Re: External Speakers

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 8/13/01 8:43 PM, Sam Burrish at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > >>> I used to have some stereo speakers that > actually had an RCA jack built into > >>> each one. Pretty strange. I tried hooking them > directly into the sound out > >>> of a computer (

To william ahearn

2001-08-13 Thread Etienne Le Sueur
Thanks man.. that would be sweet.. Is the fact that I live in New zealand a problem ? if not, i'll give u tha address.. Etienne -Original Message- From: Vintage Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William Ahearn Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:56 AM To: Vintage Macs Subject: Re:

Re: Sun monitor

2001-08-13 Thread Bill Judson
Thanks for making me pause before rushing down & buying a cable, & also making me aware of the sunhelp site. I will do some more research. BTW, only 6 of the 9-pins are in the port on back. Pins 5, 7, & 9 are missing (presumably not by damage). For what it's worth. It could well be composite sync

Re: External Speakers

2001-08-13 Thread Michael J. Flaherty
> From: Sam Burrish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Vintage Macs) > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:43:25 -0500 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Vintage Macs) > Subject: Re: External Speakers > > >>> I used to have some stereo speakers that actually had an RCA jack built into >>> each

Re: External Speakers

2001-08-13 Thread Alex Allee
on 8/13/01 8:43 PM, Sam Burrish at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I used to have some stereo speakers that actually had an RCA jack built into >>> each one. Pretty strange. I tried hooking them directly into the sound out >>> of a computer (with a headphone jack to RCA cable), but there wasn't enou

Re: External Speakers

2001-08-13 Thread Sam Burrish
>> I used to have some stereo speakers that actually had an RCA jack built into >> each one. Pretty strange. I tried hooking them directly into the sound out >> of a computer (with a headphone jack to RCA cable), but there wasn't enough >> power to drive the speakers at a useful volume. > Proba

Re: External Speakers

2001-08-13 Thread Michael J. Flaherty
> > I used to have some stereo speakers that actually had an RCA jack built into > each one. Pretty strange. I tried hooking them directly into the sound out > of a computer (with a headphone jack to RCA cable), but there wasn't enough > power to drive the speakers at a useful volume. > Probab

OT: D and K keys was Re: just curious...

2001-08-13 Thread Randy Beaudreault
>Did you also get the numeric keypad that can be used >on either side of the main keyboard? The bumps >on the D and K are touch typing aids that for some >reason Apple chose to place on D and K instead of >the (by then) industry standard F and J keys. >You'll want to avoid excessively moving the >

Re: External Speakers

2001-08-13 Thread Alex Allee
on 8/14/01 2:52 AM, Sam Burrish at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The speakers have 2 wires coming out of them, I have an adapter that will > take the 1/8" minijack to two RCA type plugs. I then could use some > electrical tape to secure the speaker wires in. > > My question is will there be enough

Re: Just How rare IS this Thing?!

2001-08-13 Thread Alex Allee
on 8/14/01 2:30 AM, the pickle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 19:04 + on 13/08/01, Alex Allee wrote: > >> I found a page of Apple code names, which had this to say: >> >> "Performa 600: Brazil 32, Mac IIvm (Consumer testing showed that users >> thought "vm" was an abbreviation for "virtua

External Speakers

2001-08-13 Thread Sam Burrish
I have a Performa 630/AV with TV tuner card. I have some old stereo speakers that I would like to use. Actually, they were part of a boom box that had detachable speakers. Since the internal speaker really isn't that good or loud enough for TV or video watching, I would like to rig up some externa

Re: Just How rare IS this Thing?!

2001-08-13 Thread Terry Mathews
I thought the ROMs didn't contain actual names, only hex IDs. Maybe a pre-release OS that didn't have the name "fixed"? Terry > Must be an early-production P600 that didn't have its ROM "fixed" with the > new model name... -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small

Re: Just How rare IS this Thing?!

2001-08-13 Thread the pickle
At 19:04 + on 13/08/01, Alex Allee wrote: >I found a page of Apple code names, which had this to say: > >"Performa 600: Brazil 32, Mac IIvm (Consumer testing showed that users >thought "vm" was an abbreviation for "virtual memory," so the model >became the Performa 600.)" Got a URL for that

FYI

2001-08-13 Thread Paul Stamsen
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Re: Just How rare IS this Thing?!

2001-08-13 Thread Alex Allee
on 8/14/01 1:48 AM, J.S. Garrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I brought home, cleaned in and out, set up for internet use a machine whose > ROM identifies it as a Macintosh IIvm. > > Looks like a IIvx, et.al. but it's a IIvm. It says so every time I boot it > up and look into the "about this M

Re: Just How rare IS this Thing?!

2001-08-13 Thread billy j
i don't know much about the Macs, but i just got 2 Macs, a IIfx and a IIsi. the 'si' being the older and the slower. i'm looking for serial or a NuBus modem to ses with the IIfx. any help is appreciated. peace, billy j - Original Message - From: "J.S. Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Just How rare IS this Thing?!

