Re: Netscape woes. Re: purging memory

2001-10-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't bother about Netscape 6.x. It is based on an older mozilla build. I don't know what you find so irritating about the user interface. It must be some time ago that you last tried Netscape/Mozilla. The only irritating feature

Re: system 6 apps

2001-10-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jay Jay Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everybody! I have a question! The apps for the system 6 can work in system 7? Maybe its a stupid question... but I don´t have much experience in mac computers. Some System 6 apps have issues with System 7 and won't run at all. Others

LC475 looking for a new home.

2001-10-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I have that LC475 going with 36megs RAM, the original 80meg HD and the VRAM upgrade. It has System 7.1.1 Pro (even though About This Mac says it's 7.1) on it with a bunch of the free enhancements from Apple installed. I also threw on a couple of lightweight word processor apps. I'll toss in a

Re: Help

2001-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
You can't send attachments to this list. --- Isaac Fried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to post a message(my very firs!). I typed it in simpletext then I copied it. To send it I opend reply to a message I just got(LC V?...) and pasted my pice on its blank. Then I presses the Send button

Blocking ad-servers?

2001-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Someone said I could do the following to block internet apps from trying to download anything from these two servers. Both Netscape and IE just sit there forever trying to download some file that doesn't exist. I assume it works on Windows (I put them in the hosts file last night but haven't

Radius Pivot on IIsi. Re: Help

2001-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Isaac Fried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Also, if the price of more memory is abandoning the SE30 and replacing it by, say, a MAC IIcx or a MAC IIsi, which still operate under system 7.0.1, can the Radius pivot be used with one of these machines? What video card would I need? I

Re: Colour Mac Classic

2001-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
System 7.1 is not free, yet. System 6.0.8, 7.0.1 and 7.5.3 plus the 7.5.5 update are free. There is no update or upgrade from 7.0.1 to 7.1. :( --- Jane Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Download it from Apple's site. It's free. jt sstanley wrote: For a solution I want to reinitialize

Re: LC V?!?!?!?

2001-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I want to see the inside of that LC V. :) = 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 WARNING! Windows XP does not enable the user to fly.

Re: Blocking ad-servers?

2001-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenTransport uses a nonstandard hosts file (surprise, surprise). You have to put it in this form: hostname.domain.com A dotted0.quad0.address0.here0 example, js-adex3.flycast.com A 127.0.0.1 This is reminiscent of a name

Re: fixing screen scratches?

2001-10-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Might just be scratches in the anti-glare coating. You'd have to strip the coating off and I don't know how tough that would be to do. Ideally you should get the front bezel off the monitor or totally remove the CRT to work on it. What it comes down to is how much effort and time are you willing

Re: LC V stuff

2001-10-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dana Sibera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There should have been another model or two to use the IIsi case. It's funky! Yeah, Apple spent a pile of money on the design and engineering of the IIsi case and logicboard, yet unlike any other Mac case they never used the same basic design for any

Beige. Re: LC V stuff

2001-10-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dana Sibera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dana (I do like beige. I think this DV400 might look quite nice with the right shade of beige spraypaint...) I've wondered if it might be possible to melt down an LC case and spray a nice coating of beige plastic onto an iMac or Quicksilver G4. :)

Re: blocking ad servers

2001-10-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was the no answering? That you can't use wildcards, or that using one wouldn't block all flycast traffic? Using one would work (ostensibly) but OpenTransport doesn't support it. At least, it looks like it *should* work, right? :-) I

Re: fixing screen scratches?

2001-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew Michael MacTao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the pickle wrote: Sandpaper won't scratch glass. At least not normal sandpaper. Steve Merryman replied: I find rather, that most sandpaper, will scratch most glass. Even dollar store sandpaper. Perhaps the answer here is

Re: Lapis video card

2001-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Isaac Fried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning Bhavesh Patel wrote: I've fixed the download on the Mac Driver Museum. Please try it again. Did you try downloading the Lapis driver? It still refuses to open. Is it possible that my expansion program damages the download? What are

Re: fixing screen scratches?

2001-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- John Teffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhere, in a newsgroup or email list or NyQuill induced hallucination, I seem to remember someone recommending using toothpaste to remove monitor scratches. At least your monitor would be minty-fresh. Dunno about monitors, but I've salvaged a

Re: Mac II etc.

