Re: One Bazillion Dollars to Whoever Figures This Out

2001-07-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Galen Tatsuo Komatsu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 09, 2001 2:59 AM Subject: One Bazillion Dollars to Whoever Figures This Out Asked this on the Quadlist to no

Re: Monitor Power Cable

2001-07-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mauricio Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:37 PM 7/10/01 -0700, you wrote: Hello. I have a Apple Portrait monitor connected to a Quadra 610 using an apple monitor power cable. For some reason when I turn the computer off the monitor does not shut down. The screen goes dark but

SCSI Printers Re: IIsi still having problems

2001-07-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Canon's BJ10 was a combo color inkjet printer and flatbed scanner. One connection option was SCSI. Other modules were for connecting to non-personal type computer systems. It used four fairly large ink tanks and printed at 400 dots per inch. Hardly high quality by today's standards. The BJ10 was

Re: Initializing an internal SCSI hard drive

2001-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: David Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, July 22, 2001 8:55 AM Subject: Initializing an internal SCSI hard drive Can someone please tell me how to do this? I just bought

Re: Format a PC IDE Drive

2001-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Black*Fire http://www.blackfire.com.au/ makes an IDE to SCSI conversion adaptor that plugs directly onto the back of an IDE device to convert it to SCSI. Unfortunately it will only fit in a 5.25 bay, even when used with a 3.5 drive. --- Norbert van Bemmel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually,

Re: Use a PC IDE Drive In Vintage Tin

2001-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are our chances we can find a nubus card that supports only one IDE drive designed for the 68040 class of Macs running that range from 20 to 40 Mhz.? Jeff Pretty much nil. There are (or were) general purpose IDE interface chips that needed

Re: Initializing an internal SCSI hard drive

2001-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Robert Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 23, 2001 6:11 AM Subject: Re: Initializing an internal SCSI hard drive I added Lido to my tool box. Upon checking it

Re: Wierd old external hard drive... any ideas on how to power it up?

2001-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
It draws power from the serial port. But which of the 3 pin ports on the drive itself to use, hmmm? Crack the thing open and do some wire tracing from those two 3 pin ports. Maybe they're just connected together for daisy chaining power to a second drive. I wouldn't try running more than one

Re: Wierd old external hard drive... any ideas on how to power it up?

2001-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:37 +0100 on 23/07/01, Mike Evans wrote: The weird thing is, there is no socket for power at the back. At the back of it, apart from the normal two SCSI ports (Centronics-50), there are just two mini-DIN 8 type sockets (similar -looking to the

Re: non mac monitors

2001-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The Belkin F3H1381 is a bit on the expensive side, but it will make dang near any monitor work on any Mac with a DB15 monitor port. It compensates for all the combinations of sysnch on green/H-V synch/composite synch plus scan frequencies. A wonderful doo-dad to have if you're teching on a pile

Re: LCIII type 28 error

2001-07-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Chelley Vician [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Addendum to Gregg's comment I made up a special Conflict Catcher set -- system 7-7.5.5 only PLUS the FWB CD-ROM Toolkit group --- and tried booting with this setup. Here is the message I got: An unexpected error occurred, because an

Self crashing apps. Re: Most Stable OS

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Netscape's favorite tactic is scribbling over itself in memory, at least on Windows. How do I tell if a Mac app crash is due to the app overwriting part of its main executable in RAM? At any rate, especially after 20+ years, _I_ find it amazing that programmers still haven't come up with a

Re: Self crashing apps. Re: Most Stable OS

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- James S Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of the advantages of Netscape on the classic Mac OS. Any application creates it's own memory partition and only the most remarkably buggy apps will overwrite another app's partition (maybe something not 32-bit clean?). Netscape and

RAM Charger.

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Who all here uses RAM Charger? OK, how many RAM Charger users also own a non Vintage Mac with OS 8.5 through 9.1? Of course you know that using RAM Charger on OS 8.5 or 8.6 is a bit iffy and it doesn't work on 9.x. Sooo, now that work on the classic Mac OS has been terminated (supposedly) Apple

Re: Most stable OS

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- David Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding Pagmaker 6.5, it crasher quite frequently on it's on. I beginning to wonder if I should have stayed with my old friend Pagemaker 6.0. PM 6.5 crashed this morning as I was attempting to run Outlook Express. David Its always so much fun

A funny search result for Error -671. :)

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I've been trying to find out what the heck a Mac Error -671 is, so I popped Error -671 (use the quotes) into http://www.dogpile.com Scroll down to where it says Are you looking for: One of the suggestions is Bill Gates Home. LOL! Now I know what is causing Error -671. All that FUD from Redmond.

