Re: The ever-popular PRAM question

2002-03-20 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
yoyoyo wrote: Can you describe the tack-soldered procedure. Is that duel battery holder with two 1.5 volts batt.. Of course it is? Tack soldering generally means, to lay a wire flat on a contact solder it down, rather than wrapping it around a pin or inserting it into a cup before soldering.

Re: MO Drive, general question, anecdotes

2002-03-20 Thread mart
Thanks for the suggestion about SunTar 2.3. I found it on Tucows and d/l it. I'll keep it handy and try it when I get serious about the MO drive. Maybe it will work on other things too? The - well written - readme's will tell you all it can do, but then again, I never had any use for the

Begging to borrow Netscape 2.02 floppies

2002-03-20 Thread Gail Vass
In their collection, does anyone have the Netscape 2.02 version on * FLOPPY * only I'll buy if you have it to *sell* or * borrow * it if you have it and don't want to sell your copy. I just want to get Netscape 2.02 on my LC so that I can read old email folders on it. I've got scads of

Re: Begging to borrow Netscape 2.02 floppies

2002-03-20 Thread Green, Steven B.
Gail, I found a copy of it at this address: http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~josh/macbrowsers/ Do you have the capability of downloading it? I'm not familiar with Stuffit etc. and if it has the capability of spanning disks. Anyone on the list know? Steve In their collection, does anyone have

SN Decoder and Archive

2002-03-20 Thread the pickle
I've re-written the decoder in Perl and added some rudimentary error checking. Try it out, see what you think, etc. http://macfaq.org/serial.html I've updated the FAQ to reflect the changes as well. The Archive is offline until further notice due to Sam's server being down. I've removed the

Re: Begging to borrow Netscape 2.02 floppies

2002-03-20 Thread Scott Holder
I've done some looking around in my stuff and I've found a copy of Netscape 3 with bits small enough to fit on floppies that you could copy to the LC and install. I haven't found Netscape 2 yet, but do you know if NS 3 will read the mail folders? Scott Holder At 03:31 PM 3/20/2002 -0500, you

Re: Disk Images

2002-03-20 Thread A. Daniel King
From: Terry Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] I was wondering if there's a way to have the floppies of OS 7.5 as disk images on one Mac and with Install disk 1 in the floppy drive of the other, have those disk images accessed via file-sharing to accomplish an upgrade from 7.1? Not the

Re: Begging to borrow Netscape 2.02 floppies

2002-03-20 Thread Bob C.
Steve, Yes, StuffIt (I use StuffIt Classic 1.6) has the capability of splitting a large file over several floppies. Bob - Original Message - From: Green, Steven B. Gail, I found a copy of it at this address: http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~josh/macbrowsers/ Do you have

Re: Begging to borrow Netscape 2.02 floppies

2002-03-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Netscape 2.02 here. ftp://archive.netscape.com/pub/navigator/2.02/mac/ Not floppy images though but there are ways to get the installer onto the Mac where you need it. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You

Re: The ever-popular PRAM question

2002-03-20 Thread Terry Graham
Andrew's how-to: Tack soldering generally means, to lay a wire flat on a contact solder it down, rather than wrapping it around a pin or inserting it into a cup before soldering. Another idea, I took mini alligator clips to the board batt. holder. TT -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by