RE: Getting Vintage Parts: Portable M5120 and/or Lisa

2010-07-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Nico Vanden Eynde nico...@i4all.eu wrote: clip You might be tempted to try to start the Mac Portable without a rebuild battery. Don't as the Mac Portable  draws more power to run that the power adapter can give so it constantly drains his main battery, even with the PSU

Re: Macintosh Plus works, but doesn't do much

2010-07-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- On Sun, 7/11/10, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: From: John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com Subject: Re: Macintosh Plus works, but doesn't do much To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, July 11, 2010, 3:44 PM On Jul 11, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Chris M wrote: an original Mac

Re: Macintosh Plus works, but doesn't do much

2010-07-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- On Sun, 7/11/10, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: From: John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com Subject: Re: Macintosh Plus works, but doesn't do much To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, July 11, 2010, 3:44 PM On Jul 11,

RE: Getting Vintage Parts: Portable M5120 and/or Lisa

2010-07-12 Thread Nico Vanden Eynde
I used to use my the adapter for my 180 with no problem (the 180 was the same as the 165c, but with an active matrix monochrome). The Power adapter of the 180 is not the same as the 165c and 180c. The 180 adapter was rated at 2 amps where the 165c/180c were rated 3 amps. Reference:

RE: Getting Vintage Parts: Portable M5120 and/or Lisa

2010-07-12 Thread Nico Vanden Eynde
Hi, You can rebuild the original battery without a lead-acid battery. I have rebuild one using 10x AA NimH batteries of 1.2 Volts, 2500 Mah ( 2x series of 5 ). The main advantage is that it doesn't matter anymore if the Mac portable drains these batteries completely. You can easily recharge

RE: RE: Getting Vintage Parts: Portable M5120 and/or Lisa

2010-07-12 Thread Nico Vanden Eynde
Hi, I haven't encountered any problems with the Nimh batteries. Charging works well, the cells don't get hotter than usual + the battery indicator in Mac OS 6 on the Mac Portable works correct too. I don't see any reason to avoid Nimh cells. Switching to Lithium-ion is another case where I

Question about Simms

2010-07-12 Thread Kevin Kelley
Hello, I am new to the group and this is my first posting here. I run a lot of older synthesizers and computer audio apps that require older Macintosh computers for editing and sound creation and storage. I recently purchased a Mac II SI with 8 1 meg simms. When I open most apps I am unable due to

Re: Question about Simms

2010-07-12 Thread Kevin Kelley
Yes they told me I could return them but they believe that the II SI needs 90ns or faster ram and that is why my mac will not see the simms? On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:52 PM, D. Finnigan dog_...@macgui.com wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:45:10 -0700 (PDT), kevin kelley xir...@yahoo.com wrote: I

Re: Question about Simms

2010-07-12 Thread D. Finnigan
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:56:53 -0400, Kevin Kelley vicidi...@gmail.com wrote: Yes they told me I could return them but they believe that the II SI needs 90ns or faster ram and that is why my mac will not see the simms? Apple says that 100 ns is the minimum, meaning that anything faster should

Re: Question about Simms

2010-07-12 Thread Scott Holder
The website says they're 70ns, so they ought to work fine if that's the problem. Just out of curiosity, did you let it sit awhile? Macs will check the RAM every boot and only bring up the screen once it's done. Going from 8 to 64 would increase that time awhile. I thought my IIci that I'd

Re: Question about Simms

2010-07-12 Thread kevin kelley
Wow no I was impatient I will try it again when I get home, These simms are 60ns 4 meg chips, I will cross my fingers and try again. --- On Mon, 7/12/10, Scott Holder sc...@iamscott.net wrote: From: Scott Holder sc...@iamscott.net Subject: Re: Question about Simms To:

Re: Macintosh Plus works, but doesn't do much

2010-07-12 Thread Chris M
--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com wrote: Somewhere on the web is a Mac Plus HTTP server. I remember trying it out when it was last advertised, I think here. and likely equivalent more or less to Trumpet for peecees. A novelty at best. I did a bunch of satellite