On Friday, July 23, 2004, at 10:12AM, Ken Norris (dialup) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sorry, but the 1400 is a NuBus architecture machine, therefore USB was not a >possibility, and never will be. I see it could be bridged with special PCI >chipsets with their own memory, if you could stuff it all in there, but no >one is going to build such a highly specialized animal for a legacy machine, >which also has serious memory limitations, because there is simply no future >whatsoever in doing so. I beleive it is remotely possible on a 3400c, as the PCMCIA controller on that is CardBus compliant (I think you have to swap the card cage over for a CardBus one). The 1400 isn't however and thus doesn't support CarBus interface cards at all, finito, period. I am not sure it has anything to do with the 'NuBus' architecture... In short it won't work becuase the PCMCIA controller is not compatible with new-age High Speed CardBus cards, which include (to the best of my knowledge) all USB, USB 2.0, FireWire and 100Mbit ethernet adapters, as well as others I have likely missed. If you want to get technical CardBus entails 2 things - 1 is the increase in bus speed (controlled by the controller chip) and the other is a card cage that has the grounding strip in it to ground the cards sufficiently as to avoid interference on what is a much more sensetive high speed signal. Or at least that's what I worked it out to be.... >It's very reliable, though. I'll miss it when it's gone, but it keeps >truckin' along, albeit it operates like pouring molasses outdoors in winter. I've seen my friend get overtaken by a sloth browsing the web on his 1400cs 117 ;) -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
