Re: Oddball PB1xx adapter?

[Dr . O . M . Betz]

Am 27.01.2006 um 21:33 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:


From: "Bob C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oddball  PB1xx adapter?
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:03:41 -0500

Recently, an acquaintance told me that when the early PowerBooks (145, 
170,

165, etc.)  were in popular use, a third-party manufacturer made a
"battery-sized" AC adapter that would go right in where the NiCad 
battery
pack would fit, and used just a standard thin laptop-style AC cord.  
Does
anyone remember this?  And if so, has anyone seen one available 
recently?


Don't know for the "early" types you mention (in fact, the 100, 140, 
170 were earlier still), but I got something like such a beast for my 
190cs, it came from VST and I found it was a pretty clever thing as it 
resolved the broken DC input issue  and made the external brick 
obsolete at the same time. But wait a minute - was it really in the 
battery bay? I don't have the thing handy as it's still hidden 
somewhere from moving my study, but ISTR the PS/charger went in the 
frontmost right bay: second battery bay? Drive, Zip or floppy bay? 
Somebody will chime in and make this clear I'm sure. I'll be right back 
when I made sure for myself.


Have fun, OM



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Re: New Low End Mac email lists

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Am 21.01.2006 um 21:32 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks im Digest-Modus:

>(Andy:) Does anyone else find it even slightly amusing that LOW END 
Mac is

>running these lists? ;-)

Of course, it sounds hilarious, but remember the temporary subtitle of 
the LEM Homepage: "Because every Mac is low-end some time". 
Obsolescence is fast, why not make usefulness (and that's what LEM is 
providing by its content as well as by the lists) faster?


>(Yersinia [p.]:) H, well, maybe it's time for "Low End" Macs to 
change its name


See above.

> ... or something. I agree that a G4 is not a "low end" Mac and 
neither are

>G-Books. Since I don't have a G-Book, I'm not on the G-Books list, but
>shortly after I bought a G3 Beige DT from the Swap List (spring 2003), 
I

>did join the G-list, which I'm still on -- and wondering now what I'm
>doing there. Yeah, there are still a few "old fashioned holdouts" like 
me

>for whom old G3s running OS 9.2.2 serve all their computing needs
>(hahaha, while also being an old Powerbook user happy with 7.5.5 on a 
190
>and 8.6 on a 5300), but the majority of the G-listers are on G4s, and 
G5s

>seem to have been cropping up like mushrooms after a rainstorm.



>It's just that I wish there was a list for people like me.
>
>~Yersinia.

Here, I really love Brian's answer... But I understand the problem. 
Myself, I feel sometimes like quitting the PowerBooks list because the 
most recent one in my herd of Powerbooks is a 190 cs, but discussion on 
the list is nearly exclusively about PPC PowerBooks.



>(Dan:) Today's high-end is tomorrow's low-end.  And let's face it, 
from the

>benchmarks starting to appear, the new x86 iMac is barely medium-end.
>
>The name is good.  The community is great.  Keep it.
>
>- Dan.

Dan says it all. And with the introduction of the "medium end", we can 
all get together and celebrate a new age of imaginary geometry!


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Re: desktop pictures

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Am 09.01.2006 um 21:32 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:




folder. If it isn't possible are there any third-party programs that
will do the same thing?


Yep, in fact I think it was called Desktop Pictures. I'm reasonably
certain that that was another third party app, like Windowshade, that
Apple bought and stuck in the OS. I know for certain I had such an
init on my Mac Plus back in the System 7.0 days.

--
Bruce Johnson


I'm surprised - did "Appearance" really make its appearance in OS 8 
only? I don't have a 7.5.x (or 7.6.1, for that matter - here would 
possibly have been one of the rare chances to retrofit a newer-system 
feature to an older one) machine handy to check. But there was "Décor" 
that should have worked with all flavours of OS 7; on my OS 5 or 6 SE I 
had "Backdrop" at the time which was one of the harbingers of desktop 
customization. Don't remember if it worked with OS 7, though. For 
availability I'd check Marten's System 6 Heaven or Gamba's site, links 
at LowEndMac. If all else fails, get back to me offlist.


