Re: Can I boot a quicksilver off an internal SCSI drive?

[Deiniol ap Deiniol]

Hi Dana,
  Pleased to say you inspired me, so I just whipped the
Atto UL2D SCSI card and the 80GB drive out of the old 733 QS tonight,
and stuck it into the 933. Went ahead and tried a  Leopard install
from the Time Machine drive.  Absolutely no problem at all,
everything  went tremendously smoothly, and Leopard seems to run
nicely on the 933, so I now have the choice of Tiger or Leopard. Now I
just need to find a way of permanently mounting the SCSI drive (which
at the moment is perched under the DVD drive!).
 I have a drive cage from a Sawtooth, which has the housing for a Zip
drive underneath, but I somehow doubt that this would be compatible
with the QS case - although I've just looked in my 733 QS case and
that HAS got the optical cage with the under case, so that's probably
the way to go, especially since the 733 seems terminally unhappy.

 (This is the machine that requires multiple (100+!) reboots until it
eventually stabilises, and then works fine until powered off - it
powered itself off some months ago and I never got around to
restarting it, and it was thrown/moved gently  aside when the 933
arrived. I did post a thread about it but never got any definitive
answers.  I tried it the other night and it would get as far as a bong
every few attempts, but I never got it to get any further this time.
It used to eventually get to the desktop and then die, then it would
run for a couple of minutes and die again,  I had it set up to reboot
on power off, which meant I could leave it sorting itself out for the
hour it would usually take to stabilise, but in a moment of inspired
madness I zapped the PRAM, so I was back to button pushing again! DUH!
Guess I need ANOTHER QS so I can try a power supply swap to see if
that's the problem).

I suppose stage 3 is to slap my other little SCSI drive in there and
see if I can get a working Linux distro on to that, but that can wait
for another night!

And at some point I have to get a new DOS/WINDOZE machine up and
running so I can flash my 9200 graphics card to put in the QS (64MB
Geforce MX is not really cutting it, although it's better than the
32MB it came with) - my main working PC (rarely used these days!) for
some reason came without an AGP slot (I got it off a dumpster for free
so I treated it to a 256MB PCI graphics card).  THIS machine I got off
ebay - someone had split it up to sell it - I was bidding on its
Firewire card and I bid for the rest on a whim, since nobody else
seemed interested and I got the whole machine w/o HD for £5. 5 year
old PCs just don't hold their value like 5 year old Macs do they! :)

Dan.

On Dec 5, 7:52 pm, Dana Collins  wrote:

> Hello Dan,
> I don't know if you received a response yet to this query, but perhaps I can
> share with you my experience to date. Afaik, as long as the issue involves
> PCI-based New World Macs (from the G3 smurfs to the earlier MDDs) and an OS
> no later than Tiger, booting off of a SCSI hosted drive is quite feasible,
> providing the firmware of the card in question supports it. In my case, I
> was always able to boot into OS X and OS 9 by using the Adaptec 2930CU/
> card, which were OEM-provided for many a G3 unit that I worked on. The
> similarly designed 2930B card was mountable under OS X, but any drive
> attached to it was non-bootable (hence the CU vs. B designation was quite
> important). I am pretty sure there are other SCSI host cards made that do
> this (by Initio and Orange Micro), but I have not had experience with such.
>
> I will not say that your projected goal is not compatible with this card
> (i.e. Leopard, or Linux, or using a PCI-based G5), but I have no experiences
> with such scenarios to be able to speak of. Hope this helps somewhat.
> Best regards,
> Dana

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Re: Ticking PSU - Quicksilver G4

[Jonas Ulrich]

adapting ATX power supplies has it's drawbacks. Look into it though. I
would also check eBay for a stock PSU

-Jonas

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Re: Nanny note Re: 2 Questions

[Wallace Adrian D'Alessio]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Paul Stamsen wrote:

> Previously, at 12:28 PM -0800 12/6/10,  as ah...clem  so eloquently wrote:
> >> But don't subject the rest of the list to your bad
> >> manners.  And stupid tag lines are not against the list rules.
> >> Attachments are.  Grow up.  Dennis Myhand
> >
> >since my initial post to this thread, i have had a private exchange
> >with list nanny Paul Stamsen.  i have been accused, because of my
> >post, of being rude and lacking common courtesy.  to that i say that
> >when individuals post a response containing one single sentence which
> >actually contributes to an ongoing discussion, but feel the need to
> >append dozens of lines of useless garbage, and do this over and over
> >and over, for example:
>
>  For the record, I am no longer a nanny on this or any other list, nor have
> I held
> myself out to be one in any e-mails to "ah...clem".
>
>  From my point of view, the whole "tag line/attachment issue" is the result
> of having
> too much spare time on ones' hands - including mine.
>
>  Paul
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Jeez ! Zat wun duznt flaunt the rulz at all !

