Re: Wireless Networking

[Noah Wood]

Yes I can get on the net and I can get my eMac to communicate with the
win machine, Thanks anyway though!

On 6/27/05, Brian Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Noah Wood wrote:
> 
> >Hey all!  I have PB 1400 with a Wireless card.  I have turned on File
> >sharing and shared a folder, On of our computers is a Windows and it
> >is on the network along with the 1400, is it possible to have the
> >windows recognize the 1400 (PS I have Mac OS 8.1)?  Thanks!
> >
> >
> Don'tthink so without a secondary app. There is one but the name
> escapes me. OSx works for one way communication from a Mac to windows
> but not the other way around (not for me anyway). Anything older is
> doubtful on a network, and probably will be corrected. The PB1400 should
> work fine on the net with a wireless router though.
> 
> This is a test also, as one of my replies this weekend got bounced due to :
> 
>  It is composed using the 'windows-1252' character set,
>  and this list accepts ISO-8859-1 only
> 
> BM
> 
> 

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Re: Seeking Browsers for PB 190

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>From: "C. Scott Cupples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>mistake. Is that Virtual Memory, or actual RAM? Also, you can go into the Get

I have 32meg chip RAM and RAM Charger as well which does a great job at
allocating program memory. It was RC which red-flagged that iCab 2.9.8 had
an Ran Out Of Memory problem.  First time ever I saw that with any program
on my PB 190.

I don't really want to use IE but I've currently no choice what with this
iCab 2.9.8 memory bloating problem, and using IE (don't even get started
about Navigator) is no picnic between its slow pokey-ness and expired
certificates flying in your face (can anyone explain that??). What I can
really use, ironically, is an earlier 68040 iCab version which won't expire
and which didn't have these headaches.

Boy, thanks for the swift responses!!

JimWG



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Re: Wireless Networking

[Brian Mahoney]

Noah Wood wrote:


Hey all!  I have PB 1400 with a Wireless card.  I have turned on File
sharing and shared a folder, On of our computers is a Windows and it
is on the network along with the 1400, is it possible to have the
windows recognize the 1400 (PS I have Mac OS 8.1)?  Thanks!
 

Don'tthink so without a secondary app. There is one but the name 
escapes me. OSx works for one way communication from a Mac to windows 
but not the other way around (not for me anyway). Anything older is 
doubtful on a network, and probably will be corrected. The PB1400 should 
work fine on the net with a wireless router though.


This is a test also, as one of my replies this weekend got bounced due to :

It is composed using the 'windows-1252' character set,
and this list accepts ISO-8859-1 only

BM


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Re: Seeking Browsers for PB 190

[Howard R. Katz]

Might have to do with the version of iCab you're using?  I seem to 
remember that there was a memory problem with one of the earlier versions.


Later.Howard


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Re: 1400 joys

[Fluxstringer]

I am trying to boot up my old 1400, in order to sell it, but am 
having difficulty.
First of all is the power supply- it seems to be very finicky these 
days, and if I move it, the computer loses power (batteries are 
discharged since I haven't used them in quite some time).  This 
normal?



No,  something inside is loose or there is a bad wire.

Second, and most important, the fact that the last few times I've 
booted up everything seems to work fine, until the desktop is nearly 
fully loaded, then the monitor shuts off.  The rest of the computer 
keeps running, and I can hear an error message pop up, though I have 
no idea what it says.  I noticed that the clock was off when I 
loaded the 1400 earlier, could the PRAM be dead, and that's what's 
causing this?  It doesn't just blink off, it's more like the 
computer is consciously shutting it down
Assuming I can get it running right again, I need to access the 
laptop, is there anyway to do this from an OS X computer?


When the screen goes black adjust hhe brightness buttons on the side. 
Someone said this indicates a bad PRAM battery.


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1400 joys

[darkwolf45]

I am trying to boot up my old 1400, in order to sell it, but am having 
difficulty.
First of all is the power supply- it seems to be very finicky these 
days, and if I move it, the computer loses power (batteries are 
discharged since I haven't used them in quite some time).  This normal?
Second, and most important, the fact that the last few times I've 
booted up everything seems to work fine, until the desktop is nearly 
fully loaded, then the monitor shuts off.  The rest of the computer 
keeps running, and I can hear an error message pop up, though I have no 
idea what it says.  I noticed that the clock was off when I loaded the 
1400 earlier, could the PRAM be dead, and that's what's causing this?  
It doesn't just blink off, it's more like the computer is consciously 
shutting it down
Assuming I can get it running right again, I need to access the laptop, 
is there anyway to do this from an OS X computer?

