Re: Weird monitor port

2002-12-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ian Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone give me some information on what this multi-function monitor port is? The only computer I ever saw with the matching female port on it is a Power Mac 7100/66. IIRC, that's all it was ever used on, the x100 series PowerMacs. Apple made

Re: Yvetta, color monitor

2002-12-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ian Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the DB-15 Ethernet port is called AUI (not to be confused with Apple's smaller AAUI)? They are essentially the same thing, just different connectors. Transcievers are available for both to convert them to BNC or RJ45 connectors. The Apple AUI (AAUI)

Re: Weird monitor port

2002-12-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ian Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you give me more information on running resolutions higher than 640x480 if the ADB is plugged in? I just read that somewhere on the monitors with the HDI connector and the ADB ports on either side of the monitor, it must either be connected to an

Re: DAVE on 68K macs

2002-12-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW for TCP/IP you need to install a program called Open Transport 1.1.2. First 1.1.1, then 1.1.2. = I'm sorry, but you can't list fish as 'durable goods' in your GDP statement. What if we freeze them?

Re: DAVE on 68K macs

2002-12-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, my network card is supported by A/ROSE, which simplifies things quite a bit. A/ROSE (Apple Realtime Operating System Extention) is for network cards that have a 68000 CPU on them. AFAIK, that's only Token Ring ones. No 68000 CPU on the NIC, you don't need

Re: Help with take-apart 12 RGB

2002-12-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alan O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to take apart my 12 RGB monitor (the 512x384 one) and I have managed to remove the screws and get the latches under the feet but past that I'm stuck. Any help (service manual?) from an experienced take-apart veteran? Going to try the

Re: I VOCALLY OBJECT TO PICKLE'S ABUSING EPI!!!

2002-12-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
What's his name hasn't done anything _this_ time to be ragged on. I'm always willing to give someone a chance, until he or she does something to warrant action. I do remember when he was on here as BenjiOak and he was being a big pill. I didn't see him doing anything this latest time to warrant

Re: multiple scan 15

2002-12-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:30 PM -0500 on 12/23/02, Vintage Macs wrote: It is not the version with speakers, but it does have some headphone jacks on the side. Is there a 3-inch by 4 1/2- inch grill adjacent to the headphone jack and one on the opposite side? Those

Re: Strange connector on ethernet card

2002-12-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Easiest way to solv the riddle is to open up the SE and have a look-see at the board. :) = I'm sorry, but you can't list fish as 'durable goods' in your GDP statement. What if we freeze them? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful.

Re: 68Ks in non-mac mac-stuff.

2002-12-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Dunno if anyone will still be using a 68k CPU in 500 years or not... http://www.scoopme.com/tv/articles/default.asp?article_id=85917 So I flipped all the switches, hit all the buttons, steered the ship, and made VROOOM noises. I was, in fact, an ass. But I was steering Serenity. In Wash’s chair.

Re: multiple scan 15

2002-12-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:58:16 -0800 (PST) on 12/24/02, Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an M2943 Apple Multiple Scan 15 monitor. It has an audio jack in the back and one on the left side. All that is is a pasthrough for headphones. No speakers

Re: 68Ks in non-mac mac-stuff.

2002-12-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Warren, I happen to have LIKED buying software from Beagle Bros. Then, you had all sorts of funky, fly-by-nites selling and cracking games and stuff from other platforms. We took it not at all as seriously as we do now. Just wanted to

Re: Macintosh LC 475 monitors

2003-01-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Another good place for Seattle area Mac advice is the seattle.users.macintosh usenet newsgroup. If you don't have a newsreader program or your ISP doesn't have a news server, you can read and post to the group through http://groups.google.com --- James S Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can

Re: Colour Classic, 12 Mac Colour display 3.6v PRAMM batteries.

2003-01-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Another brand of PRAM battery (apparently the orignal ones used by Apple most of the time) is the Tadiran TL-5112 Easy to spot because of the mostly purple color. = A common motto. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. Uncommon motto. It's the quacking duck that gets shot.

Re: Colour Classic, 12 Mac Colour display 3.6v PRAMM batteries.

2003-01-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Sometimes I wonder why it is that most businesses seem to have forgotten the #1 principle of business: the customer is always right. Yes, they are! And if they aren't then you have to gently educate them so they can figure out what is right. If

Re: IIci

2003-01-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:49:00 + From: Dave Quebbeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found some 16 MB SIMMs for sale for $22 each. I might go for them if I thought I wouldn't have to re-seat them! I guess the max I could go on a Mac II is 64 MB?

