Re: broadband for a Mac IIci??

2002-06-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- dan_A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umax and can get into files, but when I try to use Eudora or Netscape (or iCab) I can't make a connection. I tried installing OT 1.0.8, which seems like the oldest version I can find. It wont install on a IIci. Is there anything else that I can

Re: lisa

2002-06-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jason Trunzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other vintage machines are valuable if mint, but the Lisa takes the cake! The value of a Lisa depends mostly on if it's in good cosmetic condition and if it's fully functional. Generally the later models with normal floppy drives, more RAM and hard

Re: broadband for Mac IIci...revisited

2002-06-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Fran Dollinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no way of getting OT on to my IIci unless someone wants to walk me through connecting my IIci to my 7300/200 (OS 8.6), which I am using right now on the cable modem, and then explain how to transfer files.(I'm running OS 7.5, no CD on

Top OS for IIci Re: broadband for Mac IIci...revisited

2002-06-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- dan_A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IIci is running OS 7.5.3, which is the highest OS that you can put onto the machine with its OEM processor, and which to date doesn't like Open Transport which is the other component that enables the IIci to get on the Internet with a cable

Re: Performa 475's won't boot

2002-06-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Replace the PRAM batteries. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: Switching off your Mac with a TV remote

2002-06-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Donovan Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got my LC630 clip room. While working on it one night I had the TV on and had just switched the TV off via the remote when pretty much the same time off goes the Mac. I switched on the TV again, and on comes the Mac... needless to

Re: Heartbroken over my IIci

2002-06-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jason Trunzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I pulled the cache card and still get the death chimes...I'm beginning to think the RAM is bad. Any more ideas out there? Anyone have some RAM for sale? I want to put 32mb in this machine. Does your IIci have plastic or metal SIMM clips?

Re: For those of you doing a grayscale Mac

2002-06-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Snook, John R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2032468320 I bought one of these and it works good on my LC475. So I'm going to use it on my grayscale project. It only cost $17.50 shipping included. What about going the other way and finding a 9

Re: System 7.5.5 is being a RAM hog - how do I change its mem. prefs?

2002-06-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- b e n w e l l s | headwerkx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SE/30's new hard disk had 7.5.5 already installed, which was rather convenient, except that it wants to take 27Mb of RAM (out of 32Mb) all the time. Seeing as 7.6.1 is using 9Mb on my IIfx and 9.1 is only using 24Mb I'm

Re: Where's the ATI software that works with the 8*24GC?

2002-06-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 22:33 -0700 on 23/06/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: So who's in charge of updating this dead link http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n10416 on this page http://www.lowendmac.com/video/apple8-24gc.shtml Hint: I have no control over

Re: Identifying SIMM codes

2002-06-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- b e n w e l l s | headwerkx one question though, according the codes listed, some of those 3 chip SIMMs are 4Mb modules - is that possible? Given the other 1Mb and 4Mb SIMMs I've seen have 8-9 chips on them, I'm wondering if I've misinterpreted something. The 8 or 9 chip SIMMs

Re: This is another fine mess.......

2002-06-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have one of those cosmic ironies on hand. I wanted a Color Classic to try and turn into a Takky. Was given one Neat. plot my next move. It runs nicely with the 520 MO but the OS is so stripped down that it really needs to be

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, can't bootNetworkDisk, hair falling out, shot

2002-06-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The problem with Macs and dodgey hard drives is there's no way to get low level access to ROM routines for low level formatting a drive. You must boot a System or Mac OS. Unfortunately if the driver on the HD is FUBAR or incompatable with a driver on another disk then you're SOL when it comes to

Re: Trouble with a password-protected PB540c, getting there but still can't access the drive!!

