Re: [PB]pcmica card

[wappling]

Re; thankyou,its now on my list

> 
> I just got the CompUSA USB 2.0 pcmcia card - works fine under 9.2.2 with USB
> support installed, and a floppy contains X drivers, but currently, no
> PowerBook supports USB 2.0. I haven't slept it with the card in the PB (a
> Wallstreet/233), but it's easy enough to eject the card before sleep if
> needed. Someone had asked before for the SKU - it's 293596.
> 
> Marty Lindower
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 


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Re: LOL...

[wappling]

RE; but why? depending on the country, and the industry,, metric isnt
standardized either,,



on 1/22/03 9:16 PM, Mark Loeffler at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> For this very reason the metric wars started!
> 17 Inch what is it anyway?
> move on Metric is the way to go... do you remember  O rings ? Why were
> they so important in the ?
> 
> The Masses
> 
> On Thursday, Jan 23, 2003, at 10:56 Australia/Melbourne, Ryan Coleman
> wrote:
> 
>>


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Re: Reviving Pismo Battery?

[wappling]

Re; this probably wont help much, batteries do wear out,however there is
such a thing as battery reconditioning setting available in some of the more
expensive chargers,such as industrial power tools,dewalt comes to
mind.something maybe to look into



on 1/22/03 10:38 PM, Nick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Got the same problem as you, I have a 2 year old Pismo 500 and I'm lucky if
> I get 30 minutes out of my battery.
> 
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New Info

[Mark Loeffler]

Comments on Why 1x vs 2x DVD-R Burn Speeds in PowerBook G4 Superdrives 
- (from a reader email)

"Regarding the superdrive change to 1x from 2x on the powerbook (G4 17" 
drive specs change noted recently).
One of my friends works as an intern at apple in the Mass Storage SQA 
division and he was testing the superdrive last year in the titanium 
powerbooks. The 1x limitation is done in the firmware. The drives 
themselves are capable of 2x. The limitation was done because at 2x the 
drives were very susceptible to bumps and thus many coasters would be 
made at 2x. At 1x there was little or no problems even when walking 
around the building carrying the powerbook while it is burning. I'm 
sure in the near future someone will have a modified version of the 
firmware to make it burn at 2x again.
-daniel"

I had also wondered if the rates were limited to 1x for reliability 
reasons but I was thinking about heat inside the slim case (the higher 
the burn speed, the higher power the laser usually. Even the desktop 2x 
drives had a fan in the drive housing, so I wondered if 2x rates in a 
much hotter enclosure like the PB G4 would affect long-term reliability 
of the drive.
  
  


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Re: Reviving Pismo Battery?

[Nick]

Got the same problem as you, I have a 2 year old Pismo 500 and I'm lucky if
I get 30 minutes out of my battery.

N

on 1/22/03 9:52 PM, Scott Crick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi All!
> 
> This is my first post here, so hopefully I don't break too many rules... ;-)
> 
> I have a Pismo (Rev. B)/400 that I love dearly. It has been a great computer
> for the year and a half that I have owned it (purchased new right after the
> first TiBooks were introduced). The computer still runs like a champ and I
> am really enjoying Mac OS X 10.2.3 on it.
> 
> I have, however, run into a problem that I hoped wouldn't surface so soon.
> My battery life is going down the proverbial toilet. A few months ago, I
> could get 2-2.5" hours of battery life during pretty heavy usage
> (web-browsing over Airport, checking e-mail, running several applications at
> once including some development environments and graphics apps).
> 
> Now, however, I'm lucky to get 45 minutes out of a full battery.
> 
> Although I'm afraid I may be out of luck, my hope is that this might be
> something correctable. I remember that my PowerBook 1400 could run a utility
> from Apple called "Battery Reset" that would force the battery to completely
> discharge and then charge again. This had the effect of removing the battery
> "memory" effect that could cause lower battery-life.
> 
> I was hoping that something similar existed for the Pismo. However, I have
> been unable to find anything similar to this at all. Am I out of luck? Am I
> stuck attached to the cord until I can afford a hundred dollars and change
> for a new battery?
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thank you for hearing me out!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Scott


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Re: Reviving Pismo Battery?

