Re: Internet jiggery pokery

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Easiest solution is to trawl eBay for an internet router that supports connecting a modem to it. Some companies still make them, but they aren't cheap. :P Four main varieties. 1 All in one with modem, router and hub or switch. 2 Two in one with modem and router and an ethernet port. 3 Two in

Re: Personal LWntr printing on LC475, CCII

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teuila Bertie Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wiped off the toner roller (the dark green one) in the toner cartridge with soft tissue. Still prints the same. Any other suggestions? Time for a new toner cart? The print cartridge has a wiper blade to scrape off unused or excess toner from

Re: Internet jiggery pokery

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:21 +0100 on 08/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: Yes, this will work fine, until I take the iBook off the network to go somewhere, leaving the rest of the network with no DNS, DHCP server or intranet. I know it might not be a big issue to most ppl

Re: Personal LWntr printing on LC475, CCII

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
So it appears that possibly the fuser cleaner has taken a holiday. (I hear the south of France or Afghanistan is nice this time of year.) ;-) There may be a weak or otherwise malfunctioning corona wire somewhere in there. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk!

Re: Ripping Video

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone around here know how to get the contents of a video tape on a hard disk, preferably using some old Mac? I know absolutely nothing about this stuff. First off you'd need a Mac with AV or Audio Video features that include AV _input_ and

Re: Ripping Video

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Now, I've got a good reason to buy myself a Quad 840AV :-) BTW Is this something that one can do better with newer Macs or are those more aimed at digital video? Yes, and if you're recording onto your computer, it's digital

Re: Ripping Video

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on an OS 9.1/OS X machine (IIRC you have a 9.2 G3 don't you?) and you have the lot sorted :). Heck, if he has that kind of rig, just get one of those USB video capture things plus a USB 2.0 card (even if it has USB built in) or a Firewire capture

Re: Internet jiggery pokery

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Eshelman wrote: I've used DHCP to dynamically assign IPs on a LAN, but I much prefer using all static IPs then going through a router, either a dedicated router box or a computer running internet routing software to bring the internet

Re: Ripping Video

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 08:31 AM, rlf9 wrote: 320x240? A bit on the small side, what? You can do 640x480 as well. The frame rate starts to drop off though. I think it's 4-6fps for that size. 320x240 is fine, you can't really get any

Re: Ripping Video

2002-04-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have any *idea* how much a good quality A-D breakout box for FireWire/USB 2.0 *costs*? The last one I saw was nearly $250. Checked macwarehouse.com ? TigerDirect.com has some too but for some reason only their printed catalog tells which works

IIci VS Q700. Re: Ripping Video

2002-04-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have a Q700 yourself or a IIci? I've got both. The Q700 is rather limited with RAM expansion because it only has 4 simm slots to fill. Considering the fact that it is very hard to get 8 mb or higher 30 pin simms for this model and

Re: Ripping Video

2002-04-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if the inability of 68Ks to turn off the startup RAM tests is a lack-of-software thing, or a lack-of-hardware-support-for-it thing. With a PPC-upgraded 68K, you can turn off the startup RAM test with 8.5 or higher, but the 8.5 Memory

Re: looking for email/network help

2002-04-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are Asante network cards so cheep. Is it one to stay away from? jes Because they're as common as dinosaur fossils in that spot in Utah(?) that they built a building over so palentologists could work year round. :) = http://www.junkscience.com All the

Re: my internet problem

2002-04-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- rlf9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vintage Macs wrote... From: the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: my internet problem At 01:59 +0100 on 10/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: Yet another reason not to use 7.5 or higher, since VM before 8.1 was awful. How would you characterize VM in

Re: Yet Another IIci question

2002-04-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Goetz Hoffart [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 It will not work without an adapter card. The SE/30 PDS and the IIci PDS are *not* compatible. Most

Re: Ripping Video

2002-04-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 23:47 -0700 on 09/04/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: The DayStar control panel (at least for the Turbo 601) has the feature to disable the RAM test. That works back to system 7.5, which is the minimum System for Yeah, but does it work without a card

Re: basic networking question

2002-04-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious about what networking topology Apple used for Apple Talk. Is this star, bus, ring, or something completely different. AppleTalk is a protocol, not a cable or network topology. The PhoneNet system using the serial ports to daisy chain

Re: CD Rom ????

