On 8/6/03 7:15 PM, David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How much RAM do you have? 8.6 needs much more than 8.1. ( 32 or 48 vs 16?
Anyone remember exactly how much 8.6 likes vs what the docs say it requires?)
I have 64 Meg, and I don't use Virtual Memory... I thought about upgrading
to 9.1 (I
Also, does anyone know where i can get a cheap G3 laptop? or a PB that i can
upgrade to G3?
From what I know, the only officially G3 up-gradable laptop was the 1400.
The 3400 can be made G3 by way of logic board replacement, but it seems a
little pointless to me. Ebay would probably be your
Thankyou all for the recent replies,
I'm running Techtool Pro now, optimising the disk. With any luck, that will
work :)
I thought it may be the networking problem at first, but this happened from
the moment I installed a clean version of 8.6, so I didn't think that could
be it... Once the disk
if I can download some
older drivers for the card, then backdate the OS to 8.1, which worked much
better.
A pity really, I like the colours of 8.6 better...
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On 7/6/03 9:25 AM, Christopher Kolp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 6/4/03 1:57 AM, John Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Hello,
Has anyone out there got one of the Lucent series of cards to work with OS
8.1? My book doesn¹t like 8.6, so I¹d love to know it¹s possible to get them
to run under 8.1. I'm using the Avaya Gold card...
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Hello Josh,
Is it an Apple-Branded CD Drive? If not, then chances are it isn't
recognised by the System Software. Go to www.resexcellence.com and look
around for a page explaining how to modify Apple's Driver to work with all
kinds of CD-ROMS. I can't find it right now (crappy internet
Try This:
http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_99/12-21-98.shtml
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On 7/6/03 3:13 PM, Joshua K Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a PB 5300CS, and i am trying to use a CD drive on my pb.. I had some
extra scsi equip, so i made an array, 2 four gig hard drives, and a scsi cd.
On 4/6/03 8:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use a 280c, and have no intention of upgrading to the 2300c, BUT I would
like to upgrade to the 2300c SCREEN and maybe the RAM..
Can I be so bold as to ask why you don't want to use the 2300? I looked up
some specs, and
Up to you of course, but may I suggest you give the 2300 a try... 68k code
has never had any problems running on a PPC in my experience, and anything
coded 'FAT' (ie, both PPC and 68k) will be remarkably improved in speed I'd
say... (probably even the 68k stuff will be better on a 100Mhz machine
Hello all,
Dead simple question: What is the version of the PC card manager in a
Powerbook 1400c/133? (I¹m running OS 8.1 if it makes a difference)
Thanks,
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Hello all,
The recent discussion about getting a 3400 wireless has given me the idea of
doing it myself... But I have a few questions to ask of you first:
I have a 1400c, currently running 8.1 with 64MB ram. From all reports, this
should be enough to run a wireless PC card.
I have an LCD iMac,
I always thought the 1400 WAS the budget book of it's time, compared to the
3400...
The 1400 has a magnetic switch to prevent you from working with the screen
closed, and I doubt that it is possible to get around it. Well, unless you
do some kind of hardware surgery to the inner workings.
My
Hi Nina,
It is possible that you got a brand new battery, however, it was brand new
in 1996 (or whenever it was). After sitting on a shelf for that long, it is
quite possible that the chemicals inside are simply worn out.
If you take both batteries to a shop capable of rebuilding battery packs,
I'm not sure why you need to know what the speed is, perhaps for price
haggling purposes or something, in which case, I would suggest you assume it
is the 180Mhz variant. That way, you can either be right, or you have a
machine that is 20 or even 60 Mhz faster than you first thought. :-)
My 2c.
Hi Dan,
Go into Energy Saver control panel. It should be in the advanced settings
tab/button. At least, it is in OS 8.6 :)
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On 1/4/03 2:21 PM, Dan Palka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well now I got AfterDark working properly. But now, when the screen
savers appear, a few seconds into
This is going to sound either very smart or very stupid:
Doesn't it tell you after the name on the case? For example, 3400c/240
means it is a 240MHz Machine...