[Donald Keenan]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 09:52 PM, Scott Crick wrote:

> I have, however, run into a problem that I hoped wouldn't surface so 
> soon.
> My battery life is going down the proverbial toilet. A few months ago, I
> could get 2-2.5" hours of battery life during pretty heavy usage
> (web-browsing over Airport, checking e-mail, running several 
> applications at
> once including some development environments and graphics apps).

Scott:
If you were lucky enough to have bought your Pismo "new", you probably 
have AppleCare (3 years of peace of mind).
Call them and most likely, they'll replace the battery.
Donald


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Reviving Pismo Battery?

[Scott Crick]

Hi All!

This is my first post here, so hopefully I don't break too many rules... ;-)

I have a Pismo (Rev. B)/400 that I love dearly. It has been a great computer
for the year and a half that I have owned it (purchased new right after the
first TiBooks were introduced). The computer still runs like a champ and I
am really enjoying Mac OS X 10.2.3 on it.

I have, however, run into a problem that I hoped wouldn't surface so soon.
My battery life is going down the proverbial toilet. A few months ago, I
could get 2-2.5" hours of battery life during pretty heavy usage
(web-browsing over Airport, checking e-mail, running several applications at
once including some development environments and graphics apps).

Now, however, I'm lucky to get 45 minutes out of a full battery.

Although I'm afraid I may be out of luck, my hope is that this might be
something correctable. I remember that my PowerBook 1400 could run a utility
from Apple called "Battery Reset" that would force the battery to completely
discharge and then charge again. This had the effect of removing the battery
"memory" effect that could cause lower battery-life.

I was hoping that something similar existed for the Pismo. However, I have
been unable to find anything similar to this at all. Am I out of luck? Am I
stuck attached to the cord until I can afford a hundred dollars and change
for a new battery?

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you for hearing me out!

Sincerely,

Scott
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Re: LOL...

[Mark Loeffler]

For this very reason the metric wars started!
17 Inch what is it anyway?
move on Metric is the way to go... do you remember  O rings ? Why were 
they so important in the ?

The Masses

On Thursday, Jan 23, 2003, at 10:56 Australia/Melbourne, Ryan Coleman 
wrote:

> At 5:51 PM -0600 1/22/03, James Rohde wrote:
>> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:46  PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:
>>
>>>  Did anybody notice that apple changed the 17' Power Book  apple 
>>> specs??
>>>
>>   ^
>>   !
>>  WOW!!! I think I missed that in the keynote - saw the 12 inch 
>> and 17
>> inch, but missed the biggie!!! Think a person could get a hernia 
>> carrying
>> that one, though... Think of it, 17 feet - wonder how many pixels 
>> across
>> and down that'd be? Or is that for those of the bifocal generation?  
>> ;-)
>
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> :)
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Re: [PB]pcmica card

[Marty Lindower]

On 1/22/03 12:18 AM, "wappling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Im new to notebook computers, this is G4 800 PB, i went to compusa
> superstore,ans looked at PCMICA Cards for  additional usb sockets, choice of
> three brands,my question,clearly on the box one said for mac, but does not
> support usb-2 will work as usb-1,also when such a card is in place will my
> machine behave as normal? or like a tower with pci cards,maybe sleep maybe
> not? in my tower sleep wasnt very important,with this machine it is,so i
> want to ask for opinions ,which ones work ok, which not ok, thankyou for
> your patience and help
> 
I just got the CompUSA USB 2.0 pcmcia card - works fine under 9.2.2 with USB
support installed, and a floppy contains X drivers, but currently, no
PowerBook supports USB 2.0. I haven't slept it with the card in the PB (a
Wallstreet/233), but it's easy enough to eject the card before sleep if
needed. Someone had asked before for the SKU - it's 293596.