2001-08-13 Thread the pickle
At 18:48 -0700 on 13/08/01, J.S. Garrison wrote: >I brought home, cleaned in and out, set up for internet use a machine whose >ROM identifies it as a Macintosh IIvm. Uh...a what? >Looks like a IIvx, et.al. but it's a IIvm. It says so every time I boot it >up and look into the "about this Macint

Just How rare IS this Thing?!

2001-08-13 Thread J.S. Garrison
I brought home, cleaned in and out, set up for internet use a machine whose ROM identifies it as a Macintosh IIvm. Looks like a IIvx, et.al. but it's a IIvm. It says so every time I boot it up and look into the "about this Macintosh" window. The badge on the box is worn blank, and when I go surfi

Re: HP 660c Printer

2001-08-13 Thread J.S. Garrison
-- >From: John Kocijanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Vintage Macs) >Subject: HP 660c Printer >Date: Mon, Aug 13, 2001, 5:28 AM > > Hello. Anyone out there have a HP 660c printer? I > have an opportunity to pick one up cheap and was > wondering about what people thou

Re: just curious...

2001-08-13 Thread the pickle
At 16:26 -0700 on 13/08/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: >on either side of the main keyboard? The bumps >on the D and K are touch typing aids that for some >reason Apple chose to place on D and K instead of >the (by then) industry standard F and J keys. Apple did every single one of their keyboards li

Re: just curious...

2001-08-13 Thread Dana Sibera
> When I was doing my usual thrift-store rounds, I happened to come > across > an "Apple Adjustible Keyboard", still in box; just not shrinkwrapped. Of > course, I snapped it up; it was only $5. I was wondering what it's > original > value might have been; according to the packing list, it's

Re: just curious...

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > When I was doing my usual thrift-store rounds, I > happened to come across > an "Apple Adjustible Keyboard", still in box; just > not shrinkwrapped. Of > course, I snapped it up; it was only $5. I was > wondering what it's original > value mig

Re: just curious...

2001-08-13 Thread the pickle
At 17:10 -0600 on 13/08/01, Erik wrote: >an "Apple Adjustible Keyboard", still in box; just not shrinkwrapped. Of >course, I snapped it up; it was only $5. I was wondering what it's original >value might have been; according to the packing list, it's complete, and I >tested it on my IIcx - it wor

just curious...

2001-08-13 Thread Erik
Hi all, When I was doing my usual thrift-store rounds, I happened to come across an "Apple Adjustible Keyboard", still in box; just not shrinkwrapped. Of course, I snapped it up; it was only $5. I was wondering what it's original value might have been; according to the packing list, it's comp

Thanks to all for your advice

2001-08-13 Thread nohoch net
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Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2)

2001-08-13 Thread jpero
> Reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Vintage Macs) > To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Vintage Macs) > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:44:25 -0400 > From: the pickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2) > At 20:22 +1200 on 13/08/01, Etienne Le Sueur

Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2)

2001-08-13 Thread William Ahearn
> IIRC the LC II DOES have the FPU socket, so you'd > just need to install one. > The LC is the one that doesn't have the socket. I'd > go check downstairs > but I'm too lazy :-p > I got an FPU I yanked from a NIC. If it'll work for you it's yours. P mail me a land address. Can't get it until

Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2)

2001-08-13 Thread Terry Mathews
Nope, sorry Pickle. The first LC with the FPU socket is the LCIII. The LCII had an MMU, something the LC did not. Terry > IIRC the LC II DOES have the FPU socket, so you'd just need to install > one. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshtt

Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2)

2001-08-13 Thread the pickle
At 20:22 +1200 on 13/08/01, Etienne Le Sueur wrote: >So i take it from the sarcastic remarks that it wont work at all? Because it >is in need of an fpu, which the lc doesn't come with? actually, you can >choose to have an fpu, but most did not come with them. IIRC the LC II DOES have the FPU soc

Re: Printer question

2001-08-13 Thread the pickle
At 00:43 -0700 on 13/08/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: >--- the pickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 01:37 + on 13/08/01, nohoch net wrote: >> >> >It is posible to use a paralel printer with a mac >> clasic II? >> >> Nope. > >Not exactly nope. Scrounge around eBay for a version >of PowerPrint 4

Recommendation to @home users

2001-08-13 Thread Dan Knight
For the past three days, we've been having far more than the usual problems with @home email addresses. List after list, subscribers with @home.com email addresses are being dropped because the @home mail server is reporting that those addresses have failed. I've been doing the only thing I ca

Re: Sun monitor

2001-08-13 Thread Terry Mathews
SUN 19"" MONO MONITOR,DB9,115,1152x900,61.8KHz,66Hz http://www.wccx.com/cat/DepotDet.asp?Cat=44 > After closer examination of the label, & a Google search that brought up > some UK sites that have inventories of Sun stuff, I've concluded that it's > most likely the 365-1013 "Sun 19 Monochrome m

Re: Sun monitor

2001-08-13 Thread Bill Judson
Gregg Eshelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tried a magnifying glass? IIRC, monochrome monitors (except ones that have switchable colors) don't have a shadow mask at all, like a black and white TV. [...] Nope, it's greyscale. No trace of separate rasters at all. I've seen all 3 types up close. --

