Re: 7.6 Boot Disk no no

-- Original Message -- From: Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:04:59 + >I tried to boot 2 different LC475s off my 7.6 install CD and they both >ran for a moment reading the CD normall

Re: LC vs. LC 475

>Marten van de Kraats wrote: >>> >>> >>> I'm no expert on this, I think the only 68k Mac that can be brought >>> forward to a PPC is the Quadra 800, and that takes saving the upper case, >>> throwing >>> out the rest and putting the upper case on a PM 8500. The back and the >>> bottom will not

Re: Trouble loading OS 7.6.1 onto a IIci.

-- Original Message -- From: John Niven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:35:20 -0700 >I was trying to install OS 7.6.1 from an external CDrom, on a IIci with >20Mb RAM and a 500Mb HD. > >I successfu

Re: Cd on an LCIII

-- Original Message -- From: "J.S. Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:29:29 -0700 >on 10/20/03 7:54 AM, olivier charitos at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi everyone, and sorry if this is a w

Re: wwhat OS for LCIII?

-- Original Message -- From: "Don P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:02:29 -0700 (PDT) >--- "J.S. Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> on 10/15/03 2:24 PM, williamd at >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: new toy

i have a quarda 610 that both auto and manually ejects Luis de Santos wrote: What is the fastest CD-ROM unit that can be placed into a Quadra 650? Can a SCSI burner be placed in there? Auto-inject versus manual-inject floppy drives. The auto-inject ones have an open entrance, while the manual on

Re: broken apple cd sc plus

why not disconnect the second board and wire that direct to the new cdrom? that should be only 5 soldier points. 8 if you have a volume control Marten van de Kraats wrote: The apple cd sc plus I picked up today does not work. The tray won't pop out. The curious design makes it impossible to

Re: Unix O/S's for 680x0 chips.

the old tandy color computer series was based off of the 6809 chip and had a nice operating system specifically for that chip: OS-9. it was a unix based system with networking capabilities (however, limited). not sure if this helps. Nightwing wrote: Heya, I've been on the list for a little w

Re: vintage quality

yeah, fix it! Phil Marlow wrote: Someone on here has their clock set to August 2004 and it's screwing up my inbox! -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at

Re: omnipage

what is omnipage? Desert Fox wrote: Yep. Paul/. on 8/12/03 16:36, Marten van de Kraats at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled: Someone around here has OmniPage, version 3 or lower? It is OCR software. Marten -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electr

screen savers

can anyone recommend any animated screensavers for macos7.5.5? i've been looking but can find any decent ones -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299

Re: Hard disk refuses to mount

well, it mounted and i formated it and all seemed well-- until i did a cold boot. apparantly i have to remount it after each boot. any ideas? Darren wrote: Rusty Shackelford wrote: hdsc is trying to format it now should it take forever? there is no progress bar and it has been working abo

doublers

i have been told be fairly reliable sources that ram double 2.0 works very well and doesnt cost much in performance. is this true, and can the same be said about speed doubler? and where can a fellow find a copy? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electr

Re: alt-tab

hing going, but a friend just gave me his old copy of photoshop1 so i'm about to find out Darren wrote: Adam& Cora Dietrick wrote: is there a macintosh key combination equivalent to alt-tab in windows? http://www.pure-mac.com/sys.html Check them out yourself. :) Can you and a desktop p

alt-tab

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Re: pc/mac net--NEVER TRUST AUTO SELECT

thanks for the help darren and gregg and everyone else, it seems to be mostly working now! Darren wrote: Adam& Cora Dietrick wrote: it is working! i can access pc from mac, mac from pc no ics though. also, do i need pcmaclan or can i get rid of that? if i can dump it, whats the g

Re: pc/mac net--NEVER TRUST AUTO SELECT

it is working! i can access pc from mac, mac from pc no ics though. also, do i need pcmaclan or can i get rid of that? if i can dump it, whats the great attraction to it? Adam& Cora Dietrick wrote: i read all of chapters 4 and 5, and rean the trouble shoot. the ping-pong test failed

Re: pc/mac net

. i dont see any appletalk zones anywhere-- do i need to set these up? and i am not sure that the ethernet driver is properly installed everything else was check Darren wrote: Adam& Cora Dietrick wrote: i did a search for asante on the system and all it comes up with is the files i insta

Re: pc/mac net

i did a search for asante on the system and all it comes up with is the files i installed from Darren wrote: Adam& Cora Dietrick wrote: i ofund and installed the driver but didnt see any differenence afterwareds Did it install the asante trouble shooter? i installed PCMAClan on th