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Re: Subject: duo modem driver

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Am 01.01.2006 um 21:32 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:



From: Tom and Lisa Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: duo modem driver


I am looking for a copy of a modem driver for a duo 19.2K modem.
Global Village, I think.  Anyone know where to find it ?


http://www.globalvillage.com/support/softwarelocator.html has drivers 
for all GV modems and also lists the PowerPort Mercury for 500 & Duo 
Series driver. I remember when I was looking for drivers for my PB 190 
modem, what was listed as an update turned out to be the full-blown 
driver file, so don't get fooled.


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Re: Does this external CD-ROM drive need a terminator?

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Am 14.10.2005 um 21:32 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:


At 10:30 PM -0500 10/14/05, Caleb Cupples wrote:

Greetings,

Now that I'm about to have the notorious 190 back in the world of the
relatively functioning, are there any issues with getting an external
CD-ROM to work? This will be my first time dealing with SCSI drives of
any sort, so I'm curious about any possible problems.

Thanks for the help,
CSC


If the 190 functions like the 5300, it WILL need two terminators (one 
for
the book and one for the CD-ROM).  Get a pass-through Centronix 
terminator.

Paul


This is exactly what Apple recommended in the Power Book's manuals. 
PowerBook - HDI-30 (29-pin)-to Centronics-50-cable - pass-through 
terminator - external SCSI device - terminator. Worked well for me with 
both 100 and 190 'books. If listers had operational setups different 
from this one, o.k., you're lucky, but I wouldn't recommend as it it 
won't necessarily work for others. (In case someone wonders why there 
are different HDI-30-to-SCSIwhatever adapters: the 29-pin-connector 
equipped ones were just for hooking up SCSI devices to your PowerBook. 
The 30-pin connector cables were for SCSI disk mode, nowadays called 
Target Disk Mode with FireWire drives. There were also "switchable" 
cables and adapters that could do both jobs. The 30th pin was used to 
transmit the SCSI ID in SCSI disk mode, causing the PowerBook to behave 
like an external SCSI drive for another host.


And for another point in this digest:


From: Paul Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM on 190



As to your question, while I don't have or need to get and use a 
CD-ROM
for my Powerbook, I had no problems at all hooking my external SCSI 
Zip
drive to my 5300 -- and since a 5300 and a 190 have identical SCSI 
ports
, I imagine I could do it with my 190 too. In any case, what you'll 
need
is an HDI-SCSI adapter (I finally bought one a couple months ago off 
the
Swap List). All I did was plug mine into the Powerbook and then 
connect
the other end to the Zip drive, and viola, I could get at the Zip 
drive
from the Powerbook. I guess an external SCSI CD-ROM should work the 
same

way.

~Yersinia.


The zip drives usually have a terminatori built-in, so don't bother to
compare them.
Paul


I have two types of external Iomega SCSI Zip 100 drives, one is simply 
called "Zip 100" and has switchable termination which makes much more 
sense than a (fixed) built-in terminator, as people sometimes tend to 
hook up several devices to a computer like scanners, external hard 
disk, CD or tape drives that have the 50-pin Centronics connector and 
therefore need to be placed behind the Zip as DB-25 to 
Centronics-50-cables are the most common ones. The other kind is the 
"Zip 100 plus" which doesn't need the sliding switch because it senses 
if termination is needed or not and behaves adequately. But the bottom 
line is that the rules for termination apply for Zips as well as for 
other SCSI devices and a comparison is absolutely possible.


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Re: Help

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Am 06.10.2005 um 21:31 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:


In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:13:39 -0700


On Oct 6, 2005, at 5:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



In a message dated 10/6/05 12:47:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:



   Hi I am a newbie to this list. I was given a Mac Power Book
145B. It
has System 7.1 and Microsoft. I need some guidence on how to get
files
from my PC to the floppy drive on the Mac. I have some stuff I have
dowloaded but I am having a hard time understanding it.



I think the earliest OS that can read PC floppies is 7.5 or OS
7.6.1. I know
OS8+ can.