But I think it squatz zonum and takes a big yet hilarious dump. :D

I would add Rum as well as the nutmeg. lots of Rum !

Happy Holidaze !





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Re: Ram speed

[JoeTaxpayer]

>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC133
PC133 is backward compatible with PC100 and PC66.

PC133 is 133MHz, and can run slower.
Joe

On Dec 6, 10:02 pm, John Carmonne  wrote:
> Is there a speed difference or advantage in RAM speed between PC100 and 
> PC133, I ask because I'm able to run 256 PC133 low density sticks in one of 
> my Wallstreet PowerBooks that only will run 256 PC100 normally, it appears 
> that the low density 256 sticks are the trick. Good to know because finding 
> the right RAM to get 512 in the Wally's is getting more scarce.
>
> John Carmonne
> Yorba Linda USA
> Sent from my MBP

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Re: Nanny note Re: 2 Questions

[Paul Stamsen]

Previously, at 12:28 PM -0800 12/6/10,  as ah...clem  so eloquently wrote:
>> But don't subject the rest of the list to your bad
>> manners.  And stupid tag lines are not against the list rules.
>> Attachments are.  Grow up.  Dennis Myhand
>
>since my initial post to this thread, i have had a private exchange
>with list nanny Paul Stamsen.  i have been accused, because of my
>post, of being rude and lacking common courtesy.  to that i say that
>when individuals post a response containing one single sentence which
>actually contributes to an ongoing discussion, but feel the need to
>append dozens of lines of useless garbage, and do this over and over
>and over, for example:

 For the record, I am no longer a nanny on this or any other list, nor have I 
held
myself out to be one in any e-mails to "ah...clem".

 From my point of view, the whole "tag line/attachment issue" is the result of 
having
too much spare time on ones' hands - including mine.

 Paul
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Notice
from Microsoft.

However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer 
you
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email in
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Re: G4 933 quicksilver

[Tina K.]

On 2010/12/06 20:36, Baldassare Guzzo so eloquently wrote:

Wow.  I removed the hp scan jet crap and everything seems to be
working now.   I can't believe how much stress this relieved.   That
was the most annoying thing I've had to deal with on my Mac in a very
long time.


Yes it is amazing just how bad hardware OEM software can be. I could 
never understand why features built into the hardware were not 
implemented in the software, such as the front panel button on my Epson 
2450. Windoze gets all the optimization and Mac gets hardly a second 
thought.


Tina

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Re: G4 933 quicksilver

[Baldassare Guzzo]

Wow.  I removed the hp scan jet crap and everything seems to be working now.   
I can't believe how much stress this relieved.   That was the most annoying 
thing I've had to deal with on my Mac in a very long time. 

Thank you Dan and Bruce.


On Dec 5, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Dan  wrote:

> At 11:55 AM -0700 12/5/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> Just deleting it from the accounts panel should do the trick, although 
>> earlier versions of the HP software checked to see of it was installed 
>> whenever you used the scanner, and re-installed it. IN that case I reccomend 
>> ripping out all the HP software and just using something like VueScan to do 
>> the scanning. However I last encountered that behavior back in the 10.2 
>> days; I'm pretty sure HP has gotten more civilized since then.
> 
> "Civilized" is relative.
> 
> Yes, remove "HP ScanJet Manager" from the user's login items list. It will 
> stay removed.
> 
> Then you can just use the PrecisionScan software, etc, normally.  It all 
> lives in /Applications/ Hewlett-Packard/.  What I did was create an alias to 
> that directory, and stick it into my Pictures folder. That way I can easily 
> access all of it.  I do NOT recommend moving the Hewlett-Packard folder out 
> of /Applications, as that seems to break things.
> 
> If you want the front buttons and such to work, then you can manually launch 
> the ScanJet Manager.app as-needed.  Just DON'T leave it running -- it has 
> several serious memory leaks!  Easiest way to kill it when you're done is 
> with Activity Monitor.
> 
> - Dan.
> -- 
> - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
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Ram speed

[John Carmonne]

Is there a speed difference or advantage in RAM speed between PC100 and PC133, 
I ask because I'm able to run 256 PC133 low density sticks in one of my 
Wallstreet PowerBooks that only will run 256 PC100 normally, it appears that 
the low density 256 sticks are the trick. Good to know because finding the 
right RAM to get 512 in the Wally's is getting more scarce.