Re: fx termination

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Sounds like an active terminator, which should work better than the Special Black IIfx one. Termination power must be provided to the bus, either by the host adaptor (Mac) or one of the drives to use an active terminator. Its generally not a good idea to have more than two devices providing

7.7.5 update. Re: my stash of Macs

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- RomRider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just a brief defence of 486 machines, I am a mac fan but I also have several 486 machines that are quite useful... The only thing you need in an old 486 to make it useful is lots of ram, if you can squeeze 32 megs or more in you can run a nice distro

Re: fx termination

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Barber wrote: Does the black terminator used for external SCSI devices with the MacIIfx have a green led? I'm being given one, and want to use the correct terminator... IMHO the special fx terminator isn't needed for short distances. SCSI is

manufacture date Re: fx termination

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Eshelman wrote: Unfortunately they didn't put any easily identifiable marking on the logic boards or anywhere else to tell which are the revised ones. :P Someone had a website with a Mac serial number decoder so you could tell when

Re: manufacture date Re: fx termination

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Eshelman wrote: Unfortunately they didn't put any easily identifiable marking on the logic boards or anywhere else to tell which are the revised ones. :P Someone had a website

Vicarious Lisas. Re: my stash of macs

2001-07-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the opportunity to trade a bare bones Beige tower for a Lisa2. I'm wondering if anyone thinks that's worth it. I have 4 G3 MT's that I am gonna sell, but that trade -- Kyle H. Hansen What are you talking about? Hell yeah

Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs]

2001-07-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- RomRider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's got all 10 megs of ram in it and seems to run 7.5.3 very well... I only want to update to 7.5.5 so I can get open transport going since I can't figure out how to get it on the net using DHCP and my cablemodem... You DON'T NEED 7.5.x to run Open

Bin files. Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs]

2001-07-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Hmm, MacBinary files usually download OK onto a PC. Tried dropping them onto Stuffit Expander or running Expander then using the menu commands to manually decode them? And, um, doesn't Open Transport require at least an 030 CPU? Or have I forgotten something? Haven't ever actually used a Mac II

Re: Where to get RAM?

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kevin Altenhofel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find 80ns 30-pin SIMMs? Either 4 or 16 MB. This is something that I thought I could find in the FAQ, but I didn't (this doesn't mean it's not there, just that I didn't find it). I'm new to the list, so be gentle. Thanks. What Mac

RAM-ing speed! Re: Where to get RAM?

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've often wondered what would happen if one tried SLOWER SIMMs that those listed as the minimum requirement. Everymac.com has various Macs noted as requiring 80ns, 70ns, 60ns, et al. My curiosity hasn't been so burning that I've bought slower SIMMs

Re: I AM A FUCKNUT!

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew W. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished installing everything on this new 30gig hard disk, when I looked at the size of an extension I was emailing to someone and found it was 448k for 7,967 bytes used. Obviously, this didn't seem right, so I got info on the hard

Block/Cluster size. Re: I AM A FUCKNUT!

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew W. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Andrew W. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished installing everything on this new 30gig hard disk, when I looked at the size of an extension I was emailing to someone and found it was 448k for 7,967 bytes used. Obviously,

Re: IPNetSentry: no 68k version :(

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if a significant amount of fellow 68k users clearly tells them that they're interested in a firewall solution for their 68k Macs, maybe they'll reconsider their position... Whats the correct email address to send a query? There is NO direct

Re: Where to get Ram

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought four 16 mg 30 pin simms from Macsolutions.com about two years ago and they are functioning perfectly in my Quadra 700. They were inexpensive for the date, too. I think I paid $17.95 a stick. They got them to me one day earlier than

Re: Outlook/Windows users on this list?

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Michael J. Flaherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thare are about a half dozen people out there who's computers have the latest Outlook/Outlook Express virus and I keep getting junk attachments from them. What are they ? .exe files ? The virus grabs a random file off the

Re: Outlook/Windows users on this list?

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
That is the one. :P --- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thare are about a half dozen people out there who's computers have the latest Outlook/Outlook Express virus and I keep getting junk attachments from them. What are they ? .exe files ? I'm wondering if they got

Virus proof. Re: Outlook/Windows users on this list?

