--- Thomas Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <clip> > First question, does anyone know where the battery > sits and how you replace > it? There's something that appears to be the > internal battery, but it looks > like it's soldered.
You need to remove the floppy drive by unplugging the cable then squeezing the tabs toward the middle a bit then lifting up. Now you can remove the screw down in the rounded part of the plastic drive bracket. Use a table knife or slim screwdriver between the power supply and drive bracket to release the power supply hold down catch, lift the power supply straight up while holding the catch forward. Disconnect the SCSI and power cables from the hard drive. Finally, push inward on the drive bracket catch at the side of the case and slide the drive bracket a bit to the rear then lift up. Now you can see the PRAM battery. If it has the black plastic cover, use a small, flatblade screwdriver or pocket knife to pry out the catches at each end to get it off. Unless you plan on subjecting your IIci to some serious vibrations, you don't need to replace the battery cover. ;) > Second question, since this Mac doesn't have any > internet software on it, > how do you get anything like Netscape 2.0 or Claris > Emailer on there? I've > got PC exchange, but so far I haven't had any luck > moving things over. The > Mac just sees the apps as some PC file and won't run > them. When moving Macintosh files around via a PC, they MUST be archived in Stuffit archives (.sit), BinHex (.hqx) or MacBinary (.bin) encoding. All Mac files have two parts, the Resource Fork and the Data Fork. The Resource Fork is invisible to most PC operating systems and it gets "lost". Stuffit works like ZIP by compressing the files into a single archive. Stuffit archives have a Resource Fork with nothing in it except an icon, so even after going through a PC, Stuffit Expander can still extract them. BinHex is a method for encoding Mac files with 7 bit ASCII text. This has long been the most reliable way to move Mac files via the internet. There are still some few systems out there that only transfer the 7 "most significant" bits of each byte, which for English text (and BinHex) works just fine. But send a program or other file for which not every 8th bit in every byte is a 0.... BinHex files are always larger than the file they decode to. MacBinary is also a text encoding format, but it uses 8 bit ASCII characters so it has many more available to represent different bit patterns in the encoded file. MacBinary files can be the same size as the encoded file, but are usually larger, yet always smaller than the same file in BinHex encoding. In other words, download in Stuffit first, then MacBinary, then BinHex if a site offers all three options and you have extraction or decoding problems with the file. > Third question, does anyone have their old Macson a > PC LAN? I've got a > couple PCs hooked up to DSL through a router. What > can you do with an old > Mac if you stick it on a network like this? Can you > use it as a fileserver for the PCs? There are FTP and Web server programs for old Macs. To directly share files and printers, you need either Thursby DAVE on the Mac or PC MacLAN on Windows. You can only share Postscript printers that are NOT "host based". Often called "WinPrinters", they use the CPU of the computer to do the printout processing. Sorta like a Winmodem or software modem runs signal processing code on the PC's CPU instead of using a chip on the modem. One thing to note with sharing between a Mac and a PC is that if you store files from the Mac on the PC, the Mac will litter your PC's shared drive(s) with "extra" folders and little files in them with the same names as the files you copied to the PC. Those little files are the Resource Forks. DO NOT COPY, MOVE, EDIT OR OTHERWISE MANIPULATE MAC FILES STORED ON THE PC WITH ANYTHING BUT PROGRAMS ON THE MACINTOSH! That is, unless the file is definately a "cross-platform" file intended to be used on both. You still only want to move or delete those files from the Mac side. Otherwise the Desktop.db (database) files the Mac puts on the PC will not be updated properly and you'll have "orphaned" Resource Fork files left on the PC. Another way to network PCs and pre-OSX Macintosh is to setup a Linux PC. There's plenty of software for Linux to create a "platform agnostic" file stash. Yet another way to share files is with a small and fairly inexpensive NAS or Network Attached Storage box. These are basically a small box with one or more hard drives, an Ethernet connection and an embedded operating system and Web Server. Plug in the power cord and Ethernet cable then follow the instructions to configure the NAS using a Web browser. From there the drive(s) can be mounted/mapped from any supported client operating system. The Quantum SnapServers support Mac, Linux, Windows and some others. There are several other brands. Still another way is to setup a PC running Windows NT4, 2000 Server or 2000 Advanced Server with Services For Macintosh installed. Microsoft planned to include this with Windows XP Pro for people who use both Mac and Windows, but removed it from the shipping version. If you're running XP Home or Pro, got to Help and search for Macintosh. You'll find instructions for installing the nonexistant Services For Macintosh! XP Help was not updated to remove that with the Service Pack 1 update. I dunno if they deleted it in Service Pack 2. MS even had that bogus info on the XP section of their TechNet website. An enterprising lawyer possibly could've started a Federal Trade Commission case against MS for listing such a major feature in Windows' documentation but not including it or making it available as an add-on. Many companies have had the FTC take action against them for similar things they didn't follow through with on producing. 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