well..my little home for orphaned 68K's seems to be up and running. my first IIfx, Big Frankie(Francis Xavier) finally lent his mailorder bride Effie (the second IIfx, an ebay win) his video card, and she came out of her shook -up experience on her trip west and was finally able to see straight and make us understand her. don't know why, but for some reason that maybe one of you can explain, her video card caused her picture to fracture and scatter unreadably. but when Fankie gave her his and he took hers, both of them cleared up and saw eye to eye. i shoulda written it down so i could tell you all what she had and what he had.
she's using the 12"RGB right now with frankie's video card, and clear as a bell. and now that she can communicate, I'm impressed with her education. she came witha 750meg hard drive and loaded with things frankie doesn't have. one of which is stuffit expander, but no stuffit! no prob, john mcGibney just sent me the latter, so Effie's gonna have both. Frankie's only got 100 mb by contrast--a man of just a few straighforward talents ( a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do). little winkie twosi (IIsi) for the moment is happy to sit there headless, burbling and playing in her own little world until I decide who's gonna get what monitor. I put the performa plus monitor on frankie and it came up fine with Effie's video card--and i could slap my forhead for being so dumb the last time. you were all correct. a simple change in the monitor control panel to 256 colors brought it up to color. so now Effie's got herself a nice ladylike dusty rose desktop, and clock to go with it, and I gave ole Frank a nice southwestern weathered turquoise denim kinda desktop--i think he's kinda like the Black Angus guy. and winkie's got her little yellow duckies on baby blue. the next shift is gonna be to try out all these VGA monitors on ole frank, and see if he can handle any of em. and then see if Effie can use the performa plus, cos winkie needs her RGB back pretty soon. the others are just huge and overwhelming on her. the kid doesn't need to look like the elephant man, ya know? and I gotta change her...no, not diaper--her PRAM battery. she's stuck on 1956 and 24 bit addressing until i do. you guys are gonna have to teach me how to move stuff off the hard drives over onto the removable external 2 gig drive, and how to move stuff back and forth from Effie to frank and vice versa. if i can score another atto scsi II card for Effie, i figure i can condense most of the best from each onto the 2 gig external drive and use it on whichever one I want, whenever. for the time being, I can always just move the sccsi II card in frankie back and forth from one to the other, depending on which machine I want to siphon stuff off of, onto the 2 gig. i swear, i am so new, i don't even know how ya put a floppie in and waht to do with it.' but the dumbest question is the one you don't ask. so here we go. Effie and winkiie have after dark already on them. it struck me that i'd never seen frankie revert to screen saver, so i went inro the finder and asked if there was anything anywhere that had the word 'screensaver' in it, and a file for after dark came up on frankie, but the dialog box told me to load the disc. so i have to assume he had it at one time but it was trashed. i think I have a floppy set of it in a box of finds we have. do i risk trying it? just put the first floppie in the reader and..? can it corrupt anything if its a)not After Dark (say, if it was written over by a windows or mac user?) or b) it is after dark, but something is wrong with it? can i check it over with something before venuring further? c) both Effie and frankie have ethernet cards installed. I have regular cable and crossover cable. how do i hook those up between them so I can load what Effie has over to Frank? Her version is more fun than winkii's old black and white early version. when i saw what her message version could do, the first thing i set it up to say, in foggy screen, was 'you touch this and you're a dead man!' the machines are in my son's room, and he can be a total ditz if left to his own --or someone else's-- devices. so- school me on what to expect and what to guard against, once i start trying out unkown floppies of dubious origin. janet http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