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My estimation is that yes, it's a very bad infection this time. I've received about a dozen copies of it in the past couple days. Fortunately I drive a Mac... That's why I use Yahoo mail for mailing lists. Ain't gonna get no viri that way. For my normal

Re: Outlook/Windows users on this list?

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:17 PM -0400 7/27/2001, Amber Rhea wrote: What was the statistic? Over 10,000 known Windows viruses and fewer than 10 for the Mac? Closer to truth is 15,000 for Windows/DOS and 700 for Mac. The chance of an effective worm for a Mac would

Re: Outlook/Windows users on this list?

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Closer to truth is 15,000 for Windows/DOS and 700 for Mac. The chance of an effective worm for a Mac would be for it to be cross platform. Possible? Likely? Any that would affect the Mac nowadays (OS X) would have to also affect

Re: My Stash of Macs

2001-07-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
My list is incredibly short and easy. One IIci with DayStar Turbo 601 and 80 megs RAM. One Radius 81/110 with a paltry 56 megs RAM. = 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

monitors Re:

2001-08-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:21 -0400 on 05/08/01, gary srygler wrote: I have many Mac monitors. I want to connect one to a windoze box (Flame retardant suit on) Which one would work easiest and what adapters will I need? Please reply off list, I don't want to start

Re: OT: Small monitor gloat. ;)

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/5/01 9:50 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine too, works beautifully at 640X480. Freaks out at 512X384 won't centre right at 832X624. Design flaw? Yup, same monitor. Its the Apple Multiple Scan 14 Display model

Re: OT: Small monitor gloat. ;)

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/5/01 11:55 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, same monitor. Its the Apple Multiple Scan 14 According to both AppleSpec and the Apple Online Museum, that monitor's max resolution is 800x600. Huh. Then why am I

Re: Drain Crawler

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- tesla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam: I have to wonder if perhaps you could generate those tones with your trusty touchtone phone? If it responds to DTMF tones there might be a DTMF tone generator program for Mac. There are several PC ones. = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why

Searching the old TIL articles.

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Articles prior to November 1997 can be searched without signing in by going here. http://karchive.info.apple.com/ I also sent them a feedback about how I dislike their new setup, especially the signing in bit. :P = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is

Re: OT: Small monitor gloat. ;)

2001-08-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dana Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speakers worked but of course were cheezy (not talking KRK or JBL here!). Best regards, Dana They sound better than the mono built in speaker of most Macs. :) 'Course most of the all in one Performas had decent stereo speakers built in. = The

Re: DTMF Re: Drain Crawler

2001-08-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/7/01 1:42 AM, Adam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rotary phone (Geez, I'm 18 and I remember these) Don't worry about it, I'm 19 and *use* a rotary phone. Heh, I'm 30 and remember when there was ONE style of phone available, supplied by Ma

Re: monitors Re: Awful?!!?

2001-08-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:35 -0700 on 07/08/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Good God. Get rid of the 12 inchers. They're awful monitors. 'SCUSE ME?!!?? There's NOTHING awful about those little gems. Their pictures are sharp and crisp, and there's nothing

Re: Bottom Suckers

2001-08-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- dhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We were on a party line in the 80's. Can you imagine how that would have affected an Internet connection. Its actually illegal to use a modem, FAX or similar device on a party line. The last party line in Idaho was done away with several years ago, early

Re: Hello

2001-08-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kevin Haryett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generally all you have to do is get a router for the cable modem (if you don't already have one) that is capable of doing DHCP or static IP masking. Make sure you have Open Transport on the IIsi and you're basically all set. Just thinking

Just not cricket...

2001-08-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
http://www.bossmonster.com/e4/cricket/cricket.html Really, it isn't. :) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets? Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ICQ# 16024947

Re: GD-ROMs (Dreamcast) and the Mac

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a program that burns GD-ROMs (no, that's not a typo) on the Mac, like DiskJuggler does on the PC? I want to burn NetBSD/dreamcast onto a CD to play with it, but the bootable CD image is not iso9660. (For info on NetBSD/dreamcast,

Re: Printer question

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that the mac printer port was a serial port. How did they do that? I hope not by also delivering a nubus parallel printer port card, because that wouldn't be much help on a Classic II. Well there were the Hurdler and Hurdler II

Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2)

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Etienne Le Sueur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to put debian on mac LC 2 I've got penguin 19, and it boots ok, but the kernel panics, and says VFS: unable to mount root fs on 00:00 I'm not sure what to do.. Any ideas on what the problem is? Did you solder in an FPU socket then

Re: GD-ROMs (Dreamcast) and the Mac

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a program that burns GD-ROMs (no, that's not a typo) on the Mac, like DiskJuggler does on the PC? I want to burn NetBSD/dreamcast onto a CD to play with it, but the bootable CD image is not iso9660. (For info on

Re: just curious...

