Re: what is this card....

2011-10-26 Thread QuoVadis
Isn't that the 56K Modem? PowerMac G4's have something very similar, connected by two cables to the telephone jack (RJ45). Greetings, Eelco. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on

Re: what is this card....

2011-10-26 Thread Doug McNutt
At 01:12 -0700 10/26/11, QuoVadis wrote: Isn't that the 56K Modem? PowerMac G4's have something very similar, connected by two cables to the telephone jack (RJ45). Perhaps picky, but just to avoid confusion that would be an RJ-11 jack. Six slots and probably only two wires used. -- --

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:15 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: The hard drive market is strange right now as Hitachi has decided to abandon the market and sell its (former IBM) product line to Western Digital. I don't think anyone is making any money on hard drives these days. And in the short

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread Bruce Ryan
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/21/us-thailand-floods-tech-idUSTRE79K76Z20111021 This mentions 'Apple chief executive Steve Cook' Freudian slip? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread JoeTaxpayer
Not long ago, I bought an 80GB SSD, $160. My latest HD was 3TB for $120 $2/GB vs 4cents/GB. The price of both keep dropping (I just threw out a 3GB drive I paid $300 for) but I don't see these technologies crossing over, the 50 to 1 gap may narrow over time, but will see where it flattens. 10 to

Fwd: Re: what is this card....

2011-10-26 Thread Jack Countryman
The g5 tower never had an internal modem from Apple. g3 and g4 towers did have one as an optionbut not the g5 or intel towers. If you wanted dial-up, you used an external usb modem (I've got one here in the MacBook case in the event I ended up needing it somewhere on the road). I'm

Re: what is this card....

2011-10-26 Thread QuoVadis
@Doug: Apologies, RJ11. RJ45 is Ethernet. *shame* @Jack: Then it cannot be an internal modem. Starting to really wonder what it might be! Greetings, Eelco. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:19 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: Not long ago, I bought an 80GB SSD, $160. My latest HD was 3TB for $120 $2/GB vs 4cents/GB. The price of both keep dropping (I just threw out a 3GB drive I paid $300 for) but I don't see these technologies crossing over, the 50 to 1 gap may

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread Dan
At 4:29 PM -0400 10/25/2011, John Callahan wrote: Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality? Need only for back up, speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the $100.00 range. hum. A good drive?

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-26 Thread Dan
At 2:04 PM -0700 10/25/2011, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I have some friends that I would like to be able to access my computer over the web easily... to be able to get at anything they put their minds to... is there an easy way of doing this? without the need for special software or complicated

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread Dan
At 9:36 AM -0700 10/26/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: In the end multi-terabyte SSD's are going to be very cheap, and hard drives a relic of the past, and I suspect it;'s going to accelerate greatly in the face of increased hard drive costs. In the end, we'll stop trying to make tape drives

Re: what is this card....

2011-10-26 Thread Donald Watson
That's funny, my G5 has an internal modem and it was shipped that way from the factory. System info says it is a jump modem version 1. Regards, Don On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:35 PM, QuoVadis wrote: @Doug: Apologies, RJ11. RJ45 is Ethernet. *shame* @Jack: Then it cannot be an internal modem.

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Engle
we're using drop box already… that's probably what will have to do in this case. (I'm up to 4.5gb so far he,he,he!) On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Dan wrote: A MUCH easier solution for sharing files is to use shared Dropbox folders. It totally eliminates the need to play around with Apple's

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread JoeTaxpayer
I think Bruce feels n is far lower than you or I do. I understand the technologies are different, but the cost curve for dollars per GB looks a lot like those for semiconductor density/ Moore's Law. So will the ratio drop from 50 to 1 to 10 to one in ten years? Maybe. As you say, there are

Re: what is this card....

2011-10-26 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 26-10-2011 17:39, Jack Countryman, jcoun...@mac.com, wrote: The g5 tower never had an internal modem from Apple. g3 and g4 towers did have one as an optionbut not the g5 or intel towers. Sorry, but I strongly believe you are wrong! According to Mactracker the first 3 generations G5 all

Slow Motion G4 After HDD Switch

2011-10-26 Thread glen
Spec's: G4 Sawtooth 450 MHz, 1 GB RAM, OS 9.2.2. and OS 10.4.11 on same boot volume. WDC 80 GB Master (boot), Seagate 80 GB slave (for back ups), ATTO UL2D SCSI card with a pair of 18 GB HDD drives for the old backups, and stock ATI Pro Video card. This is a legacy machine running legacy

Re: Slow Motion G4 After HDD Switch

2011-10-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 26, 2011, at 5:54 PM, glen wrote: Cause of the problem? Since the problem happens when booted in both OS 9 OS X, it's unlikely to be a software issue. You need to be thinking about hardware problems. Zapping the PRAM isn't always enough, you may need to reset the NVRAM by