Re: upping an LC III to 33MHz

2003-06-19 Thread Hardy Menagh
be happy to compare them to my boards. Hardy Menagh, Hardsdisk Ltd., a branch of the Abandoned Computer Shelter. Sponsored by jmug.org. http://www.mac-group.org/jmug/acs.html He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. -Francis Bacon- Emailed

Eudora 3.1.3, ERR Bad login

2003-03-06 Thread Hardy Menagh
on the list have any suggestions about what the problem is so I can point him in the right direction? This ISP is a keeper and I would like to make it work out (I spent less time investigating my wife before I married her). Thanks, Hardy Menagh, Hardsdisk Ltd., a branch of the Abandoned Computer

Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-06 Thread Hardy Menagh
At 1:36 PM -0700 3/6/03, RedNight wrote: well the subject carries the question, but I can't find localtalk connectors so I need to know how to make a some. -- Have you tried eBay? they pop up all of the time for spare change. Hardy Menagh, Hardsdisk Ltd., a branch of the Abandoned Computer

Re: Eudora 3.1.3, ERR Bad login

2003-03-06 Thread Hardy Menagh
on it over the weekend. I just wanted to provide any wisdom and experience with the problem if it had already been gained. He seems genuinely interested in making it work. Hardy Menagh Emailed from the TV (My other web appliances are Macs) -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: Subject: Re: [was:network] zip disks, PC or mac?

2003-02-27 Thread Hardy Menagh
about five years ago. Just highlight the disk and choose Erase Disk from the Special menu. It will ask you how you want it formatted. You can even choose HFS+ if you have a Mac running 8.1 or later. PC Zip disks formatted Mac, this way, have worked fine for me for years. Hardy Menagh, Hardsdisk Ltd

lemlists account settings

2002-10-19 Thread Hardy Menagh
Can anybody tell me how to configure Eudora for the new lemlists account setting? If it was [EMAIL PROTECTED], with the Mail Host being mail.lemlists.com, what is it now? Nothing I tried with the hyphen in it worked. Timely help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Hardy Menagh e-mailed from

Woz on TechTV

2002-09-27 Thread Hardy Menagh
FWIW, Steve Wozniak wil be hosting The Screensavers on TechTV (DirecTV ch. 354) at 7 PM Eastern Tonight (Fri). __ Hardy, Hard's Disk Ltd., Freehold NY. A branch of the Abandoned Computer Shelter. Apple and Mac systems and parts gratefully accepted. Systems charitably

MonsterMac RAM SCSI Upgrade

2002-09-07 Thread Hardy Menagh
I did ask about this on the Compacts list but got no response. I beg your indulgence by asking again here. This Levco MonsterMac (also Monster Mac) upgrade was installed in a 512K I just got and provided me with the following symptoms: Loud buzz instead of boot tone. No system tone. No ?

Re: Ehman removable disks

2002-07-19 Thread Hardy Menagh
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002, 9:15pm (EDT-3), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregg Eshelman) wrote: Sounds like a SyQuest all right. Does the drive have a horizontal lever and a button with horizontal grooves right in the middle below the slot? Yup, a lever and groovy button. If you open up the case and

Re: Ehman removable disks

2002-07-18 Thread Hardy Menagh
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002, 11:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the pickle) answered: At 18:56 -0400 on 17/07/02, Hardy Menagh wrote: Does anybody know if Ehman 45 MB removable disks are interchangeable with any other disks like Syquest perhaps? I'd like to get one or two Are they 45MB or 44MB? If they're

Local Talk connector for what?

2002-07-02 Thread Hardy Menagh
I went digging through my cables, lookng for Local Talk connectors and found this thing. I think it came in a lot from eBay. It's got the standard Local Talk, two three-pin connector box but at the end of the cable is the kind of connector you would find on a 512 / Plus mouse cable, in fact it

Re: Local Talk connector for what?