Re: Colour Classic Boot up - BIG problem!

2003-01-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Daniel Kendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Booting from external HDD (OS 7.6.1 or 7.1) dosn't work besause the floppy icon with flashing ? comes up. Hold down Command Optoin Shift Delete and the top row number key from 0 through 6 matching the SCSI ID# of the drive you want to boot from.

Just figured out what BETA stands for. Re: Colour Classic Boot up - BIG problem!

2003-01-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Just figured out what BETA stands for. I want to know the story behind that. I poked around the MacKiDo site and found nada about it, found the Blue Meanies and Bluets and Granola Bars though. :) He's quit updating MacKiDo and is now doing iGeeks. = A common motto. It's the squeaky wheel

Re: Thank you All!

2003-01-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gil Woolgar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My CD install for 4.2.1 Pro returns an Error 1.I tried increasing the installer memory but it is grayed out. You can't alter the memory setting (or comments etc) of files on read only media like CD-ROM. Try copying it to your hard drive, then

OT: Macs and Cars? Was: Re: Word Juggler

2003-01-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- dhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Macintosh is to computers as Mercedes is to cars. Hmm, so what's Apple's equivalent of the new Maybach made by Mercedes? ;) = If knowing is half the battle, why aren't all battles half as long? __ Do

Re: Centris audio input

2003-01-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, the 650s are not PlainTalk (line level) input. The Q605, 660 and 840 do. So he's running a line level input into a jack that is really a microphone input instead of the line level input on the other Macs that is confusingly labled with an icon

Parity RAM and the DoD. Re: 64 pin RAM and all those boards

2003-01-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alan O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, considering the parity was a BTO option for the DoD, I don't know if the DoD let go of its machines. Probably because of all the bureaucratic security, anything that has graced the fingertips of a government official must be kept in storage

Re: farallon phonenet EN card

2003-01-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Christopher Suleske [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay - i powered up my IIfx and found that i got a 10M link on both my hub and the card itself... so, i'm hopeful it can be used... somehow. the OS is at 7.5.3-2 (although some functions seemed to have a version of 7.5.5). MacTCP is

Re: 7100cx pictures

2003-01-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know - I'm crazy but I hate the 7100 case - it eats my knuckles, so I put the 7100 board in an old IIcx. Sorry if the double post overlaps with anyone. http://fpm.gotdns.com/images/7100cxtop.jpg -looking into the heart - the heatsink was off

Re: 7100cx pictures

2003-01-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Can you get the port icons on the back as some sort of image file or in a symbol font? If so, do up a file with them in proper positions to print out a new port cover panel on the heaviest cardstock your printer can handle. Make the background a nice shade of beige too. :) Cut the holes out then

Re: 7100cx pictures

2003-01-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Is that the IIci or the 7100 power supply? = If knowing is half the battle, why aren't all battles half as long? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: ghosting flop

2003-01-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was wrecked in the process of manual removal. The drive also died... Define manual removal. ;) Didn't you mention the small hole next to the slot for using a paperclip in case of an EMERGENCY need to manually eject a disk? = If knowing is half the

Re: performa 630 Power Problems/30 Pin RAM in IIci

2003-01-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Daniel Kendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I have found two large sticks of 30-pin Ram that i tried to put into the IIci. When I powered it up, it chimed as usual then played a funny tune and didn't go any further. Is the RAM PC RAM so it won't work or is it allread maxed out?

Re: new to the list-LC help needed

2003-01-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Todd Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried numerous different things unsuccessfully, then decided to look for expert advice. I have an ethernet card I pulled from a Performa and put into the LC, but I'm not sure whether or not I have a valid driver extension for it. I put

Re: new to the list-LC help needed

2003-01-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robyn Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, you need to use Diskcopy to make those floppy disks. They should fit on a floppy fine. Outside of trying that again, you could borrow an external CD-ROM and put the installer on there. The 19 (or 20 part for non-US/Canada English) part

Re: CD rom???

2003-01-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- jsoderlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a IIci w/o CD rom Drive , I would like to know if it is possible to make a IDE CD rom with it? thanks, jeff Yes, using an external SCSI case and a SCSI to IDE convertor. But that will cost way more than the IIci is worth. ;) But for some people

Re: new to the list-LC help needed

2003-01-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Todd Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another weird thing I have been hooking the LC to the iMac using a crossover cable, since that's how it would be connected to my tower at home, and afterwards, the port on my iMac dies and I have to restart the whole system before it will

Re: 12 RGB Screen max Colours??