2001-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: them. I'm posting this in case somebody else does. Is the Laserwriter II worth $15? If it works. :) If it's a IIf or a IIg, it's even more worth it. It'll say which one it is on the back near the ports. Unless the board has been changed...

Invisible background process killer?

2001-10-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I had to force quit Internet Explorer. So I then trashed the download cache and cache.waf files. Almost 80megs total. Now the silly Mac OS will not allow the trash to be emptied because it thinks those two files are still in use. Eh? IE is NOT running. I even started it up again and quit it

LC475 and 24bit color?

2001-10-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I'm wondering why, when it has the VRAM upgrade, I can only get a max of 256 colors from that LC475? Does it have something to do with the AppleVision 14 monitor and the fact that I don't have the AppleVision software installed? I've been too busy to try the Color Plus monitor on it. :( This

Re: LC475 and 24bit color?

2001-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the size of the monitor DOES affect the colors the 475 will produce. And with only one VRAM slot, you'll not get more than 16 colors anyway under usual conditions with the 512k chip. There are two VRAM slots in this LC475. Apparently full

Re: Get Service Manuals NOW

2001-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/stmoody/manuals.html You can also open PDFs with the File Open commands in Acrobat Reader 5.0 to fix their filetypes. :) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so

Re: Get Service Manuals NOW

2001-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
If you have a lot of spare HD space, there's an app called Page Sucker that should be able to download all the manuals if you feed it that URL. :) = 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?

Re: Get Service Manuals NOW

2001-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg wrote: If you have a lot of spare HD space, there's an app called Page Sucker that should be able to download all the manuals if you feed it that URL. :) That might not work in this case, because going to the ftp directory for the Service Manuals,

IIvx VRAM on a 4*8 videocard?

2001-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
What sort of VRAM does the Apple 4*8 card take to upgrade to the 8*24? Someone on the LEM Swap list offered me the VRAM from a IIvx in trade for my Apple MIDI interface and cables. = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very

Re: Hello and Introduction, and a question

2001-10-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
There were only two CPU upgrades (that I know of) made for the IIfx. One was called the Toka-Mac. (Most people assume it's a play on the Tokamak design of experimental fusion reactors.) The IIfx upgrades had to use a PDS card connected to a card in the first NuBus slot because for some reason

Re: Help with Turbo 601

2001-11-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Randy Beaudreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll need a FAT system. Marten I thought so. So system 7.5.5 is it for me unless SystemSwitcher works to switch Systems 7.1 and 8.1. I'll be finding that out. You'd have to switch to 030 mode before using 7.1. = The earth swarms

Re: mac2ci scsi

2001-11-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I once had a IIci that it didn't matter what I did with Startup Disk and PRAM zapping, it insisted on starting up from any drive but SCSI ID #0 if it was bootable. I had to hold Command Option Shift Delete 0 to force it to boot from the

Re: List administrivia

2001-11-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the first time in the four year history of these lists (Quadlist, our first, was launched on November 10, 1997), someone is threatening legal action after being banned several times from one of our lists. What a jerk. Let us know how

Re: Plain text

2001-11-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry Earnest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So just what is plain text (ie;no bold,no fonts,what) ? No HTML or Rich Text Format. Just unadulterated ASCII. = 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

Re: The case of the disappearing IMAP messages

2001-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. I know that POP stands for Post Office Protocol, but what's IMAP? Nevermind, I found http://imap.org ;-) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest

Re: Too many errors

2001-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry Earnest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I trash my old messages in Communicator I get communications error-try again but they've been trashed.Whenever I delete more than a couple of messages at once it will leave 1 copy of them in my in-box and 1 copy in the trash. Whenever I

Re: Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No on topic responses. Guess I owe Microsoft an apology; I've been badmouthing them for years cause they dropped QuickBasic. Looks like I was the only one who ever bought it. No wonder they dropped it. I've seen at least two 8bit Nintendo

Re: IIcx Problem

2001-09-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Donn Haven Lathrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Down again. Won't even power-up. Swapped PS, still no power. Both PSs work fine in IIci. I've a cx that did the same thing. Seems there is a component on the mobo in the power-up circuit that has died--it's a long slow death-- but

Re: The correct chips in an SE FDHD

2001-09-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Hardy Menagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pickle asked: what's the serial number? The number on the case is *F939KZ3B03*. The number on the board label is *M80007475*. The printing on the board says; MACINTOSH SE 820-0176-B 1986 630-4125. It came with a large old loud Conner

Eudora Re: Mail Drop

2001-09-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we're on the subject of email... Does anyone know how to 'subscribe' to IMAP mailboxes with Eudora?? That was what deterred me from using Eudora. In my dealings with it (since I do tech support for a small ISP) I know you need to dig into the

Re: Summary: Microsoft QuickBASIC

2001-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 1:33 PM -0700 9/28/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote: I've seen at least two 8bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulators written completely in MS Quick BASIC. At the time, the author of one predicted that it would need a 1Ghz PC to run at full

Re: Gesundheit -- Was: Welsh (was floppy cleaning?)