John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
Sent from my MBP




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Re: Mail Question: icons in Flags column ?

[Tina K.]

On 2010/12/06 18:28, Cliff Rediger so eloquently wrote:

I've only now noticed that a few messages have icons in the Flags
column.
Did they ever appear before?  I never noticed them, if they did.

For example, right now I see a "!!"  , i.e. double exclamation mark
and a "--" : dash

Any ideas what these "flags" mean,
how to add or delete them, etc


The !! indicates a message marked high priority by the sender. I'm not 
sure what -- means, low priority perhaps?


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Re: Internet video sourced and display on G4

[Jonas Lopez]

NO! 

Nothing like www.hulu.com or any ot the "TUBES" this == as told to me by the 
sales man == is to replace cable or over the air broadcasts using rabbit ears 
etc.

So, no more cable or sat or ears, just use Internet for evening news and Hawaii 
50 etc.

Was he wrong??  BTW: all the UK sites restrict to UK we can not watch.

JML


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From: Yersinia 
Subject: Re: Internet video sourced and display on G4
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, December 6, 2010, 6:14 PM

  On 12/6/10 9:00 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
> Internet video sourced and display on G4
>
> Santa went shopping at Best Buy and saw Goggle Internet Television tag line.
>
> I try to keep up but what is this?
>
> So I naturally Goggled it and sure enough apparently we can now watch TV 
> using the Internet as the source. No more rabbit or mouse ears, humdrum.
>
> OK Lister's, can my Mac G4 show TV from Goggle or whom ever? What do I need 
> to try?
>
> JML
> "I'm a designated FREE SPIRIT HITCHHIKING on the Information Super Highway"
>
>
>
Probably try  www.hulu.com  ?



  

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Re: Internet video sourced and display on G4

[Yersinia]

 On 12/6/10 9:00 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:

Internet video sourced and display on G4

Santa went shopping at Best Buy and saw Goggle Internet Television tag line.

I try to keep up but what is this?

So I naturally Goggled it and sure enough apparently we can now watch TV using 
the Internet as the source. No more rabbit or mouse ears, humdrum.

OK Lister's, can my Mac G4 show TV from Goggle or whom ever? What do I need to 
try?

JML
"I'm a designated FREE SPIRIT HITCHHIKING on the Information Super Highway"




Probably try  www.hulu.com  ?

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Internet video sourced and display on G4

[Jonas Lopez]

Internet video sourced and display on G4

Santa went shopping at Best Buy and saw Goggle Internet Television tag line. 

I try to keep up but what is this? 

So I naturally Goggled it and sure enough apparently we can now watch TV using 
the Internet as the source. No more rabbit or mouse ears, humdrum.

OK Lister's, can my Mac G4 show TV from Goggle or whom ever? What do I need to 
try?

JML
"I'm a designated FREE SPIRIT HITCHHIKING on the Information Super Highway"





  

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Mail Question: icons in Flags column ?

[Cliff Rediger]

Tiger
on MiniG4
Mail 2.1.3

I've only now noticed that a few messages have icons in the Flags
column.
Did they ever appear before?  I never noticed them, if they did.

For example, right now I see a "!!"  , i.e. double exclamation mark
and a "--" : dash

Of course there are the usual little orange Flags attached to mail
that I've flagged.