2003-01-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Todd Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of screens... I can't find any way to take full advantage on my LC. There is a knob on back of the monitor, but it only adjusts vertical size of output. Am I missing something? Where is the horizontal stretch? In later models, I

Re: IDE to SCSI bridge [was CD ROM??]

2003-01-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
http://www.blackfire.com.au sells their ACARD SCSIDE BridgeSmart 5.25 SCSI case ARS2000 for $201 AUD. They used to sell just the converter card for connecting IDE/ATAPI devices to the SCSI bus. = Subatomic conspiracy group: The Free Mesons. (There are very few good jokes in quantum physics.)

Re: My Machines

2003-02-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! After an absence due to several factors I have returned! I have missed this list with its inciteful people who hold a wealth of knowledge. :) Below is my list of computers. Mac 512K (2 working models and 1 case with just the screen)* clip

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ted Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After connecting both my Centris 650 and 7100/80 to DSL by ethernet, the Centris seems to load web pages faster. The 7100/80 has only 16 megs of RAM, while the Centris has about a 100. Also, the 7100 is connected to ethernet through a transceiver.

Re: My Machines

2003-02-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Before reading on) Hmm, probably named the non working one Enterprise, like the shuttle in the Smithsonian. (After reading on) Oh, Star Trek shuttles. Phooey! ;) Remember, it was Star Trek fans and their write in campaign that got that shuttle

A/ROSE is a rose... Re: MC3NB

2003-02-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003, at 22:10 Europe/London, the pickle wrote: A/ROSE is unlikely to do anything, since Asanté didn't use a 68000 CPU on their Ethernet cards... Merely a precaution. If I hadn't included it and it had not worked I'm

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Benjamin Corrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is BTW in regard to the 7100? BTW= By the way... = Subatomic conspiracy group: The Free Mesons. Yes, they do drink Lepton Tea. At the Absolute Zero Lounge they drink iced Lepton Tea. They've even been to Dr. Strange's Charm School.

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ted Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the responses, which were very helpful. The 7100 is running System 7.5, the C650, OS 8.1. I think part of the problem might also be that I was running a 68K version of iCab on the 7100 because its OS wouldn't allow the PPC version of iCab.

Re: Free Macs in Asheville, NC

2003-02-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Joseph Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 01:07:16 -0500, you wrote: At 00:37 -0500 on 06/02/03, Joseph Davis wrote: Most people want to know what i want with the broken microwaves... That was mostly the point of my question ;) Building a welder, I need the

Re: acoustic coupler

2003-02-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry Ovans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another no so trivia question. Did anyone recognize the acoustic coupler that Matthew Broderick was using in War Games? What make and model? I am trying to set up an exact duplicate of his set-up in my computer room and would like to find one if it

Re: vintage ethernet card and OS X

2003-02-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I discovered that the problems I used to have with the asante card in my LC disappeared after I started using a dayna communications card in this machine. My OS X iMac can now handle any amount of files my LC running System 6 throws

Mac as a NAS?

2003-02-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
What would be neat is an operating system that would boot a Mac and turn it into a remotely administered NAS or Network Attached Storage box. Plug some insanely large capacity hard drive into an LCIII or newer FPM then connect it via ethernet to your LAN so all your other 'puters no matter what

Re: RE--Electrical rates for router/server for using a macIIci

2003-02-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- carolyn a atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to run it. I have a LCIII that I keep on all the time because the color goes out, and I do not know at this time if it is hardware or software, How about the clock setting when you shut it down and unplug it? Might just need a PRAM battery.

68k linux on LC040 Re: not a newbie btw.

2003-02-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get a clutch of 040MCs and upgrade them then you can try something like Linux or BSD on them. As a rule Unix doesn't line LC040s because of the FPU error/lack of FPU. While it can be compiled to run on an LC040, it only works on some of them. I bet

Dumpster diving! Re: not a newbie btw.

2003-02-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- iriXx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i met someone last night who told me they had 20 LCs thrown away in their dumpster last week... sadly he couldnt carry them :(... although he did retrieve me something i've always wanted - a R4000 SGI Indigo... G THREW AWAY an R4000 Indigo???

Re: 68k linux on LC040 Re: not a newbie btw.