2001-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew Michael MacTao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slainte, (Health on you) (Irish) Andrew Which you say like slahn-tah. :) (At least that's how they said it on a show on the Travel Channel.) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here,

Re: Carbonized Hypercard rumor

2001-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any of you remember the vintage piece of software hypercard? It was considered dead. But is it? Maybe programming the easy way still has some future left... There's a Hypercard Player folder and a Hypercard update folder on the Mac OS 9.1

Re: lowendpc.com

2001-10-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Hehe. The lowendpc.com name is perfect! It's like an 8.3 filename. Now if only the size of the entire site was 64K or less like a .COM program file has to be for DOS... ;-) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in

Re: ZIP eject

2001-10-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I just inherited an Iomega Jaz drive(SCSI,1gb) which had been dropped and although I can mount disk, it accesses files very slowly and slows down the entire computer. I suspect the head needs realignment ...any suggestions for doing so or urls to

Got an LC475 today and...

2001-10-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
It came with an Apple Color Plus 14 monitor, a somewhat broken keyboard II, teardrop mouse, 80meg HD, two 4*8 VRAM SIMMs, no RAM in the SIMM slot, and an Apple MIDI Interface with cables. :) I haven't fired it up yet to see what software goodies may lurk within. But free is free! :) = The

Color Plus monitor, dark screen. :(

2001-10-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Apparently the Apple 14 Color Plus monitor that came with that LC475 is kaput. It makes the normal high voltage noise and crackle when turned on, but never lights up. I opened it up and the tube heaters are glowing. The CRT flashes when the power switch is turned off. As for the Mac, it makes

Re: Jaz drive(was: Zip eject)

2001-10-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Gregg. I'll try hooking it up to SCSI card on my girlfriend's PC and see if I can do that, but then it wouldn't be slowed down any more if I connected it to the Mac again, would it? Nope, that would only be for using it on the PC since the speed

Re: Mac-to-VGA

2001-10-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Noël Van Damme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a manual for an 'Interex' Mac-to-VGA adaptor? How many switches? I have one with 6. = 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?

Re: Color Plus monitor, dark screen. :(

2001-10-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- John Teffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this mean that an LC475 will not put out any video without a PRAM battery? The local Goodwill Store has an LC, LC II, and LC475. Each for $14.95. I've been thinking about picking up the 475, but all it does is chime into a blank screen.

Re: Color Plus monitor, dark screen. :(

2001-10-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: someone else wrote: on hers though...isn't the Color Plus that POS VGA monitor with a Mac connector? That POS would be the Apple Basic Color Monitor. The Apple Color Plus I have looks like the dot pitch is fairly fine, probably .28 or .29. I didn't really

OT: Who says it isn't secure? :)

2001-10-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
hahaha Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q276/3/04.ASP = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be

Re: Mac Nubus/AVID SCSI Card - ATTO SE4

2001-10-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- THE ROCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this thing (Mac Nubus/AVID SCSI Card - ATTO SE4) used for? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1281737450 TIA. Peter. It's a Fast SCSI2 or possibly better controller for NuBus Macs. = The earth swarms with inhabitants.

Re: Mac-to-VGA

2001-10-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Noël Van Damme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked: Does anyone have a manual for an 'Interex' Mac-to-VGA adaptor? then the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote What specific info were you looking for? It's an adaptor with 10 (ten) switches. How do I set the switches for specific

What happened to Interex?

2001-10-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Interex was a manufacturer of Mac to VGA monitor adapters, and I think some other items too. Their website, www.interex.com , has been gone for quite a while. Did some other company (who we can bug for at least providing pre-existing settings and/or software for Interex stuff) buy out Interex

Very useful AppleShare utilities. Apple shoving Mac OS out of the picture.