Any ideas what these "flags" mean,
how to add or delete them, etc

thanks
Cliff

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Re: Ticking PSU - Quicksilver G4

[Jonas Ulrich]

adapting ATX power supplies has it's drawbacks. Look into it though. I
would also check eBay for a stock PSU

-Jonas

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Re: Nanny note Re: 2 Questions

[Wallace Adrian D'Alessio]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:28 PM, ah...clem  wrote:

>
> +++
> i find THESE to be the height of hubris, discourtesy, and rudeness.
> "Help bunny take over the world!"???  REALLY???  after being forced to
> scroll past that 100 times, no one else finds it childish and inane?
>
> “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
> thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
> things”
>
> equally rude are the needlessly long professional sig files.  it's
> like saying, "here, the price for my tidbit of wisdom is that you have
> to be incessantly reminded of my exalted position."  that's not rude?
> yet i am being accused of being rude for calling childishness and self-
> serving vanity what they are?  methinks some of you have no clue what
> constitutes rude and discourteous.
>
> "Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth."
> "Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up."
>
> since ATTACHED files are prohibited, perhaps it's time for all
> APPENDED files to be prohibited as well, since some folks can't seem
> to restrain themselves from abusing the practice.
>
> and for the record, ALL of the example sig files i quoted above DO
> violate the list rules.  go read 'em yourself, if you don't believe
> me.
>
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Re: Nanny note Re: 2 Questions

[ah...clem]

> But don't subject the rest of the list to your bad
> manners.  And stupid tag lines are not against the list rules.  
> Attachments are.  Grow up.  Dennis Myhand

since my initial post to this thread, i have had a private exchange
with list nanny Paul Stamsen.  i have been accused, because of my
post, of being rude and lacking common courtesy.  to that i say that
when individuals post a response containing one single sentence which
actually contributes to an ongoing discussion, but feel the need to
append dozens of lines of useless garbage, and do this over and over
and over, for example:





Steve Conrad
Henrietta, MO 64036
 
"The time has come for mankind to grow up and leave its cradle behind;
to go
forth and claim our place in outer space."
- Capt. Henry Gloval
 
 
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
 
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"





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i find THESE to be the height of hubris, discourtesy, and rudeness.
"Help bunny take over the world!"???  REALLY???  after being forced to
scroll past that 100 times, no one else finds it childish and inane?

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things”

equally rude are the needlessly long professional sig files.  it's
like saying, "here, the price for my tidbit of wisdom is that you have
to be incessantly reminded of my exalted position."  that's not rude?
yet i am being accused of being rude for calling childishness and self-
serving vanity what they are?  methinks some of you have no clue what
constitutes rude and discourteous.

"Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth."
"Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up."

since ATTACHED files are prohibited, perhaps it's time for all
APPENDED files to be prohibited as well, since some folks can't seem
to restrain themselves from abusing the practice.

and for the record, ALL of the example sig files i quoted above DO
violate the list rules.  go read 'em yourself, if you don't believe
me.

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Quicksilver USB

[Stephen Conrad]

OK, I had removed all but the 4-Port Hub which has the other 2 hubs plugged
into it.
The 4-Port Hub has a power cord (I knocked it down to 4.5V and it still ran
fine)

NOTE: The KB is plugged into the 2nd USB Port on the Mac (Hub is on the
other one) and the Mouse is plugged into the KB

In each of the other 2 I had plugged in 2 cords
1) 2 USB Thumb Drives
2) 2 Camera cords but only 1 Camera is hooked up and it has a power cord

Ran fine for 3 Days

This afternoon I came to check email and it had shut off
I fired it up and got the usual Error Code (the one I have posted here
before)

Here is the list of USB Stuff

USB Device: Hub in Apple USB Keyboard, Alps Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500
mA
USB Device: USB Optical Mouse, Logitech, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 100 mA
USB Device: Apple USB Keyboard, Alps Electric, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 250 mA
USB Device: Hub, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: USB2.0 Hub, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: DataTraveler 2.0, Kingston, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: TD Classic 003C, Memorex, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: USB2.0 Hub, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: u10D,S300D,u300D, OLYMPUS, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA

Being as I have had more plugged in at other times and never had this issue
could I have a USB port going bad? Also, can I have 2 USB cards in this
thing?
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Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing "PC" video cards for a Power Mac

[t...@io.com]

On Dec 6, 12:58 am, Justin The Cynical 
wrote:
> On 12/5/10 12:03 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
>
> > The type of RAM probably only indicates the version of the card.  The usual 
> > problem with flashing a card with Mac firmware is that the flash ROM isn't 
> > big enough to take the Mac firmware.  
>
> To which I have seen reduced ROM's as the 'solution' to this, which
> sometimes works, sometimes not.   Right now, the best idea seems to be
> looking at what is left of the wiki's and info from the various sites
> and see if I can get lucky and find one of the confirmed working cards
> on ebay or some place similar.