Brian

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Wireless Networking

[Noah Wood]

Hey all!  I have PB 1400 with a Wireless card.  I have turned on File
sharing and shared a folder, On of our computers is a Windows and it
is on the network along with the 1400, is it possible to have the
windows recognize the 1400 (PS I have Mac OS 8.1)?  Thanks!
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Re: pricing guidance/titaniums too fragile?

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jun 27, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Geoffrey Davis wrote:


My 2 cents?
The Pismo is more readily adaptable.
By this I mean that even a clot with the mechanical skills of a  
turtle with a screwdriver (i.e. me...) can upgrade and reconfigure  
it rather easily.
The TiBooks, on the other hand usually need a more skilled touch,  
and upgrade parts are fewer and more expensive.


Actually, having worked on both, the TiBook is just as easy to work  
on. Replacing HDD's or optical drives and adding memory is just as easy.


You have to be more careful with the titanium back, as it's easy to  
bend, but it's just a matter of not being totally ham-handed.


OK, the TiBook is newer, shinier and have a faster processor, and  
you think that would mean more price-wise, but it seems to me that  
in computing, utility wins the day.


There really isn't any greater utility


It's a Chevy/Jaguar thing.
Get an old Chevy to fix up, and parts seemingly fall from the sky.
Get a Jag for the same reason, and you'd better have a parts good  
source and deep pockets.


Hardly. Parts are as readily available for the TiBooks as for Pismos.

and Apple made MORE titanium powerbooks than they did Pismos...it's  
just fewer of those have fallen over into the 'usable for parts only'  
category.


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Re: ROM chips

[Noah Wood]

Yes, 8.1 and 8.6 are great for the 1400, although it can run OS 9 it
is not recomended and startup is very slow. to get the effect of the
second mouse button in OS 8 press ctrl+click and a menu will come up,
and with the Mac there are mahy third-party apps you can install to
customize the menu.  Working with mac comes easy after a while, trust
me I was a mac newbie two months ago now I can do it all!

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> >Thank you for all the ROM info.
> >Some of you asked about the O/S...it's 8.0  (tells me nothing)
> >
> >I should  have the quirky power adapter  tomorrow or soThen I  can
> >actually use it
> >
> >Something I've noticed even without power; the keyboard is full-size and
> >seems rather comfortable to use.
>

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Re: Seeking Browsers for PB 190

[C. Scott Cupples]

Sorry for the double post, but I saw where you posted the amount of RAM. My 
mistake. Is that Virtual Memory, or actual RAM? Also, you can go into the Get 
Info command, and set the amount of RAM it uses. It's command+I, if you don't 
know. That's quite a bit on the 190, though, but I guess that OS8 requires 
more ram than the paltry 4.5 megs that 7.5.2 uses, but that's just my limited 
experience showing. I wish you the best in getting your 190 online, as I had 
some major issues in the beginning that the fellow listers really helped me 
with. Trust me on this one, you'll love having your PowerBook online. Then 
again, this is coming from me, so, you know the point. PowerBook 
online=happiness. That's all I'll say. Then again, I named my two favourite 
computers, so I'm not exactly the best example. If you need any off-list 
help, contact me, and I'll do my best to help.

Have fun, and may you never have any "Type 11" errors.

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Re: Seeking Browsers for PB 190

[C. Scott Cupples]

On Monday 27 June 2005 11:53, James W. Greenidge wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> This is a shot in the dark toward you Mac mavens, but here goes:
>
> I'm dusting off my old trusty cool (in many ways) 32meg OS 8.1 PowerBook
> 190 to sub for my toasty eMac during NYC's broiling non-A/C and brownout
> days and I'm trying to install a decent browser. I've rounded up IE 4.01,
> Netscape 4.08, and with high hopes iCab 2.9.8 -- a CUTTING EDGE! browser
> for ancient 68040 machines -- Hallelujah!
>
> However my bubble burst when I discovered that iCab starts gobbling memory
> right out of the gate, and after a few minutes virtually jams my PB to a
> standstill from hogging out my memory. Though I killed the load images
> options and set the cache to zero, iCab keeps on swelling. My poor cousin
> alternatives aren't much better; Netscape keeps slamming me with "expired
> certificate" alerts every five pages I go, frustration and delay making it
> almost unusable, and IE won't log into .Mac for the same balking
> certificate reason. For right now I'm going with IE with a 350k disk cache
> which helps crawl it along, but I sure wish I had a way to kill all these
> certificate thingies or an older 68040 version of iCab which won't date
> expire!
>
> Any suggestions will be much appreciated!!
>
> JimWG