2002-06-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- b e n w e l l s | headwerkx clipped list of failures Insert deep sigh here Looks like you're stuck until you get a SCSI Disk Mode cable and can directly connect it to another Mac. Got any boot disk that the Disk Mode control panel will fit on? Can it be kicked into Disk Mode from

Re: keyboard question

2002-07-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Snook, John R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. pickle, Do you know if a Plus keyboard can be modified to have a ADB plug on it? Or does that Datadesk Mac101 keyboard has a custom chip in it. If so I want one! http://www.applefritter.com/prototypes/cassie/index.html There you'll find a

Re: keyboard question

2002-07-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:05 AM 7/1/2002 -0700, you wrote: http://www.applefritter.com/prototypes/cassie/index.html There you'll find a schematic of an adaptor for connecting an ADB keyboard to a 512K or other Mac that uses the phone cord type keyboard connection.

Re: Mac IIci questions

2002-07-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jason Trunzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdee! By the '040 card do you mean Sonnet's 040 Presto card? If so, that substantially increases your processing speed (to 55 or 60mhz I think) and allows you to run up to OS 8.6 on your IIci. It's an 040, best it will do is 8.1. If it's

Re: relatively foolish question

2002-07-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I gotta ask this, as I haven't found any information about this: exactly how do DOS cards in Macs work? I have two of them now, one with a 286 chip and one with a 386 chip. I can vaguely remember one of these back in college, that seemed

WP 3.5e. Re: Where ?

2002-07-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, and AW should have worked. Weird. Anyway, WordPerfect is a LOT better and it's guilt-free because it is legally free. It's a good word processor except it's WYSIWYG HTML mode is 99% useless. Create a HTML document, save it, close the file then

Re: Where ?

2002-07-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Sam Burrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tried putting my copy of AppleWorks 5.0.3 on it but it that was a no-go. I'm guessing that it's a 68040 but I Personally, I find WordPerfect icky. Micro$oft totally mutilated Apple's Human Interface Guidelines in their early apps. WordPerfect

Re: WP 3.5e. Re: Where ?

2002-07-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 22:51 -0700 on 07/07/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, and AW should have worked. Weird. Anyway, WordPerfect is a LOT better and it's guilt-free because it is legally free. It's a good word

AOL Press Mac? Where? Re: WP 3.5e. Re: Where ?

2002-07-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Hutchins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's also a Mac version of AOL Press. It has some funky features, but I use it a lot and quite like it. I built my site with it: http://www.hutchfx.com Any idea where it can be found? If I have the original archive filename I may be

Re: AOL Press Mac? Where? Re: WP 3.5e. Re: Where ?

2002-07-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Hutchins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note on AOL Press: For OS 7.x - 8.0 use AOL Press v 2 For OS 8.5 - 9.1 use AOL Press v 1.2.2 Now why would the older version work on 8.5 and newer, but not the newer version??? In the Win versions, only 2.0 can do frames. Frames are very simple

Re: AOL Press Mac? Where? Re: WP 3.5e. Re: Where ?

2002-07-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aren't you the one who posted the never do this with frames link? :-p the pickle This one? :) You want frames? I'll give you FRAMES! http://www.zark.com/headscape/frames.html = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk!

Re: IIci doesn't mount

2002-07-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I'd nuke and pave using a hacked Drive Setup 1.7.3 and make it all one HFS standard partition. Do it when booted from a 68K Disk Tools floppy from the System or MacOS you intend to use on the IIci. The problems I've had with Macs and drives all came from mixing and matching disk formatting

Re: Mice Repair

2002-07-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Donn Haven Lathrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can remove the slotted wheel assemblies, but should use a bit of care as they are tricky to get out without breaking one of the detents The older mice, with the photoelectric slotted wheels are worth trying to repair. The newer ones,

Re: Mice Repair

2002-07-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Anders Anna-Lee Fager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, I have this pile of more or less crappy mice. Most of them produce erratic movements or lack the little slippery thingie that is supposed to be the only thing save for the ball to touch the pad. Is there anything one can do to get

Re: Mac IIci Questions

2002-07-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- DeVaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone -- me again! I have some more questions about my Mac IIci. First off, I am thinking of adding a Daystar 030 Direct Slot 50 Mhz accelerator, but this would require the removal of my Apple Mac IIci cache card. Question: Would this

Re: SE/30 Problems

2002-07-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Visionary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William: Wiping the drive is an option and really, it's a matter of routine with me. But I'd hoped to be able to get a backup first in hopes of rescuing some of the software presently on the disk. Thus the need for networkability -- to do the

Syquest is NOT gone. Re: Good deal??

