Re: speeding up a 5300c

2004-01-17 Thread Mike Jaeger
thank you ill try downloading icab . and put 8.1 on it as well Mike Jaeger On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 06:04 PM, KG wrote: To make a 5300c/100 work optimally, you need to: 1. Buy as much RAM as you can afford, as close to the 64 MB limit as you can get. 2. In my experience, OS 8.1 is

Re: Think it's shot

2004-01-17 Thread Grizzlygiant
H wrote: I was trying to defrag a 1.3 GB pb hard drive with Norton, and it got stuck, making a clicking noise. So I stopped the defrag and ran disk first aid, which of course didn't see anything wrong, so I went to Norton (I don't have a better hard drive program...) and it fixed a few

iCab browser/browsers for older macs (os 9.1)

2004-01-17 Thread VidaVerde
3. You don't need an old web browser, just iCab. It flies on older Mac hardware, isn't a resource hog, and it supports all modern HTML standards. I even use it exclusively on my 3400c/240. http://www.icab.de I have just tried iCab, on my 3400c/240/. It seems **great**! What is everyone else

Re: iCab browser/browsers for older macs (os 9.1)

2004-01-17 Thread Mike Jaeger
thank,s ill put icab on today. my 5300c IE5.1 way to slow on it. and i dont like MS. product,s never work right on mac,s i think we can Mr Gatesfor that. i,m sure he,s still trying his best to kill the mac. he want,s to rule the computer world. with his slopy windows program. i

Re: speeding up a 5300c

2004-01-17 Thread Howard R. Katz
FWIW, I use iCab on my PPC'd PB 520c, and it's tolerable, depending on which websites you're accessing (my banking website is slow enough for me to go out and rotate the tires on my car.) On a WiFi connection it's a bit faster, but still not what I can get on a more modern desktop machine. I

Re: iCab browser/browsers for older macs (os 9.1)

2004-01-17 Thread Jamie Kahn Genet
VidaVerde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. You don't need an old web browser, just iCab. It flies on older Mac hardware, isn't a resource hog, and it supports all modern HTML standards. I even use it exclusively on my 3400c/240. http://www.icab.de I have just tried iCab, on my 3400c/240/. It

Re: Network Access disk for PB 1400?

2004-01-17 Thread Ruffin Bailey
Have you got a SCSI adapter to use SCSI disk mode w/the 1400 cabled to another Mac (or StarMax) ?? I just put a (OS 8.0) Disk Tools #2 floppy in a 1400 w/adapter set to SCSI disk mode, cabled to a G3 running 9.1 ... booted the 1400, then the G3 ... the 1400's HD is on the G3's desktop

Re: iCab browser/browsers for older macs (os 9.1)

2004-01-17 Thread David Thrower
I have just tried iCab, on my 3400c/240/. It seems **great**! What is everyone else using? IE5.1 is getting pretty unreliable, and Netscape 7 is so S L O W, Opera doesn't seem finished yet (keeps crashing) Another vote for iCab here. When I DeMicrosofted my desktop, I tried

clicking hard drive

2004-01-17 Thread H
Hello H: In my experience, if the hard drive clicks on startup, then it is probably damaged. Not startup, you got it. Actually, it seems to work fine with any software that is already loaded. I am trying to add a few new programs, and it doesn't like that. Sometimes it also hangs on

Re: PB1400 HD Expansion Bay Module

2004-01-17 Thread Ken Norris
Howdy, Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:09:56 -0800 (PST) From: David Thrower [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PB1400 HD Expansion Bay Module Anyone aware of _real_ HD EBMs for PBs 1400? I can't recall ever seeing any, not that that means much though. Perhaps I have the only PB1400 HD EBM in the

Re: iCab browser/browsers for older macs (os 9.1)

2004-01-17 Thread KG
thank,s ill put icab on today. my 5300c IE5.1 way to slow on it. Ugh. I can't imagine running (or is that crawling?) Internet Exploiter on a 5300c. I'm glad we were able to help. I don't even run IE on my 2.25 GHz PC as my default browser. It's a resource hog even on Windows, plus it's

Re: PB1400 HD Expansion Bay Module

2004-01-17 Thread Dan K
I wrote: I finally got around to stuffing a HD into an old PB1400 8x CD EBM to which David Thrower [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: That's extremely cool. Why thank you!! David, that was all the motivation needed to wrangle up a page! :-) http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/pb1400_hd_ebm.html

Re: 5300cs

2004-01-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I find when I don't plug in my 5300, or insert a battery it will not start up. Um, I find most things don't start up if I don't plug them in and don't have a battery. ;) Kidding aside, care to be more specific, or to give an example? -- -- personal: