Re: reusing my thesis

2013-10-28 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
This is not correct: as I wrote in my previous comment, Word 2011 fir Mac dies open old Word 4 files, but not via the double click. You need to open the file from the File: Open menu. Ben Sent from my iPad On 22/ott/2013, at 15:47, Guy Plunkett III g...@charter.net wrote: So the Windows

Re: [G3-5]Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-29 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
I concur 100%. My 1996 PowerMac 7600 with a G4 Sonnet 1000 MHz, IDE HD connected to internal IDE card and plenty of RAM screams with OS 9, but when I boot off OS X it can barely keep the pace of a modest Wallstreet 233MHz. I beleive it is pointless being able to install whatever OS on whatever

Re: [G3-5]Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-29 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
http://www.webalice.it/beniamino.cenci.goga/68k/Power_Macintosh_7600.html ;-) Sent from my iPad On 29/lug/2012, at 17:08, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: My 1996 PowerMac 7600 with a G4 Sonnet 1000 MHz, IDE HD connected

Re: [G3-5]Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-29 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
If the whole system is well tuned it runs fine, under OS 9. But not that faster than the G3 it had before. Now the Carrier ZIF is into an 8600 with a G3 350 MHz and the performace are quite similar. All these card are a true nightmare and as soon as you add memory or cards, or even HDs the

Re: [G3-5]Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-29 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
Nice try! Instead of this supposed photo, please give any link to an actual Sonnet product that supports a 1 GHz G4 with an L2 L3 cache on a PCI PowerMac such as the 7600. I do not believe any such product exists. And also explain how you get a 20x bus ratio. We've had these fake

Re: [G3-5]Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-29 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
On 29/lug/2012, at 17:08, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: AFAIK there's no such thing as a 1 GHz G4 for any PCI PowerMac, the fastest possible would be 600 MHz because of the 50 MHz system bus and the 12x multiplier limitation (50 MHz x12 = 600 MHz). I don't believe any 600 MHz G4

Re: Eudora replacement

2012-07-23 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
Contrary to popular belief - not everyone has or even wants facebook. I concurr, but FB is a good tools to get figures. In this case we are trying to see if the number of potential users is worth the effort of improving MailForge or building a new app. By the way, regarding FB, there are many

Re: Eudora replacement

2012-07-23 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
Get thee over to: List-ID: Eudora for the Mac eudora-mac.cartel.listmoms.net SUBSCRIBING: mailto:join-eudora-...@hades.listmoms.net?Subject=Gazelle Thanks, I have just subscribed and I have linked the ML info on that FB page, Ben -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Eudora replacement

2012-07-23 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
If you are from MF, why not post a poll on their own forum? Not that I ever had any luck there - whoever approves memberships was asleep the week I signed up so I never got the help I was looking for and ended up tossing that idea in the trash. I am not from MF, I am just a poweruser.

let's put it in this way_can I connect this camera to a Mac?

2009-09-20 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
On a side note, do you even know if the card is mac compatible? it is not. now, since I have to buy again the card from the Olympus dealer, I came across the idea to replace it with something that works with G3-G4-G5, as I am plenty of them in my lab and I can dedicate one to the

26pin video -- PowerMac G3 bw

2009-09-19 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
I would like to connect an Olympus microscope via its camera (the Olympus DP70 12.5 million-pixel digital color camera system) to a G3 bw. The digital system has a 26pin female and a 26pin cable. Is it hard to find the correct video card with a 26pin female plug that I can use in the G3,

Re: follow up: Re: 26pin video -- PowerMac G3 bw

2009-09-19 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
The whole story is that we have the system but during some remodeling of the lab the PC along with its LCD 15 display got lost... well, someone from the academic community, took it... So now what's left is just the whole Microscope system and since I basically use it as a teaching tool I

Re: iWork '09

2009-01-24 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
On Jan 24, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Doug Burton wrote: Does anyone know if the docs can be saved as PDF's the print dialog works with any application, but the Share menu of pages 09 let you export as PDF, Word, RTF, Plain Text. Better still the amazing iWork.com... menu Share: Share via

