I vote for the Quicksilver. It's quieter. Runs cooler. Take the ZIP
cage off (comes off easily) and there is more room for running SCSI or
SATA cables. Each can take the same graphics cards (Radeon 9000 is a
good choice) and have same # of PCI card slots.
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How do you do that? I always wondered why one monitor couldn't work
for all uses. Thanks.
On Aug 2, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Kevin Barth wrote:
I have a 22 viewsonic CRT that I'm still using, more than 10 years
after it's date of manufacture. It has never shown a single
problem, has
Always wondered why computers haven't featured a wattage meter?
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Also take a look on eBay at White Label Hard Drives. There are some
ATA/APATA still available. Usually, one year warranty but what I like
is that this are previously unused, clean, etc.
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Back when USB was first introduced and serial ports nom longer
included companies came out with Serial to USB adapters. Should still
be around. I remember needing an ethernet interface to make something
like a laser printer still work, but I don't think you will be
overloading the
Airport is a b mode, limited to WEP and possible WPA encryption,
certainly not WPA2. I found a good USB Wi-Fi adapter to use with my
Quicksilver 2002 machine.
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In Leopard, I have been choosng this option but the Packages are
nowhere to be found. Nothing in the Library/Packages folder. Any
clues? Thanks.
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Say it ain't so.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20014666-264.html?tag=topStories2
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Reminds of the olden days of serial switchers. Of course, that was we
could pnly use one serial device at a time on that port. What is now
years ago, I bought a Firewire Compact Flash device. USB has sure
transcended Firewire in many ways??
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Yes. But then Apple should make available and allow us to buy
replacement software to use computers that get lost from the
installation disks that came with them.
On Aug 31, 2010, at 1:09 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
Starting in Tiger or Leopard the installer started locking the
installation
Also, is there an ATA PCI card that will fit in the G5 tower?
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Heather, great suggestion. That's what I have in my Beige G3. Also,
an inexpensive Firewire/USB 2.0 PCI card would make that Beige G3
quite workable. I used a fully-fledged Beige G3 (max RAM, newer ROM,
ATA PCI card, etc.) for quite a bit until recently, including OS X.
On Sep 25, 2010,
That simple computer mouse (albeit with ever greater optical DPI, etc
and much ingenuity behind it's apparent simplicity) is one of the
greatest proprioceptive and information processing means ever devised
by the mind of man. It has to be thousands of times more precise—and
even
I fear that a System Software install will eventually have to be
authorized while on online.
On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Chance Reecher wrote:
I agree with you wholeheartedly. As soon as I saw App store for Mac
OS X I said oh, $*%.
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With Lion king of the jungle, maybe, it's on to OS XI and another
animal after this! OS X has steadily matured but I sure don't consider
that 7 or 8 systems have been presented. Tiger seems to be the
maturing high point of a steady series of incremental improvements and
tinkering.
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But are the operating system (reaching 64-bit) and computers really
changing much any more? They both seem to have matured to me.
On Oct 26, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Apple has built and deliberately demolished their business several
times: Apple II to Mac, Mac OS to OS X (and
I like this model a lot. The Zip drive, if still there, and Zip CAGE
can both be removed, creating more open space inside for running
cables, SCSI, ATA or SATA. It seems to run cooler and quieter than a
MDD I had for a short time.
On Oct 28, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
Thanks for the info. Would it have been so terrible to build it in OS
X Disk Utility. One of the several things I miss from OS 9 is the
mounting utilitiies that were available.
On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Dan wrote:
Boot into OS X and follow these directions to mount the volume read-
I had good luck with this one, purchased through Amazon:
Panda Wifi (b/g/n) 150Mbps Wireless-N 2.4GHz USB Adapter With Windows
7 and Mac OS X Compatible
Excellent technical support. Kept e-mailing me drivers until
everything worked. The RATOC software utility will do a thorough
wireless
I still use G4 computers exclusively. My investment over the years
has been in memory, cards and external HDs. Just want to thank all
the great people on this list for their sharing of information and help.
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Thanks, Dan. Anything similar for Quicksilver 2002?
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WD ATA drive won't mount on desktop, Disk Utility and Data Rescue
(DEMO) can't recognize. DiskWarrior can recognize but chokes on re-
build attempt. Disk does spin up fine. Have in external Firewire/USB
2 case with Single/Master pinning. Anything else? Cable select make
any
Thanks for the suggestions.
On May 7, 2011, at 2:32 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
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I think it has just gone bad unfortunately. There used to be a delay
in accessing the drive that I thought was the drive being asleep. It
was inside my QS2002 as second. Have tried with the Newertech Swiss
Army connector, whatever they call it, and a good quality external
Firewire case,
I agree. One per 26 years isn't too bad ... but I didn't have a
duplicate.