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, When I was doing my usual thrift-store rounds, I happened to come across an Apple Adjustible Keyboard, still in box; just not shrinkwrapped. Of course, I snapped it up; it was only $5. I was wondering what it's original value might have

Re: HP Deskwiter 600 Color Kit

2001-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Yup, just swap out the black for color, but then it has to mix all three colors for black and dark parts of color pictures. http://www.noet.at/sss/hp/77.htm http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpd02585.html The cartridges you want have the blue tops. (Green tops are for the 500

Re: OT: Famous PC parts company does a funny. :)

2001-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Sam Burrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my coworkers is building a PC with an ASUS A7A266 motherboard. Visible as part of the box art is a corner of that PowerMac that had the floppy drive on the left side! You mean the 4400? It's mostly hidden behind the picture of

Re: 6800, was Re: OT: Famous PC parts company does a funny. :)

2001-08-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did 6800's exist btw? I do tech support for state schools, and some have referred to them often enough for me to wonder if some special educational version existed, however they've all been replaced and seem to only exist in memory now -

Re: Where can I find a FTP program for the Mac II and a power PC I need both?

2001-08-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- astrobuoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also ftp from your browser by entering ftp://; instead of http://;. but Fetch is great. Also, Cyberdog is dirt free and it ftps just fine... all the best Unfortunately, IE and Netscape for Mac don't handle FTP _uploading_ well. :( To

Re: 64MB SIMMs

2001-08-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the max RAM for a Performa 6214CD (such a well-known model, I know...) 64MB, orcan it take 128MB? Thought with the cost of 64MB 70-pin SIMMs, I suppose it would hardly be worth it... It is not worth it. Throw into street now, or give it

Re: Enhanced LC PDS expansion cards

2001-08-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:02 +0800 on 16/08/01, Andrew W. Hill wrote: I think it was mostly for accelerators and video cards. ...and I don't know of a single accelerator that used 'em. All the accelerators I know of for the LC-class Macs were compatible with all of

Re: (solution!) GD-ROMs (Dreamcast) and the Mac

2001-08-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Franz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dunno about for Mac, but Nero Burning ROM for Win That's the problem -- I don't own a Windows system. Closest I come is two DOS boxes I use for RD and old DOS games. Don't worry about that! Nero exists for MacOS! =2))) Just search for it with

Re: OT: Famous PC parts company does a funny. :)

2001-08-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Allee wrote: on 8/16/01 12:53 AM, Luc Verhelst at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, here's a picture I took with a camera. Didn't have a flatbed scanner handy. Its a bit hard to see since they tinted it blue but that is definately

Re: OT: Famous PC parts has a 6100

2001-08-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- William Ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys If you have Photoshop or Graphic Converter, download the jpeg and flop it. I just did. It's a 6100. Definitely. LOL! A 6100 is even worse. ;-) Gonna stuff a 1.2Ghz Athlon in a 6100 from the mirror universe, eh? = The earth swarms with

Re: Photoshop 2.5 to 2.5.1

2001-08-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gene Osburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, Don't have a specific answer for you on that. But it seems to me thatmost .1 updates tend to address stability issues, rather than any significant feature enhancements. I routinely apply .1 updates to any software I have installed, SOP. I

Re: Photoshop 2.5 to 2.5.1

2001-08-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- William Ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - BTW, 2.5.1 was the 1st Pshop to be PPC-native (via a plug-in), if you're using a PPC, it's at: ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/mac/info-mac/gst/grf/pshp/photoshop-ppc-plugin.hqx But delete the or you ain't going anywhere.