Well, here's my two cents worth. I really like iCab on my 190, but, for me, 
it's the only option that works decently with 7.5.2, but that's me. I haven't 
touched an OS 8 machine in years, so I really don't know what would be best, 
but I'll tell you, right now, that I'd stay away from IE. That's just my two 
cents, but the reason I went to Linux, and bought my 190 is to escape 
Microsoft. Of course, Word 5.1a being the exception, but that's the only MS 
product I trust to function properly. I know the bias shows, but that's just 
me. You neglected to mention how much RAM you have in your 190. RAM, as you 
probably know, is a precious resource in older PowerBooks, and with OS 8, 
you're looking at a real RAM hog, considering the machine in question. I'd 
try going to OS 7.5.5, or 7.6.1, before doing anything, but that's my two 
cents. 

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Seeking Browsers for PB 190

[James W. Greenidge]

Greetings!

This is a shot in the dark toward you Mac mavens, but here goes:

I'm dusting off my old trusty cool (in many ways) 32meg OS 8.1 PowerBook
190 to sub for my toasty eMac during NYC's broiling non-A/C and brownout
days and I'm trying to install a decent browser. I've rounded up IE 4.01,
Netscape 4.08, and with high hopes iCab 2.9.8 -- a CUTTING EDGE! browser
for ancient 68040 machines -- Hallelujah!

However my bubble burst when I discovered that iCab starts gobbling memory
right out of the gate, and after a few minutes virtually jams my PB to a
standstill from hogging out my memory. Though I killed the load images
options and set the cache to zero, iCab keeps on swelling. My poor cousin
alternatives aren't much better; Netscape keeps slamming me with "expired
certificate" alerts every five pages I go, frustration and delay making it
almost unusable, and IE won't log into .Mac for the same balking
certificate reason. For right now I'm going with IE with a 350k disk cache
which helps crawl it along, but I sure wish I had a way to kill all these
certificate thingies or an older 68040 version of iCab which won't date
expire!

Any suggestions will be much appreciated!!

JimWG



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Re: pricing guidance/titaniums too fragile?

[Geoffrey Davis]

My 2 cents?
The Pismo is more readily adaptable.
By this I mean that even a clot with the mechanical skills of a 
turtle with a screwdriver (i.e. me...) can upgrade and reconfigure it 
rather easily.
The TiBooks, on the other hand usually need a more skilled touch, and 
upgrade parts are fewer and more expensive.
OK, the TiBook is newer, shinier and have a faster processor, and you 
think that would mean more price-wise, but it seems to me that in 
computing, utility wins the day.


It's a Chevy/Jaguar thing.
Get an old Chevy to fix up, and parts seemingly fall from the sky.
Get a Jag for the same reason, and you'd better have a parts good 
source and deep pockets.


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Re: pricing guidance/titaniums too fragile?

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jun 26, 2005, at 5:24 PM, jim justen wrote:


Hi All!

I asked this question a few days ago but phrased it rather badly---

Im looking at used PBS at places like Baucom and Wegenerwhats  
surprising
me is that the price for Pismos and titaniums are about the same,  
despite

the much greater speed of Titaniums (not to mention screen size).



It is surprising, but I think its more of a function of the price of  
the Titaniums going down faster, and there being a definite basement  
to pricing in places like that. These are systems that still run the  
latest OS, and so are quite salable.


On places like e-bay and the swap list, TiBooks do sell for more than  
Pismos in general.


Ive been rather out of touch with the Mac world (spent some time on  
the dark
side) and I wonder if Id be making a mistake buying the titanium.  
There must
be a reason the Pismos/Lombards hold their value so well...are they  
that

much better built?



You'll get people claiming so, but in my experience, this hasn't  
proven the case. There are three main drawbacks to the titanium over  
the Pismo:


1) Airport range is shorter. The titanium case limits the airport  
range of the titanium, and some have a habit of having loose antenna  
wires which really shortens it. This is fixable in a variety of  
ways..the cheapest is dangling an external antenna out the side or  
back. I've also seen neater solutions using antennae from external  
cards.


2)The case picks up and shows dings and scratches a lot more.

3)No removable drive modules. Not really an issue unless you can't  
find the appropriate drive in an external USB version.



One of the reasons I abandoned the Mac PB line was because all six  
of my PBs

developed AC connector wobble. I resoldered many of these (lets see--a
PB190, a 5300, and a 3400) myself...but I got sick of that and  
decided mac

was not really standing behind their products, and bailed.


Well, the AC connectors on the later series are significantly better  
than those.


But I really want to run OSX so, I'd like to dive back in to macs!  
Would it

be a mistake to buy a titanium?



Not in my opinion.

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