Printer driver for StyleWriter

2002-04-16 Thread Mark Joseph
Hello everybody: I need a printer driver to use on a IIsi (system 6.0.7). I have a StyleWriter 1200, although I could use the Color StyleWriter 2400 which is normally hooked up to my PowerCenter (yep, I'm a low-end kind of guy). Could someone tell me either from where I could download the driver

Re: PART TWO-FIRST SYSTEM CRASH cont'd:

2002-04-16 Thread the pickle
At 22:03 -0700 on 16/04/02, flawed jai wrote: >AND THERE IS THE SYSTEM FOLDER AND ITS ALIAS, FROZEN TOGETHER LIKE >SIAMESE TWINS, RIGHT WHERE I TRIED TO SEPARATE THEM LAST TIME. >AND ANOTHER ATEMPT TO MOVE IT GIVES ME YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL OPERATION >FLASH, AND ANOTHER BOMB, AND ANOTHER FROZEN SCRE

PART TWO-FIRST SYSTEM CRASH cont'd:

2002-04-16 Thread flawed jai
Now to the trouble: slid over to the IIfx. OS 7.5.5 RAM doubler installed. started out with keyboard and mouse. waited for bootup. all was well. inserted trackpad floppie as before. icon appeared on the desktop, as before.   look around for the system folder. hm. don't know where it is. look thru

Re: MY FIRST SYSTEM CRASH-PART ONE

2002-04-16 Thread flawed jai
break out the streamers, guys. I'm losing my virginity right in front of you and everybody. ok. today i received a glidepoint trackpad from mike milo from the swaplist. unwrapped it, went into the computer room, sat down, turned on the IIsi, and successfully navigated my way thru following the dir

Pina's Color TPG

2002-04-16 Thread Chris Lawson
Anyone know of a link (or happen to have it convenient on floppy) for Larry Pina's Color Test Pattern Generator? The only ones I can find online are for the B&W version, which doesn't do much good if I'm trying to adjust the guns on a Color Classic :) _

Re: GlobalVillage modem question

2002-04-16 Thread Eagle
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 12:43 , Gregg Eshelman wrote: > --- Eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I acquired a Global Village TelePort 56 Fax/Modem >> today -- the one with >> the attached Mac serial connector, but it didn't >> come with a power >> brick. Does anyone know what kind of power s

driving an HD motor Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 13:04 +0100 on 16/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: > > >If on;y I could work out how to drive the spindle > motors, they'd make > >brilliant fan assemblies for servers ;). It'd be a > bit noisy but it'd > > Mebbe, but I think the spindle motors are usually

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 10:11 PM, the pickle wrote: > At 22:00 +0100 on 16/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: > >> On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 05:05 PM, Eagle wrote: >> >>> Could you not use a counter IC to drive the coils in turn? >> >> Yeh, that's how my dad used to build them. I have no idea

driving hard drive motors Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If on;y I could work out how to drive the spindle > motors, they'd make > brilliant fan assemblies for servers ;). It'd be a > bit noisy but it'd > sure shift som air if you mounted the right blades > in it! Welll, the motors apparently are similar

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread the pickle
At 22:00 +0100 on 16/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: >On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 05:05 PM, Eagle wrote: > >> Could you not use a counter IC to drive the coils in turn? > >Yeh, that's how my dad used to build them. I have no idea when it comes >to electronics, I fit into that gap in between electron

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 05:05 PM, Eagle wrote: > Could you not use a counter IC to drive the coils in turn? Yeh, that's how my dad used to build them. I have no idea when it comes to electronics, I fit into that gap in between electronics and programming -- Mark Benson Vintage M

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread Eagle
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 11:56 , Mark Benson wrote: > On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 03:35 PM, the pickle wrote: >> Mebbe, but I think the spindle motors are usually some sort of mutant >> combination of stepper motor and normal motor. I've never been able to >> get >> them to spin with sim

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 03:35 PM, the pickle wrote: > Mebbe, but I think the spindle motors are usually some sort of mutant > combination of stepper motor and normal motor. I've never been able to > get > them to spin with simple DC application but I might have been doing > something wr

Tape drive rollers

2002-04-16 Thread Ken Strayhorn
Slightly OT, perhaps, but . . . Have acquired a nice little Apple 40SC tape drive backup unit. It's in perfect shape except the main driver roller is soft and gooey - looks like someone used the wrong cleaner fluid on the rubber roller. Can these rollers be purchased as a replacement? Or should

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread the pickle
At 13:04 +0100 on 16/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: >If on;y I could work out how to drive the spindle motors, they'd make >brilliant fan assemblies for servers ;). It'd be a bit noisy but it'd Mebbe, but I think the spindle motors are usually some sort of mutant combination of stepper motor and norm

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

2002-04-16 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 06:54 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > HD platters also make great windchimes. :) Yes, I bet they do, they are so well ballanced they have a perfect tune to each one. If on;y I could work out how to drive the spindle motors, they'd make brilliant fan assemblies for

Re: Apple IIGS

2002-04-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> Awesome. Do you know of any documentation sources for setting this sort of > thing up on the Mac side? Or perhaps you would be willing to tell me? =) It really is just as simple as I described it. Install AppleShape v2 on a System 6 Mac, including the IIe/IIgs/etc. bootblocks and BASIC.SYSTEM

Re: Apple IIGS

2002-04-16 Thread Wendell III
Awesome. Do you know of any documentation sources for setting this sort of thing up on the Mac side? Or perhaps you would be willing to tell me? =) Any idea if this is possible to do in LINUX? Cheers! -W > Yes, they were. I have a SE/30 and a IIgs that were originally configured > this way, a