2002-07-02 Thread Hardy Menagh
On Tue, Jul 2, 2002, 4:40pm (EDT-3), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark Martin) answered: LocalTalk on a 128/512/512Ke. The serial port on those machines are DE-9, same as the mouse port.   It can also be used on a LaserWriter / Plus, Kinetics FastPath, and some ISA PC cards. -- Clark Martin ===

Re: keyboard question

2002-07-01 Thread Hardy Menagh
On Mon, Jul 1, 2002, 12:42am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the pickle) wrote: My guess is that it won't like that much. Wonder if there was a warning in the original owner's manual about this? Anyone else out there besides me ever seen one of these? the pickle == I have one of these with the original

Re: Virus's

2001-10-02 Thread Hardy Menagh
Terry Earnest asked: So are we (Vintagers) more or less safe from virus's?? I was tinkering with my Compacts yesterday. I have a Ehman removable disk drive that came with two 45 MB disks. These disks had some vintage programs, games and Sys. 6.0.5 on them but no virus protection. Iv'e had them

The correct chips in an SE FDHD

2001-09-27 Thread Hardy Menagh
I'm not on the Compacts list, so please forgive my posting here. I just got an SE and SE FDHD together for cheap, on eBay. The SE was listed as not working but only had a disconnected power cable at the board. When connected, it booted fine off a working 20 MB Miniscribe. I wish everything was

Re: The correct chips in an SE FDHD

2001-09-27 Thread Hardy Menagh
The pickle wrote: At least you can't blame me for it :-p Negative! Seems like you get enough blame as it is. Now I guess it's off to the Swap List to find the right chips. Otherwise this is just another SE with dual 880k floppies and I already got two o'em. Thanks,

What is this keyboard?

2001-09-13 Thread Hardy Menagh
I just made contact with the last of my friends who work in Manhattan. All are safe. One had to spend the last two nights in his Mid-town office He watched the WTC towers fall from his office window. Those of us who have been in the WTC can't believe those massive permanent feeling buildings are

Clock chipping the IIsi.

2001-09-01 Thread Hardy Menagh
Aqua, Go to Schrier's Clock Chipping Home Page and click on Machine Specifics, Modification 1. I think there's a link in the p's FAQ, or do a search. The socket allows you to swap oscillators. I was contentedly running my IIsi at 27.7MHz until I tried to put a Nubus Adapter in it, then no boot.

Re: The need for speed.

2001-08-18 Thread Hardy Menagh
One of the Cameron Kaiser's wrote: A useful hack you might not know is to always have a 768k disk cache,... Yeah, It's something about forcing the system to use all of the on-board RAM so the programs will use the faster stuff in the slots. A simple trick but a good one.

Re: NFS

2001-08-18 Thread Hardy Menagh
Regarding the IIsi Disk Cache speed-up, I paraphrase from Mac Power Mac Secrets by David Pogue Joseph Schorr. The IIsi uses it's 1 MB on-board RAM both for video RAM and cache RAM. Any that's left over is used by your programs, but it's much slower than using the SIMM RAM especially if you are

Re: The need for speed.

2001-08-17 Thread Hardy Menagh
Thanks pickle, As I said, I should be contented with a IIsi at 25MHz and I'm going to try to be. Das pickle wrote: Note that the Daystar adapters/cards don't like to work with a clock of 27MHz or more either,... Hardy, Hard's Disk Ltd., Freehold NY. A branch of the Abandoned Computer

Re: The need for speed.

2001-08-17 Thread Hardy Menagh
Marten writes: If you want a speedy IIsi, use a way faster operating system :-) Cool, I'm using 7.6.1. Is there a much faster OS for a IIsi? I know there's an article about running 8.1 on LEM but that's over the top and I've only got a 250 mb HD. Hardy, Hard's Disk Ltd., Freehold NY. A branch

Re: The need for speed.

2001-08-17 Thread Hardy Menagh
7.1? yeah I know it's pickles favorite too but I used to get a lot of crashes. 7.6.1 allows more flexiblilty. but I really like the stability. Hardy, Hard's Disk Ltd., Freehold NY. A branch of the Abandoned Computer Shelter. Apple and Mac systems and parts gratefully accepted. Systems charitably

Re: The need for speed.

2001-08-17 Thread Hardy Menagh
Yeah, Yeah, Ok, Ok. :) Hardy, Hard's Disk Ltd., Freehold NY. A branch of the Abandoned Computer Shelter. Apple and Mac systems and parts gratefully accepted. Systems charitably donated without profit. http://www.jmug.org/acs for a branch near you. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by