On May 7, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
Just sounds like a drive that's at the end of its life. : (
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Mark, thanks for that info. I might try that.
On May 7, 2011, at 6:52 PM, smac0031 wrote:
Mark Murphy
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Valter, thanks all for the ideas. Yes, I am still hoping for a one
lucky mount and copy.
On May 7, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote:
I had to remove the bad drive from the internal ATA chain so the
computer would boot.
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Someone else will know better, but you might download the
GraphicConverter (Lemke) demo.
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Thanks for the advice. Just seems to have died. Freezing didn't
work. I found an IDE drive on ebay with a good cache size for about
$51. Getting harder to find IDE drives, although I guess there are
PATA-SATA adapters.
Seagate ST3400620A 400GB 7200 16MB IDE Hard Drive *New
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Adobe Flash 10.2 Intel only, I believe. Web sites are starting not to
work under Leopard and Firefox Camino 2.0.7, Firefox 3.6.17, Safari
5.0.5. I can do everything I need to and still use Classic Programs
with my G4 computers. I'd rather invest in redundancy with machines
and external
I haven't encountered any problems with the final PPC Adobe Flash
10.1.102.64. What problems have you encountered?
Didn't document but an online mainstream newspaper asked for 10.2.
I did just install 10.1.102.64, so will see how that does.
Web sites are starting not to work under
I like the Quicksilver machine=quieter than dual drive doors, plenty
of PCI slots and some room inside with the ZIP drive cage removed.
On May 16, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Alex Barnes wrote:
Quicksilver dual 800
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DiskWarrior might be a good investment. Good luck.
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Would appreciate recommendations on a third-party mail program that is
good at importing old mailboxes from OSX. OSX itself in Tiger is not
doing a good job of capturing OSX mailboxes that were likely created
under Jaguar-one of the reasons I stayed with Jaguar so long on my
iBook G3.
Good luck. I have a 2930 working fine on my QS2002. IF the download
doesn't work; e-mail me off forum for the dmg file. I was able to
connect a 68-50 down-pinned SCSI drive to the board; clone a Leopard
boot system to the drive with CCC and boot the computer from the SCSI
drive. I was
Thanks for the follow-up.
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What is it? Where is it? My DOCK in Leopard says it's missing, but I
can't find it in the Utilities and I did a fresh Leopard install on
another partition to no avail. Is there such a thing in Leopard?
Thanks.
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Thanks. Kris.
On Jun 18, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
In Leopard printing is handled in System PreferencesPrint Fax.
When you use this control pane it calls on the application Printer
Setup Utility when needed, and this is located in /System/Library/
CoreServices folder.
Don't know which processors are compatible, and probably mentioned or
tried, but at least reset PRAM and press down PMU (??) button for new
processors. Also, take out battery for 15 minutes and replace.
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Running on my Quicksilver G4. Actually, I am impressed with Apple's
software update. I can install Panter on a partition and software
update pickps up with the last combo updater; same thing with a Tiger
install. It's been a while but even OS 0 will prompt the appropriate
updates.
On
I have been having the same problem lately. I just keep re-entering
the password and one can access through a web browser. It may be an
issue with Mail 2.1.3 - Tiger?
Also, be sure and DO NOT RESPOND to the spam please verify your
account e-mails that seem to stalk Yahoo.
SPAM is
This has been part of the genius of Apple. 68K under PPC; Classic
under OS X. Sad to see this all go. I'm not too cheap to buy a new
machine. Have way more invested in older ones and multiple external
boot drives, which provide redundancy and a lot more functionality.
Always amazes me
Norm, I recommend trying this Panda USB wireless adapter. Read the
first review. Great tech service. They even had a special driver
for it to work my with G3/700 iBook running Tiger! I've bought the
ones without antenna. Now, they even come with antenna.
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I also had andual ATA card in mine which read as a SCSI bus. As you
note, I was able to boot a system and not be sub jetc to the 8 gig rule.
On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:10 AM, dc wrote:
I have a G3 tower which I still occasionally use, I gave it an ATTO
express SCSI card and a 15K SCSI 68-pin
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Norm, I recommend trying this Panda USB wireless adapter. Read the
first review. Great tech service. They even had a special driver
Fun times. I think I did every possible upgrade. Max RAM 768, max
VRAM, then video card, upgraded processor, upgraded ROM chip, USB-
Firewire card, ATA PCI card, upgraded optical drive. What an
outstanding design and construction. It wouldn't hurt Apple to offer
a mini-tower more
Interesting advice. I remember running Ethernet on an LCII-as proof
of concept.
On Jul 16, 2011, at 8:22 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
I operated a BW G3 for a while with an R8169 card, too.
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