2001-10-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
First off there is Jim Luther's AppleShare Setup Control Panel for AppleShare 3.0 through ??? under System 6 through System 7.?.? http://macinsearch.com/infomac/comm/atlk/appleshare-setup.html Then there is AppleShare Client Setup 1.0 that works from System 7.0 through at least 8.6.

Re: Macintoch color Display M1212

2001-10-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using a Macintosh color Display M1212 with a 6100. When I use that display with a Mac II there is an extension that will allow me to use the full display, no black border Is there such a thing for the 6100? Nope. Max Apple Zoom or

Free Cell for Mac. Re: DOS

2001-10-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew Michael MacTao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, As long as we're DOSsing this subject around, There is a card game that comes with Windoze '95 called, Free Cell. Does anyone know if there's a Mac version of this particular game?... It seems a terrible waste of time

More Free Cell Re: DOS

2001-10-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Eric McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should (under other names, I think - Klondike? Or is that another for the original solitaire...) be on any set of solitaire games. It's definately not a Windows exclusive. g Klondike is a different game than Free Cell. Klondike is one of, if

Re: Ethernet of a 6100

2001-10-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed Apple Built-In Ethernet, Apple Ethernet NB and EtherTalk Phase 2, configured Sharing Setup, but the chooser still doesn't see the network. Any advice would be appreciated. You don't need Ethernet NB since that is for NuBus

Re: Ethernet on a 6100

2001-10-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:35 PM -0500 10/13/2001, R.A. Cantrell wrote: on 10/13/01 2:16 PM, Robert Poland at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I finally got a AAUI to ethernet adapter for my 6100, OS 7.5.5. I'm somewhat lost on what extensions/control panels I

Re: Ethernet on a 6100

2001-10-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't find Network control panel on any of my active systems, 7.55, 8.6, 9.2.1. I notice that Open Transport is also invisible. You might wanna install open transport again. Do it after starting up with extensions off. If that don't work.

Re: Where has my mind gone?

2001-10-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm drawing a blank here... I just read this cartoon that made a reference to Where have all my files gone? I recall that being something to do with the update from System 7 to OS 8, but for the life of me I can't remember WHAT, and Google's no help!

Re: Nisus Writer free version?

2001-10-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I get the free version of Nisus Writer...? Go to the TidBits link on my homepage. It has direct download links, both .hqx and .bin, for Nisus Compact 3.47 and Nisus Writer 4.1.6. Gamba http://www.accesscom.com/~gamba Danke! I did find that

Turbo 601 Control 1.1.?

2001-10-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I know there was one more version of the DayStar Turbo 601 Control panel after 1.1. It was obtained from DayStar after sending a Turbo 601 in for a ROM update so that a IIvi/IIvx using it could have more than 256 colors on the built in video. After downloading the 1.1 software from DayStar and

Re: purging memory

2001-10-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- JAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been THE biggest problem with the Mac OS since day 1 - a memory leak. You have to quit the apps in the order they were launched and even THAT doesn't guarantee that you'll get your memory back. That's also why the Mac crashes so often. Thankfully

CD-R drives Re: ZIP (was:Re: Wimpy Floppy)

2002-03-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not undoable. I have a SCSI Burner from a PC that no driver on earth will run, in Macland, except Toast. The icon won't mount on the desktop, but I burned a complete set of backup CD's of this PPC 240Mhz. 6100's 3 GIG HD in minutes. I've always

Re: DayStar site

2002-03-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not necessarily, but even if it were true, strict HTML 4.0 breaks backward compatibility with older browsers. When you're supporting vintage Macs with vintage operating systems and vintage browsers, compatibility across a wide range of platforms

Re: CD-R drives Re: ZIP (was:Re: Wimpy Floppy)

2002-03-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg, Thanks for the goldmine of info! We must have lucked out and caught you just after a cappacino '!~ Coffee? CACK! Nope, just bored, and in a wordy mood. ;) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk!

Re: MO Drive, general question, anecdotes

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The stuff on peecees does not have utilities for true formatting MO disks. Mac and that util did. I've low level formatted MO disks just fine with the BIOS in my Adaptech 2940 PCI SCSI controller. Fujitsu has a Windows util (that only works with Fujitsu MO

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Goetz Hoffart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need lots of RAM for burning CDs with Toast. I used it with 16 MB and it went fine in double speed. Are you folks using SCSI, or what? Of course. On Vintage Macs there's no IDE (except some Powerbooks and the P630, did I forget

Re: OT: This is taking the piss.....