2002-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there was any way to use a PC CD Rom on a IIci? The discs or the drives? For the discs you need extentions like foreign file access, ISO 9660, High Sierra, all the ones in the Apple CD driver setup. Plus you should have PC-Exchange installed too.

Re: So, the modem....

2002-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Find me a cheaper on in the UK that is guaranteed to work on a Mac from a reputable reseller and I'll buy it. Oh, foo. Isn't the UK phone system somewhat not sympatico with modems made for the USA? I've seen some PC-Card modems for laptops that will

Re: CD Rom ????

2002-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I've read the ATAPI addition to the IDE bus is very similar to SCSI. It's why the SCSI emulation under Linux works as well as the ease with which IDE devices can be used as SCSI devices on the various PC Mac emulators. I haven't

Re: Upgrade cards

2002-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, both the SE/30 and the PowerCache card have FPUs IIRC. Will it make any difference switching between the two? The two are functionally identical. Watch when your extentions load, after the Power Central CP loads the rest should load

BestData Re: So, the modem....

2002-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 07:51 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Hmmm, if it'll work, you could have someone over here buy the $60 BestData one from Mac Warehouse then ship it over bundled in a box of something duty free like used Gore

Re: Upgrade cards

2002-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speedometer turns up virtually the same number for both on and off PowerMath settings. Either it doesn't make any difference or it is not supported on my card. Or Speedometer is testing the FPU directly for floating point math and the CPU directly

Re: So, the modem....

2002-04-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found a 56k USR FaxModem at a price I consider to be approaching reasonable that is supported in the Mac. It uses a standard CCL for dial up that, from what I can tell, was last modified in 1996. Big question is will it work wit OT/PPP in Sys

Re: Wonder why they don't do that with Mac's

2002-04-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Japan, they are considering replacing the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Already been done. BeOS has haiku error messages. :) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk!

benchmarks Re: Upgrade cards

2002-04-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well turning off both the PowerCache and PowerMath options drops FPU performance from 0.381 to 0.280 average (1 = Quadra 605). I think that shows a difference - don't you? That's a 33% speed drop in FPU processes. What about the CPU performance?

Re: benchmarks Re: Upgrade cards

2002-04-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I say it more likely shuts off all the functions and just uses the 50MHz CPU and the 16MHz FPU, hence the drop in FPU performance. A 50mhz cpu and a 16 mhz fpu can run together? Yes, when one is on an accelerator card. =

Re: Apple IIGS / Mac Network

2002-04-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Wendell III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could all print. The interesting thing was that I don't think the IIGS machines had any sort of hard drive in them. However, on power-up, they would instantly go to this boring, blue-colored menu system from which TONS of MECC and various other

Re: More SCSI Voodoo or something...

2002-04-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, now it's my turn for some SCSI problems ;) I recently picked up a SCSI card and memory card for my IIgs so I could have some fun with it, so I pulled out the old 20 meg external I had on my Plus originally. The IIgs wouldn't see it, so

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
HD platters also make great windchimes. :) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

driving hard drive motors Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If on;y I could work out how to drive the spindle motors, they'd make brilliant fan assemblies for servers ;). It'd be a bit noisy but it'd sure shift som air if you mounted the right blades in it! Welll, the motors apparently are similar to

driving an HD motor Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 13:04 +0100 on 16/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: If on;y I could work out how to drive the spindle motors, they'd make brilliant fan assemblies for servers ;). It'd be a bit noisy but it'd Mebbe, but I think the spindle motors are usually some sort

Re: MiniScribe 20MB disk, dead or not?

2002-04-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 20MB Miniscribe hard disk, formally in an SE, hooked up to my LC but I can't get it to play ball. It is in an external case on the SCSI port (the only external drive) but it won't spin up on power, the LED (I have a pair on a bit of wire

Re: IIci with a turbo 601 doesn't work

2002-04-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:34 -0700 on 17/04/02, Snook, John R wrote: Got this off ebay. It arrived with the turbo 601 loose in the IIci. When I put it back together it would not boot with the turbo 601 card installed. It made a real fast startup chime and that's it.

Re: MY FIRST SYSTEM CRASH

2002-04-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
First thing is you should leave the System Folder where it is and don't try making an alias to it. :) It's easy enough to doubleclick the hard drive then locate the System Folder. To install most control panels and extentions just drag them onto the System Folder and it will ask you if you want

Re: internet connectivity round two

2002-04-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm pretty confident I could configure this, if I could ever get the programs to install. I'm having to use TransMac to put files onto a Mac formated floppy, so that I can get them onto the Mac. I'm trying to get PPP MacTCP. When I copy

Apple and Polaroid.

2002-04-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Here's to hoping that Apple won't follow Polaroid. As we know, Apple is firecly protective of it's operating system and the hardware it runs on. They won't even license out production of their own hardware designs. At times that has cost the company dearly, in particular handing Brazil to the PC

Re: internet connectivity round three

2002-04-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas? Teri Pittman Yeah, install Open Transport 1.1.1 then 1.1.2 then hit www.rockstar.com and download FreePPP. Stop suffering with Apple's PPP stuff. :) OT and FreePPP work good and are easy to setup. 'Course if you have 8megs RAM or less, OT

Re: OT - Re: Apple and Polaroid.

2002-04-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- A.Tuazon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/21/02 3:37 AM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The preceding has been a plea for porting OSX to the PC platform. clip How easy would it be to port OS X to the PC? Today's Mac core hardware is mostly dipped from the PC parts bin

Re: Mac IIci video... hmmm

2002-04-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, for everyone who suspected that the IIci would work on a PC multiscan screen with an adapter that allowed me to define it as fixed res I can categorically say it doesn't, more is the pitty. You must use an adapter that seperates the sync

Re: Supra fax modem

2002-04-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Snook, John R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: V.32bis 14,400 MNP 5v.42 bis Is this any use for a Mac SE/30, or IIsi, or IIci, Quadra 700? Its all there box, cables, floppy, and books. I got it out of the trash. Or should I put it back? johnsn Oh, it's useful, but SLOW at 14.4 Kbit/sec.

Re: A/UX Problem

2002-04-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The A/UX FAQ is here. http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/aux-faq/part1.html Prepare for information overload. :) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool

Re: Color Font Guides

2002-04-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Anders Anna-Lee Fager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys Gals, I'm (still) searching for idiot-level guides on how to a/match the colours on Mac's PC's and b/ stuff on the strange word of fonts, in speciffic how to make the same fonts work in Adobe products on both MacPC. Hunt up a

Re: tons o questions

2002-05-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Peter Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pickle et al, Re a certain thread in the compact macs list, but to keep on topic I'm posting here to vintage. what exactly does a GPIB General Purpose Interface Board, DO?. http://www.microlink.co.uk/gpib.html GPIB (Or IEEE-488) was

Re: Video PinOuts schematics

2002-05-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT, *all* Macs use only the three sense pins to determine the type of monitor attached. The ones with the DB15 connector do, which covers all the non-all-in-one vintage Macs with built in video or an Apple made NuBus video card. :) That also

Re: Help with Imprimis full-height drive jumper settings

2002-05-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- rlf9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy folks. I use a topless LC III to test old scsi drives, but this one has me hornswoggled. Hooked up and plugged in, this drive, pulled from a IIfx, just clicks and its red power LED just blinks. I'm starting up from an external scsi ZIP volume,

Re: Help with Imprimis full-height drive jumper settings

2002-05-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a guess but it sounds like it may be suffering from stiction. clip There might be hope for it if you try it in a bigger machine but not much I'm affraid. Hold the drive in one hand by the long sides then gently whack the end of the case

Re: Help with Imprimis full-height drive jumper settings

2002-05-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's worth checking if the link labeled Motor Start Option is jumpered, every Seagate SCSI disk I've got requires it to be jumpered as they, by default, wait for a 'Motor Start' command from the SCSI controller and Macs do not issue one on boot,

Re: It's not hardware....

2002-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quick question and don't want to drag the list too far off topic. It seems that Apple has had at least three instances where they've developed a new operating system that simply won't work on their older hardware. 7.1 seems to be the

Re: It's not hardware....

2002-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What prompted all this, is that one of my favorite Palm software companies came out with a desktop version that runs on OS X. Plans are to finish the Windows desktop next, then support OS 9 in the Mac world (maybe). It seems to be hurting sales.

Re: It's not hardware....

