Re: A few questions

[Tim]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 10:40 pm, John Niven wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote:
> > 3. the 4.5V alkaline velcroed "brick" Rayovac 640 with a cable and
> > plug connection notorious from the 630 and the related PPCs. Extremely
> > expensive but still obtainable today. And to make this on-topic, the
> > 575 through 578CD (and 5200 through 5400) used it as well... Need I to
> > say I still recommend MacTracker?
>
> A little OT but I just made 3 "640" copies out of 3 x AAA cells
> soldered in series and to the snipped off connector and wires from the
> original.

Just a variation on this theme: I use a 3 AAA battery holder from Radio Shack 
(Part Number 270-412). Saves soldering the batteries together, and makes 
replacement a snap.

Tim

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Re: A few questions

[Robert Patterson]

OM, I remember writing about my adventures with alkalines a couple of
years ago...  virtually ALL of my 680x0 vintage Macs and a couple of my
early PowerMac machines have "home-made" battery packs, and I've never
had a single problem.

I got most of Macs free, or for about $5 or so, so it was especially
galling to think about having to pay $10 or more for a PRAM battery. My
solution was to get a $1.49 plastic battery holder from Radio $hack, adapt
it slightly (it was made to hold 4-AA cells, so I shorted one position out)
and soldered the output wires to the terminals of the existing battery holder
on the Mac. Always carefully checking the polarity of the wires, of course.

Before anyone questions the idea of THREE batteries in series, a potential
4.5 volts compared to the 3.6 volts most vintage Macs require, let me point
out that partially-exhausted alkalines usually put out about 1.2 volts each,
and maintain that lower voltage for a very long time!  In my case, batteries
that would no longer work in my pager worked just fine in this application!
Indeed, it's been two years now with most of them, and they're still
chugging along, maintaining time and date with ease...

Rob


>Are the listers  that had reported about putting 1.5V alkalines in 
>series  a couple of years ago still listening? I wasn't lucky in the 
>LEM archives, but maybe that's just me. I'd be specially interested in 
>feedback from the guy who said a threesome 1.5V AAA killed his Plus's 
>mainboard.
>
>Cheers, OM

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Re: A few questions

[Dr . O . M . Betz]

Am 05.08.2005 um 23:03 Uhr schrieb Doug McNutt:


At 23:23 +0100 8/3/05, aedan mcghie (list) wrote:

On Aug 03, 2005, at 2316, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote:

3. the 4.5V alkaline velcroed "brick" Rayovac 640 with a cable and  
plug connection notorious from the 630 and the related PPCs.  
Extremely expensive but still obtainable today. And to make this on- 
topic, the 575 through 578CD (and 5200 through 5400) used it as  
well... Need I to say I still recommend MacTracker?


I have some machines in the garage which need this expensive lump.  
Would it be OK to solder 3  cheap 1.5 V cells together and attach the 
 cable from the old busted Rayovac?


I once wrote a blurb about creating 4.5 volt "lumps" from 9 V 
"standard" batteries.




There is also:

with whom I have no relationship other than, perhaps, a Scottish 
ancestry.


 Doug, where did you get this cylinder-element 9V batt from? Brand? All 
the ones I sectioned so far were the "rounded-corner rectangular plate" 
type. Sadly I don't have an X-ray machine at home... and the plates 
would be tricky to solder, I'm sure. A diy 4.5V replacement battery 
would be cheap and built-to-need, i.e. fresh, and usable both for the 
Plus (and predecessors) and the 630 and his more powerful collegues as 
well as for the on-topic 5xx AIOs.


MacBattery.com is a disappointment. A search for the Plus leads 
nowhere, the Eveready 523 yields no hits either.


Are the listers  that had reported about putting 1.5V alkalines in 
series  a couple of years ago still listening? I wasn't lucky in the 
LEM archives, but maybe that's just me. I'd be specially interested in 
feedback from the guy who said a threesome 1.5V AAA killed his Plus's 
mainboard.


BTW: I'll be away from my mail for a fortnight now, so please be 
patient with my answers. Denmark awaits me, in a little house by the 
belt, no telephone, no Internet connection. An option.


Cheers, OM

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Re: vintage apps

[Doug McNutt]

At 19:21 + 8/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Are you looking for the Macintosh Development System (MDS) which was written 
>by Consulair and sold by Apple for initial Mac assembly language development 
>(68000 only)?

Consulaire's stuff became MPW which is not supported as such but Apple does 
support a mailing list and an ftp site from which the current MPW can be 
downloaded. Some folks use it still on OS neXt in classic mode. Carbon lib 
works.

MacASM was something else.

McAssembly was another which I actually have. It became unsupported as of the 
68030, I think.
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Re: A few questions

[John Szostek]

Hi

I have a few of these batteries, new. Email me directly about them.