I'm just guessing here, that¹s what the 1400 series is like, so I only
assume the same for the 3400's. If not, (ie, it just says 3400c or
Is the track pad button ok? Maybe it is in a constant state of on??
What do you mean by the hard drive whirs? It's spinning loudly?
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On 31/3/03 3:33 PM, David Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dear troubleshooters,
when i move cursor on the desktop it makes drag type geometric
shapes.
Try looking here:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gionpeters//pb1400.htm
This site is obviously a 1400, but it sounds like a very similar problem to
what you are having. Scroll down to almost the very bottom of the page,
(past all the over clocking stuff...) where he describes changing the
From the Apple Knowledge base:
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To reset password, follow these steps:
1. Place the Utilities disk in the floppy disk drive, and turn the computer
on. This starts the computer with the system on the Utilities disk, instead
of the hard drive's system folder. This allows you to bypass At Ease
On 20/3/03 6:14 AM, Brian McEwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to contribute to the Thread that Won't Die.
That's ok. I've decided to just give up on this thread, it just isn't
interesting me anymore. When people tell me what I'm doing and have been
doing with no problems at all for years
Well, close to no time. It will still re-initialize the disk. And
if you've selected a different partitioning scheme or changed from
HFS to HFS+ (or HFS+ to HFS), it will take a few seconds. But it
won't take anything like the several minutes to hours it can take to
write zeros to a
Has anyone tried to low level format flash storage media like a
compact flash card or smart media? I wonder what that would do...
If I'm incorrect, obscure, or too vague anywhere above, I would
appreciate clarification!!!
Peace,
Drew
Hello,
I've low-level formatted many IDE/ATA
On 18/3/03 10:57 AM, Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've low-level formatted many IDE/ATA drives, most in desktops, but also in
my 1.3GB 1400.
Well, color me crazy.
--snip--
Open Drive Setup. Click on the drive you want to initialize. Select
the Functions - Initialization
Well, all I can say is that Apple has got it wrong. I can, and have,
low-level formatted my hard drive. Select the drive, initialisation options
shows LLF as a viable option (assuming selected disk is not start-up disk).
Then, clicking on initialise, there is a summary screen of what drive setup
Just so you KNOW I'm not a complete idiot, and perhaps you can see what we
are doing differently...
http://www.insysco.net.au/cwbb/MOV01423.MPG
This is a movie (quite crappy quality, sorry about that...) of me selecting
LLF after booting up in OS 8.5
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I have never heard of a 'male' PCMCIA card, nor for that matter a female pc
card slot.
Do both slots do the same thing? Perhaps the spring in the one you are
inserting into is stuffed?? Also, with the card out, press the eject button
- the spring might still be in the 'engaged' mode. Note,
Hello,
I'm a little confused with your problem... I have 'white bars' appear in the
control strip when the battery is less than completely full, and when I
first plug a battery in, it is completely white, then quickly turns to grey,
once it realises the battery is charged (I think the OS assumes
Hello Victoria,
I have had similar problems with an Ositech Jack of Diamonds TrumpCard (10
base-t and 28K modem combo). I don't get any errors, but the Ethernet port
simply doesn't 'see' anything. Ie, in the chooser, clicking on AppleTalk
reveals no servers.
Anyway, purely by coincidence, I
Don't get too upset Gerald, your reply was all the way underneath the
footers and other rubbish. If you're reply isn't straight after/before what
you are replying too, why do you assume people will find and read it?
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On 13/3/03 2:30 PM, Gerald R. Homeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, but you all are the experts! Can you instruct a rank
amateur PB user how to switch off SCSI mode on his PB 190? Does this
bug affect one's file sharing in any way?
I was also wondering whether after all this time since 1998
if some sharp Mac hacker hasn't conjured up some solution.
On 8/3/03 10:43 AM, palkasoft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uh oh...
I deleted the first post of this email because it didn't seem to really
concern me and I wanted to keep my inbox clean.