2002-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- James S Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really true. The first versions of Windows would run on an 8088, but 3.0 and 3.1 required at least a 80286. And, there was a split at version 2.1, with Windows 386 not running on anything less than a 80386. The Windows 386 code evolved into

Re: It's not hardware....

2002-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/6/02 3:47 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: really need a decently fast Pentium. What are the minimums for running XP, and is an MMX 166 a Pentium I? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.asp There's

Re: It's not hardware....

2002-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Scott. I just want to look at XP as i have no experience with Windows and have the166 box just sitting there. I had hoped to be able to load it and run it without any other apps by bumping the mem OK, this is definately OT now. :)

Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

2002-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/6/02 4:18 PM, Scott Holder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIci or something I passed up 100 IIci's at $0.40 each. No place to put em. Didn't you even look inside them for goodies? :) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's

Re: It's not hardware....

2002-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 13:47 -0700 on 06/05/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Will System 6 run on the Mac 128K and 512K? Not IIRC, and certainly not *well*... System 7.5.x dropped some off it's list. H. I dunno. I'm a bit weak on the earlier System stuff. AFAIK, 7.5.5

Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

2002-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
. .Will anyone ever want a 7100/66 board again? Ever? Well, when (if) things ever get settled down in places like Afghanistan, I'd bet the schools there would love to have just about any computer. Of course they need some electricity too, so info from sites like http://www.otherpower.com

wind Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

2002-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/6/02 6:35 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: even works at night if the wind is blowing. In a past life I was a securities broker, and the firm I was with raised a LOT of money for wind generated electricity. The big

Re: Attn: mac.com users

2002-05-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- George Mogiljansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It goes deeper than that, Dan. A few months ago, I tried posting a comment/question on the Apple Discussion board. It was disallowed, with some quasi-legal explanation about 'negative' language. To this day, I can't tell if a human or a

Re: Drivers for Color OneScanner 600/27?

2002-05-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ken Strayhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it turns out that the driver and software are not compatible with Virtual Memory, so you either have to turn VM off, Not good when scanners scan into RAM and use up all the free RAM when you try for too high a resolution and/or color depth. or

Re: Your NIC'd (groan)

2002-05-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Download the freeware OTTool from www.neon.com If your System is too old for the version they have available, e-mail them and ask if they have an older version that will work. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __

Re: IIci a ZIP help

2002-05-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The big question is will a SCSI zip 100 work on the IIci and can I then move info in the same way as I have on floppies? Yes! You can either install PC Exchange on the IIci and use PC format Zip disks or use the registered TransMac to read the Mac format Zip

Re: ISA LocalTalk card ?

2002-05-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description of the board, starting at the connector plate: - some small SMD components, an electrolytic cap and a transistor near the MiniDIN - followed by a square 4 x 12 pin SMD 'Mustek' chip, labelled: Mustek makes image scanners, has for a lng

Re: Corrosion removal

2002-05-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just got an LCIII that is in pretty rough shape. The logic board is corroded around many of the contacts and the tin contacts on the RAM and VRAM are corroded. I want to save it for a spare board (the lower shell is trash but the floppy

Re: Seeking Quicktake 150 software

2002-05-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or you might want to consider compressing everything in Stuffit 4 format instead, since the new format has *absolutely no advantage* over the old format. the pickle Sure it does! It makes the company that makes Stuffit more money. :P That's why

Re: what's this?

2002-05-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Snook, John R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2024870632 johnsn Looks like some sort of PhotoShop or video accelerator. Likely doesn't work with anything after System 7.5.3 or 7.5.5 and if it's anything for Photoshop it probably won't work with 4

Re: network admin help needed

2002-05-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The LC 520 is pretty much an all in one version of the LC III. They can be upgraded to an LC 550 (boost up to 33Mhz from 25Mhz) or an LC 575 (with an 040 CPU) simply by swapping in the different logic boards. Do your 520s have caddy or tray load CD-ROM drives? Manual or auto inject floppy

Re: network admin help needed

2002-05-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It plugs into the drive cable using a slot type (rather than a pin type). I'm not sure I can find a cable that will plug into it. That is simply an adaptor plugged onto the SCSI and power connectors of the drive. A bit of careful prying will

Re: network admin help needed

2002-05-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which I would do, except that these are in all in one cases. It looks like I'll have to take out the sled that holds the motherboard, to even get to the cables. It doesn't look like a quick easy job *grin*! I'll play around with it a bit more

Re: Test

2002-05-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- William Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this thing on... ;] Looks like someone rotated the power button ;) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience

Re: Audio in from tape recorder to have word processor show it.