Re: pc/mac net

i ofund and installed the driver but didnt see any differenence afterwareds i installed PCMAClan on the PC and it claims the mac isnt send any packets. then again, should it be if it doesnt know the other computer is there? Darren wrote: Adam& Cora Dietrick wrote: i just decided the

rAm

HOW MUCH ram SHOULD I HAVE ? do i need more Ram? is RAm really important? what mHz should my raM run at? what MHZ is right for most MACS? that is how many BICYCLz do i need? Dan Knight wrote: Several topics. Please keep this email handy for future reference. When contacting me about your s

pc/mac net

i just decided the heck with the hub for now and wired a crossover cable direct from the mac to the pc, and then limited the pc to 10mbps. the link light for each card is now lit, but i am still having no luck communication-wise. darren gave me the following settings for the mac: Mactpc = 19

pc/mac net

i just decided the heck with the hub for now and wired a crossover cable direct from the mac to the pc, and then limited the pc to 10mbps. the link light for each card is now lit, but i am still having no luck communication-wise. darren gave me the following settings for the mac: Mactpc = 19

Re: New Mac User Seeks Networking Advise

i found the article on asante's site about the cards that don't work with auto-negotiating. although my card's part number isn't listed, it does exhibit all the symptoms- including flashing link lite on the back of the card. Darren wrote: Darren wrote: http://techinfo.asante.com/action.lass

Re: New Mac User Seeks 10bt Hub

this is the hub i am looking at. any objections? Adam& Cora Dietrick wrote: okay- its an asante card (Asante Tech, INC (c) 1993 MCLC Rev A) there are two numbers present on what seems to be the chipset - lc20028 and 4l02f2664 i'm using a test, working, non-crossover cable and am

Re: New Mac User Seeks Networking Advise

wrote: Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- Adam& Cora Dietrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got the card in and the mac acknowledges that i now have an ethernet card. However, on my 10/100 hub there is nothing lit up to acknowledge that the mac is there. Fiddling with the software will get yo

Re: New Mac User Seeks Networking Advise

Is is normal that if the card doesn't know its speed limit or whatever, that it wouldn't light the link lite on the hub? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start

Re: New Mac User Seeks Networking Advise

the same? is that the only place i put in these settings? Darren wrote: Adam& Cora Dietrick wrote: I got a LC520 running system 7.5.5. I got a pds ethernet card coming in the mail (probably tomorrow) and am looking for advice for connecting this to my existing 10/100 pc lan. i am

New Mac User Seeks Anti- Virus Software

I also will need some antivirus software that will run on the LC 520. Any suggestion? Also, any good photoshop clones? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start

New Mac User Seeks Networking Advise

I got a LC520 running system 7.5.5. I got a pds ethernet card coming in the mail (probably tomorrow) and am looking for advice for connecting this to my existing 10/100 pc lan. i am currently running TCP/IP and NetBEUI on the lan, with ICS. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: thanks Adam

> Let's all get back on topic, please. And Adam in Australia, funny too funny. I > wonder what you do in your spare time? Well, when I'm not gluing my Powerbook back together, doing my uni studies, working my job, helping out in the university computer labs, repairing old

Re: Eclectic Stuff; Was: LC Road Apple

> Adam, are you listening? Do you know how I know it is you? Yes, because your posts > always show up from the day or two before the current date. I have been out all > evening and just got home. Indeed I am (listening, that it). I conceed my computer's date is often out of sy

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

ould use the patch anyway? After all, a Q605/LC475 has the same form factor, no practical RAM limit, would suck the doors off a LC(II(I)) and are practically given away. Of course, if you did produce such a patch, you would instantly write your name into history as one of the elitest of the vintage

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

Classic OS on anything more advanced than a 68040 is a waste. If I were Apple, I would hav ported A/UX over to PPC, and ditched the Classic OS - instead of waiting how many years to do essentially that. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and..

Re: Applescripting (& Glueing Macs back together)

#x27;ll probably buy one of those ABS project cases from Dick Smith's (read: Radio Shack) and use that. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital C

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

to do this with an upgrade card (which is, essentially a whole new computer on a PDS card) translates into being able to override Apple's wisdom solely in software with the stock LC board. -Adam -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.s

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

ttle file that you stick in your extensions folder then forget all about. It'd probably be a dozen K, and if you slapped a $20 price sticker on it back then. I'm sure you could shovel a lode of them out the door Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and

Glueing Macs back together

et will be. Sorry, I forgot to ask... If I was to do this, could I safely consider the repair to be permanent? Once I stick it all back together, I plan on selling the 3400, and I don't plan on taking someone's money only to have the thing break on them a few weeks or months down th

Re: Applescripting (& Glueing Macs back together)

this will entail messy repair with my chosen glue, possibly without the benefit of a backing sheet (given the size of the thing.) Back to the point, from where would you get ABS glue? Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicsh

