Speed Up...)

2001-09-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
To clean a IIci (and many other Mac's auto inject floppy) drive. Pop a disk into it then remove the screws from the sides. You need the disk in, otherwise the emergency eject lever is in the way of the outer case. Remove the outer case then slide off the dust protector plastic sleeve. (Dust

Re: To Speed Up An All-In-One

2001-09-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IIci cache cards are among the ONLY accelerators that are sort of worthwhile, because they're the only ones that aren't ridiculously overpriced. You can usually get them for about $20-30. Unfortunately, they only work in the II-series Macs,

PowerCache in an LC. Re: To Speed Up An All-In-One

2001-09-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That isn't what I was told by the guys at MacVizion, who know quite a bit about 68k Mac upgrades .. they said you need a different adapter board from Daystar to use the Turbo 601. -- Deven Gallo To allay the suspicions of the Sceptical Pickle, has anyone seen

DayStar adaptors.

2001-09-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Shreve Systems lists adaptors for the LCIII. http://www.shrevesystems.com/daystar.html Someone on this list said a while back that they were sold out of some or maybe all of the different adaptors though. :( Dirt cheap at $20 instead of the ripoff prices other places charge for them. Shreve

Re: IIsi video and such

2001-09-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quicktime video plays very well on my IIci, as long as you tune it properly, i.e. turn on the 128k cache, turn off unneccesary extensions, etc. I have a Turbo 040-40, 48mb RAM. Can anyone explain this-- why does my Turbo 040 cause my IIsi or IIci to crash

Re: IIsi video and such

2001-09-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The Quadra PDS is a different beast than the IIsi and SE/30 PDS. Same principle though. The slot that looks like a 72 pin SIMM slot is Apple's hedge against the chance they may have screwed up something in the ROM. Apparently they did in the very early IIsi as some shipped with a ROM SIMM. Those

Re: IIsi video and such

2001-09-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/18/01 9:42 AM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. My IIsi has an aftermarket video card in it, taking up its one and only expansion slot. It *looks* like the onboard video is toasted - absolutely no reaction when I hook up

More 030 PowerCache adapter info.

2001-09-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
What I noticed right after posting the info from the PowerCache manual (with its nice color photos of installation in all the Macs) was on the cover is printed a notice for owners of the SE, Classic and LC III to use the manual that shipped with the adaptor. (Yes, printed right on the cover, not

Re: Performa 600

2001-09-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
And a IIvm returns??? :) --- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See what gestalt ID that thing returns, Jeff and anyone else who has one. A true P600 will return 45, while a IIvi will return 44 and a IIvx will return 48. Information here

Re: Clock Chipping page gone?

2001-09-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
403 here too. --- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 22:22 +0200 on 18/09/01, STEFAN DAEHLER wrote: I got it right now, now problem at all.Steff Make sure you aren't loading from cache, and give me the URL you're using. Still dead at the following from my end:

Re: IIci/cx to Quadra 700?

2001-09-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a kit to upgrade a IIci/cx to a Quadra 700. What kind of performance increase will I get? My system uses a 40mhz 68040 card from Daystar already .. but I assume this will speed things up a TON by boosting the speed of the main processor the data has

Re: old macs/new RAM

2001-09-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi According to Low End Mac my old 7200 PPC is now Vintage, as of July 2001. So I wonder if there's anyway to cheat and put newer cheap RAM in this old machine or is stuck using the original specs? I have an old 4400 too that I'd like

Re: More 030 PowerCache adapter info.

2001-09-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:20 -0700 on 18/09/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: is printed a notice for owners of the SE, Classic I wanna know how the Daystar got a Classic to take any sort of adapter card at all. Well, it'd either go in the RAM expansion board slot

Re: Good words from the web.

2001-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Then go have a bitch at Tatsuya Ishida at www.sinfest.net --- Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Eshelman wrote: We the People on Earth, We of every Nation, Race, and Religion-- Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, and heathen-- Again someone addresses the list

Re: Disk Express II 2.o

2001-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
What is this app? --- Robert Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:54 PM -0500 9/18/2001, Jim Lee Jr. wrote: I get the '404-Not found' error message Try http://www.knight-tech.net/DiskImages/VVPCI/DiskExpressII.smi.hqx Remove the space after Express. Works for me. = The earth

Re: More 030 PowerCache adapter info.