I could read PC floppies with an Apple-supplied utility in OS 6. PC
Exchange was introduced with the advent of OS 7.0.

As the PowerBook 145 shipped with OS 7.0.1 (and we still don't know 
which OS the OP's (David's) 145b  actually runs, it could be as far up 
as 7.6.1), this may be somewhat OT, but I remember using the "Dayna DOS 
Mounter" CP/CDEV way back then, probably in OS 6, too. It was a utility 
that originally came with the DaynaFile which was a SCSI-connected 
external drive for PC disks IIRC, manufactured in various 3.5" and 
5.25" and combined configurations allowing the Mac to read DOS disks 
instead of spitting them out automatically (remember MacPuke?), but 
could be purchased separately for 89.95 US$. Some basic information can 
be found at http://users.eastlink.ca/~pspencer/mac/dayna/dayna.html; 
file exchange between Macs & PCs is treated in many places, one I found 
is http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/archive/v08/5/exchange.html. 
I should be able to dig out my early version of the DOS Mounter if need 
be, and Dayna Communications have been out of business for more than 
ten years now AFAIK, so please... Note that there was a better (so they 
say) software called AccessPC and that DOS Mounter was developed 
further, so get informed and make your choice: 
http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-059.html and 
http://www.biotech.ufl.edu/EM/data/zipmac.html.


Happy File Exchanging!

OM

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Re: Enclosure or ethernet

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Am 01.09.2005 um 21:32 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:


From: "James W. Greenidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What's better: Enclosure or Ethernet?

Greetings:

I need some serious second opinions here. My current situation is that 
I've
1.25gHz eMac whose Home folder I'm regularly backing up via ethernet 
into
my Performa 6320's HD. Lately my 6320's HD has been making thumping 
noises

and I'm getting nervous. I have a PB 190 with a two-year-old 30gig
Travelstar HD inside. I used to backup my 6320 on it via Appletalk 
printer
port file sharing, which literally took a week all night long to 
back-up

1gig.

I've been thinking of taking out my PB 190's HD and putting it into an
economical (i.e. cheap) enclosure to directly back-up and mirror my 
eMac's
HD. But if I do that I lose my PB, which would still be nice to hold 
on to.

If it's possible at all to directly connect my PB 190 to my eMac via
ethernet, would I be ahead at all in terms of being able to efficiently
back-up my files on my PB 190 or just have my eMac use an enclosure 
set-up?

I'm committed now because my 6320's clock is ticking now.

I'd say it is a question of interface. Not that I had direct personal 
experience comparing the speed of Ethernet (is it 10bT or 100bT? 
Probably the former, as you are likely to use something like a Global 
Village PCMCIA card like the Ethernet/Modem combo I used to have in the 
190) with FireWire, but my guess based on what I see in my family's Mac 
zoo ranging from Plus to most recent iBook running Tiger is FireWire 
400 would win it hands-down against 10bT Ethernet. More informed souls 
as me may have done the calculations and mailed them already, but I'm 
in digest mode, so excuse me if they did. So probably, if speed alone 
counts, FireWire is the answer.
But did you ever think about Target Disk Mode (ex-SCSI disk mode) to 
mount the 190 on the 6320's desktop, or the eMac's, respectively? I 
used this feature a lot with my PowerBooks 100, not with the 190 
because the ethernet connection via 10bT hub worked perfectly with all 
my other machines, but started using it again with an iBook dual USB to 
overcome some problems between machines using OS X ond others using 
anything between 7.1 and 9.2.2. You have to restart the 'book while 
holding TD pressed, IIRC. You are probably using 10.3.x on the eMac 
1,25 GHz;  the dwindling support for AppleTalk under the various 
flavours of OS X doesn't make things easier. TDM would allow you to 
keep your 190 intact (what I would look upon as an excellent option 
with a 30 gig drive; I remember how glad I was having substituted a 2 
GB Toshiba to the original 500MB!) and keep up reasonable speed 
compared to the (for an 040 environment) ridiculously slow serial 
AppleTalk. The 190 would make a premium backup machine with the 
portability added. 30 gig is a lot of storage if you aren't into video. 
"SCSI" disk mode sounds strange for a PowerBook using an IDE internal, 
but I feel the HDI-30 SCSI connector at the rear of the 'book and the 
right cable and pass-through terminator are more important for the 
transfer than the physical nature of the internal interface and HD. 
Again, I haven't tried it, but I think it's worth a shot. YMMV.