Marty Lindower
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Re: [PB]Re: USB printer sharing X->9

[Marty Lindower]

On 1/22/03 12:10 AM, "Mick Ring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> on 1/21/03 21:03, Marty Lindower at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> The HP isn't there; not under
>> Local Network or anywhere else. The only clue that I came up with is that I
>> launched the Help Viewer
>> from the PB, and one of the options I had was a link to Set My Network
>> Neighborhood. The Applescript that ran (Set Registration Neighborhood) gave
>> me an error message SLP Preferences Not Found, even though there is a file
>> by that name in the Preferences folder. Any ideas?
> 
> Are you sure that TCP/IP is set up correctly for both machines? Can both
> machines see each other in the Network Browser using "Local Network"?
> 

The PB can't see the G4 in the Network browser... see above... although I
_can_ access the G4's disk through Appleshare, and I can control it over
TCP/IP (Airport) with Timbuktu...


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CD-ROM Expansion Bay Problems.

[icarus]

Hello all this will be my first post here, and I've been having 
problems with my Lombard's CD-ROM Expansion Bay:

My PowerBook's 24x CD-ROM expansion bay module when running under Mac 
OS X, is limited to a collection of previously burned CDs, i.e. The 
CD-ROM drive appears to not be able to read CDs that were previously 
able to be read flawlessly under older versions.. 10.1, 10.0 and Mac OS 
9. Maybe lost support somewhere?

The CDs tested are working properly, when used in an external drive - 
in my case Yamaha SCSI 8424S CDRW, the disks mount properly and doesn't 
exhibit the problems like it did when used in the expansion bay. When 
running Mac OS 9 (9.2.2) all disks are properly mounted, this is booted 
under Mac OS 9 not under the classic environment.  All disks were 
burned using Toast Titanium in Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, all were HFS+/HFS 
type hybrid. The same occurs when a disk is burned using Nero on 
Windows 2000 with ISO9660 disk type is selected. Of course mounting in 
windows the CDs work as well.

Note: Prior to Mac OS 10.2, the expansion bay cd-rom module worked 
flawlessly as  well as it did in Mac OS 9. But now feature and 
performance wise in terms of Mac OS X 10.2 it is very poor, but it is 
still commendable in Mac OS 9.

The finder complains in that it cannot find any mountable disks, and 
results in an option of ignoring or ejecting the offending disk. At 
times when a disk does load, the performance is extremely sluggish - 
the disk would spin-up and spin down indefinitely which usually results 
in a spinning cursor, which would require either a log out or reboot, 
the latter being the more successful.

The CDs that are most successful at mounting are the Commercially 
printed ones, I don't think its the CDRs that I buy since under Mac OS 
9 they all load fine using the Expansion bay, its just Mac OS X - its 
being finicky.

I was wondering if anyone has had this happened to their G3 PowerBooks? 
and probably give me some help in fixing the problem apart from 
reinstalling OS X all over again.

- ica.


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LOL...

[Ryan Coleman]

At 5:51 PM -0600 1/22/03, James Rohde wrote:
>On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:46  PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:
>
>>  Did anybody notice that apple changed the 17' Power Book  apple specs??
>>
>   ^
>   !
>  WOW!!! I think I missed that in the keynote - saw the 12 inch and 17
>inch, but missed the biggie!!! Think a person could get a hernia carrying
>that one, though... Think of it, 17 feet - wonder how many pixels across
>and down that'd be? Or is that for those of the bifocal generation?  ;-)

Sorry, I don't like making fun of what people type, but this is funny.
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Re: Changed Stat's

[James Rohde]

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:46  PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:

> Did anybody notice that apple changed the 17' Power Book  apple specs??
>
  ^
  !
 WOW!!! I think I missed that in the keynote - saw the 12 inch and 17 
inch, but missed the biggie!!! Think a person could get a hernia carrying 
that one, though... Think of it, 17 feet - wonder how many pixels across 
and down that'd be? Or is that for those of the bifocal generation?  ;-) 

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Re: Changed Stat's

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On 1/22/03 6:05 PM, "Guy Masson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Can we move on?  Please?
Doubtful. But hope springs eternal.


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Re: Changed Stat's

[Guy Masson]

Can we move on?  Please?