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

a patch. I'm sure they would have sold by the truckload. Unless of course they feared the wrath of Steve (or whoever...) Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A

Re: Applescripting (& Glueing Macs back together)

> New face here. Just picked up a couple of IIci's for play & learning. > > Adam, have you considered something like QuickKeys (haven't used it) or > Tempo II Plus? The latter was more a scripter than macro recorder. Thanks for the suggestions :) I haven'

AppleScripting

nd hope to automate the process of clicking a half dozen links and filling in a stupid form every time I do so. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

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

M in software to get around the > limitation. That would rock, but, is the limitation actually programmed into the ROM? Or is it built into the memory controller or some other inaccessable location? Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small D

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

ou're likely to > get from a hardware limitation. The 10Mb RAM limit was deliberately programmed into the LC's ASICs. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | --

Re: new 68k for Dad

> 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. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>

Re: Sherman, set the Wayback Machine...

eful, rather slick, and it all fits on an 800K diskette with room for your files. Looking back on apps like that, I often wonder is 90% or so of modern program code is just random garbage, designed as filler to help 'encourage' you to purchase this year's new computer. -A

Re: Sherman, set the Wayback Machine...

Item into > a revolving globe <...etc, etc, snip> I can't imagine anyone compiling a list of silly applications with out at least a passing reference to the Talking Moose. Pretty much any archive of old Mac programs should have it... Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is spo

LC V?!?!?!?

Hi all, I was just looking through Dana Sibera's (an Outback Macs list subscriber) website, which at http://dana.jaime.com/dana.html mentions that she was given an "LC V" complete with a picture. Has does anyone have any idea what this thing is???? Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Ma

Re: DOS

ted DR-DOS from running properly and hurt it chances... Cheers, Adam -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support L

Re: DOS

so I did it quick and dirty" - 86/Q/MS-DOS creator Tim Paterson. Cheers, Adam. "Lieing Theifing C**ts, I lost my f***ing house!!! F*** YOU DOGS!! -Another satisfied customer of my employer (actual spelling) -- Vintage Macs is sponsore

FREE Vintage Macs

Hi all, I got this from the OpenBSD Mac 68K mailing list (see www.openbsd.org for details) and thought that you'd all be intrested: - Original Message - From: "Lubo Diakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 10:51 AM Subject: Quick Note about 68

Re: Viruses

Calm." I think it said "Don't Panic", though only if you had MacinTalk installed. My Macs were heavily infested with nVir B, from when I bought my first Plus in 1996 until earlier this year when I got an SE/30 with SAM on the hard disk and cleaned out all my floppies. Nothing out of

A/UX on CD (was: Re: A/UX site...)

Now that I think of it, wasn't someone here going to press A/UX onto CD for the benefit of the low-bandwidth masses (like me)? Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Cano

A/UX site...

Hi, Once in my extensive collection of miscellaneous bookmarks, I had the URL to a site which had A/UX for download in addition to some good pages about it. If I remeber correctly, the URL or title contained the word "bottle" or something... Does anyone know where this site is? Ch

Re: serial connection between an old Mac and a Sun IPX

ac to PC serial cable that does work. Give me a day or two to look it up, but IIRC, the IPX and Mac serial ports are for all intents and purposes, the same. I know I was able to hook my IPX up to my PC with a Mac-to-PC serial cable. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowen

Re: What is this keyboard?

e Maybe the blank keys had a special function when hooked to some mainframe...? Seems like alot of effort though... Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

Graphics program for LC2/CC

coverage on the TV. I also hope that these people don't bring on the next war. Peace, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 |

Stupid email trick warning.

es a PC here so look out. Anyone who wants a forward of this email is welcome to it. P.S. In a couple of days I'll be nuking my PC's hard drives so I might just take the time to see exactly what this thing does. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.c

Re: DTMF Re: Drain Crawler

ve the luxury of electronic switching and ADSL now, although Telstra's implementation of the latter is said to suck. Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 740 Prin

Re: Boxen (was Re: DTMF Re: Drain Crawler)

ting on the top shelf of my wardrobe, along with my violet box, though neither really gets out that much anymore. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 740 Prin

Re: DTMF Re: Drain Crawler

tly trough the modem. In this case you could hook up your rotary phone (Geez, I'm 18 and I remember these) and your Plus' modem in series and enjoy Mac controlled DTMF. Neat. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics

Vintage Mac Sound.

ed the '100 to produce a 1500Hz tone, how likely is the result to be 1500Hz as opposed to something 200Hz or so "around" it? Sorry for this rambling post, especially as it likely makes no sense but these 5am starts at work are getting to me. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is spons