HTH, OM

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Re: Dark Pismo

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Am 26.07.2005 um 21:32 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:28:13 EDT
Subject: Re: Dark pismo


1st thing: try to reset the power manager. Unfortunately l don't 
recall

the key combination: function + shift + power + ?


Cmd-Opt-P-R to reset the PM.


Cmd-Opt-O-F to get into Open Firmware, and then issue a reset-all
commmand, to make sure.

If -P-R or -O-F don't function, you have bigger problems.


I'm confused: wasn't cmd-opt-P-R the combo to reset the PRAM, or was 
this only on Compacts/desktops? ACFX44501, you are one of the most 
knowledgeable persons on this list, sorry to intervene with this 
question.


Thanks for more info, OM


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Re: Powerbook 100 screen

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Am 20.07.2005 um 21:31 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:


I have a few Outbounds. They came out before the Portable. They were
advanced with detachable Keyboards and the Isobar mouse and you can
even use VHS camcorder batteries in them.


Heard about these before, but never actually saw one in my life. They 
are virtually non-existant in Europe (ever seen a kangaroo outside a 
zoo over here? ;-) I never said Apple was the only company with clever 
ideas way back then. And using widely available camcorder batts (if you 
have the space) seems a very clever idea. Don't know about the Isobar 
Mouse, but a detachable keyboard doesn't sound so bad either. I still 
think the PB 100's set-back keyboard was a good alternative to this and 
one of the most ingenious realisations in industrial design of the last 
decades, readily imitated by its competitors and more or less a 
standard now. ISTR Outbound was always on the ledge of being sued by 
Apple for copyright infringement or even actually was, but my memory 
isn't very precise on this subject.



Half the size and weight with
real hard drives. Never figured out how Apple could release the
portable as an answer to it. I have an Apple ][c+ with an Apple flat
panel that was lighter and smaller than the portable too.


I understand your point better now. (Feeling a little itch to look 
after these machines, but some voice in my head says "no, there's got 
to be a limit somewhere".) Seems like the old rule applies that it's 
not always the best solution that gets the most market share or 
survives at all; where's Outbound now? There's the neverending story of 
Windows and Mac OS. Grundig's Video 2000 > Sony's Betamax > VHS is the 
most striking case as the worst solution turned out as the winner, 
commercially.


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Re: PowerBook 100 POP3 mail client

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Am 20.07.2005 um 21:31 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:



Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 POP3 mail client
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:38:25 -0400
From: Yersinia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Manfred writes,

choice.>


I ended up with Claris Emailer because Eudora was giving me crap. Ten
years later I'm still using Claris. My Powerbook 190 has 1.0, and both 
my

5300c and G3 have 2.0. Wouldn't dream of switching.

~Yersinia.



"Corruptisima republica plurimae leges."-- Tacitus, Anals III 27
(The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)



Ah, finally they're back again on LEM - now as Tacitus' Anals. Once 
they were on Compact Macs as old listhands will remember. Poor old 
Tacitus. Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses. I'm sure it's not 
Yersinia's fault, she's one of the more helpful list members over here, 
and the name has quite a melody. OTOH, the germ Yersinia enterocolitica 
can be a rather nasty guest (I'd better not go into further details). 
Someone managed to slip at least two typos into her sig that I will not 
let let go unnamed for the love of Tacitus: Firstly, it is 
"Corruptissima" which sounds quite modern as a word, and secondly, 
please make it "Annals" which means yearly comments, resumes or 
publications, and let the Anals go where Yersinia enterocolitica has 
its home. Medically speaking. Technically, my mail client on the PB 100 
is Eudora 1.3.1.