2002-07-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardly anyone carries them any more because SyQuest went under in '98 :( the pickle Syquest is still alive! www.syquest.com After Iomega got done plundering, they sold the assets of Syquest to SYQT Inc. Latest site update was May 14, 2002. For some

Re: Syquest is NOT gone. Re: Good deal??

2002-07-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:17 -0700 on 15/07/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardly anyone carries them any more because SyQuest went under in '98 :( the pickle Syquest is still alive! www.syquest.com After Iomega

Re: lc2 fosterfarms

2002-07-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what can i use foster farms for ? Either as a place to buy chicken from or to do some word processing on. :) (Foster Farms has been a big name in chicken in the USA for many many years.) what can i do to make it faster ? Put it on the passenger seat of your car

Re: lc2  fosterfarms

2002-07-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies if this has been answered better elsewhere, but I'd like to burn 7.1 to a cd and install it on my lc 575 in the interest of some speed. As long as I'm at it, I'd like to burn a few things to cd and install them. Unfortunately, only have the pc as the

Re: Mac 128/512 Amber Rare/Mint !

2002-07-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jason Trunzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is the screen amber? The box it came in (if you look at the ebay photo) is showing a normal grayscale screen. Was this a typical thing for Apple to do...anybody know for a fact that this machine isn't just blinky? Monochrome CRTs only have

OK, SyQuest is finally, mostly dead.

2002-07-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
SyQuest Technology, Inc. went bankrupt in 1998. Iomega bought their technology but chose not to incorporate any of it into their existing products. SyQuest continued business under chapter 11 until the judge shut them down completely in early 2001. Infinitum, LLC bought the remainder of the

Re: IBM WDS-3200 Level One Hard Drive Failure

2002-07-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jim Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Help! Should I just toss it? Or is there some magic driver or formatting utility that will let me turn that free space into usable turf? Thanks to all who respond. -- Jim Scott Somewhere, somehow, get access to a PC with a SCSI controller that

Re: Ehman removable disks

2002-07-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Hardy Menagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The label says 45 MB Removable Hard Disk and Ehman Quality Macintosh Peripherals Since 1985 which, I'm guessing is about when it was made. The cartridge measures 5 3/8 x 5 3/8 and has a red drum (Mrs. Torrence) in the upper right corner that you

Re: Unknown SuperMac Video card

2002-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jim Lunceford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff: There's a removable chip on there, looks like a small ROM chip. 'Says, 1003359-0001A Spigot NuBus Ver.1.0 Is that what your looking for? Looks like you have a video capture card there. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk

heavy monitors Re: OT: Quadra video

2002-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It took my 17 without flinching, creaking or otherwise. Unless your 17 is unusually heavy I'd say your ok. If you want a heavy monitor, try an IBM 6091-19 from an RS-6000 workstation. :) I'm trying to figure out which is cheaper, buying a new hot

Re: PPP problem

2002-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was on dial-up, I found FreePPP worked best (I think the last version was 2.1). I also found that MacTCP was the worst. I know FreePPP is freeware. Download freePPP at www.rockstar.com = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to

Re: sound files

2002-07-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
See what ibeep 2 from here will do for you. http://www.unitus.org/classicmac/system.html = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com --

Re: sound files

2002-07-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See what ibeep 2 from here will do for you. http://www.unitus.org/classicmac/system.html If that doesn't work, try this. http://lightning.prohosting.com/~classicm/ = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Have you tried it with NOTHING in the box but four 1meg SIMMs in Bank A (preferrably matched and known to be good) and a floppy drive? Get it that way then on another Mac, download the System 7.5 Network Access Disk (NAD) and see if the IIci will boot from that. (Of course you should make

