Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA--ooops
--- Paul Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:41 PM -0700 10/16/01, David Brocklebank wrote: Thanks - i have a crossover cable - how does one recognize the other ? Do I have to set them up under network browser. in the dark It's obvious, as they are colour coded, so look at the ends. Crossover is mirror image, the other is identical. Paul Sorry - I didn't mean the cable - I meant how does one computer recognize the other - was answered Thanks -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA
. Well, tonight I tried to get the PB online. It does get online through my dial-up ISP that I am about to turn off in a few days, but now I can't get the Netscape browser to work. Did you try reinstalling Netscape? What version are you using? So there's an old old version of (pooey pooey I HATE to even say this) AOL (v. 2.7!) that I decided to try. My mother-in-law has an account that I can access. Well, no go there because the account name has more letters in it than version 2.7 will allow. So that's out. Sotell your mother-in-law to add an account name to her account (she's allowed 7 names) that is 7 characters or less. Then try to access THAT new name which will be useable in that earlier version of AOL . She signs up the name with a password she tells you. YOU sign in with that new name and PW. You will be sharing HER main account. I share my account with my sister--and she lives in another state. The only caveat is that we cannot be signed on simultaneously. You will be able to send and retrieve email but the browser in that version is extremely limited in function. You can run AOL version 3 on earlier computers (the browser is somewhat better). You cannot run the latest version because it requires a PPC. I can't remember whether version 4 requires PPC or not. Donna Pointer-- iMac, ergo iAm -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA
Donna suggested: Did you try reinstalling Netscape? What version are you using? Can't reinstall it. Don't have it on floppy. And I don't have a floppy drive hooked up to my iMac to make a floppy version from the CD version I have. Can't d/l it because I can't get online with a browser to d/l it. Catch-22. tell your mother-in-law to add an account name to her account (she's allowed 7 names) that is 7 characters or less. Then try to access THAT new name which will be useable in that earlier version of AOL Believe me, I know more about AOL than I care to. Was one of the very first subscribers years and years and years ago--1991 I think. Already thought of this option, but my mother-in-law is vacationing and away from a computer for another month or so (can you believe being offline for that long??!!!). Anyway, that option will not work right now. Yes, I could call and get her password, but her user name is also too long. So going the AOL route is just off the list of possibilities right now. And no, it's not worth installing AOL on my iMac and calling her for her account info and me setting up another account on her account while she is away.That's just a lot of futzing. I think I have a much easier workaround. At this point in time, I am just going to wait for the Compact Flash card and USB CF/SM reader to arrive Just got the PCMCIA CF adaptor today. It seems to be a far smaller headache than taking the PB directly online at this point. The CF card and CF/SM reader are due to arrive Thursday or Friday, Saturday at the latest. So I just have to hold tight until then. Patience...ugh! If I want to make the PB capable of being online at some point in time, updating browsers and such will be far easier via and CF card, I think. I am a little concerned that the USB CF/SM reader is a reader only and not also a writer, but I did a little research and it SEEMS that I should be able to drag and drop over to the reader from my iMac. I am keeping my fingers crossed, anyway. If not, I'll just sell this reader and get a reader/writer. I only paid $10 for this one, so I know I can sell it and get back what I paid for it. Once I finally get the CF card and reader, I'll report in on how it all works out just in case someone else on the list is interested. Thanks, Morgan -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA
Makmac wrote: PS. I don't think there is a special Zip driver for PowerBooks. The one that installs for desktop Macs should be the same for PowerBooks) No, I didn't mean to imply there was. The reason I have two is because 2 or 3 years ago my business partner needed to hook the SCSI Zip she already had up to the new non-SCSI iMac, and discovered it was within a few dollars to purchase a new USB Zip as it was to purchase the SCSI to USB adapter. So, since I now have two Zips, I can hook the SCSI Zip up to the PB190 and the USB Zip up to the iMac. But I have never really liked Zip. Just personal preference. I would suggest a PCMCIA ethernet card. Then it's just a matter of transferring from Mac-to-Mac rather than from media-to-Mac-to-media-to-Mac... Plus an ethernet card can be found for a third of the price you're looking to pay. Well, my iMac is hardwired into an Xrouter wireless hub for cable modem access, with an iBook with Airport card also accessing the cable modem. I was looking into getting a wireless PCMCIA card, but they're about $80. I wasn't sure how hooking up the PB via ethernet might work with the setup I already have. I don't really need internet access on the PB. I spent about $30 on a small (only 8MB) CF card, PCMCIA adapter, and USB CF/SM reader, so I figure I got a pretty good deal. I won't really be accessing the PB too much, mostly for an intense writing project in November. I decided against the VST Tri-Media Reader when I found the CF/SM reader for $10 on eBay. I am trying to make this all as portable and fuss free as possible, which is why I was looking for a way to get around the Zips. I also think it's a cheaper way of getting some backup storage for some of my files on my iMac, since I now have everything I need and the CF cards are really cheap through one online place I found. But thanks for the suggestions! Morgan -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA--ooops