2003-02-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bug occurs on those LC040s that have the error in the FPU set, it somehow conflicts with the existing FPU system and causes the system to crash because technically speaking it does have an FPU. Probably because the 68k Linux authors haven't

Re: Power Macintosh 7200

2003-02-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry Ovans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought another Macintosh computer, minus the hard drive, and am wondering where the best deal can be found for a hard drive somewhere between 500Mb and 4 Gb for this machine. It takes the 50 pin SCSI hard drive. Powermacs are not on topic for

Re: IIci and Asante Ethernet Card

2003-02-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Samuel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I posted awhile back with the same problem but I have yet to resolve it: I have a Mac IIci with a MacCon nubus ethernet card from Asante. It also has a Radius card in one of the other Nubus slots. The machine is running 7.5.5

Re: IIci and Asante Ethernet Card

2003-02-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ray Bearfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My next goal is to add a IIci running 7.0 Updated. I have installed an Asante MC3NB Nubus Ethernet card. Can I run a line from that card directly to the router, or do I need to install a hub? Try it direct and if it doesn't work with all the

Re: IIci and Asante Ethernet card

2003-02-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ray Bearfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see a number of Asante hubs on eBay that look like they could be had for anywhere from $6 up to $20 (including shipping charges). Am I correct in assuming that a hub like the Asante FH10T8, which is not a 10/100 sensing hub, would work? Or is

Re: Hard drive failure question...

2003-02-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
My cure-most for SCSI drives that give my Macs a fit is to plug them into the Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI controller in my PC and use the built in low level formatter in the controller. Then if it's going to HFS on the Mac I FDISK it on the PC as FAT16, if it's going into a PowerMac I FDISK it as FAT32

Re: speaking of hard drives...

2003-02-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Yeah, speaking of hard drives... I recently saw the movie Executive Decision. Uh, dude. You're supposed to be an electronics/bomb expert. The hard drive in the bomb running without its cover on and the top head about 1/8 above the top platter shoulda been enough of a #$%#^$^# clue that all the

Re: re LCIII and memory

2003-02-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- carolyn a atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that the LC III could only handle 10mbs of memory also. Is this incorrect? I would like to add memory to an LCIII if it can handle more. Easy bump to 36 megs by adding a 32 meg SIMM. MicroMac has their BigSIMM (for a BigPRICE!)

Re: The Apple //e card only works

2003-02-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I haven't actually tried it out yet. Are folks saying that if I install this in my Q605 I won't be able to use more than 10 MB or RAM while it is installed? Also, do you think I should get an external 5.25 drive and joystick for it?

Re: A general tip on posting URLs- except with microsoft

2003-02-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gee haven't I seen this before? They work ok for you Gregg? They work fine if underlined. Paul might try removing the space in YaBB/ YaBB that shouldn't be there. Eh? I don't use OE. Would be nice if all e-mail clients would stick to a standard on how

Re: A general tip on posting URLs- except with microsoft

2003-02-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is some sort of mac thing? Before joining this list I'd never seen this ugly hack, well that's what it looks like. Not a Mac thing. brackets are used in HTML to denote the start and end of things like commands and URLs and pointers to images and other

Re: IIci won't shut off?

2003-02-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: power to it? I have hypothesized three causes: 3. A mischievous insect has somehow bridged the power circuit/switch so the CPU is always powered up. Well then, that would be a real computer bug. ;) = If all the young people in America were to act as you

Re: OT: Bugs

2003-02-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, Feb 19, 2003, at 07:37 Europe/London, Gregg Eshelman wrote: 3. A mischievous insect has somehow bridged the power circuit/switch so the CPU is always powered up. Well then, that would be a real computer bug. ;) Funny, I

Re: Mac Classic?

2003-02-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry Ovans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a Macintosh Classic and when it loads, it loads into a program called Menu Master Mac. I cannot access the system folder, the about this macintosh, or anything else except this Menu Master Mac program. Does anyone know anything about

Re: Network

2003-02-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they're just about anything else other than dot-matrix, you can get a print server off eBay (like the HP JetDirect EX) that will connect up to three printers to a single Ethernet port. The JetDirect EX series is almost universal for laser

Re: copying programs

2003-02-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry Ovans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem, with most of these solutions, is that I don't have a Macintosh capable of accessing the Internet in order to download some of these programs that everyone is talking about. I think my best bet is to just go out and buy an 8 pin DIN cable

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

2003-02-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- flawed jai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you prompted me to go look at the blank brand new zip disks I got, and sure enough,5 of the 7 are marked PC formatted. the other two say Mac. OK, so how do you change a PC formatted brand new zip disk from PC format to mac formatted before you start

Re: A new use for Vintage Macs...