Re: OS copyright

2002-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:13 -0500 on 31/07/02, R.A. Cantrell wrote: Thanks for the response. To push the abstraction a bit further, let's say we're talking OS 8.1 and that it is on a computer bought and dragged in from a garage sale? How about on a stack of HD's

Re: OS copyright

2002-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- william ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip As with the music business (who, let's face it deserve to be ripped deep -- if it could only be done without hurting all of the artists), Without hurting the artists? Ha. Just ask the artists that haven't been cowed into spouting the music

Re: copywrite

2002-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's not forget that there are companies that buy up software programs just to kill it. SCSI Director is one of those sad tales. TranSoft apparently bought it from another company, because version 1.7.2 doesn't have their name. TranSoft then developed

Re: copywrite

2002-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thought is that Copyright convictions usually involve actual damages that is the value of the pirated software to the company. It would be difficult to prove that this software that you don't even sell anymore is really worth anything to

Re: copywrite

2002-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
DirecTV has been finding it a bit difficult to persue TV pirates in Canada due to a little quirk in the laws up there. Since DirecTV service cannot be sold in Canada, it has a value of zero in that country. Anything of zero value is worthless and only things that have value and/or worth can be

Re: Whining Drives

2002-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Dry bearings. Dismantling a drive to drip a tiny amount of sewing machine oil on the bearings is a tricky proposition. Getting the thing back together is $^!@$@$ near impossible. :P I have an old Seagate 320meg SCSI that I took apart, got both bearings oiled but I couldn't get the heads back

Re: OS copyright

2002-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Aedan McGhie/Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... it's software piracy said the MS woman, like a robot. And there was something on MS web page about that recently. They warned charities about doing that kind of thing. What's _really_ perverse is all the ads Microsoft has put out

Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Visionary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I check? Did you format it as HFS+? Connect it back to the Mac you formatted it on that's running OS 8.1, click on the drive then hit Command I. It should say Mac OS Standard or Mac OS Extended. Extended is HFS+. If it says Standard then you

Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been well known for quite some time that various HD drivers from various manufacturers may or may not play nicely together. Tell me about it. :P I loaned a drive to a friend and told him he could erase it, what was on it wasn't important. When I

Why Macs need disk drivers. Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The Mac uses disk drivers because the ROM in the Mac doesn't know how to talk directly to a whole bunch of different hard drives with all sorts of different configurations of cylinders, heads and sectors. 1984 was in the days before PC hard drive controllers could autodetect the drive paramaters

Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drivers are placed on the hard disk when the disk is formatted. All disks have a driver of some sort on them, no matter what platform/OS/type of drive, with the exception of (maybe) CD media. PCs don't use any special driver on the disk unless

Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look guys, I'm coming from the ugly Windows/DOS world. I don't understand the need for drivers to install a hard drive whatsoever except for that brief and ugly period in our own history when there was such a thing as EIDE which I tried to avoid

Re: More about the Whiney Drives

2002-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, Greg. I just set up an AMD 1.2 Ghz box from the year 2002. It requires drivers for the DVD, Modem, Board chips like the VIA PC-133 chip, on-board sound, modem hard disk, and etc. Drivers are not obsolete, yet. We were discussing

Some history

2002-08-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Hmm, this got way longer than anticipated. :) Even busted the list's 10K size limit. Next part in next message. :) If Dan thinks it's good enough for my much neglected Trailing Edge on Low End PC (or even *gasp* good enough for a spot somewhere on LEM) be my guest, I think it's a bit long and

Some history part 2.

2002-08-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Part 2 in response to why Macs use disk drivers and PCs (generally) don't. Here follows a history of the PC platform's trials and tribulations with the hard drive through the years. Reading it is optional. Since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981 and the Mac in 1984 (and the PC was in

Re: Install type, how to check?