Well, you can always replace the Flash chip.  The things are just 8
pin SOICs, which are a little awkward to work with, but really not
that difficult.   And they cost about $2 each.

Once you have one of large enough capacity on board, flash it with
whatever firmware will do the trick.

When modifying the R7000 I used to pre-program the Flash chips with a
chip programmer before soldering them on.  That bypassed the entire
flashing process, or at least ensured that I could flash them on a Mac
without any hassles.

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Re: Optical drive interface speeds

[Dan]

At 3:58 PM -0800 12/5/2010, John Carmonne wrote:
Is there any advantage to a USB/FW400/FW800 and eSATA on an 
enclosure with an optical drive in it. Can the drive run as fast or 
faster than USB?


Well, that would, of course, depend on the drive.

Here's one that OWC recommends for Mac Pro -- just to take an example.

Pioneer DVR-218L 22X DVD Burner


Its internal interface is SATA.  I would venture it's SATA I, which 
is quite a bit faster than the max r and w speeds (below).


Data Transfer Rate (Data Read - Sustained)
DVD max 22.16 MB/sec
CD max 6.14 MB/sec

Data Transfer Rate (Data Write - Sustained)
DVD max 27.7 MB/sec (22x DVD-R)
CD max 6.14 MB/sec (40x CD-R)

27.7 MB/sec is 221.6 Mbps.  That's about 80% of the normal throughput 
of USB 2 (dedicated).


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Re: Ticking PSU - Quicksilver G4

[Bruce Johnson]

On Dec 5, 2010, at 1:24 PM, "Nick Smith \(SHDC\)" 
 wrote:

> Looks like the PSU is toasted but I just wondered if anyone has had any luck 
> simply blasting canned air into the PSU to clean out the dust etc.
>  
> Also, what are my chances that the motherboard has been damaged by the 
> problems with the PSU ?

This is a common QS issue. The PS is dead. The logic board is likely alive. 

I asked on this list a while back and got a couple links to modifying ATX power 
supplies to work. Search the archives. The professor whose computer it was 
decided to go for a real QS power supply, it cost about $230 or so, IIRC.
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Re: Will this power supply work in my G4 MDD?

[Wayne Stewart]

Only the MDD power supplies are drop in replacements
If you're looking on ebay then do a search for MDD power supply.
You'll get a number of hits.

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Ticking PSU - Quicksilver G4

[Nick Smith (SHDC)]

Hello

Just picked up a non-starting quicksilver. Power button will flash but not stay 
on, some flickers of motherboard LEDs etc. 
Whenever a power-supply is attached to the PSU I get ticking from the PSU 
itself.

The PSU is currently disconnected from everything and is out of the case, when 
I attach a power lead I get the same clicking.

Looks like the PSU is toasted but I just wondered if anyone has had any luck 
simply blasting canned air into the PSU to clean out the dust etc.

Also, what are my chances that the motherboard has been damaged by the problems 
with the PSU ?

Many thanks everyone

Nick

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Re: USB Question

[Rock]

On 12/5/2010 5:02 AM, Clark Martin wrote:



2 Voltage needs to be right.
In some cases it can be higher or lower than spec'ed but only if 
you know what you are doing.
Otherwise it should be as spec'ed.  Devices don't "draw" voltage, 
they get what you give them.





IIRC the tolerance of the 5 volt buss on all computer power supplies is 
4.75v to 5.25v dc (min-max). Anything above or below those values will 
cause deleterious effects to the electronics.


Russell

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Re: Learning PowerPC assembly on a PowerMac G4

[Matevž Markovič]

Hy!

I am sorry, but that was not of much help. I am looking for tutorials or
something to start learning powerpc assembler, like this :

lis 4,m...@ha# load top 16 bits of &msg
addi4,4,m...@l   # load bottom 16 bits
li  5,len   # third argument: message length
sc  # call kernel

Any ideas?

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Re: USB Question

[Stephen Conrad]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Charles Lenington wrote:

> On 12/5/10 7:44 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Clark Martin > > wrote:
>>
>>
>>"Card"?  Do you mean the hub?
>>
>>
>> -> Nope, the card that the AC Adaptor came attached to.
>>
>>
>>
>
> you might try thrift stores, etc.


OK, before I comment I have to say that I worked at Goodwill and that is
where I got the 2 Hubs I have
So, that said*LOL!!!*

I do agree though that you can get good stuff at thrift stores IS they sell
computer stuff.


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