Peter, you wrote:
3) A low level initialization with zeroing the hard drive does (2), then all
blocks are rewritten to X'00' and, finally, proceeds with (1).
I was thinking of low as the lesser intensive,
when it is just the opposite - like a deep one.
Thanks much,
Terry
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the pickle wrote:
Uh, I wouldn't pay more than about $100 for the CPU itself, even factoring
in shipping.
Thanks Mr. p,
Wondered where you were!
Sorry, but what I meant about the CPU was:
Does the fact that the CPU is only an 80 MHz
make U.S. $350. for the bundle a little high?
No shipping
Rob, you wrote:
Does eBay not follow standard protocols or something? Can anyone suggest ways
that will make Netscape and IE deal with these issues with equanimity?
Using OS 7.6 and iCab was so painfully slow for me even with RAM cache
that I went to NN 4.08.
But I have since upgraded to 7.6.1
RAF WROTE:
I'm not a huge fan the first generation PPC machines, though they are a
bit better than the Quadra 800, I'll take any Quadra over a first gen PPC.
Hi Raf,
I just clued in to the 1st Generation, 2nd generation thing;
I mistakenly thought that 8100 was right on the heels of
the 2nd
Guys,
Where then is the dividing line between the 1st Gen.
and 2nd gen.Powermacs?
Is PCI the 1st gen and PPC the 2nd and 3rd?
What does PCI stand for?
Didn't the model numbers drop back down to the 6000X
and 7000x range . . . AFTER the 8100?
Hope you don't mind the questions that I could
Vincenzo Breaks the Silence,
The topic of Slightly OT has now run it's course and is Totally OT and
as such should be allowed to die a natural death.
In my 610 - I used to use OT with FreePPP but now with OT/PPP
it's like Totally OT.
TT.
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James wrote,
Well lets find a decent browser out there that will run on 7.1?
I-cab needs 7.5 Netscape 4.7.9 needs 7.6.1-you could only run
Netscape 3(wow)
Hi James,
I'm using 7.6.1 with NN 4.08 in a 605 with 36MB, but one site
in particular, PowerMax in Oregon, loaded way faster with NN Gold 3
James asks,
What is the reasoning behind uping the system requirements for programs if
they run on a lower version.netscape 4, I believe requires 7.5 or 7.6 as
stated by netscape so if it runs on a lower OS why would they not lower the
system requirements?Are they running as smooth as the stated
Hi,
Someone gave me an LC 575 all-in-one today.
Haven't plugged it in yet and need some details.
The back panel is missing so I can't tell one serial port
from the other - side by each beside the SCSI connect.
Thanks,
Terry
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At 20:53 -0800 on 08/04/02, Terry Graham wrote:
Someone gave me an LC 575 all-in-one today.
Haven't plugged it in yet and need some details.
the pickle replied,
Easiest way to figure it out would be to hook up a modem and then see if
you actually have it on the correct port by trying to dial
P, you wrote:
That's not serial - and I'm pretty sure serial devices won't fit in there
:) As you found out, I notice :)
Nope, total fluke :-) But since you mentioned it I've counted the pins.
It's about time I knew the difference - thanks.
So what type is the mouse/keys port?
Try taking it
Hi
Another piece of today's booty was a DataTrain
15 Monitor (Can. made).
So as to stay on topic, I hooked it up to the Quad 605 :-)
It came with the handy dandy dongle adaptor and
it flashed up but in narrow letterbox movie-type format.
I changed the resolution to 640 x 480 and the screen
Vincenzo notes:
Looking at the back and going from left to right,
ADB - Printer - Modem - SCSI - Micro phone - Speakers
Right on and thanks!
You must have one.
Pretty slick lookin' unit I think.
Now if I can just get the display happening. . .
Tomorrow I'll pick up a torx driver bit for the
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 01:10 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
As far as I can tell the modem port is always the left serial port, the
printer the right. On vertical cases the modem port is the lower one,
the printer the upper one.
from the front
Handy way of lookin' at it!
Thanks,
TT
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Do yourself a favour and buy a bunch of Allen-keys (hex-keys), you can
usually find them cheap and there is usually one that fits the Torx
screws on an Apple case . . .
Thanks, I've got all the Allens - should have thought of that -
I've totally rebuilt 20 car and truck
the pickle writ:
Pretty simple - it's this enormous black cube on the mobo, attached with
some Velcro.
Thanks, I see there's one on a loose 6100 board the guy threw in, so I see.
You gotta get the inline 7 with 13 valves. :)
Don't get me started :-)
But go to the head of the class!
TT
the pickle:
The 6100 didn't use the same battery.
I see. . . it's 4.5 volts!
I presume that's the qualifier?
Do I need a 3.5 v one?
Thanks
TT
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Hi people,
After being seriously jacked around by the one-time
monopoly internet service provider here on the island,
I have switched to a big city one.
Being as they can be considered major
and I am of course a lowly 7.6.1 . . . . .
