Re: Wireless 190 / 5300

[Robert Eye]

Greetings All:

	I'm very interested in chasing any info on methods of making 
a 190 or 5300 go wireless. I'd much appreciate any leads or tips!

	JimWG
Jim,

I'm using a Proxim Skyline 802.11b card in my 5300cs. Works like a 
charm. The drivers work for the 190 and 5300. Here's where I bought 
it:

http://www.emicrox.com/eShop/product.aspx?cid=-1&more=1&keywords=skyline+802.11b&pid=875478

$20 plus shipping, and they got mine to me pretty quicky. Can't go wrong, IMO.

Regards,

Bob Eye
Dallas, TX
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Re: VCD's?

[KG]

>  With the 6x cd drive that came with me PB1400cs/117 should I be able to
> play VCD's with reasonable performace?

I kind of doubt it. I can do it on a 3400c/240, but only if I don't try to
do anything else with the system while it's playing. I bet a 1400/117 would
choke on a VCD, but I could be wrong. I am sure someone on here has tried it
before.

As Cameron said, the CPU is your bottleneck, not the CD-ROM drive. Playing
VCD-encoded video is a processor-intensive task, and a stock 1400/117 is a
weakling.

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Re: Souping up 190 to a 5300

[KG]

If you want to turn your 190 into a 5300, you can do it just as easily by
buying a 5300 motherboard and installing it into your 190 case, as to try to
find one of those upgrade cards which are very rare. The 190 and 5300, as I
understand it, are basically the same system with a different CPU attached.

If you are running 68K programs, the 190 can actually be faster than a 5300
because of the latter's lack of an L2 cache. For a 5300 to run optimally,
you need to stick to PPC-native apps and run OS 8.1 with Speed Doubler, or
max out the RAM and run 8.6. OS 8.6 is a resouce hog, but can be dealt with
by culling all the unnecessary extensions. You can even run 9.1, although
not great, if you do that.

I have a 5300c/100 with 40 megs of RAM; it stays at 8.1 with Speed Doubler.
If I had a 190, I would also run it at 8.1, which is very usable on a
late-model 68K 'Book.

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Re: 1 gig

[Donna Hood Pointer]

Yes, I have one.

On Tuesday, February 17, 2004, at 03:32 PM, PowerBooks wrote:

Subject: 1 gig
From: "R. A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Bookies,
Were any external drive housings ever manufactured for 2.5 
inch
scsi drives? Or is this just too  dumb?


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may I join?

[Grace Tallman Gooding]

I just got a Powerbook 160 (model M4550) that may or may not work.  The guy
who sent it claims it works, but he also said it was coming with a power
cord and a rechargeable battery pack.  Those weren't included and I'm
wondering where (if he doesn't reply to me or cough them up) I might be
able to find something to make the beast run so I can see if it actually
works.

TIA,
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Re: Wireless 190 / 5300

[ACFX44501]

>I'm very interested in chasing any info on methods of making 
>a 190 or 5300 go wireless.

Try a Proxim Skyline 802.11b PC card.

Works perfectly in my 1400.

Should work in your 5300.

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Wireless 190 / 5300

[jimwg]

Greetings All:

	I'm very interested in chasing any info on methods of making 
a 190 or 5300 go wireless. I'd much appreciate any leads or tips!

	JimWG



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Souping up 190 to a 5300

[jimwg]

Greetings All:

	I'm monitoring eBay, but if anyone comes across a PB 190 PPC 
upgrade card (or even the infra-red card) at dirt cheap prices please 
alert me. (My PB 190 is a sentimental unit so I'm into upgrading it, 
not replacing it.).
	I'm also interested in hearing from 5300 people on just how 
fast and stable is OS 8.6 on it (since it's so loaded down with OS 
9.0 type features), or I maybe should save the OS upgrade bucks and 
just stick with running OS 8.1 far faster on my 190 with a PPC 
upgrade.

	JimWG



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Backlight Lifetime

[jimwg]

Greetings All:

	I have the PB 190 service manual and operating manual, but 
neither has any stats on the estimated hourly lifetime of the 
backlight and any early signs of its demise. If anyone comes across 
this info do forward it please.

	JimWG



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Re: Duo modems- oh, yeah!

[JMCnetwork]

In a message dated 4/18/03 4:32:32 PM, Eric L. Strobel writes:


on 04/18/03 4:00 PM, Tom and Lisa P at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


> Not if you hack in an ADB port.  its actually pretty easy.


DOH!  I forgot about that...  If you aren't going to be using the internal

modem, you might as well do that hack.


- Eric.

 >>

Cool! I'll look for the hack's 'how-to' online  :)

I installed 8.1 over 7.5.3 on a friend's 2300c/20/1G along with the Express 
Modem software, and she's tried accessing her T-1 at work using her UltraDoc's 
ethernet port. Everything works fine, except her ethernet (I even copied over 
a the existing UltraDoc inits/she bought it w/no install disks. A co-worker's 
3400c's built-in ethernet works fine (OS9) on the network.