Makmac wrote: PS. I don't think there is a special Zip driver for PowerBooks. The one that installs for desktop Macs should be the same for PowerBooks) OOOpppsss!!! I realized that I read your comment wrong. While there probably isn't a special driver for the PB, I don't have a driver on the PB at all, and the driver that came with it came on a CD, and of course the PB has no CD. So getting the driver installed will be a small PITA. That's why I opted for spending an extra $30 to bypass the Zips completely and go the route of PCMCIA CF card. Thanks again for your suggestions! Morgan -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA--ooops
M Forrest on 10/16/01 2:34 PM wrote: Makmac wrote: PS. I don't think there is a special Zip driver for PowerBooks. The one that installs for desktop Macs should be the same for PowerBooks) OOOpppsss!!! I realized that I read your comment wrong. While there probably isn't a special driver for the PB, I don't have a driver on the PB at all, and the driver that came with it came on a CD, and of course the PB has no CD. So getting the driver installed will be a small PITA. That's why I opted for spending an extra $30 to bypass the Zips completely and go the route of PCMCIA CF card. Just FYI. When I've needed to install software on a PowerBook without CD-ROM, I've just put the CD in my iMac, shared the CD, and then mounted the CD on the PowerBooks desktop (or any other Mac for that matter) via ethernet. Then it installs just as if the CD were actually in the PowerBook. I've even done OS updates this way. It has saved me the hassle of connecting a CD-ROM drive to the PowerBook which on older PowerBooks can be frustrating at times (SCSI voodoo). Of course this still requires an ethernet option. In a pinch though, you can use LocalTalk, but then of course that won't work with an iMac, you would need a Mac with a serial port. -makmac -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA--ooops
--- makmac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just FYI. When I've needed to install software on a PowerBook without CD-ROM, I've just put the CD in my iMac, shared the CD, and then mounted the CD on the PowerBooks desktop (or any other Mac for that matter) via ethernet. Can you connect 2 - 3400 Powerbooks this way - via a straight ethernet cable - port to port? __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA--ooops
No... you have to use a crossover cable... smiles, Jamie On 10/16/01 4:35 PM, David Brocklebank [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Can you connect 2 - 3400 Powerbooks this way - via a straight ethernet cable - port to port? --- Jamie Pruden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Installer Engineering ph: 408.536.4038 Adobe Systems, Inc. -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA--ooops
Thanks - i have a crossover cable - how does one recognize the other ? Do I have to set them up under network browser. in the dark --- Jamie Pruden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No... you have to use a crossover cable... smiles, Jamie On 10/16/01 4:35 PM, David Brocklebank [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Can you connect 2 - 3400 Powerbooks this way - via a straight ethernet cable - port to port? --- Jamie Pruden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Installer Engineering ph: 408.536.4038 Adobe Systems, Inc. -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA--ooops
Start up one machine. Turn on AppleTalk. Choose Ethernet. Start up the other machine. Turn on AppleTalk. Choose Ethernet. You may have to restart the first machine. Maybe not, though. That should be it. You can now mess with the File Sharing control panel to choose who can access and what they can access. Select Chooser on one machine. Click on AppleShare. Choose the other machine. Type in the name and pw for the machine. Click OK. Now you're connected... smiles, Jamie On 10/16/01 4:41 PM, David Brocklebank [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Thanks - i have a crossover cable - how does one recognize the other ? Do I have to set them up under network browser. in the dark --- Jamie Pruden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No... you have to use a crossover cable... smiles, Jamie On 10/16/01 4:35 PM, David Brocklebank [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Can you connect 2 - 3400 Powerbooks this way - via a straight ethernet cable - port to port? --- Jamie Pruden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Installer Engineering ph: 408.536.4038 Adobe Systems, Inc. -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA--ooops
At 4:41 PM -0700 10/16/01, David Brocklebank wrote: Thanks - i have a crossover cable - how does one recognize the other ? Do I have to set them up under network browser. in the dark It's obvious, as they are colour coded, so look at the ends. Crossover is mirror image, the other is identical. Paul -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Tri-Media Reader and Zips and CF PCMCIA
I don't love Zips, myself, but I have found all the drivers I have ever needed on the 'net and downloaded them to get around the CD issue. Well, tonight I tried to get the PB online. It does get online through my dial-up ISP that I am about to turn off in a few days, but now I can't get the Netscape browser to work. So there's an old old version of (pooey pooey I HATE to even say this) AOL (v. 2.7!) that I decided to try. My mother-in-law has an account that I can access. Well, no go there because the account name has more letters in it than version 2.7 will allow. So that's out. Connecting the Zip has just become WAY too complicated, and now I am glad that winging their way to me are a CF card, CF PCMCIA adapter, and CF/SM USB reader for my iMac. Just seems like this is going to be the easiest solution afterall...glad I found the deals/steals on eBay to make it happen!!! Thanks for all the suggestions. Anyone else using the route of CF media with their old PB? Morgan -- PowerBooks 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 Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