However its beginning to sound like it might explain my last week of
terror between my Quadra 800 and
Hello Dan,
I don't have a 3400, so I can't be certain, but I doubt that the cd-drive
and the HD having the same ID will really matter much. They are the same on
my 1400, and it works just fine. (Maybe because HD is ATA, and CD ATAPI??)
Did YOU install the OS on this machine? Or did it come loaded
So what to try next Is there any way to rescue this thing, or is it
destined to be a paperweight forever?
If it becomes a paperweight, then you, me, and everyone else on this list
has 'failed'. So lets start with the various options from the top... :-)
Suggestion 1.
Have you tried copying
512K!!!
But she only has 68K!!!
:-)
John.
On 6/3/03 3:45 PM, Gary D. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deluxe Music Construction set was an old program that ran on 512k Macs.
Gary
Tom Wilkinson wrote:
My daughter has a 68K Powerbook 520c and I am looking for a song
writing/recording
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 512K Mac was an '020 machine, much earlier than a 520c. The
program was on floppies and ought to run on a 68k machine.
Gart
John Smith wrote:
512K!!!
But she only has 68K!!!
:-)
John.
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Sid,
Sometimes the server replies with an error... Usually best idea to just wait
a little while before re-posting. (all 3 of your posts thus far have come
through :-)
I have a 1400 too, and I can certainly agree with the 'loveableness' of it.
I can't however, really justify forking out for the
Thanks all for that VERY quick reply :-)
I'm downloading MPW now...
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On 28/2/03 10:46 AM, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Smith wrote:
Hello List,
Has anyone had any experience with C++ compilers on their Macs?? I currently
have to leave my beloved Apple machines
All I'm doing is programming very simple little programs as part of a uni
degree. I use 'Quincy' on a pee cee at home, and Code Warrior on the Uni
Linux Machines, but if I could run something on my 1400, that would be much
better, hence the MPW I'm (still) downloading... :-)
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On 28/2/03
Or, you could do the really hard 19-part download on your 2nd Mac,
mount the combined image, convert it with DiskCopy into 1 big fat
image, segment it with DropStuff into floppy-sized chunks, copy each
chunk to the empty space on your 5300, expand them with Stuffit
Expander, mount the big fat
Yeah, WE.
:-)
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On 19/2/03 12:11 PM, Dan Palka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WE
**
Lots of hellos from Dan Palka's Quadra 800:
The power to be your best.
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Don't know about the PC card slot, but I've heard of IDE to SCSI adapters,
assuming you can find a way to power the drive, I guess that could work, but
I have a feeling their price is more designed for permanent use...
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On 17/2/03 10:59 AM, Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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on 2/16/03 5:50 PM, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:50:45 +1100
Subject: Re: How to mirror a drive
From: John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't know about the PC card slot, but I've heard of IDE to SCSI adapters,
assuming you can find
Yep, holding 'c' won't work when booting up these machines, I can't remember
the exact combination, something like command-option-shift-delete when
starting up. Usually in times like this, I just hold down as many of the
typical buttons (i.e., option, command, control etc etc) and go from there.
I
On 14/2/03 10:28 AM, David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Looks like the life expectancy of
the 1400's PRAM battery is about 5 to 7 years.
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Which isn't really all that bad, I mean, I use rechargeable batteries in
torches, radios, computer mice, etc etc, and I don't think I've ever had
I'm in Australia Too. Nice place :-)
I might be able to help too, I'm in Wollongong if it helps.
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On 11/2/03 7:29 PM, Sebe Bolanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im In AUSRALIA, If anyone can help me!
- Original Message -
From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sebe Bolanos [EMAIL
I use a Ositech Trumpcard, the Jack of Diamonds in fact. It is a combo
modem/10-base-T Card. Works great! (This is in a 1400, but I can't imagine
there would be much difference).
As for the Cardbus issue, your 5300 has no hope, but your 3400 might... Have
a look:
What happens when you try to start up? Do you get a chime? Does the screen
turn on with a '?' flashing on it? Or does nothing happen at all?