Any ideas (maybe OS9) or links (for UltraDoc software or specific init/s).
Thanks!   Craig

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Re: 1400 and most stable internet apps

[JMCnetwork]

 

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PowerBook 1400 Battery

[Harry Brooks]

Hi all

A couple of weeks ago an item circulated re changing cells in PowerBook 
1400 NiMH battery.  Anyone know a website/forum where instructions are 
shown as my battery, one of three, has turned up its toes no doubt with 
a deceased cell.

Harry

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Re: 1 gig

[Dan K]

"R. A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>Bookies,
>Were any external drive housings ever manufactured for 2.5 inch
>scsi drives? Or is this just too  dumb?
Sure were! I've got a couple of different types, one a small box scarcely 
bigger than the HD, with M and F DB-25 connectors, the other a larger 
dealy more like a regular external scsi HD box only smaller. I have 
extras of both jobbies if yer interested, reply off-list of course. :-)

As someone mentioned, you can also use a 2.5"-to-3.5" adapter to install 
a 2.5" drive on 'regular' 50 pin IDC-type intyernal connector. I've 
bought this item from these folks, though I'm having a heck of a time 
with their website's search functions just now :-(

item #250-SCSI on page 71 in my old paper catalog, but might now be here?:


hth,

Dan K

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hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500
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Re: 1 gig

[Jeff Hubatka]

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:08:42 -0600
Subject: 1 gig
From: "R. A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bookies,
Were any external drive housings ever manufactured for 2.5 
inch
scsi drives? Or is this just too  dumb?
--
All the Best,

R.A. Cantrell

I just saw a couple on eBay in the last two weeks, they went cheap 
(less than $20). Seems they'd have to use the ADB port for power, or 
have an external supply.

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Re: VCD's?

[Cameron Kaiser]

>  With the 6x cd drive that came with me PB1400cs/117 should I be able to
> play VCD's with reasonable performace?

I think a bigger worry is the processor. Performance would not be optimal.

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Re: OS 8 on pb 540

[Jerry]

I'm willing to upgrade my OS 7.5.5 540c to OS 8 and I'm  not sure whether
one of those OS 8.x install CDs that came with the G3 macs would work, or
should I look for a more specific install set?
A *universal install* CD of OS 8.1 just came up on the SwapList ...$10 +S/H

Allen Dundek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

HTH, Jerry

I have a SCSI external CD drive...

cheers, gianfranco
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VCD's?

[nathan]

 With the 6x cd drive that came with me PB1400cs/117 should I be able to
play VCD's with reasonable performace?

TIA,


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Re: 1 gig

[Shaun Howell]

on 2/17/04 10:08 AM, R. A. Cantrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Bookies,
> Were any external drive housings ever manufactured for 2.5 inch
> scsi drives? Or is this just too  dumb?
> -- 
> All the Best,
> 
> R.A. Cantrell
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Visit R.A.'s Old Mac (mostly) Stuff @
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> http://tinyurl.com/ubkw
>

Not to my knowlege, but you can get a cheap adapter to fit a 2.5" drive into
a 3.5" housing.


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Re: no files on duo

[Bruce Johnson]

On Feb 17, 2004, at 4:48 AM, Nick Dalzell wrote:

I have really been busy with my computer job and a new moped i just  
got,
sorry if my replies have been really delayed...

Seems somebody said my laptop has everything needed to do  
localtalk...my
question is, what do i need to do to set it up? like i said, i only
hooked up networks on pcs, not macs this is new to meany idea where
to go from here?
Connect the two macs via a local talk cable or a phone net cables as  
seen near the bottom of this page:

 a  
buck for a phone net adapter is a good price.

If you have a local Mac Users group, contact them, I'll bet at least  
one person has a pile of phone-net connectors in the dark recesses of  
their closet. The LEM swap list would be a good place to get some,  
cheap.

(I've seen people offer 'em for shipping alone)

Here's a primer on networking via Localtalk  


Phone net works similarly, except you have the connectors like seen in  
the first web page and run standard phone cords between them. That's  
probably the cheapest route.

You can also do some pretty cool stuff with phone net, like using  
unused lines in your building's phone network to run it; I've seen some  
rather complex networks set up with it, and considering it was in 1986,  
when PC users thought 'ethernet' meant a clandestine drug ring for  
procuring anesthetic, and network meant one of the three TV channels  
you got that wasn't UHF, it's an astonishing thing.

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Re: Mozilla

[Bruce Johnson]

On Feb 16, 2004, at 6:43 PM, THE ROCK wrote:

I'm using 1.2.1 in a powerbook 3400/200 running OS 8.6
Feed it more memory than the default, if you can. It is a memory hog, 
but giving it enough memory really speeds it up and eliminates 
crashing.


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Re: Mozilla

[phiori]

Try one of the newer builds available at: http://wamcom.org/

They are off the 1.3 branch and in my experience (on my 9.1 333MHz 1400c) have been 
zippier.



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1 gig

[R. A. Cantrell]

Bookies,
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scsi drives? Or is this just too  dumb?
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Re: no files on duo

[Nick Dalzell]

I have really been busy with my computer job and a new moped i just got,
sorry if my replies have been really delayed...

Seems somebody said my laptop has everything needed to do localtalk...my
question is, what do i need to do to set it up? like i said, i only
hooked up networks on pcs, not macs this is new to meany idea where
to go from here?

Nick

Using his Sony WebTV Internet
Terminal


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