2003-03-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 18:17 -0500 on 28/02/03, A.Tuazon wrote: Ok so then which Vintage Mac would be best to run this contraption? I think a topped up IIsi would suffice. I'm wondering what the best way to control the apparatus is. Since Macs don't have a

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

2003-03-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I just tried that. It tells me I can't erase a shared disk. Is this something to do with file sharing? I did a get info on the disk and it doesn't indicate that sharing is enabled for the disk. It's a bug. A bug that Apple never squashed,

Re: LC 550 hard drive

2003-03-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- l s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have an LC 550 that I wish to put a larger hard drive in. How large can I put in? As big as the System or Mac OS can handle. The LC 550 uses the same logic board as the Color Classic II. I call it either the Fat CCII or the LCIII+ AIO. ;) Look

Re: Mac IIci Internet?

2003-03-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Sque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone managed ICS through a x-over cable? Yes. It can work with the DHCP provided by ICS but it's more reliable to assign the stuff manually. Give TCP-IP - your NIC on the PC an IP of 192.168.0.1 For XP instead of right clicking Network Neighborhood then

Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you need LocalTalk cables or PhoneNet connectors? They're used for the same purpose but they're not the same thing. PhoneNet connectors are cheap and probably not hard to find. I think it was the Berkeley MUG who first worked out how to

Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
LocalTalk or PhoneNet.) --- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two. The outer two wires of the four.(The inner two are reserved for voice phone) Rob - Original Message - From: Gregg Eshelman How many wires does PhoneNet use in the telephone cables? = Why do Zik-Zak

Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- RedNight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. Not all? Try *most* :) I'm amazed at the number of jacks I see with only two wires in 'em. thats what hapens when standards get changes around Yes, annoying, isn't it? Microsoft has decided to change yet another standard to how they want.

Import duties. Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone wanna 'splain how the that's legal? If you don't pay anything for it, how are they allowed to tax it? A value is assessed then the customs department levies an import duty on it, unless the item was produced in the country you're importing

Re: This is my end... for now...

2003-03-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Willy Ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- R. A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/10/03 3:20 PM, iriXx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm sorry to see you go, peace m~ Me 2. Me 3 Me 1,024 ;) = Why do Zik-Zak Burgers come in plastic packs? Some of the

Re: Can't see LCs- woe is me

2003-03-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Fletch Brendan Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, one of the LCs has an Asante ethernet card with an RJ45 jack. I'd rather use that than the other LC's Apple ethernet card that only has an AAUI jack, since I don't have an extra transceiver. Will I be able to use that Asante card

Re: Can't see LCs- woe is me

2003-03-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Fletch Brendan Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smacks forehead Duh. I should've remembered you can still get 6.0.8 from Apple's Older Software Downloads. Thanks Pickle and Gamba. Gregg, this may put me into major duh territory, but I'm wondering what good a math coprocessor would

Re: Customs charges

2003-03-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- David Robarts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like it would be worth the importer's time to educate the exporter about filling out the forms (although a good neighbor exporter would care enough to do it correctly without extra efforts of the importer). I was nieve enought to think

OpenType fonts on 68k Macs?

2003-03-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Will those new OpenType fonts that work on both Mac and Windows without any conversion work on versions of the System or Mac OS that run on 68k Macs? = Why do Zik-Zak Burgers come in plastic packs? Some of the plastic rubs off on them and increases their nutritional value! Max Headroom

Low End PC site.

2003-03-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I had a Trailing Edge article on parallel ports all writ up and sent it off to webmaster@ and it bounced back. Of course I didn't save a local copy and of course some server on the way back chopped off 99% of it. :P Hmm, good to see your Networking 101 is no longer 404. Oh well, I'll most likely

Re: Assante Ethernet Was: Can't see LCs- woe is me

2003-03-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Fletch Brendan Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember reading something about how you can't set up file sharing on System 6 (which would enable you to mount it from another computer). Am I missing something? Was there any extension or other software from Apple (or someone) that

Re: Assante Ethernet Was: Can't see LCs- woe is me

2003-03-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember reading something about how you can't set up file sharing on System 6 (which would enable you to mount it from another computer). For 7 ways to file serve with System 6 see: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/system6a.html None of the 7

Re: Math Coprocessors

2003-03-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of FPU's I was wondering how a 68881 and a 68882 differed. From a list of Macs that I have it appears that only the II came with the 68881 (built-in) and that it could be added to the LC via an FPU card. Dunno exactly, but the 68882 is

Whatever happened to Softsync Inc. ?