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My friends thought that, for a joke, they'd get me a little present from the Microsoft .Net exhibition that visited the University department od CompSci today. They got me a t-shirt that says Reserved for Greatness across the front and Microsoft

Re: Good day on my new Mac findings!

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This kills two birds with one stone: 32bit clean ROM SIMM to trace out for others to construct theirs for those updating 32bit dirty Macs, document that unique ram properly and find out how it is designed. Two reasons: this helps me to examine the

Re: FPU 68882

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- James E Freeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for anyone who is interested. found a source for the 68882 FPU chip. http://newark.com catalog p/n 07F6033 Motorola p/n MC68882FN33A US$64.85 for those of you thinking about getting one. YEEF! Just how many LCIII pizzaboxes could you

Re: Begging to borrow Netscape 2.02 floppies

2002-03-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Netscape 2.02 here. ftp://archive.netscape.com/pub/navigator/2.02/mac/ Not floppy images though but there are ways to get the installer onto the Mac where you need it. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You

Re: MacPayForIt

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

Re: monitor cable questions

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

Re: monitor cable questions

2002-03-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Paul Stamsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About 1:01 pm -0500, on 3/27/02, an e-mail from the pickle related: - - IIsi, or any other Mac, can be run headless by sticking a paper clip in the - 7 and 10 holes on the monitor connector. - Counting from the top left, right? Look

Who buys a $60 68882? Re: adding FPU

2002-03-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Do we have any clue where the 'other' market is ... the one that _is_ willing to pay $60 for this FPU? Embedded systems*. Lots of that stuff made new but still using generations old chips because they don't need all that processing oopmh. *Especially if goverment (taxpayer) money is buying

Re: 12 640x480 hack Re: Origin...

2002-03-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The incredibly hard part is the re-wiring of the video cable to that of a VGA monitor/connector. That's the part where I gave up, because I didn't need to put my 12 RGBs to work *that* badly... the pickle Awww, just get a male and a female DB15

Re: Color Classic Upgraded Questions..

2002-03-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 06:35 PM, Terry Mathews wrote: Dunno, maybe 8.0 requires a 640x480 monitor. I've never tried using a 512x384 monitor on it. Possibly, you might have to do the resolution mod on your CC... Installing a 575 board into a CC without doing the 640x480 mod is

Re: VNC on a 475

2002-03-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Phil Beesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran VNC Server briefly on a Powermac 6100 but the experience is not one that I would recommend. VNC works brilliantly on Windows and Unix boxes but the port for classic Mac OS (both PPC and 68K) has never had enough work done on it. YMMV.

Re: 12 640x480 hack Re: Origin...

2002-03-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:01 -0800 on 31/03/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The incredibly hard part is the re-wiring of the video cable to that of a VGA monitor/connector. That's the part where I gave up, because I didn't

ROM shadowing Re: SCSI, DMA, performance: IIfx vs other Macs.

2002-03-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a utility to copy ROM to RAM for most Macs including this IIfx? Peecees are by default on quality 386 boards and 486 by default onwards. Would be nice to do this also for video card firmware shadowed to ram. Actually in recent years the trend

Re: that IIfx RAM by wizard

2002-03-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- flawed jai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wizard--I'm following this discussion with interest. while i do not understand every last thing you are talking about, i had never heard of converting the RAM on a IIfx before. i gather that you are studying the structure of how the RAM cips and

Re: Cd-rom identification help.

2002-04-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- James S Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CR-507-C is a Matsushita-made, Apple-branded 12X SCSI CD-ROM drive. The CR-506-C is a 8X drive used in the 8500s. Logically, I'd guess it's a 4X drive in the same series. The 507 and 506 actually specify the speed on the drive label. It's

Re: that IIfx RAM by wizard

2002-04-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
MicroMac sells (or sold) SIMM stackers that would put four 30pin SIMMs in each IIfx slot. Expensive though! (Like most of their stuff.) The SIMM stackers for the IIfx are for 64 pin SIMMs. What makes the IIfx's SIMMs special is that they have separate pins for data input and

Re: pram and 7.5.3 upgrade

2002-04-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 02:28 AM, the pickle wrote: AppleTalk setting...hrmmm...probably a few other things. Checked the Developer Tech Notes or old Hardware Tech Notes? Is it different for the various vintage macs? Not AFAIK. I