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Re: Changed Stat's

[Mark Loeffler]

I give up
The masses
On Thursday, Jan 23, 2003, at 09:09 Australia/Melbourne, Jeremy Derr 
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> On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:
>
>> no sneakiness is what I expected. Up frontness
>
> sneakiness is, i guess, subjective.
>
> again, what did you expect? a big banner on the front page at apple.com
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Re: more USB ports for G4

[Mark Kippert]

Andrew on 1/22/03 12:51 PM wrote:

> If you want more USB ports wouldn't it make more sense to get a USB hub?

Oops, sorry Andrew. I see you've offered the same suggestion I did. I looked
to see if anyone else made the same suggestion but skipped over your reply
since the subject line was different.

Well, I guess great minds think alike :^)

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Re: Changed Stat's

[Jeremy Derr]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:

> no sneakiness is what I expected. Up frontness

sneakiness is, i guess, subjective.

again, what did you expect? a big banner on the front page at apple.com 
stating the change? a press release? Steve himself on MoneyLine to 
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Re: Changed Stat's

[Mark Loeffler]

no sneakiness is what I expected. Up frontness

the masses

On Thursday, Jan 23, 2003, at 09:00 Australia/Melbourne, Jeremy Derr 
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> On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:
>
>> very honest attitude --- but why can't apple just officially just say
>> it ?
>> why the backdoor way ?
>
> Other than the SteveNote, I don't recall seeing '2x SuperDrive'
> advertised anywhere other than that same whitesheet.
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Re: Changed Stat's

[David M. Ensteness]

They did "officially" say it by updating their specs that are available 
to the public. Had they shipped one with one set of specs and then 
changed it that would be a different matter. But they constantly revise 
their documentation and their hardware. Look at all the revisions of 
different models, Apple never updated people to tell them that Rev 2 
and later Beige G3s came with RagePro instead of Rage II+ graphics 
systems.

Also, you might want to check out http://www.xlr8yourmac.com as today 
they have info on their main page about this exact circumstance, 
according to what Mike posted there the situation is that 2x creates 
more coasters due to how sensitive it is to motion while burning. The 
1x situation is a firmware change not a hardware change, the drive is a 
2x.

David

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 04:51  PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:

> very honest attitude --- but why can't apple just officially just say
> it ?
> why the backdoor way ?
>
> we masses

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Re: Changed Stat's

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At 4:00 PM -0600 1/22/03, Jeremy Derr wrote:
>On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:
>
>>  very honest attitude --- but why can't apple just officially just say
>>  it ?
>>  why the backdoor way ?
>
>Other than the SteveNote, I don't recall seeing '2x SuperDrive'
>advertised anywhere other than that same whitesheet.
>
>What do you expect? A press release?

IMHO it was likely a typo. Typos aren't always seen right away by the 
people that actually know.
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Re: pcmica card

[Mark Kippert]

wappling on 1/22/03 12:18 AM wrote:

> Hi Im new to notebook computers, this is G4 800 PB, i went to compusa
> superstore,ans looked at PCMICA Cards for  additional usb sockets, choice of
> three brands,my question,clearly on the box one said for mac, but does not
> support usb-2 will work as usb-1,also when such a card is in place will my
> machine behave as normal? or like a tower with pci cards,maybe sleep maybe
> not? in my tower sleep wasnt very important,with this machine it is,so i
> want to ask for opinions ,which ones work ok, which not ok, thankyou for
> your patience and help

You indicate that you want this for additional sockets.

Are you aware that you can add additional USB ports (sockets) with a simple
USB hub? You can get a simple 2 or 4 port unit that looks like a small
dongle, or go up to a self powered 7 port hub (self powered provides power
to devices like drives and scanners connected to the hub).

I have a 7 port self powered unit, currently connected to my kids iMac.
However when it was connected to my iBook I had no trouble with putting it
to sleep. As a matter of fact, when I put it to sleep, the activity lights
on the hub (a red/green light on each port) would go dark.

Just an option in case you hadn't considered it.

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Re: Changed Stat's

[Jeremy Derr]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:

> very honest attitude --- but why can't apple just officially just say
> it ?
> why the backdoor way ?