I wound up with a job as a sales-referral rep in the
Hi,
Have this weighty drive and need your vast experience. . .
what else is new?
Have acquired a Quantum 4.30 GB 3.5 series Hard Drive
(internal type it appears)
It appears to have the conventional mega-pin hookup
with the 4 larger pins, plug as well.
Will any of my machines accomodate and
P, I think, wrote:
Speaking of which...how difficult is it to get at those fans? One of mine
makes this very soft but *extremely* annoying rattle and I'm thinking about
putting higher-flow fans in it anyway.
I used to sell an American product out of Wisconsin called AMS/OIL.
Their spray
Hmm. I don't see any references to Open Transport on the under the control
panel. Do you know how I can get it? Do I need to upgrade to MacOS System 8?
(I was hoping to avoid it.)
Open Transport is there in System 7.5.5, but it is hidden when you
are using MacTCP. Conversely, MacTCP is hidden
Thanks Michael Dawe,
. . . for the great Mac joke.
A 68-K compatible anti-virus program:
Remove all Microsoft programs from your Mac.
Terry
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tafkar wrote:
It is generally recommended, though I never figured out why. There were a
few minor updates over 7.5.3, but there were also some increased memory
requirements that could cause problems. For myself, I stopped using 7.5.5,
and would just stick with 7.5.3
If you have access to 7.6.1
Ronald Bos asked:
Why is 7.6.1 better than 7.5.3/7.5.5?
Hi Ronald,
Try reading the detailed ReadMe's from the various installer
CDs. . . and you decide.
Certain programs like Apple System Profiler for one,
need a minimum of 7.6, plus 7.6.1 has many useful features
and an advanced (compared to
Why is 7.6.1 better than 7.5.3/7.5.5?
It Doesn't Suck(tm). :)
the pickle
Well, I do not have any experience being sucked into my Quadra or something
;-) But I am afraid, dear pickle, that your answer does not explain much to
me...
Ronald Bos
Good for a laugh out loud though P:-)
Terry
I vote for Eudora Pro 3 as your email program.
but then again I love it!
or V. 4 if you are going 8.1. . . .
but Eudora Pro 3 is fine with my 8.6 as well as my 7.6.1 Quads;
never a problem as long as you don't select overlapping PPP commands
in your getting mail Settings.
my 3.12 cents worth -
Hi Quadrabytes,
What will happen if I try a clean install from an external
CD ROM, when my FWB software is installed in the System Folder
that will be replaced?
Will the installer retain the necessary FWB stuff?
Should I do an Easy Install instead
upgrading the 7.5.3 to 7.6.1?
The Apple and
At 12:17 AM -0500 1/31/03, the pickle wrote:
Clean installs never delete anything, but the extensions will be disabled until
you move them to the new System Folder.
I didn't mean delete per se, but moved to Previous System Folder folder.
So that means that my CD ROM will just shut down as soon
Hi Gang,
I've searched twenty sites, copied and pasted bord-side diagrams
to get the ID and termination figured out on this 4 GB Micropolis‹
it works and was a freebie.
I've got the ID down but the two best cuircuit-side diagrams still
have me guessing as one shows a jumper running lengthwise
At 8:52 PM -0500 10/15/03, Hal Meeks wrote:
To all...HELP!
I just picked up a Quadra 840av a few days ago from a Swap List member the
other day and he said that the computer had booted up OK. However when I
started it up I initially got the normal startup tone then some
strange-sounding
At 5:26 PM -0500 10/15/03, R. A. Cantrell wrote:
on 10/15/03 3:54 PM, Terry Graham at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gang,
I'm back after a year or so.
Someone just gave me two brand new external CD-ROM Drives.
My FWB Toolkit that works with my Pioneer SCSI CD-ROM,
just informed me
Hi all,
I have the Netscape Standalone 4.08 in my 68ks
but have come to prefer IE.
I use IE 5 in my 9500.
Does anyone know if IE ever rose beyond V. 3
for 68k?
Thanks,
Terry
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At 5:58 PM +1000 10/22/03, Sque wrote:
You should try cable. :) cd's in 40 minutes or less.
I'm glad you have a fast connection, IE has a strange to me way of dumping a complete
page onto the browser (or stalling) which may be very annoying on dialup.
I think there's a preference setting to
At 10:52 PM -0700 10/22/03, Denny Davis wrote:
Does anyone have a Dvorak keyboard layout for Mac 8.6 and 7.6.1?
If so could I get someone to email it to me, please?
Hey Denny!
There's this great program called Google! :Â)
http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/layout.html
Cheers,
Terry
If you are
At 7:47 PM -0700 10/25/03, Robert Little wrote:
It chimes, but will not boot. All I
get is a black screen. I'm going to assume that this
is one of those irksome PRAM battery problems, but I
just want to be sure before I go any further. Also, if
it is a battery issue, is there a way to get it to
At 7:49 PM -0500 10/25/03, Bill Judson wrote:
Also, remember, the case for the Mac IIvx, IIvi, and Performa 600 are
all
identical to the Q-650. So, you can upgrade these to a Q-700, if you
want.