2002-08-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody tell me how I can check what type of installation was chosen, for a certain OS? Suppose I have a HD with 7.5.5. that works with my IIci and LC's and I want to take it out to somebody who has a PowerMac without a HD. I wonder if it will boot.

Re: Install type, how to check?

2002-08-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Most early PowerMacs will boot from a 7.5 boot disk. 7.5 through 8.1 have two boot disks, one for 68k and one for PPC. If you have a 601 upgrade in a 68k, the 8.1 PPC boot disk will work as-is. (Maybe 8.0 too, never tried it.) 7.6 PPC boot disk requires an enabler for a 601 upgrade but 7.6

Re: LCIII memory

2002-08-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- biomem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a 72pin EDO simms for my LCIII and put it in. When I turned it on the 1st time it chimed, loaded and I looked 'about this mac' and it said 36000bytes which is right 4+32...but the system memory showed using 3 of this memory, why? Use the

Re: ...hi everybody

2002-08-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bill Zipprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know what the following card is: Radius Risc Processor Board It's a Nubus card with no external connector. Could it be a card that accelerates graphics? Probably a PhotoShop accelerator. Should work with up to PhotoShop 3,

Re: Calling all Net savvy users

2002-08-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As many of you may already know, Low End Mac's PayPal account was hijacked over the weekend. Someone using the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] managed to hack my password, add his/her address to the account, remove my access to the account, and

Re: ...hi everybody

2002-08-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 21:55 +0100 on 08/08/02, Mark Benson wrote: More likely some sort of RIP card; if you can get access to a scanner, this What be an RIP board? For those who have not got a clue. Raster Image Processor. Useful in service bureaux and the

Re: Calling all Net savvy users

2002-08-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the problem with direct deposit, better to keep a transaction account to pay bills into the other parties account than to pay another third party to do it for you. Banks tend to keep better records. Maybe banks are different over there? Notice

Re: What's a PEBKAC?

2002-08-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dwight Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Mark Benson Any spelling errors are attributed to PEBKAC What's a PEBKAC? Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __

CD-ROM changer driver for Mac

2002-08-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I just got a Pioneer DRM-604X, which is an external 4x, 6 disc, SCSI CD-ROM changer. :) Unfortunately whomever is in charge of driver software at Pioneer uploaded the Mac driver as a .sea file instead of a plain stuffit archive or .hqx or .bin encoding it. :( I've tried to download it from here

Re: The NuBus Mafia Project

2002-08-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Chris Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Eshelman, you'll love this :) http://www.applefritter.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.pl?board=nubusmafia;action=display;num=1022536987 If you can help in any way, please don't hesitate to head over to Applefritter and jump right in. Yeah, I've

Re: New Mac Guy

2002-08-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Welcome! If you have any IIci Macs in the pile, they'd be better ones to start with, IMHO, unless you're going to do something that needs more than three NuBus cards. :) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do

Re: CD-ROM changer driver for Mac

2002-08-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file will unstuff using stuffit deluxe 5.5 on Basilisk I'll send it to you if you'd like, changed to a sit file. Dont think its a .sea file, try renaming it. Someone else sent it to me already. :) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's

Re: CD-ROM changer driver for Mac

2002-08-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Looks like the Pioneer DRM-604X will have to find a home connected to one of my Macs, assuming it works with 7.6.1 or 9.1. :) My PC's SCSI controller identifies it as a DRM-600. MS totally screwed up how changers work in 2K and XP. :P ATAPI/IDE ones show as a single drive only and you have to

Update Re: CD-ROM changer driver for Mac

2002-08-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I connected it to my 7300 this morning and apparently the Pioneer control panel can't see anything on the secondary SCSI bus. Bummer. Next step will be to try it on the Power IIci and see if it works with the single SCSI bus on it. Can any of the 3rd party disk drivers handle CD changers?

Re: CD Changer Re: WGS 8150 Questions...

