Re: iMate battery life?

[Bruce Johnson]

On May 9, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Koralatov wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 19:31, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 
>> The imate has a battery??
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Well dayum!
> 
> How long have you been using your iMate?  You might be just the chap to get
> us to the bottom of this question once and for all!

Ah it's been sitting up in the cabinet for quite a while. Last time I used it 
was to see if an ancient OS 7-era touchpad would, in fact still work...it did. 
I bought it off the swaplist because I misread the ad and thought it was a 
Powermate...ended up keeping it around.

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Re: G4 and OS 10.5

[Bill Connelly]

On May 2, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:

I run G4 450MHz 576Mb had to use speed fake to get 10.5 to install.  
It is not any better, but is on a 3rd partition the other two are  
10.4.11 which works best of all.


IMHO it is NOT worth the effort. 10.5 is rather slow and only a few  
apps require it.




OS X requires more memory than you have to run well.

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Re: iMate battery life?

[Bruce Johnson]

The imate has a battery??

 

Well dayum!

These batteries are pretty straightforward to find here as well:





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Re: iMate battery life?

[W.Adrian D'Alessio]

I think some of my older digital cameras and camcorders use the CR1225.

A lot of toys use them too I am sure..

And remote controls for door lifts,and lighting controls







On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Koralatov  wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:30, James Fraser wrote:
>
>  Well, somehow, I was given the impression that people who are into
>> vintage Macs are also heavy iMate users, seeing as how the iMate allows
>> them to port the old school ADB keyboards they know and love (and that
>> last forever) to newer machines, hence my posting on Vintage Macs.
>>
>> Perhaps the G-List would be a better bet? [scratches head]
>>
>
> It might be, come to think of it; they’re using machines with USB on them,
> and no ADB, so are probably more likely to be using them.  I’ve CCed that
> list as well (hello, G-List!), so hopefully *someone* there has an answer
> for you.
>
>  That's a pretty good price for iMates (which originally had an MSRP of
>> $39.95, IIRC).  However, I'm all set when it comes to iMates themselves,
>> having several units in storage.  What I lack, instead, are the
>> batteries necessary to keep them going.
>>
>
> They’re much rarer, and thus much more expensive, over here in the UK, so
> I was pretty pleased to get them so cheap.  Having spares is less
> desirable than having spare parts to keep them going.
>
>  Normally, how long an imate battery lasts or doesn't last isn't all that
>> important except that, currently, I'm in the process of trying to set
>> someone up with an old school keyboard that will keep pace with their
>> old school typing pace.  They learned their keyboarding on manual
>> typewriters you pretty much had to be an olympic hammer throw champion
>> to operate and, as a result, they absolutely fly on modern computer
>> keyboards that require little in the way of finger strength to operate.
>>
>
> One of my dad’s friends, a woman much older than he, was a trained typist,
> and used an IBM Model M until the day she died: I remember her telling me
> that it was the only “real” keyboard she’d ever come across, and the only
> one that felt anything like the typewriters she’d used in her working
> life.  She was old enough to probably have used manuals, rather than only
> having used electrics.  The speed she could get up to was quite
> terrifying, and put me (~65 years her junior) to shame.
>  I know first-hand the force you need to use an old-style typewriter.
> I occasionally use one to write letters to family, or when I’m writing
> letters of complaint.  My hands hurt after the first few paragraphs.
>
>  I like this person, so I'm trying not only to set them up with the
>> keyboard and iMate they need, but also with a supply of batteries to
>> keep the iMate going for a long while.
>>  That recently-arisen need is in concurrence with my spotting "a deal" on
>> the CR1225 button cells.  Unfortunately, if there's another product that
>> the CR1225 is used in, I couldn't tell you what it is (certain models of
>> calculators maybe?).  Meaning that I'm trying to work out how many
>> CR1225s to purchase for both me and my friend that will keep us in
>> batteries for some time -without- ending up sitting on a pile of them
>> that will go unused.  : /
>>
>
> I just checked Amazon UK, and you can get name-brand CR1225s for about £2
> (~$3) apiece, so I wouldn’t worry about getting a supply of them.  As for
> *what* they’re used for, I’m as stumped as you — I’ve never come across
> them beforer in my life.  I’ve never come across a calculator that uses
> them; my modern HP-12C uses CR2032s, and my vintage one uses LR44s.
>  The thing I worry about with stockpiling batteries is that they do
> expire/discharge with age.  I’ve found old batteries in the loft of my
> parent’s house that were completely useless, even though they were still
> sealed in their package and stored inside a dark box.
>
>  It's too bad the Griffin folks didn't settle on the CR2032 instead, as
>> that's also what Apple used as the backup battery in the early model
>> (original and MP1x0) MessagePads and there are a -ton- of those lying
>> around here.  Always the way, eh?
>>
>
> Absolutely!  They probably got a deal on a huge batch of them or
> something, and then some wise bean-counter decided to save ½¢ per unit by
> using those instead of the more common CR2032s.
>
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G5 won't boot