Other than the SteveNote, I don't recall seeing '2x SuperDrive' 
advertised anywhere other than that same whitesheet.

What do you expect? A press release?


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[Mark Loeffler]

very honest attitude --- but why can't apple just officially just say 
it ?
why the backdoor way ?

we masses


On Thursday, Jan 23, 2003, at 02:07 Australia/Melbourne, Jeremy Derr 
wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:46  PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:
>
>> Did anybody notice that apple changed the 17' Power Book  apple 
>> specs??
>>
>> in Particular the DVD will on record DVD-R at times 1 not times 2 as
>> was the case before.
>>
>> Nasty? you bet ya! I was enticed by the fact it could write faster. 
>> Now
>> I have to wait for further updates.
>>
>> If anyone does not believe me I have a copy of the spec's in PDF I
>> printed the day they came out.
>
> i'd hesitate to call it 'nasty', honestly. after all, nothing is set in
> stone until the product ships.
>
> many remember the 500MHz fiasco with the PowerMac towers. Apple shipped
> the 500MHz G4's and subsequently had to rev them down to 450MHz, after
> they'd already shipped the 500MHz.
>
> there's two ways of going about some problems:
> "Ship! Ship! We'll iron out the bugs after people have them in their
> hands..."
>
> or
>
> "Oh crap, the 2x burner isn't up to snuff. Let's go back to 1x and work
> on the 2x some more."
>
> Which would you prefer?
>
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Re: Need Help w/Printer Sharing

[Bill Buckhaults]

Mike Amato wrote:

> on 1/21/03 1:41 PM, Bill Buckhaults at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Forgot, the way I get around this is to send the item to the computer with
> >> the printer thru file sharing.
> >> --
> >> Mike Amato
>
> >
> > Thanks for the response.
> > I have tried this and can send to the desk top computer, but am not able to
> > print from the Wallstreet. Can you be more specific? This is my first try at
> > wireless networking.
> > Thanks
> > Bill
>
> Send the document to the desktop computer and print from there, unless you
> want to spend some money and get a wireless print server. I don't know if
> they can handle a serial printer. You need either a USB or ethernet eqipped
> printer.
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> -- Mike;

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Re: Subject: Wallstreet power problem

[Karl-Johan Noren]

Stuart Saunders wrote:

> Without any specific knowledge of the Wallstreet (Can't be too
> different to the Pismo), one possibility with these symptoms would be
> poor contact between the cpu and the heat sink. Have you have either
> out, or dropped it at all?

Yes, it has been opened up.

>  Reseating, if possible with something like a little thermal paste, may
> help. Arctic Silver 3 paste is good, but not sure of use in powerbooks.
> Regular stuff should do the job in any case.

I tried that, and it seemed to help. The battery started to charge,
and I was able to run the 'book for about half an hour until it
died again with the same symptoms (fan spinning furiously, everything
else goes cold).

Right now it won't start up at all, nor is the battery being
charged, as far as I can tell.

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Re: OS9 Laserwriter 8 Network Printer Driver-- Still some life left?

[Jeremy Derr]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 12:22 PM, Jim wrote:

> This is a long shot, but using the Laserwriter 8 driver to print to an 
> IP
> computer has turned out to be a necessity.  Finding a PPD file 
> somewhere, I
> put it in the Laserwriter 8's ppd folder.  Selecting it in the Desktop
> Printer Create process, it seems to be fine.  But, the job goes to the
> printer, and it (the HP 940c Deskjet) just spits out paper.
>I take this as a good sign because that's what the CUPS application 
> in
> OSX did before I found the right hp model driver.  But those open 
> source
> files are complete *drivers*, not just PPDs.
>   So, the question is has anyone been extremely creative with PPDs and
> Laserwriter 8 Chooser driver?   Or, has anyone setup IP printing with 
> Birmy
> Powerrip or Stylescript?

