Re: [q] browser for quad based powerbook?

2004-09-14 Thread William Ove
On Sep 14, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: I was recently playing with a PowerBook 520 that uses the 68040 chip. Though I was able to get it on my ethernet network, I was not able to get it to access the web using system 7.5, or 7.6. Due to the ram limitation, I can't install 8 on it.

Re: [q] Zip conundrum

2004-09-16 Thread William Ove
On Sep 16, 2004, at 7:58 PM, Ben Berry wrote: I know all about the hfs+ issue and thats not it. If i format it hfs on the 7.5.5 machine OS X tells me it unreadable, and visa versa. OS X supports USb floppies and recall there is a hack to get internal ones to work but no OS X supported machine

Re: [q] Legality of imaging OEM software

2004-09-17 Thread William Ove
On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:26 PM, Powermac wrote: I was wondering how legal it is to aquire a backup of the OEM cd that came with the 840av (which I do not have since it is second hand). The OS was 7.1 pro (I think) which I don't think is available from Apples website (they skipped over it). I

Re: [q] multiple users setup for 8.1 or7.5?

2004-09-22 Thread William Ove
On Sep 22, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Stephen Alexander wrote: I may be off base but I think it must be doable. I suspect At Ease can be configured to handle that stuff because IIRC when I was in HS they locked down the machines with a fairly early version which we were not able to floppy-boot to get

[q] Sony CRX145S on a Quadra 840

2004-10-04 Thread William Ove
I have been using a Yamaha 8424S with my Quadra 840, but it is getting a bit flakey. I picked up a Sony CRX145S to use with the Quadra. The Yamaha 8424S was not directly supported by Toast 3.5.7 however Adeptec released a little patch file that allowed the Yamaha 8424S to work with Toast

[q] A software hardware quest

2004-10-26 Thread William Ove
I have been looking for a copy of Apple's Data Detectors for 68K machine. The original release 1.0 worked fine on Quadra's, but there was a small bug in the software. The pass through click bug was not big noticeable bother that rendered it useless, just an interesting anomaly that you could

Re: [q] 840 av

2004-11-07 Thread William Ove
On Nov 7, 2004, at 7:40 PM, Philip Stortz wrote: what can i do with an 840 av? will it record vi deo with a jack hammer card and can i watch t v on it if i use the tuner in a vcr to provide it vide o? i'm having real problems with cont ent not ac cepted. those filt ers never work right, these

Re: [q] OS 8.1

2004-11-13 Thread William Ove
On Nov 13, 2004, at 12:53 PM, ManiacMac wrote: Okay, have it installed now and it seems to run just fine on my old Quadra 700 with 20 Mb of RAM. Any ideas of where one could locate copies of older browsers that can be used with this machine? Just a message from Doug... Apple's Cyberdog is an

Re: [q] Something new

2004-11-13 Thread William Ove
On Nov 13, 2004, at 7:34 PM, Maniac Mac wrote: Back again, trying something new. I'm looking for something I can use from my Quadra to send and recieve mail from this list. I could use my pop mail if the list would allow it, but for some strange reason I cannot subscribe from my normal

Re: [q] Need Dummies with Quadra 700 wanting NetBSD installed book.

2004-11-19 Thread William Ove
On Nov 19, 2004, at 4:30 PM, dwight hines wrote: There must be someone out there somewhere who has written a sure fire guide to installing NetBSD, 1.6 or higher, on a Quadra 700.I've tried now several times and all I've done is perfected an excellent way to clean my disk. I have not tried

Re: [q] cheap isp

2004-12-11 Thread William Ove
On Dec 10, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Philip Stortz wrote: has any one tried netzero or any of the other $10 isp companies for dialup? will any of them work on a mac and are any of them reasonably fast on dialup? i'm sick of paying earthlink too much money for mediocre service (connect speeds are fine,

Re: [q] PIM and Palm Sync Options for 68k

2005-02-27 Thread William Ove
On Feb 25, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Alex Wenzel wrote: Are/were there other PIM programs able to sync appointments, contacts, Todos and Memos between a 68k Mac and a Palm? You might as well suggest older, even abandoned programs which I could try to get on ebay. I still use Claris Organizer V2. It runs

Re: [q] Largest hard disk in a LC475?

2005-09-01 Thread William Ove
On Aug 31, 2005, at 11:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that HFS hard disks, when formatted, adjust their cluster (*) sizes so that there are not more than 2^16 clusters in the partition: so, for instance, a 40Mb partition has 1K clusters, and a 500Mb partition has 8K clusters. What

[q] Kensington Turbo Mouse ADB driver or settings

2005-09-11 Thread William Ove
I picked up a few of these. They are model #62360. They appear to be working fine, but I have been unable to either find a driver for them or any information about the dip switch settings for them. I am left handed and having a two button input device that is configured for right handers

Re: [q] Kensington Turbo Mouse ADB driver or settings

2005-09-11 Thread William Ove
Lasswell wrote: I am using a Model 64210 Vers. 5 on a G4 with an iMate adaptor for the ADB to USB conversion. Would any of that software help? I used to use it with my Quadra 700. Lynn Lasswell On Sep 11, 2005, at 6:17 PM, William Ove wrote: I picked up a few of these. They are model #62360

Re: [q] Replacement Hard Drive for a Preforma LC 575

2005-12-23 Thread William Ove
On Dec 23, 2005, at 5:17 AM, Michael wrote: I recently acquired a Preforma LC 575, though it seems the hard drive has died because whenever I start it I just get a flashing question mark. If anyone knows where I could I could get a replacement hard drive (I think its a scsi), or has any

Re: [q] Moving to Google Groups

2006-01-27 Thread William Ove
On Jan 27, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Tina Holm wrote: does this mean that the lists will all turn into some forum-like stuff and will stop working like standard maillists? I hope not :-( /tina A lot of discussion activities have moved to web forum formats, which I am not fond of either. Some