2002-05-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- yoyoyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize this list may not be the one. Even though I have a LC, LC lll, mac ll, I also have access to a Performa 638 CD, Performa 6200CD (Power Mac), Power Mac 5400/120, and Power Mac 7300/200, PowerMac G3/233 both having Fire Wire/USB PCI Cards.

Re: RAM puzzlement

2002-05-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thought - you *are* looking at the Total RAM in the About This Macintosh window, right? As opposed to the available RAM... Yep, but the total RAM figure includes the 16MB on disk. I'm starting to think it might be useful to turn

How to unsubscribe. ;)

2002-05-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Might want to save these for future reference. ;) http://home.rmci.net/gregg1/unsub.txt http://home.rmci.net/gregg1/unsub2.txt = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music

Re: More on the RAM

2002-05-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm off to turn off virtual memory and play around with these again. Make sure 32bit mode is ON too! :) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! -

Re: Ethernet

2002-05-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2025931917 My friend recently came across one of these (twisted-pair). What in the world is this? Twisted Pair? Ever see Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Oh, wait,

don't mix up the ports Re: Ethernet

2002-05-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only reasins Apple didn't use AUI (a PC-esque standard that does the same thing) is because it uses the same 15-pin D-SUB that the Apple Video connector uses. I mean they had enough nightmares about people accidentally connecting video to

Re: 7.5.5 upgrade

2002-05-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - question is, does 7.5.5 have its own revision, as did 7.5.3 (rev.2), with which I ought to finish the system upgrade? 7.5.5 was it until 7.6 - and another: would it be worth my while hunting up OS 7.6 (7.6.1) for the IIfx? It should run it

Re: more learning experiences

2002-05-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Power Macs are HFS + formatted, and the Vintage Macs are just HFS. Trying to read an HFS+ drive in a 68k Mac produces weird stuff, and crashes. PowerMacs don't have to use HFS+ and trying to read a HFS+ volume on a 68k Mac (except for an 040

Re: Help

2002-05-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively, you could call local internet providers (ISP's) and see if they offer SHELL access accounts. Most don't, but some still do, and if you find one, you could then perhaps access a text-based UNIX or LINUX system and use Pine,

Re: Performa 636 CD Upgrade Options

2002-05-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dave Pekarsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this is the correct list to be posting this to... I shall be receiving a Performa 636 CD soon, and I clip I should get a full 68040 for it, but where would I get one and what do I need, just the processor or the whole motherboard?Power

Re: Apple two page monochrome monitor

2002-05-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- William Goosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently collected a bunch (five and counting) of these Apple two page monochrome monitors, and I am running out of storage room fast. Some questions: 1) Does monochrome mean grayscale? If they are NOT grayscale, I'd have a heckuva

cables Re: AAUI networking

2002-05-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rule #1: never shop at office supply stores for cables. They charge WAY too much. You can get 5-packs online for that price. Bet RJ-11 fone cables are about $9 there too :) I buy cables from www.cableclub.com Great prices and they manufacture them

Re: Performa 636 CD...

2002-05-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:02 -0400 on 31/05/02, Dave Pekarsky wrote: Where abouts might I come across one of these daystar things and what might eBay Just looked, no Turbo 601, no PowerPro, no PowerCard on there right now. the price range be on them? Thanks for all

Re: AAUI networking

2002-05-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about the AAUI transceiver, but the NuBus EtherWave NICs have a second Ethernet port in them that act as hubs. In fact, my Mac stack of IIcis is more or less daisy-chained this way. I suppose the AAUI transceivers are similarly set

PC LocalTalk cards Re: AAUI networking

2002-05-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a LocalTalk card for my 486 that has been fabulous. In fact, I never bothered to get its NIC running because the LocalTalk connection has been all I needed to share files and even print to the LaserWriter right from DOS. Total cost:

Re: Pizza Mac Ethernet Cards

2002-06-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- dhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will LC II ethernet cards work in all the other flat Macs including 475s. If the Mac has an LC or LCIII PDS, yes, most will. There were a few that would not work with the LCIII and newer. The LCIII PDS has a seldom used extra section. I've seen ethernet

Re: Pizza Mac Ethernet Cards

2002-06-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Louis Labrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm this may be why I've had no luck getting the Asante card I have to work In either my LC575 or LC III ? Will it work in a LC or LC II? It should work in the LC or LCII. Does it have the extended part on the PCB where a connector for the LCIII

Re: KVM Switch Recommendations

2002-06-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking of getting a KVM switch for my three Macs - an LC II, an IIcx, and (slightly o/t) a PM 7100. Any recommendations on where to get it, what brand, specs, etc? Going to be tough to find one now that supports ADB and the old DB15 video port.