Re: linux m68k

2001-08-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 23:44 -0600 on 16/08/01, Steve Conrad wrote: Ok, I've had enough and now I have to add my $.11. Why are you bothering with Linux? NetBSD is the one to go with on 68k Macs. I've put it on my IIci and Q800 and both run flawlessly. Why go with

Re: OS 7.6.1

2001-08-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have a copy of 7.6.1 for an LCIII? I'm using 7.1, but want to move up to a version that has OT so that I can network it with a newer Mac. You don't need 7.6.1 for that. :) Hit this, http://devworld.apple.com/sdk Get the Drag Manager,

Re: Speaking of OS's

2001-08-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a list of new features for each new release of Mac OS? If I wanted to know what version was first to have the clock on the menu bar or the first to have the menus stay open without holding the mouse, where would I look? Wasn't

Re: OS 7.6.1

2001-08-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use a dialup connection, download ot ppp too. Same directory. I saw some site (while digging up info on the 6200) that FreePPP is a much better performer on the internet than OT-PPP. Somehow FreePPP can operate the 6200's serial ports

Re: Blinking ? on disk

2001-08-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/18/01 1:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did those HD hum and make seeking noises when turned on? If not, slap hard on sides of the Macs few times asap when turned on. If that trick did work and hear HD spin up and

Re: My ISP

2001-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingmy ISP says that unless you are running Eudora 5+ or running the latest and greatest there is no support for you as older stuff is simply not supported. Now I am on a IIci running 7.5.5, 32M RAM and I use Eudora Light 3.1.3, the last

Re: Spectre Classic?

2001-08-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Erik Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a game I used to play back in the early '90's called Spectre Was a Battlezone/Tank style game, and I understand there were a couple of iterations - Spectre Supreme and Spectre VR. However, I'm trying to track down a copy of the

Re: MP3 Player for LC III

2001-08-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Either MacLaunch (like most listservs) uses a FILO (First In - Last Out) buffer or e-mail travels faster than light so you see all the replies before ever seeing the original message. ;) P.S. If you do plug 36 megs into that LCIII and try playing an MP3 with SoundApp, you'd better have a tape

Re: Ram for IIsi

2001-08-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- David Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type/size of memory chip do I need for a IIsi? Many thanks. dprice Four 30 pin SIMMs from 1 to 16 meg each. They must all be the same. = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so

Old cars VS old Macs. Re: Musings

2001-08-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The difference with Ford, GM and MoPar is they are actively persuing owners of their classics with plenty of parts and services for the more popular models. You can go into any Ford dealer and order many parts for an old Mustang, even a complete engine. You can't call up Apple and order all the

Re: Powerbook 190 issues

2001-08-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet another customer's computer which is, well, full of problems. (Aren't they all?) I upgraded the RAM to 24MB (thanks to Dan Randall for sending me a 16MB card!) and it really flies. Or should I say, flew. I was downgrading it to system 7.5.2, and

Re: Note to Yahoo users

2001-08-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Artie Johnson used to say, Very interesting -- but stupid. Some Yahoo users have noted problems posting to the lists. One member forwarded his email and asked why the problem. What I discovered was quite interesting. This person's email

Re: Syquest info?

2001-08-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bob C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was given a SyQuest 5.25 external cartridge drive today, much to my surprise and delight, but I know very little about them. Is there a web-site dealing with these somewhere? When I connected it to my LCIII+ running System 7.1 and started up, I

Re: CD burning on a Performa 466

2001-08-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Sean McGroty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use my CD-RW on my Performa 466 with Toast 4.1, but the system crashes whenver I insert a CD. The Performa is running System 7.6.1 I'm thinking of using an earlier version of Toast, but I can't find anything before 4. Can someone point me

Re: Silverlining Lite SQ?

2001-08-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bob C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. - As an aside, the only way I've found to currently format the cartridges is by using Lido 7.56, and then using OnTrack Software's Disk Manager Mac v. 2.25 to update the driver. Both Lido and the current version of SyQuest Utilities install a

Re: Stuffit Expander

2001-08-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:46 -0400 on 27/08/01, Receipts wrote: Stuffit Expander Does anyone know what the latest version of Stuffit Expander is that can be used with OS 7.1??? IIRC, it's 5.5. I thought 5.5 required 7.1P or 7.1.1? It will work fine on 7.1 if you

Even more paper Macs! :)

2001-08-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
These are the more current generations of Mac. http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/PaperMac/index.shtml = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets? Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL

Re: Stuffit Expander

2001-08-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:26 -0700 on 27/08/01, Cameron Kaiser wrote: But I didn't do anything of the kind, though. It just worked. Although I have a lot of funky extensions on that system, so it wasn't exactly a clean 7.1 -- several stolen from 7.5.5, in fact --

Re: Download .sit file via PC

2001-08-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew Michael MacTao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Eshelman wrote: No problem at all. .sit is a compressed archive like a .zip or .rar. If you have Stuffit Expander and PC Exchange (or Apple File Exchange or File Exchange) This is an interesting point... (pickle please excuse

Re: Deltis 230MO

2001-08-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew W. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a 230MB Deltis Magneto-optical drive. I need a driver or soemthing to use it right? Where do I get this? PEace Aqua Grab this. http://www.ruralnetwork.net/~gregg/TutboMO.sit If you put a properly Mac formatted disk in the drive before

Re: Stuffit Expander

2001-08-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I didn't do anything of the kind, though. It just worked. Although I have a lot of funky extensions on that system, so it wasn't exactly a clean 7.1 -- several stolen from 7.5.5, in fact -- maybe that's why. Betcha it's

Re: Is there a Mac Rehab facility out there??