I doubt the LaserWriter 8 driver is ever going to print to a 940c... 
LaserWriter 8 is a Postscript driver, and the 940c is not PostScript 
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Re: pcmica card

[Laurent Daudelin]

On 22/01/03 13:10, "Stephen Bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> That's probably because the current shipping laptops have often more
>> powerful video cards than most desktop
> 
> But all laptops have non-upgradeable video cards, so Pismo owners like
> myself have no way to get a 16MB video card or better. I just thought the
> pcmcia slot might me able to accommodate video upgrades, which every pbook
> would want eventually, I would think, (unless you buy a new one every 2 or 3
> years).

I hear you, Stephen. I'm in the same boat with my Pismo. Still, the current
laptops have more than adequate internal video cards. Granted, older
PowerBook like Pismos, iBooks, etc., could benefit from a better video card.
However, this is a closed market, there are no more Pismo being made, and
I'm sure that there are a few that are retired every year. So, you end up
with too small of a market to be economically feasible. Plus, one of the
reason I've read that AirPort Extreme cards wouldn't be available for older
PowerBooks was that the PCMCIA bus wouldn't be able to meet the increased
requirements for speed and the amount of data to shuffle around. If you were
to make larger video card, supporting higher resolutions, or more depths,
that would mean more data to quickly move around. That too, could possibly a
dead end with a PCMCIA bus. Just a thought.

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OS9 Laserwriter 8 Network Printer Driver-- Still some life left?

[Jim]

Hello,
This is a long shot, but using the Laserwriter 8 driver to print to an IP
computer has turned out to be a necessity.  Finding a PPD file somewhere, I
put it in the Laserwriter 8's ppd folder.  Selecting it in the Desktop
Printer Create process, it seems to be fine.  But, the job goes to the
printer, and it (the HP 940c Deskjet) just spits out paper.
   I take this as a good sign because that's what the CUPS application in
OSX did before I found the right hp model driver.  But those open source
files are complete *drivers*, not just PPDs.
  So, the question is has anyone been extremely creative with PPDs and
Laserwriter 8 Chooser driver?   Or, has anyone setup IP printing with Birmy
Powerrip or Stylescript?

Thanks for any help,

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Re: pcmica card

[Stephen Bright]

> That's probably because the current shipping laptops have often more
> powerful video cards than most desktop

But all laptops have non-upgradeable video cards, so Pismo owners like
myself have no way to get a 16MB video card or better. I just thought the
pcmcia slot might me able to accommodate video upgrades, which every pbook
would want eventually, I would think, (unless you buy a new one every 2 or 3
years).
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Re: pcmica card

[Phillip Burk]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 11:13 AM, David M. Ensteness wrote:

> All the PowerBooks since the Wallstreet have the features of the
> RoadRocket built in, so it became pointless to add a Cardbus video 
> card.

Since the Wallstreet.  Not including the Wallstreet...

> On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 11:11  AM, Stephen Bright wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering why nobody makes pcmcia video cards anymore. The last
>> one I could find was the 4MB 1x3D RoadRocket ($40 on ebay). Is there a
>> hardware limitation or demand limitation on producing upgraded pcmcia
>> video cards?

Check out Margi Systems' Display-To-Go card 
(http://www.margi.com/products/prod_dtg_feat.htm).  You can get one 
with VGA or DVI output (adapters are available separately).  4 MB card, 
supports a wide range of resolutions.  I haven't tried mine with OS X 
but IIRC, it worked.

YMMV.  Caveat Emptor.  No guarantees implied.  ;^)

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Re: Pismo Ram

[Laurent Daudelin]

On 22/01/03 11:59, "Brian L. Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> According to Apple syst. profiler: SoDimm 0/J2 SDRAM  64mb
>>  SoDimm 1/J2 SDRAM  256mb
>> Which one is in the upper slot? 64mb module?
> 
> I'm pretty sure SODIMM0/J2 is the bottom slot. When I added my 512MB
> module I put it in the bottom slot and Apple System Profiler shows
> SODIMM0/J2 as 512MB. So I'd guess your 64MB modules is in under the
> processor card.

Which would make sense, since when the Pismo was updated, only the top slot
was replaced.