2003-03-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I have Accountat Inc. Professional by Sosftsync Inc. with all the disks and books, even the original box. From searching the web, it looks like the company was not around very long but made software for Macintosh, Timex-Sinclair and Commodore computers, maybe others. Haven't found anything about

Old MS Word password cracking. Re: Sherman, set the Wayback Machine...

2003-03-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh let's see what apps I had... MacWrite, MacDraw, Macpaint, Print Shop, the early versions of WP and Word, Hey! That reminds me! I made a Word document into a diary w/a password that I have been trying to figure out since 1990! Would be a KICK to go

Re: Modem problem

2003-03-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I tried to help some people who just purchased a new external US Robotics 56k faxmodem getting connected to the Internet. Officialy it is a windows only modem, but since modems ought to be pretty generic I thought I could get this

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dad has some old games that he wistfully speaks of at times. He used to play them on his old SE. I think his favorites were Playmaker Football and V for Victory. I was thinking of getting him another better, faster, color Mac so he could play them again.

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On some platforms you'd run a degrader of some sort. Doesn't one exist for the mac? There is one I'm pretty sure, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. VMac for Mac. :) Emulates a Mac Plus. http://www.vmac.org May still run too fast

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wooo. I wouldn't go on about this so much, but this is a pet peeve of mine about Apple. They release models that are handicapped beyond the requirements of any cost savings.By that, I mean that for the same money, and using pretty much

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which says to me patch it! There *has* to be a way to patch that ROM in software to get around the limitation. Even if it only allowed the use of low-profile 16 MB SIMMs, that would more than triple the current RAM cap and make the LC and LC II a

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Fletch Brendan Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip And you know, I just noticed that the IIfx itself is a one-bullet Road Apple- at the same time they rated it a Best Buy! Go figure. That's because of the funky 64pin SIMMs and the fact that the PDS is useless unless you stumble onto a

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip So, someone sneak on over to Apple and appropriate those files, okay? And while you're there get the Bandit and Hammerhead designs too, would you? Don't forget the Mr. Clean 32bit clean ROMs for the SE/30, Mac II etc. that Apple used for

Re: Some people....

2003-03-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Galen Tatsuo Komatsu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 00:54:08 -0500 From: the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3405401488category=4610 Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the Apple I was never sold in a fancy Apple case,

FTP Server. Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Might find something on http://mac.tucows.com = Why do Zik-Zak Burgers come in plastic packs? Some of the plastic rubs off on them and increases their nutritional value! Max Headroom __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean, as many people as I hear make the suggestion to turn that antique Mac into an FTP server, you'd think there would be plenty of solutions that don't require a non-standard OS- or at least ONE... There's always NCSA Telnet. It's not

Not FPUs, PMMU! Re: Someone has a lot of left over FPUs...

2003-03-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think they're overpriced, but I thought this lot was interesting: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2518953786category=4663 100 68851 FPUs.Pity they're only 16 MHz. The FPU is the 68881 or 68882. The chips at auction are the

Re: Applescripting ( Glueing Macs back together)

2003-03-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now for something else... If you had to glue some Mac plastics back together (minor interior damage in my 3400) what type would you use? I tried superglue, but it didn't hold (probaby due to the tiny contact area). I was thinking of Araldyte or something

Re: Applescripting ( Glueing Macs back together)

2003-03-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back to the point, from where would you get ABS glue? From a plumbing shop or hardware store. Any color you want as long as it's black. That's assuming the case is ABS. There are universal glues for PVC, CPVC, ABS and other plastics. It's intended for cases

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:27 -0500 on 30/03/03, Dan Knight wrote: Sonnet has come out with a patch. It's part of a PDS card that includes a 33 MHz '040 CPU, ethernet, and 32 MB additional memory. Ja, but that means it's doable in software. Depends on how the Sonnet

Re: part2 IDE drive size

2003-03-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (oh yeah!) Also, how does the PeeSea's AT drives relate to IDE? Are they one and the same? Yes. (For the purpose of any you'll use in that Mac.) But there are a few differences that crop up. The original was IDE for Integrated Drive Electronics (sometimes

Re: IDE drive size

2003-03-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/30/03 11:55:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Quadra is off topic for this list. Waitaminute... The Quadra 630 is a pre PPC Mac... what am I missing here?!? The Quadlist. :) Vintage Macs is mainly for any Mac with an 030 CPU and

Re: Virus SPAM?

2003-03-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else getting a bunch of PC virus SPAM (152K attachments) posing as Microsoft software updates? I'm trying to figure out if the infected source is someone on this list. It would probably have to be a PC user.The attachments are

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