2001-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 18:57 -0700 on 18/09/01, Alex Allee wrote: At 12:20 -0700 on 18/09/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: is printed a notice for owners of the SE, Classic I wanna know how the Daystar got a Classic to take any sort of adapter card at all. Well

Re: Netiquette point 14 -- Dumb question

2001-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
A possible point to add. BEFORE hitting Reply, read ALL of the post. If you see something that offends you or otherwise makes you want to have a knee-jerk reaction, read the whole post again. This applies to Usenet, bulletin boards and mailing lists. That will ensure that you understand what the

Re: Disk Express II 2.o

2001-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bill Judson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disk Express II 2.0 is a somewhat dated (1996) disk optimizer and checking program. It features the ability to track the usage of files and arrange them so that the HD is more efficient. -- - Bob Poland Anybody know how late a

Take a deep breath, relax. :)

2001-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Survival tactis I've learned the hard way on public 'net forums. #1. Read the ENTIRE post, more than once if you must, before hitting Reply. #2. Unless a comment or word was specifically directed AT YOU BY NAME, it WASN'T. Like I said earlier today, I posted TATSUYA ISHIDA'S piece because I

Re: A little weird About this Mac...

2001-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jim Raper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had one of my networked LC 575's crash while surfing today. An error message suggesting I increase the RAM allotted to the NetNav 2.02 popped up. I looked in :About this Macintosh and found I had only about 4 MB of RAM NOT used by the system files.

Re: Mac Plus

2001-09-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:28 -0400 on 19/09/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just found a Mac Plus in excellent shape with keyboard, mouse and all the manuals at a thrift store. Can anyone tell me what these are worth these days. I booted it up and it works fine.

Re: 72 pin RAM

2001-09-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the Macs I can think of that use 72-pin RAM are spec'd for 80ns chips. Faster RAM won't hurt but it also won't help in most cases. p Any that use 72pin RAM that won't work at all with EDO? FPM 72pin SIMMs cost more than EDO from many places. :P

Re: 086s

2001-09-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
A 500meg HD and 16megs RAM will be plenty for System 7.1, even 7.5.5, in lots of 68k Macs. With a IIci it would be easy and cheap to bump that up to 20megs RAM by adding four 1meg SIMMs that lots of PC shops will almost give away. (Ask nice and they just might give them away for free.) -

Re: what monitor sizes?

2001-09-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Early 68030 machines, IIci and IIsi and others, use sync-on-green. Most latter monitors do not support sync-on-green. While you can get an adapter to use these monitors with sync-on-green, the cost of the adapter is often more than a used

Re: SCSI Jackhammer

2001-09-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- STEFAN DAEHLER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a FBW Jackhammer NuBus-card for my IIfx, unfortunately without manuals. Can somebody tell me how to connect in the internal SCSI-chain? May I put the card ANYWHERE in the chain or at the END? You must connect the internal card connector

Re: REALLY frightening...

2001-09-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Of course, I don't take it to a ridiculous extreme. I work a 'tech support' job, where of course I have to support both Macs and PCs. Guess what? Most of the calls are about PCs! I think you'll all knowingly smile... we all know why that is!

Re: monitor question

2001-09-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an LCII. Can I connect that monitor and keyboard to a more recent cpu? The keyboard, mouse and other ADB peripherals will work on any Mac (or even the //GS) with an ADB port. If the monitor supports at least 640x480 resolution it will work fine on any

Re: Word Macro

2001-09-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Speaking of viri, here's info on the latest dumb one to tell your Outlook on Windows using pals about. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010924/tc/tech_votevirus_dc.html Friends don't let friends use Outlook. :) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful

GRRRR! Stupid Outlook Lusers. :P

2001-09-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Someone who I don't know and have NEVER had e-mail contact with before has that SirCam virus. It had sent me an attachment a couple of days ago. I replied with a note that he had the SirCam virus and should get rid of it ASAP. Of course he didn't and has continued to be IRRESPONSIBLE, continuing

Thin SCSI CD-ROM drives.