Re: Yosemite with busted (?) firewire

2009-01-03 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
On Jan 3, 2009, at 1:12 AM, ProGearDeal wrote: Please double check your firewire cable. Most likely, it is your firewire cable got short curcit and burn the board. In fact I have the feeling that I burnt the FW of a couple of eMacs and iMacs at the university... :-( Ben

Yosemite with busted (?) firewire

2009-01-02 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
I did try everything: os 9, 9.1, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, OS x 10.2, 10.4 open firmaware reset nvram and all PRAM unplugged without battery for two days CUDA switch I believe it is busted so I have ordered a replacement daughterboard (it is for my collection, so I would like it as close to the

Re: Test to list

2008-12-28 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
Jonas Lopez wrote: This is a test to the list - if it is received please reply to me. I am presently in Italy, probably this is the reason why I did not get the message ;-) Ben === Beniamino Cenci Goga O ascii ribbon campaign

Baige G3 -- G4 _ 450 HD troubles

2008-12-26 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
I replaced the 266 MHz G3 with a 450 MHz G4 and changed the jumper position to get a 83.3 MHz bus x 5.5 = 458 MHz G4. It has run flawlessly for a month under 9.2 and OS X 10.2.8. The G4 chip I am using has a bad L2 cache, nevertheless I wanted to try again to enable it so I kept trying

Re: Beige G3 -- G4 _ 450 HD troubles

2008-12-26 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
You need to look at the Grackle chip on the motherboard to see if it can support the 83MHz bus speed. It is the 66 MHz, but it has run rock solid for months, until I used one L2 enabler (I do not recall which). How did you know the L2 was bad? OS X reads 0 and I have never been able to

Re: how to read PC formatted hard drives _ follow up

2008-12-23 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
I replaced the internal CD drive with a DVD ROM, installed Tiger (which, indeed is pretty usable on this 450 MHz G3) and managed to grab the files I needed from the IDE HD! many thanks, Ben On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 22, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Beniamino Cenci

how to read PC formatted hard drives

2008-12-22 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
When I need to read a IDE/ATA PC-formatted hard drive I plug it to the DVD IDE connector of my Intel Mac Pro and I can access all its files. I was wondering if this feature is accessible from a BW G3 or if it is only Leopard related or Intel related. Presently my Yosemite running os X

Re: how to read PC formatted hard drives

2008-12-22 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
Ok, will install 10.3 and see, many thanks! Ben OS X 10.3 and higher can read NTFS, but you need to hack things around to write to them. (using MacFUSE and NTFS3G) However with 10.2.8, you're ool, I think. I don't remember ever being able to get NTFS working on the Mac back then.

Re: same Yosemite with video troubles _ now I am trying a G4 processo?

2008-12-16 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
Excuse me if you have done both updates. --glen excuse accepted! ;-) Ben --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power

same Yosemite with video troubles _ now I am trying a G4 processo?

2008-12-15 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
So today I tried to install a G4 ZIF that I have never been able to use with L2 enabled. I had used this processor on a carrie ZIF into PowerMac 7600 and into a beige G3. No way to enable L2 cache (I have used all the known software). So I prepared the Yosemite, G4 firmware update, jumper

Re: same Yosemite with video troubles _ now I am trying a G4 processo?

2008-12-15 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:04 PM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: Silly question, but did you remove the firmware block that prevents the BW G3 from using a G4? yes I did...: So I prepared the Yosemite, G4 firmware update, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-14 Thread Beniamino Cenci-Goga
Did you reset the pram after swapping the video card into 66mhz slot? the G3 came without battery after more than 1 year in a cabinet and the ATI Rage 128 GL (incidentally, this is the card: I did check) was in the 66 MHz slot. There is only one strange thing: the oscillator on the card says:

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-13 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
Which video card is it? According to Mactracker, for the Yosemite, I believe the slot 1, although 66MHz, is still a PCI slot versus an AGP one. Only a 66MHz PCI video card would work in that one (PCI and 66 being limiting factors)? not a 33MHz video card? Just asking / thinking out

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-13 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Paul wrote: According to the service manual, the video card always goes in PCI Slot 1, which is the short slot. this afternoon I tried a known good voodoo 3dfx 3000, same thing: no video out if inserted in slot 1, ok if in one of the other 3. If cleaning