Re: Ongoing @home problems

2001-08-13 Thread Jeffrey
> It is probably the Code Red worm. Last night on some > news show on the Tech TV channel they mentioned that > the worm was hitting Qwest's DSL modems, mistaking > them > for web servers. Didn't say if it was on the user > end or Qwest's end. I've heard from some other people > with @home that th

Re: Sun monitor

2001-08-13 Thread Bill Judson
"Terry Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We _really_ need to know the exact Sun model number. It's the 365- number. > > Terry >> The critical thing to find out 1st (besides: does it work?) is what sort > of >> resolution & scan rate it will support. > After closer examination of the label

Re: Ongoing @home problems

2001-08-13 Thread Sam Burrish
>> We're still losing @home.com subscribers like flies. >> Sigh. I'm just >> taking the "unsubscribe" reports from the list >> server and putting 'em >> back. I do hope this problem will be resolved soon. > I've heard from some other people > with @home that they've had to reset their cable > mo

Re: GD-ROMs (Dreamcast) and the Mac

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know of a program that burns GD-ROMs (no, > > > that's not a typo) on the > > > Mac, like DiskJuggler does on the PC? I want to > burn > > > NetBSD/dreamcast onto > > > a CD to play with it, but the bootable CD image > is > > > not iso966

Re: Ongoing @home problems

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dan Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're still losing @home.com subscribers like flies. > Sigh. I'm just > taking the "unsubscribe" reports from the list > server and putting 'em > back. I do hope this problem will be resolved soon. > :-| > > Dan the listmom It is probably the Code Re

Re: Sun monitor

2001-08-13 Thread John Ruschmeyer
> > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Judson) >Subject: Re: Sun monitor >Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:24:23 -0500 (CDT) > >Thanks to all who replied. I realized that actually the # M19P 114A/6124 is >the Philips OEM #. The Sun model # is something like 365-1016-01. Could be >-1075- or -1078- or someth

Re: GD-ROMs (Dreamcast) and the Mac

2001-08-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > Anyone know of a program that burns GD-ROMs (no, > > that's not a typo) on the > > Mac, like DiskJuggler does on the PC? I want to burn > > NetBSD/dreamcast onto > > a CD to play with it, but the bootable CD image is > > not iso9660. (For > > info on NetBSD/dreamcast, see > > http://www.netbsd

Ongoing @home problems

2001-08-13 Thread Dan Knight
We're still losing @home.com subscribers like flies. Sigh. I'm just taking the "unsubscribe" reports from the list server and putting 'em back. I do hope this problem will be resolved soon. :-| Dan the listmom -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electron

HP 660c Printer

2001-08-13 Thread John Kocijanski
Hello. Anyone out there have a HP 660c printer? I have an opportunity to pick one up cheap and was wondering about what people thought of them. Thanks. John __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http:/

Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2)

2001-08-13 Thread Etienne Le Sueur
thanks, but thats where i got most of the information i already have :) Etienne Le Sueur -Original Message- From: Vintage Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 9:24 PM To: Vintage Macs Subject: Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2) Hi

Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2)

2001-08-13 Thread Dagarso
Hi Yo can try to get information in http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/, is the best page to put linux in a m68k apple. Dagarso ç;) Bendito sea aquel que viva en la ignoracia porque sera feliz y hara feliz a los demas. Dagarso? --- Descubre lo fácil y cómodo que es hacer tus compras por Inte

Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2)

2001-08-13 Thread Etienne Le Sueur
So i take it from the sarcastic remarks that it wont work at all? Because it is in need of an fpu, which the lc doesn't come with? actually, you can choose to have an fpu, but most did not come with them. When did I ever say linux? most of the time you cant express emphasis on vowel sounds when wr

Re: About Mac Linux (Debian 2.2)

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Etienne Le Sueur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to put debian on mac LC 2 > I've got penguin 19, and it boots ok, but the kernel > panics, and says VFS: > unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > I'm not sure what to do.. > > Any ideas on what the problem is? Did you solder in an FPU socket t

Re: Printer question

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that the mac printer port was a serial > port. How did they > do that? I hope not by also delivering a nubus > parallel printer port > card, because that wouldn't be much help on a > Classic II. Well there were the Hurdler and Hurd

Re: GD-ROMs (Dreamcast) and the Mac

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of a program that burns GD-ROMs (no, > that's not a typo) on the > Mac, like DiskJuggler does on the PC? I want to burn > NetBSD/dreamcast onto > a CD to play with it, but the bootable CD image is > not iso9660. (For > info on NetBSD/drea

Re: Sun monitor

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bill Judson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do know that it is grayscale (I can't see any > color rasters when I look > real close at the screen), Tried a magnifying glass? IIRC, monochrome monitors (except ones that have switchable colors) don't have a shadow mask at all, like a black and wh

Re: Printer question

2001-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:37 + on 13/08/01, nohoch net wrote: > > >It is posible to use a paralel printer with a mac > clasic II? > > Nope. Not exactly nope. Scrounge around eBay for a version of PowerPrint 4.5 or older, make sure it has the serial to parallel cable