John
On Friday, August 5, 2005, at 04:03 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:


At 23:23 +0100 8/3/05, aedan mcghie (list) wrote:

On Aug 03, 2005, at 2316, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote:

3. the 4.5V alkaline velcroed "brick" Rayovac 640 with a cable and   
plug connection notorious from the 630 and the related PPCs.   
Extremely expensive but still obtainable today. And to make this on-  
topic, the 575 through 578CD (and 5200 through 5400) used it as   
well... Need I to say I still recommend MacTracker?


I have some machines in the garage which need this expensive lump.   
Would it be OK to solder 3  cheap 1.5 V cells together and attach the  
 cable from the old busted Rayovac?


I once wrote a blurb about creating 4.5 volt "lumps" from 9 V  
"standard" batteries.




There is also:

with whom I have no relationship other than, perhaps, a Scottish  
ancestry.
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Re: A few questions

[Doug McNutt]

At 23:23 +0100 8/3/05, aedan mcghie (list) wrote:
>On Aug 03, 2005, at 2316, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote:
>
>>3. the 4.5V alkaline velcroed "brick" Rayovac 640 with a cable and  plug 
>>connection notorious from the 630 and the related PPCs.  Extremely expensive 
>>but still obtainable today. And to make this on- topic, the 575 through 578CD 
>>(and 5200 through 5400) used it as  well... Need I to say I still recommend 
>>MacTracker?
>
>I have some machines in the garage which need this expensive lump.  Would it 
>be OK to solder 3  cheap 1.5 V cells together and attach the  cable from the 
>old busted Rayovac?

I once wrote a blurb about creating 4.5 volt "lumps" from 9 V "standard" 
batteries.



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Re: vintage apps

[thespif]

Are you looking for the Macintosh Development System (MDS) which was written by 
Consulair and sold by Apple for initial Mac assembly language development 
(68000 only)?  Little brother to the Consulair Development System (CDS) which 
was system 6 and Multifinder compatible and supported the 020 & 030 CPUs.

Derek


> Hi everybody, I'm looking for "Feathers & space" and "MacASM", the  
> first is a great 1985 game and the second is the first assembler  
> compiler for the mac. Anybody knows where  is possible to find them?  
> I already contacted the producers with no reply. Thanks
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Re: vintage apps

[Gianluca Abbiati]

thanks a lot but that's not the software I'm looking for.


On Aug 5, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Darren wrote:


Gianluca Abbiati wrote:


Hi everybody, I'm looking for "Feathers & space" and "MacASM",  
the  first is a great 1985 game and the second is the first  
assembler  compiler for the mac. Anybody knows where  is possible  
to find them?  I already contacted the producers with no reply.  
Thanks





Underdogs are probably the best bet for the first.
MacASM82 v4.0? I'm not sure if its correct?
Have a look at http://www.ticalc.org/pub/mac/

Cheers


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Re: Booting off of a CD with a compact mac

[Darren]

Thomas wrote:


Hi All,

This discussion started on another thread, but I thought I'd move it
to a separate topic.  How is it possible to boot off of a CD drive
with a Plus or SE/30?  I
have tried on an SE/30 and Classic with an old Apple CD drive and they
would not boot off the CD.  I have otherwise had good experiences with
using a CD drive with my compacts.
 



I've never tried booting the Classic from cd, something for the weekend.
The rom is easier and about as productive.


What I did to make the CD was burn a bootable disk image with a
program like TransMac on my PC.  The disk image was bootable under
Basilisk.  After burning the image, I can only read it after the
computer is booted, but I cannot boot off of the CD.  This would be
helpful for installing system software with many floppy images,
without having to find/make/swap floppy disks when the compact being
upgraded doesn't have CD drivers or is not bootable.
 



A quote from another list:


Nero Burning ROM for Windows can burn any UNCOMPRESSED
HFS Standard Disk Copy image file to CD-R/RW that
is small enough to fit. (I suspect it can burn larger
HFS images to DVD recordable/rewritable as well.)

You don't have to change the filename extention for
Nero now. It natively recognizes both the .nrg and
.iso types and it has an all files option so you can
burn anything as an image, whether it is or not.
You just will get a coaster if you try to burn a
compressed Disk Copy image or something that's not
in a proper image format.

Nero will also burn .hfv files and other Macintosh
emulator disk image files.



This is a question better posed to the macndos or vintage lists.
It requires way too much OT to be answered here. Both are light traffic 
lists.




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Re: vintage apps

[Darren]

Gianluca Abbiati wrote:

Hi everybody, I'm looking for "Feathers & space" and "MacASM", the  
first is a great 1985 game and the second is the first assembler  
compiler for the mac. Anybody knows where  is possible to find them?  
I already contacted the producers with no reply. Thanks




Underdogs are probably the best bet for the first.
MacASM82 v4.0? I'm not sure if its correct?
Have a look at http://www.ticalc.org/pub/mac/

Cheers


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