Re: Pizza Mac Ethernet Cards

2002-06-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Louis Labrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes. Asante cards are famous for autonegotiating poorly. Set the port to 10BaseT manually, and/or put a 10BaseT hub between the card and the switch, and it should be OK. How would I set the port manually? I don't see anything on the

Re: LC ethernet cards

2002-06-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Richard Woodstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello , I have a LC 475 with a full 040 processor that I'm trying to network. Does a LC PDS Ethernet card work or do I need a LC III PDS Ethernet card ? and is their a big difference between the two. You want to stay away from older LC PDS

Re: UMAX VistaScan S6E software?

2002-06-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:49 -0700 on 01/06/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Where can I download the Mac and Windows VistaScan SCSI scanner software other than the UMAX Taiwan FTP server? Uh, what FTP server would that be? I need it too... the pickle ftp.umax.com.tw

Re: How to use computers on 220 volt power

2002-06-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 20:12 -0700 on 03/06/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you thepickle for your reply. So are all Macs auto-switching. If not, how to recognize which Mac is? Most will say near the plug if they are; if it doesn't say, assume it's NOT unless you

5 gigs?!? Re: remove me please

2002-06-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 00:08 -0400 on 04/06/02, sstanley wrote: will be putting a cap on downloads to 5 Gigs a month (73H Ÿü©#3®‰). Beyond Somehow I doubt this list creates more than about 300K/month, but I agree that that's a silly limitation. the pickle 5

Re: FPU 68882 for LCIII needed

2002-06-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Pavel Kindermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an LCIII (overclocked to 33 MHz). For the full-featured Linux (especially X Window) operation I need to add the FPU 68882. If you have any pointer for getting it (preferably in Europe) please let me know. Haunt the car-boot

Canadian ISP without download cap.

2002-06-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I asked on another list for names of Canadian ISP's without download caps. So far I have one. He is probably on either Rogers or Sympatico high speed access. My ISP is CompuSolve (Barrie Digital) and I have no Cap. Iain Ward Oro Station, Ontario Will that help any of our Canadian members?

Re: How Hard Could it Possibly Be?

2002-06-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Visionary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, I apologize: Is a 7200 not vintage enough yet? Or is OS 8.1 too new? For this list, both. :) And to answer your problem, you need a hacked version of Drive Setup. Hit www.resexcellence.com to find how to use ResEdit to do the hack. :) =

Re: compaq cdrom on IIci

2002-06-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
First off, use ResEdit to hack the Apple CD-ROM driver. Directions here http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_99/12-21-98.shtml Then if you want to see long filenames on Joliet CDs (and other neat stuff) Go to http://www.tempel.org/joliet = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk

Re: Networking E-mail

2002-06-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- jsoderlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a IIci That i just put a ASANTE MC3NB64 Ethernet Card in. I am trying to access cable modem via a netgear RT314 router that i think is auto sensing. The LED on the nic is blinking but nothing on the router.Any help in making this work

Re: SCSI Disk Mode w/ PB150

2002-06-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the use of a Mac II as an external 'SCSI-drive': I have a IIfx, just popped the hood, it has three jumper points, two near the ROM SIMM itself, labelled J103 (which is connected) I don't know/don't have an fx, but I'd just give it a try

Re: 2500 color stylewriter

2002-06-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- dhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a color stylewriter 2500 that prints nicely if I have one of those big ink cartridges. It printed in color too, but ... suddenly stopped printing in color and gives me an error that says, the cartridge is not in there right or something. Is it

Re: Connecting Macs via serial ports

2002-06-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
There are slimline null modem adaptors available in M-M, F-F and M-F connector configurations. They cost a bit but for most uses can be considered to be zero length when you're concerned about overall serial cable length. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk!

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