2001-08-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/28/01 8:55 AM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sturdy too! And now, auto accessories: a gutted Perf 6200 case affixed to the under-dash of an '84 CHevy Cavalier makes for a great add-on glovebox! Dana Wow, that's about one of

Portrait Display screenshot?

2001-08-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Would someone with an Apple Portrait Display be so kind as to get a fullscreen screenshot with plenty of stuff open? I need it in PICT, bitmap uncompressed TIFF or some non lossy format so when I size it to fit the paper version of the monitor it won't go all fuzzy. :) Gotta have that crisp

Re: Stuffit Expander

2001-08-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- rlf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vintage Macs wrote... From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Stuffit Expander Stock 7.1 has Finder 7.1, which isn't scriptable. If I'm using the 7.1.3 Finder and an app won't open but instead displays a message saying it can't run

Re: Deltis 230MO

2001-08-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew W. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Andrew W. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a 230MB Deltis Magneto-optical drive. I need a driver or soemthing to use it right? Where do I get this? PEace Aqua Grab this. http://www.ruralnetwork.net/~gregg/TutboMO.sit

Re: kill teh frames kill the frames!!

2001-08-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Frames?! You want frames?! HERE! http://www.zark.com/headscape/frames.html ;-) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets? Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ICQ# 16024947

Re: Apple File Exchange was Re: Download .sit file via PC

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Randy Beaudreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You get the Bill Gates award for misinformation there pickle. :) I have used Apple File Exchange to deal with PC disks on my IIcx. It actually deals with Apple ][ and PC disks. This is the version that comes with 7.1 btw and I don't have

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I got an email from one Steven Pinette entitles Dialog letter june. The text of this letter reads: Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks This is SirCam. Symantic's

Re: kill teh frames kill the frames!!

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the pickle writes: frames should be outlawed!!! For once, Jag and I agree. Frames suck. I can't think of a single instance where a table-based layout doesn't work just as well and is more broadly supported. The FAQ will NEVER use frames.

Re: Auto inject?

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm always seeing eBay auctions for an auto inject floppy. Is this a typo, or does such as animal exist? Does the seller mean auto eject. Nope. All Mac floppy drives are auto eject, so no need to say so. The older Auto Inject drives snap the

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm surprised you haven't gotten it sooner or at least HEARD of it before now. It's the Sircam virus that everybody's been whining about. I have gotten it about four times. And I just sit back and feel very smug and superior, since I use a Mac and

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/29/01 5:38 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft. Helping computer viruses go cross platform since 2001. Mind if I quote you on that one, Gregg? ;) Go ahead, have fun with it. :) = The earth swarms with inhabitants.

Re: Best web-mail for Mac, was RE: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Flicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Visto, ZDNetOneBox and Yahoo all used to give you web space. Big move away from that for some reason. They discovered that there's no money in providing a free service for thousands of people to suck up bandwidth, even paid for by advertising that nobody

Re: What is Versa Term?

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 22:10 -0400 on 29/08/01, Tracy Keirns wrote: I found a box, unopened, of Versa Term software. Includes disks, manuals, etc. What uses are there for a terminal emulator? I seem to be kind of You can hook two Macs together through their

Re: What is Versa Term?

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Ohyeah, you can also use it to access your companie's IBM AS/400 mainframe to access their customer database... (Yup, we have an AS/400 where I work. For some reason most of us there really don't like working with it too well. We're getting a new GUI interface to replace the old terminal

Re: My first paper Mac. :)

2001-08-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:42 PM Subject: My first paper Mac. :) http://home.rmci.net/gregg1/paper2ci1.jpg http://home.rmci.net

Re: manuals

2001-08-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 22:54 -0700 on 29/08/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Sorta like the Apple Recovery Archive on apple's FTP with all the empty directories. If you know the exact name of what you're after and know the path, you could get all kinds of goodies. ...which

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