[David W. Morris]

I have an early dual 2.5GHz G5 PowerMac with the following spec's

dual 2.5GHz G5 CPU's
Radeon 9650 video card stock video card that I swapped from my dual  
2.7GHz G5 PowerMac which now has a FireGL X3 video card in it.

2gb RAM
250gb SATA hard drive
SuperDrive


I purchased this G5 as a partially working computer for parts, or  
repair.  It ran fine, but the previous owner had confirmed that there  
was a motherboard fault which would only recognize the G5 CPU in one  
of the two sockets.  The previous owner and myself had both tested by  
swapping the G5 CPU's from one socket to the other and confirmed that  
it was the same socket that was recognized as working each time, so I  
know that both G5 CPU's are working and planned on looking for a new  
motherboard to repair the system.  While swapping the G5 CPU's from  
one side to the other, I noticed some corrosion around the circular  
metal plate that can be removed to check and add to the liquid cooling  
system, so I removed the corrosion, removed the plate and checked the  
coolant inside to make sure it was still full, resealed and reseated  
the metal plate and "O"-ring.


This computer did not come with a hard drive, so to test it, I had  
previously taken the hard drive from my working dual 2.7GHz G5  
PowerMac and installed it into this dual 2.5GHz G5 PowerMac.  After  
the corrosion removal was complete, I re-assembled the dual 2.5GHz G5  
PowerMac to test it before selling it to someone who is interested in  
replacing the motherboard himself.


Now when I try to boot this dual 2.5GHz G5 PowerMac either from the  
hard drive, or from my Leopard install DVD, I get to the gray Apple  
logo screen and no further.  The chime is normal and everything else  
appears to be the same as before, when it was running on just one G5  
processor.


Does anyone here know what causes a Mac to get to the Apple logo and  
just stop there with no error messages, and no other apparent problems  
that would give away what the problem is?  If it was something  
drastic, I would think that it would not even get that far in the boot  
process.  And why would it act this way when booting from the Install  
DVD?


David

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Re: G4 and OS 10.5

[Jonas Lopez]

I run G4 450MHz 576Mb had to use speed fake to get 10.5 to install. It is not 
any better, but is on a 3rd partition the other two are 10.4.11 which works 
best of all. 

IMHO it is NOT worth the effort. 10.5 is rather slow and only a few apps 
require it.

JML

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--- On Wed, 5/2/12, Mac User #330250  wrote:

From: Mac User #330250 
Subject: Re: G4 and OS 10.5
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 12:27 PM

--  Original message  --
Subject: Re: G4 and OS 10.5
Date:    Wednesday, 02. May 2012
From:    Valter Prahlad 
To:      g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
> Il giorno 2-05-2012 18:52, James Morgan ha scritto:
> > I have two MDD G4's running OS 10.4.11. Does anyone know if these
> > computers will successfully run OS 10.5?
> 
> Keep in mind two things:
> - With 10.5, you'll lose Classic
> - Some users experienced a slowing down, going from 10.4 to 10.5.
> 
> If the above are a concern to you, you might want to have both OSes on two
> different partitions.

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