Amused, OM


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Re: Just curious...

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Am 19.07.2005 um 21:31 Uhr schrieb Terry Holtrey bei PowerBooks:


No color quickdraw on the machine. Color support came along with the
SE30. Hard to believe that anyone would want one of those machines.
Nobody really wanted them when they were new.


Oh, I remember a congress in Hamburg-Eppendorf ("Computers in 
Medicine") just after the Portable was released and a person had one on 
his desk - the 200 others were all eyes and all envy. Thing is there 
was no alternative at the time; the Portable (nicknamed "Luggable") was 
one of a kind, the display wasn't too bad (especially when backlit), 
the lead-acid battery did its job better than a lot of the NiCds that 
were to come later on, and a 40 MB HD was outstanding at the time. The 
hard drive proved to be a weak point with its weird interface and poor 
life expectance. But at first glance, technologically and from an 
"audience-impact factor" view the machine wasn't bad, but Terry is 
right in as much as sales figures are concerned: the Portable wasn't a 
winner.



The Powerbook 100 was so
much better in every way.


!00% right. But it came two years later, which is quite a lot in 
computers. Personally, I found the Portable too expensive and too 
clumsy; I bought the PB 100 (20/4) as soon as it had come down in price 
to about 2000 DM. It was simply convincing: small, light (compared to 
the Portable), set-back keyboard. No wonder it became Nr.1 on Mobile 
Magazine's "Top 100 gadgets" list. I now own three of them, my 
favourite machine has a built-in modem, a 500 MB drive and 8 MB RAM.  
May it live long and prosper.


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Re: The Grouch and other fun stuff (more or less)

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Am 05.07.2005 um 21:34 schrieb Yersinia im PowerBooks Digest:


...I have a seriously infantile sense of humor about certain things at
times.


I'm late in this thread because I'm lurking in digest mode, but this 
one gets me going. It seems that Oscar the Grouch really hit the nerve, 
I found it fun and was sorry I lost it in System 8 (never really got it 
running in 8.1 on my 840 AV or PB 190, even the standalone version 
worked erratically, I never found out why; but I was not alone, I 
remember there even was a thread about it on LEM named "The Grouch 
doesn't sing"). But my strongest motive for writing this is that it was 
actually an INIT called MacPuke that brought my wife's attention to the 
Mac (she was working on a DEC VAX system in the eighties and a 
co-worker had brought his Mac to work and used it as a terminal for the 
VAX) and caused her to urge me to buy a Mac for our home in early 1988. 
She said, "Other people buy Porsches, but I want a Macintosh." O.K., I 
was driving a Ducati Darmah at the time and she a Volkswagen Golf 
Diesel; I had never seen a reason to buy a computer before, the Wang 
unit programmed by pencilled cards we used at work was rather 
disappointing , I was happy with my paper and pencil and the borrowed 
HP-45 calculator on occasions, but out I went and bought her an SE 
(1/20/800k) and, as the ImageWriter did such a poor job on graphs, a 
LaserWriter II NT. And I am still thankful she brought me to the Mac 
world. Of course MacPuke was installed first, it was System 5 time and 
there were some INITs and small apps around that were awesome for 
everyone new to computers then - I remember "Push" which was less fun 
because when you started it, a manikin appeared on the lower left part 
of your screen that pushed and squeezed the displayed picture until 
nothing useful was left; the only way to regain control of the Mac was 
to restart. MacPuke was soon replaced by SoundMaster. And we picked up 
a real virus, too - the nVir. But as we had a locked Antivirus floppy 
ready with 6.0.3 and Disinfectant it wasn't really a threat.


A fun detail about the nVir I'd like to add is that it hit me again 
last year. I acquired an SE from eBay that had, to judge by the files' 
attributes, been used in 1994 for the last time (the PRAM batt was 
still working!) Exploring the hard drive, I found some files behaving 
strangely, and I decided to use a write-protected floppy with the 
old-time magic: Lo and behold, Disinfectant  3.7.1found and eliminated 
the faithful old enemy! Talking of a time capsule!


Have fun, OM

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