--john
On 11/2/03 3:37 PM, Sebe Bolanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have a Mac Powerbook 5300/100 and It won't start up. I also have an
external
Depending on the model, you can try the 'three finger salute', where you
strike apple-control-restart.
Otherwise, there might be a reset button on the back, behind the ports
cover.
Which model are you trying to restart??
John.
On 10/2/03 9:47 AM, Bernadette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Group
i just got 277 posts...hows in the !@@## do i get a digest of this list??
At the bottom of each one of those 277 posts, it says For digest mode,
email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hope this helps :-)
John.
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Try looking at http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
There might be a link somewhere in there to download a startup floppy disk.
I haven't had much experience in the field of floppy disks I'm afraid... :-)
Good luck with it,
John.
On 8/2/03 6:16 PM, K.L. Shelly [EMAIL
Clae,
Obviously, you are in Australia, so I might be able to suggest another
alternative. I recently bought a powerbook 1400c for the princly sum of
$AU195. (about US$88) I realise this is a little more than both the machines
you mentioned, but after a trade in of your 540 I think you will be
I'm using an Omniflash Active Adapter (PCMCIA) in a PB 1400. This is a 4
in one reader, capable of memory stick, smart media, multimedia card and SD.
Works great!! I bought it new, and was able to take my 'book into the store
and try it out first, before laying out the dosh.
Strangely, there is
Hello,
Does anybody know of a utility available that will give a running estimate
of time left in the battery?? I¹ve seen screen shots of one in the control
strip, but haven¹t been able to figure out how to get it working, if it
indeed does...
I¹m running a 1400c, with OS 8.6.
Thanks,
John.
Hello,
We had a discussion not long ago about re-packing battery packs in 1400's.
But what I would like to know, is if one goes to the trouble of having the
battery inside the battery pack replaced, is it not possible to put a
different type of battery in?? Like a Li-Ion for example. Anyone know
Hello,
I'm using Battery Recondition 1.5 in OS 8.6, but I imagine the two versions
would perform in much the same way. When I click ok to go ahead with
reconditioning, the screen turns white with an icon of the battery
reconditioner popping up randomly around the screen. The Hard drive doesn't
It is completely possible, but you might need to spend a bit of money, or
have no qualms about using a 'stolen' serial number...
PC MacLan is a brilliant program I am using on a WinXP box, which allows
file and printer sharing. I can access the windows hard drives (even the zip
drive) from the
This sounds suspiciously like a problem I had with a Jack of Diamonds PCMCIA
card (in a PB 1400)... I too couldn't make the damn thing connect. Well,
that¹s a half truth, it connected, but not nearly reliably enough. Once, I
saw the servers in the chooser (via AppleTalk) but instead of connecting,
if it makes any
difference, but hey, it can't hurt...
John.
On 21/1/03 6:09 AM, Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:18:31 +1100
Subject: Re: OS 8.6 and 1400c
From: John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thanks John,
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On 21/1/03 3:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Please remove my e-mail address from this message board.
Thanks
Sirjazz
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I run 8.6 on a 1400/133, it is a snappy little system, although I would
prefer it use a little less memory for the system, it is up to about 20 MB.
I agree, a G3 would be great, but that would mean paying more for an upgrade
card than I did for the whole machine, which is a little overboard,
I'm running a PB1400c/133 with OS 8.6, and for me, it's quite zippy. I don't
use Photoshop or anything like that, and I try to stick to the most ancient
programs I can live with. Generally, I find that using programs made at
about the same time as the computer (ie, 1997ish) will work best as far
Hello,
I'm new to this list, so my apologies if this topic has been talked into the
ground before, but I have read in various places on the web that it is
possible to add a Flash Memory card to the PCMCIA slot of a Powerbook, set
virtual memory to use the card, and as such essentially increase
Well, I haven't heard much about the whole thing, but I read on the web
(Low End Mac I think it was) that the 3400 is already cardbus enabled, so
I would have thought that you could just add any Mac compatible cardbus card
in, and away you go, without the 'conversion'.
But I am not certain on any
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