2002-08-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Looks like FWB CD-ROM Toolkit supports the DRM series of Pioneer changers. http://www.fwb.com/ts/cdt/cdt_support.html = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs

Re: System 7 and my LC\

2002-08-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd assume the reason no one put one out is that the file name limitation is hardcoded into a large percentage of applications. So, even if the Finder could use a 256 character name, the apps couldn't. True. But it could make life

Re: CD Changer Re: WGS 8150 Questions...

2002-08-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 23:17 -0700 on 11/08/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Looks like FWB CD-ROM Toolkit supports the DRM series of Pioneer changers. How about the free OEM version in the Daystar downloads section? The one in the 604 section here http://www.lowendmac.com

Anyone save this file from the Mac driver museum?

2002-08-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
http://www.pioneerservice.com/downloads/documentation/selftest.htm Did anyone happen to save a copy of that file on testing Pioneer CD-ROM changers? The link is dead. :P = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do

Re: HP Printer Drivers

2002-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- BearAZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from Sunny Arizona! New to the list...but ya gotta start someplace! So, I'll start with the easy stuff first. I want to hook up my HP Deskwriter 660C printer to my IIcx which is running OS 6.0.8. Possible? Which drivers? Source for same?

AppleWorks on A/UX? Re: ci/si and ethernet?

2002-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:12 PM 8/13/2002 +0100, you wrote: I think it requires OS 7.5.5 or later. I got AW 5 with my iBook so it's not that old. It'll run on 7.1. Most of my 68ks are running that. Incidentally, it'll also run on A/UX 3.x. It'd be running as a Mac

daystar Re: ci/si and ethernet?

2002-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: videocards, while I didn't see any other PDS cards (except one Daystar accel, which I bought) Got the adaptor if you're going to use it in anything other than a IIci, IIvx, IIvi or Performa 600? (If it's an 030 PowerCache, Turbo 040 or Turbo

Selftest info found for Pioneer CD changer

2002-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I remembered that http://www.archive.org has a Wayback Machine where you can enter a URL of an old or missing website and if they've archived it you can see it. They happen to have three copies of http://www.pioneerservice.com/downloads/documentation/selftest.htm Happy joy! Unfortunately my

Re: ci/si and ethernet?

2002-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 23:08 +0100 on 13/08/02, Mark Benson wrote: Apple NuBus NICS are AAUI - Asante MacCon NICs are UTP RJ45. I have 2 Not all of 'em. Both made some that were AUI or 10Base-2, or both, as well as AUI + RJ-45 and RJ-45-only. Apple didn't make many

Duh! Problem solved. Re: Selftest info found for Pioneer CD changer

2002-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Ummm, I finally figured out the problem. I was putting the CDs in right side up but some engineer at Pioneer decided to build the drive upside down. Yup, that's it. I was just following standard procedure like every other CD-ROM drive in the world but Pioneer had to go and make things difficult.

Re: Duh! Problem solved. Re: Selftest info found for Pioneer CD changer

2002-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 23:21 -0700 on 13/08/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Ummm, I finally figured out the problem. I was putting the CDs in right side up but some engineer at Pioneer decided to build the drive upside down. LOL. Sorry. That's just funny

Re: daystar Re: ci/si and ethernet?

2002-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Daystar 68030/050. I managed to find a copro, and add it, but don't know if it is working. (2 euro) The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ Instructions are in the FAQ on how to install the Power Central control panel for the 030

Re: daystar Re: ci/si and ethernet?

2002-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 50 MHz CPU _is_ working under NetBSD, and I've a feeling that it is on under MacOS also. It won't enable the CPU under Mac OS without the control panel at all. No way, no how. Not the Daystar 030. It's easy to see the speedup when the

Re: ...any info on these cards?

2002-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bill Zipprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip a weird card with a 68000 processor Like pickle said, probably TokenRing. You need the A/ROSE extention for them. Apple / Realtime Operating System Extention. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk!

Re: ...any info on these cards?