2001-09-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Toshiba used to make a 1/3 height tray load SCSI CD-ROM drive for desktop systems. I've seen them in Beige with a filler plate bolted on top or in combination with a slim 1.44M floppy. One surplus dealer had a pile of them without the filler plate in Sun Purple. I know they came in a 2x speed,

Re: Too many errors

2001-09-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Re: the Netscape team removing bookmark alphabetizing because nobody on the team used it. Sounds like the typical way bad things happen to programs. The programmers write it for themselves and he way _they_ work and think instead of writing for how the people who haven't a clue how it works and

Some good memory prices.

2001-09-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Check out http://www.computersurplusoutlet.com/ on their memory. 16 meg 72pin FPM non parity for $5.99 32 meg 72pin FPM non Parity for $19.99 Almost tempted to buy 8 of the 16meg ones for my Radius. :) Unless there's someplace cheaper? Best they have on 30pin is 4meg parity for $9.99. =

Re: Running Windows On My Mac

2001-10-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IIci got a 486 Server motherboard, custom fit and carved the case. The only clue to the change, from the front, is the floppy drive poking out of the case's front. Then to put an interesting spin on it, I loaded Windows NT. Now I have a Mac

OT: Some cheap PowerMacs here.

2001-10-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
http://www.hitechcafe.com/eshop/product.asp?sku=PM5400+200dept_id=14 PowerMac 5400 for $179. 322 available. :) Tempting, but I'd have to get rid of something else and I'd rather have a G3 AIO. :) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess

Re: A/UX site...

2001-10-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where this site is? ftp://ftp.geo.tu-freiberg.de/pub/aux/jagubox/ ftp://ftp.geo.tu-freiberg.de/pub/incoming/ I always thought that .de was Germany. Ja, Deutschland. :) = The earth swarms

Re: Running Windows On My Mac (or vice-versa?)

2001-10-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- STEFAN DAEHLER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only thought then was: One should simply format their drives and let them run a MacOS. I do not think it's possible, but I though dare to ask our experts: Is there a way to do so? Join the mac-n-dos mailing list and we'll tell you how to

Re: Virus's

2001-10-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
OK, so what do all these old Mac viri actually DO? What are their payloads? = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets? Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ICQ# 16024947

Re: LC520 No boot

2001-10-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Find an LC550 or LC575 board to drop in it. :) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets? Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ICQ# 16024947

Re: ZIP eject

2001-10-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but someone else was discussing this topic with me as it applied to SyJet drives about three years ago. If you put them in a vertical orientation, they shoot disks at you. If you put them horizontally, they eject pretty normally.

Re: Seagate's Website

2001-10-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, Seagate uses a standard in their model numbers: ST - Seagate technology 138 - first digit is form factor (half height, full height, 3.5, 5.25, etc) remaining digits are approximate size, unformatted. Always round down to guess the size.

Re: EZ135

2001-10-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- A.Tuazon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/3/01 7:55 PM, Terry Earnest at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how many times did you reformat it before it started screwing up? Actually it died on me on the first re-format. I kept getting a window saying the media was corrupted and the

Re: ObjectSupportLib

2001-10-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OSL supports something related to the CFM-68K Runtime Enabler. There was a discussion about this a while back, and IIRC, Gamba proved OSL was required for proper functionality despite someone's claim that it was PPC-only and would be useless on a

Re: Apple by Apple

2001-10-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
You might want to send the info you have on that CD-ROM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] While it's not a MCA DiscoVision produced LaserDisc, I'm sure they would be interested in the info because it's one of the rare instances where the computer interaction and control features of the format were used. :)

Re: Pentium Card

2001-10-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
A better place would be the mac-n-dos list. http://lowendmac.net/lists/macndos.shtml Vintage Macs is for ones with a 680x0 series CPU. You can tell the speed of the CPU by taking off the heatsink. If the heatsink is glued on, there are numbers on the bottom of the CPU and intel has a chart on

Re: memory leak

2001-10-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I tried that Mac OS Purge thing on 8.6 here and it works, really fast. At least it doesn't cause a crash. I'll have to try it on 9.1 on the Radius at home. (Now if I could find some hacks to get 9.2.1 on the Radius...) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is

Netscape woes. Re: purging memory

2001-10-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The problem I'm having with Netscape 4.78 on a Mac right now is that it will not react to clicking on ftp:// links nor will it download files or go into directories on FTP sites. I can hold the button until I get the menu and select download or for directories I can open in a new window. I

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