Have you tried it with NOTHING in the box but
four 1meg SIMMs in Bank A (preferrably matched and
known to be good) and a floppy drive?
Get it that way then on another Mac, download the
System 7.5 Network Access Disk (NAD) and see if
the IIci will boot from that. (Of course you should
make
on 8/1/02 12:44 AM, Steven at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really don't mind off-topic disussions,
Really, please let us know just, in your opinion, what exactly is on
topic, so that we don't ever again err.
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on 8/1/02 12:47 AM, b e n w e l l s | headwerkx at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It happened here in Australia a few years ago; a charity organisation who
reconditioned old junk PCs to give to children and schools who couldn't
afford new year, and in turn gave job training to those were doing
it wasn't a school, it was a charity started up by a social worker to
provide computers to families and other charities who couldn't afford them,
and to provide IT training for people who couldn't afford an MSCE course. it
was on TV and a MS Aust. rep. said straight into the camera It's software
This story just doesn't ring true. Microsoft make their newest software
available cheap for schools ( As a student I bought new, licensed, XP and
Office for $6 each)
True but one of the things the US DOJ brought up was that when a new
version comes out they increase the price of the old one
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 14:13 -0500 on 31/07/02, R.A. Cantrell wrote:
Thanks for the response. To push the abstraction a
bit further, let's say
we're talking OS 8.1 and that it is on a computer
bought and dragged in
from a garage sale? How about on a stack of HD's
--- william ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clip
As with the music business (who, let's face it
deserve to be ripped deep -- if it could only be
done without hurting all of the artists),
Without hurting the artists? Ha. Just ask the
artists that haven't been cowed into spouting the
music
My general rule of thumb, is, if I use it, I pay for it. I use Works
4.0 and it is a legit copy. Paid for Opera and my trusty
GraphicConvert. Bought and used the heck out of Allwrite, still my
favorite wordprocessor. Also bought Dot Writer, and will soon build
another Desk to fire up my
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's not forget that there are companies that buy
up software programs just to kill it.
SCSI Director is one of those sad tales. TranSoft
apparently bought it from another company, because
version 1.7.2 doesn't have their name. TranSoft
then developed
--- Terry Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another thought is that Copyright convictions
usually involve actual damages
that is the value of the pirated software to the
company. It would be
difficult to prove that this software that you don't
even sell anymore is
really worth anything to
DirecTV has been finding it a bit difficult to
persue TV pirates in Canada due to a little quirk
in the laws up there.
Since DirecTV service cannot be sold in Canada, it
has a value of zero in that country. Anything of
zero value is worthless and only things that have
value and/or worth can be
Dry bearings. Dismantling a drive to drip a tiny
amount of sewing machine oil on the bearings is
a tricky proposition. Getting the thing back together
is $^!@$@$ near impossible. :P
I have an old Seagate 320meg SCSI that I took apart,
got both bearings oiled but I couldn't get the heads
back
--- Aedan McGhie/Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... it's software piracy said the MS woman, like
a robot.
And there was something on MS web page about that
recently. They
warned charities about doing that kind of thing.
What's _really_ perverse is all the ads Microsoft has
put out
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- william ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clip
As with the music business (who, let's face it
deserve to be ripped deep -- if it could only be
done without hurting all of the artists),
Without hurting the artists? Ha. Just ask the
artists that haven't
At 04:39 AM 08/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
This story just doesn't ring true. Microsoft make their newest software
available cheap for schools ( As a student I bought new, licensed, XP and
Office for $6 each)
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In Oregon, MS was trying to insist that any donated PCs had to be kept with
the
Situation: I've got a fine Pismo G3 but a terribly slow phone connection.
I need to download some large pgms and docs (Mozilla, etc,) and library only
lets us use 1.4 meg floppies.
So, has anyone been able to slip into the computer sections of their library
and plug a zip drive into one of the
What I use for large file transfers on my pre PPC Macs with SCSI is a 1.5 gb
syjet they are still out there I have used on OS 6.3 on up with out a
problem and then use it to move files to my PCC. The 1.5 gb is large enough
to hold several systems and a bunch of files as old systems and files and
At 09:57 +0100 on 01/08/02, Mark Benson wrote:
$80 for 8.6) but they are still selling it retail. Therefore those
companies are missing out on custom from people if they use a copied
Yeah, but they don't have any claim to the loss because they aren't the
copyright holder. That'd be like Apple
At 04:39 -0500 on 01/08/02, R.A. Cantrell wrote:
on 8/1/02 12:47 AM, b e n w e l l s | headwerkx at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It happened here in Australia a few years ago; a charity organisation who
reconditioned old junk PCs to give to children and schools who couldn't
afford new year,
At 11:51 -0700 on 01/08/02, Steven wrote:
Evidently my request to the digest list wasn't honored. 10 hours later I
get this nonsense again. In this particular post (DirectTV). WHAT THE HELL
does this have anything to do with Macs. But who am I? The listmom is
A LOT. Assuming you're like
What are you supposed to do if you get a nasty virus or a power
surge blasts your box or it gets stolen or cooked in a fire or
otherwise trashed so the software onboard is permanently kaput?
On vintage Macs, it's called backing-up your hard drive.
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Brian K. Hillen writes:
Sorry man, when I was on the Duo/2400 list from LEM I was told to post
on the list itself for sale of items when if finally decided to try to
sell my duo. I didn't know that the different lists had different rules.
The Duo/2400 list is run by The Macintosh Guy. His
I hate indignant, self-righteous people.
Terry
Evidently my request to the digest list wasn't honored. 10 hours later I
get this nonsense again. In this particular post (DirectTV). WHAT THE
HELL
does this have anything to do with Macs. But who am I? The listmom is
allowing this crap.
on 8/1/02 10:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I feel he understands
my concerns, I also feel
Try taking feel out of the equation.
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R.A. Cantrell
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Small Dog Electronics
Why don't you just write down the TCP/IP settings of the PC, put them into
your Pismo, plug the Cat 5 cable going to the PC into your Ethernet on the
Pismo and download?
Or take an AirPort Base Station in and do the same with it. Then you could
sit over in a corner somewhere and
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