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Re: Pismo Ram

[Brian L. Matthews]

>According to Apple syst. profiler: SoDimm 0/J2 SDRAM  64mb
>  SoDimm 1/J2 SDRAM  256mb
>Which one is in the upper slot? 64mb module?

I'm pretty sure SODIMM0/J2 is the bottom slot. When I added my 512MB 
module I put it in the bottom slot and Apple System Profiler shows 
SODIMM0/J2 as 512MB. So I'd guess your 64MB modules is in under the 
processor card.

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Re: more USB ports for G4

[Andrew]

> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:18:58 -0500
> Subject: pcmica card
> From: wappling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 
> Hi Im new to notebook computers, this is G4 800 PB, i went to compusa
> superstore,ans looked at PCMICA Cards for  additional usb sockets,

If you want more USB ports wouldn't it make more sense to get a USB hub?
You plug the hub into the USB port on your powerbook and plug your
peripherals into the hub. I've seen 4 port hubs for around $30, not sure
about MAC/PC or USB1/USB2.
I would love to do this but my Wallstreet doesn't have USB at all so I
have to use a card.

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Re: pcmica card

[Laurent Daudelin]

On 22/01/03 11:11, "Stephen Bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm wondering why nobody makes pcmcia video cards anymore. The last one I
> could find was the 4MB 1x3D RoadRocket ($40 on ebay). Is there a hardware
> limitation or demand limitation on producing upgraded pcmcia video cards?

That's probably because the current shipping laptops have often more
powerful video cards than most desktop, so it's hard to justify making an
external PCMCIA video card in those conditions...

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Re: pcmica card

[David M. Ensteness]

All the PowerBooks since the Wallstreet have the features of the 
RoadRocket built in, so it became pointless to add a Cardbus video card.

David

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 11:11  AM, Stephen Bright wrote:

> I'm wondering why nobody makes pcmcia video cards anymore. The last 
> one I
> could find was the 4MB 1x3D RoadRocket ($40 on ebay). Is there a 
> hardware
> limitation or demand limitation on producing upgraded pcmcia video 
> cards?
> Thanks,
> Stephen

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Pismo Ram

[Anthony Vo]

Hi Listers,
According to Apple syst. profiler: SoDimm 0/J2 SDRAM  64mb 
 SoDimm 1/J2 SDRAM  256mb
Which one is in the upper slot? 64mb module?

I'm trying to replace the 64mb with the  512mb ram module (got from DMS) in my pismo. 
I want to make sure it's the 64mb module in the upper position so I don't have to 
uplug the processor card to replace the lower one.
Thanks
Anthony

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Re: pcmica card

[Stephen Bright]

I'm wondering why nobody makes pcmcia video cards anymore. The last one I
could find was the 4MB 1x3D RoadRocket ($40 on ebay). Is there a hardware
limitation or demand limitation on producing upgraded pcmcia video cards?
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Re: Changed Stat's

[Jeremy Derr]

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:46  PM, Mark Loeffler wrote:

> Did anybody notice that apple changed the 17' Power Book  apple specs??
>
> in Particular the DVD will on record DVD-R at times 1 not times 2 as
> was the case before.
>
> Nasty? you bet ya! I was enticed by the fact it could write faster. Now
> I have to wait for further updates.
>
> If anyone does not believe me I have a copy of the spec's in PDF I
> printed the day they came out.

i'd hesitate to call it 'nasty', honestly. after all, nothing is set in 
stone until the product ships.

many remember the 500MHz fiasco with the PowerMac towers. Apple shipped 
the 500MHz G4's and subsequently had to rev them down to 450MHz, after 
they'd already shipped the 500MHz.

there's two ways of going about some problems:
"Ship! Ship! We'll iron out the bugs after people have them in their 
hands..."

or

"Oh crap, the 2x burner isn't up to snuff. Let's go back to 1x and work 
on the 2x some more."

Which would you prefer?


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Re: help! powerbook backlight problems

[frank hebbert]

Thanks for all the help - Apple are picking up the powerbook this week.

The backlight continued to switch off randomly, and then began to flicker
when it was on, especially when typing. It's clearly broken.

cheers

frank


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