2002-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:55 -0700 on 14/08/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- Bill Zipprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip a weird card with a 68000 processor Like pickle said, probably TokenRing. You need the A/ROSE extention for them. Apple / Realtime Operating

Re: Daystar Universal Powercache in a SE/30?

2002-08-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- l k m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Daystar Universal Powercache card pulled from a IIci. If I take off the FPU (that's the chip with MC68882RC33A, right? ) off the card, can I install it in my SE/30? If so, is there an easy way to remove the chip? You must get an SE/30 adapter

Re: Daystar Universal Power cache in a SE/30?

2002-08-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Snook, John R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can But it's not easy. You need a IIsi PDS adaptor, and you will need to cut clearance in the SE/30 chassis. johnsn DayStar made an adaptor specific for the SE/30. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk!

Re: sad Mac

2002-08-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Snook, John R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. I looked in the FAQ but I can't open the HEX file that has (maybe) the info. Thanks. It's a Word doc, IIRC. I'm on a PC. WinZip will extract BinHex files, but the only Mac files you can extract and still use are documents like text and

Re: sad Mac

2002-08-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Snook, John R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That could explain it. I have a daystar LC adaptor. It works with a daystar 030 upgrade card (power cache?). I was hoping it would work with the 040. johnsn It might in an LCIII or LCIII+ or Performa 520 or 550 or Color Classic II. =

Re: Benchmarks and Daystars

2002-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of the tests ran on my classic Mac stable had rather startling results. For example, the Daystar PowerCentral control panel seems to accelerate FPU performance on the IIci, even with no Daystar hardware installed. Apparently you had the

Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished

2002-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Desert Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got 2 IIcx's with 80MB RAM... I paid almost $3,000 for some of those Thunder IV GX cards in various resolutions. The DSP acceleration is kick butt. The best is converting to CMYK, which is sped up by a huge factor. My IIci with the Turbo 601

High priced videocards. Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished

2002-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
What I have a hard time figuring out is why video card companies love to charge around $5,000 for the latest and greatest thing? From the earliest 24bit cards for Mac and PC right to the present day where they can make the same AGP or PCI hardware for both, the prices have stayed about the same.

IIfx online Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished

2002-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used a IIfx myself for quite a while. It is an oke machine. BTW Internet browsing is not exactly a lowend activity, not for computers of this vintage. They are actually a bit to slow to do it properly and some content is out of

Re: IIfx online Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished

2002-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a head to head internet performance comparo? 386DX/40 VS IIfx. clip Don't forget to give the 386 a 40 mhz bus speed mobo otherwise it wouldn't be fair :-) Marten That's what the 386DX/40 is. Full 32bit CPU on a 40Mhz bus. :)

IIfx VS 386DX/40 Re: IIfx online Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished

2002-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ken Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how serious you are about this, but I'm pretty sure that I have a 386/40 PC board in my basement (I only wish I threw out the old junk... I also just got a IIfx, but don't know what it has in it, other than a sticker on the outside

Re: IIfx VS 386DX/40 Re: IIfx online Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished

2002-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bill Zipprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember guys, the IIfx had IOP's! This was an advanced feature. Similar to IBM mainframes with channel processors for I/O. I don't know if PC's ever had that kind of advanced hardware. 16550N UARTS, that ought to at least equal the IIfx

Re: IIfx VS 386DX/40 Re: IIfx online Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished

2002-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bill Zipprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IIfx IOP's would certainly benefit the Internet experience as you use the mouse to navigate. Also consider that the cursor (hardware cursor) is controlled via the IOP's as well. Well, I suppose he can start by just assembling whatever he

Re: RastorOps Painboard Li card - anyone got any details? WAS: Hi-Spec IIci finished

2002-08-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ben, what do you mean by screen draw lag? -mart He means you can see the graphic elements draw on the screen instead of snapping on. A faster Mac or a faster upgraded CPU can take care of much of it. Hmm, I just noticed he left the T out of Paintboard

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