Re: IIFX ram

2002-04-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jack Countryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a set of 4 4 meg 64 pin simms, and several 64 pin 1 meg simms here if anyone is interested. I think I got this for an old LaserWriter that ended up needing other expensive repairs I didn't try. Make offer... LaserWriter SIMMs won't

Re: OT and/or TCP/IP Problems

2002-04-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
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Re: OT and/or TCP/IP Problems

2002-04-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem solved. Apple have this weird option in the TCP/IP panel that you can only get at as an advanced user that stops the TCP/IP system from loading until it is needed. This means that the machine doesn't register itself with a DHCP server

Re: TCP/IP Problems

2002-04-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 22:09 -0500 on 03/04/02, rlf9 wrote: Also, Load only when needed screws up programs like IPNetMonitor et al by sustworks.com. I wonder what the option's original purpose was... Keeps PPP from connecting constantly... the pickle Yup. In my

Re: TCP/IP Problems

2002-04-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- rlf9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yup. In my experience the only time you need to check that box is when you're using the Mac on it's own on a dialup account. For TCP/IP networking over a LAN you _don't_ want it checked. Silly Mac likes to dump out

Re: What's in a PRAM...

2002-04-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Joost van de Griek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The time of manufacture and the hours-of-use counter aren't cleared with a normal PRAM zap. They can be cleared only by a deep zap, which can be administered by tools like TechTool, for last resort troubleshooting purposes (TechTool

decoding attachments Re: Eudora eats outgoing attachments too! (was: incoming...)

2002-04-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BBEdit? Thanks! -mart Make sure you get the beginning and ending tags of the encoded text. A good decoder will skip anything before it finds the start tag and ignore anything after the end tag. You can snag binary attachments off usenet that way, but it's

Re: Another IIci question

2002-04-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, this question concerns accelerators and cache cards. I've been reading about accelerator cards for the IIci and it sounds like the Daystar Turbo 601 would be a good match. I'm seeing NuBus and PDS cards. I understand that these are

Re: Another IIci question

2002-04-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on stuffing a 7100 board into a IIci. So the 7100 uses 72 pin SIMMs? I haven't really checked the specs on those yet. The IIci was set up as a desktop publishing computer and it has quite a few programs installed on it. I would need to make

Re: Another IIci question

2002-04-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you, Gregg. That's pretty much what I thought I was reading (except I wasn't aware of the OS versions involved). I'm starting to think the wisest course for this IIci is to max it out on RAM, play around with it a bit, and keep my eye out

Re: Another IIci question

2002-04-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Y'know, I'm dumbfounded at this one. I have a 6100/66av that ran OS 9.1 just fine. Even went to iTunes radio stations that would broadcast in my speed-zone, (28.8k), and got music hiccupingly. Now with the Newer 240Mhz. card in it, I have no

Re: Another IIci question

2002-04-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 21:54 -0800 on 06/04/02, J.S. Garrison wrote: A lot less costly but very much worth the effort is the addition of an '030 accellerator card like the 'Diimo 030 cache card'. Runs on 50 Mhz. Got one in here; makes the OS 7.1 on this IIci really

CD-ROM inside. Re: Yet another IIci question

2002-04-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:20 -0700 on 07/04/02, Teri Pittman wrote: I take it that the best way to add a modem to a IIci is to get an external Try only way. The one NuBus modem I've ever seen was 2400bps. Also, about adding a CD, I'm guessing I would want an

Re: Yet Another IIci question

2002-04-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Daystar PowerCache 030 upgrade in my SE/30 that plugs into the CPU socket complete with cache and FPU. Will it work in a IIci, if so is it worth pulling out of my SE/30 (which hardly gets used) and whacking it in my soon-to-be-had IIci?

Re: Yet Another IIci question

2002-04-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, the IIci CPU is not socketed. It doesn't use the PDS slot it's an 030 socket upgrade, Right, see what I scribbled up there. although that's slightly academic given that the IIci has a soldered CPU and it won't work anyway. I

Re: CD-ROM inside. Re: Yet another IIci question

2002-04-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:30 PM 04/07/2002 -0700, you wrote: Make a spacer to fit between the lid and the case. Step the top edge in to mimic the top edge of the case. Some sheet metal should work. Any heating and air conditioning shop should be able to make up the

Re: 2.5 Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part #DT-327A. who's part? Dont know. Thats all thats written on the box, comes with mounting rails and power cord. price about $10us. As mentioned, you will wont a IDE bigger mac to use it in or a pc. 40 pins compared with scsi 50 pins. Are 2.5

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