But, don't forget, no internal CD-ROM drive. Otherwise, it is a direct
motherboard swap.
Dear Dana,
Queen of the Download,
Having the new luxury of broadband,
I offered to go get Acrobat 6 for a dialup friend.
Went to the Adobe Acrobat downloads page
but the end results are .dmg, generic-looking files
or .bin. . . neither of which I've been able to open.
The Window's ones have the
.dmg files are the Mac OS X equivilent to the various Disk Copy images. I'd be pretty
surprised if there's a 68k compile of Acrobat 6, but could be I suppose.
The .bin file should be a standard binhex, try drag and dropping it onto Stuffit 5.5
or higher.
Hey Scott,
I thought that the .bmg
At 5:45 AM -0500 10/26/03, Scott Holder wrote:
Terry Graham wrote:
Hey Scott,
snip
Re. the .bin, it seemed Graphic Converter in combination with Stuffit Deluxe
6.0 was busy opening it but in the end a corrupted file message -51 came up.
Many files downloaded off the internet have lost
Hi all,
Anyone know why three letters I tried to send re.
the lady and her performa 580CD all got bounced
back to me as undeliverable?
Something about plain text only, so I took out
a URL link to her machine on Lowendmac
but that didn't work either.
Thanks,
Terry
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At 10:11 AM -0500 10/27/03, D. Wakefield (DTP etc!) wrote:
Does anybody know a way to extract information from a Zip 100 cartridge which refuses
to mount? I have tried several drives and in each I get: Click... Click... Click...
Click... would you like to initialize this disk?
Norton 6 does not
At 12:52 AM + 10/28/03, Woolf wrote:
Hi.
I have an Performa 630CD. I'm new and I want to know if there is a list in
the internet for 68k-programms, because I never know, what version of a
program I need for my mac. I have macos 8.1 installed.
Hi Wolf,
Check the Lowendmac links on these
At 8:10 AM +1100 11/3/03, Sque wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a maximum version that my Quadra 950 can be upgraded to?
Unaccelerated 68k tops out at OS8.1.
With a ppc upgrade you can take it to 8.6, maybe more but 9.x bloat will limit the
usefulness of the machine. A 601 upgrade will
At 8:37 AM -0800 11/9/03, Stan wrote:
Hi peeps,
Does anybody know which version of mac os is best
suited to a PPC 8200? It has a 120Mhza 601 cpu, and
I'm currently using 8.1, is there any reason why I
should upgrade it to 8.5 or 9?
Hi Stan,
8.6 is solid but requires about twice the memory to
At 3:31 PM -0800 11/10/03, Stan wrote:
Okay I'm guessing startup disk cp means startup disk
control panel, is this part of the rom or do you mean
a 3.5 floppy?
Hi Stan,
I missed the first part of this. . .
But sounds like someone suggested you go to your
Apple Menu
to Control Panels
and to
At 4:57 AM -0700 12/2/03, Philip Stortz wrote:
snip
in particular, i'll be setting up a iici as a firewall and be trying to write more
powerful firewall and ad/pop up code on another iici until i feel comfortable trying
it out on the second iici with the one running the openbsd firewall following
At 7:20 PM -0800 12/12/03, Don Wakefield wrote:
Could the list mom or someone help me?
I have recently tried to change my web email account
from Excite to Yahoo. I seems to have gone very badly.
I keep getting eronious bounce warning reports at the
old account and have never been able to see a
I have been searching the Internet and am looking for a place where I can
find pictures with instructions on what is on the back of various Macs.
Can anyone help. Thank you.
I forget who asked this question but whoever. . .
in the future, please make the Subject Line reflect the start of a NEW
At 9:27 PM -0700 12/14/03, Dean Arthur wrote:
My copy of Upgrading and Repairing Macs [Que, 1994] says, of the 660AV,
4 MB on the mobo but 32 bit only with SIMMs in any order except that
660AV doesn't support 1, 2 or 64 MB SIMMs. Still digging...
Something's on the blink with the Quad list I
The problem I have been having is that it
has OS 7.5.1 and I have been trying to upgrade to 7.5.3 that I downloaded
onto my PPC. I put it on disks and the Mac wants to open it with Script
Editor and then it goes awhile and then gives me an error that it can't
read the dictionary and that there
At 5:30 PM +1100 12/25/03, Sque wrote:
stew wrote:
Not trying to lead anyone down the wrong path being this is the
Quadlist, but the truth of the matter is I haven't tried hooking up to the 476. I
own an eMac, a 7100 and a 476. Eventually, I'd like to have all them sharing the
DSL so I know
At 1:51 PM -0500 12/26/03, Timothy Domst wrote:
I got a Performa 475 for free, I would like to put NetBSD or another unix-type
language on it to use it as a firewall, because of it's low power use. I can't use
Linux because of the LC040 chip, but I think it would run fine with the 36 meg of RAM
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