memory upgrades

[Jim Pendarvis]

My son's school has a bunch of 5400s and a couple of 5500s.

Most have 16-32Mb installed. What is the maximum and what would be needed
to upgrade these?

thanks, jim



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maclink plus and Excel

[Jim Pendarvis]

I mentioned in a previous message that I was recently given an OS8CD.

A couple of months ago, I desperately needed to read a couple of Excel
files. ClarisWorks 4 could not read those files. I tried to find a copy of
MacLink Plus, but couldn't get a version (not off the shelf anyway) that
would run on my Performa 575. Someone here suggested Appleworks 5 (which I
didn't have access to at the time). Eventually, I found a different
solution that took care of the problem. But the whole thing came back to me
when I saw MacLink Plus on the OS8CD. So I tried an experiment

The version of MacLink Plus that comes with Appleworks 5.0.3 (on a 5400 at
my son's school) is 9.7. It seemed to recognize the file, but all I got was
a blank spreadsheet. Then I tried MacLink Plus (version 9.0) from the OS8
CD. The FileView application told me that the Excel files were Excel 97 and
that they would be supported by MacLink Plus 9.7. But it seems those
translators must not have been included in the OEM version that shipped
with AW5. So I guess AW5 couldn't do it out of the box.

I ended up using icExcel . You can
view the file, print it, and/or save it in AW5 or AW6 format.

jim






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Re: 68040 sized CPU fans

[J Sand]

>Apart from the whether a fan is really relevant on an 040... if I were
>to put a fan/heatsink combination on one of my Quadras, what would be
>the best to look for, by name/description? I've seen some shown
>graphically in ebay auctions which would fit between a drive power
>cable and take their power from there, and seem to be around 1/3 to 1/2
>an inch high and roughly 4cm*4cm - something that could fit quite well
>in even the pizzaboxies. The whole description of socket x or slot y
>type compatible fans, 3.3 and 12 and 5v has left my head spinning
>(aptly) :)
>
>thanks!
>dana

   I,m not sure about the x,y compatability or name brands, but the 3.3 volt 
is usualy CPU level voltage, the 5 and 12 can both come off of a power cable 
spliter.  The red and black wires should measure 12 volts on a VOM (volt/ohm 
meter).

When the fan is running, make sure the air is blowing down at the heat 
sink to cool it off.  If not, you can either turn the fan over if possible 
or swap the two power leads around to change the polarity going to the fan 
by cutting the fans power leads and swithcing the red and black around. This 
will make the fan turn in the opposite direction since it is a DC fan. If 
you do this, make sure to solder the splice and tape it so it does not short 
out inside the computer.

 Tiny wood or sheet metal screws (screws that have a point on the end of 
them, not machine screws) can be used to hold the fan to the heatsink.  They 
wedge themselves in between the vertical slots of the heat sink.  Two screws 
are enough to hold the fan to the heatsink. Any heatsink that covers the 
chip will work. If there are not clips to hold the heatsink to the CPU, you 
can use a thermal condutor grease to attach the heatsink to the CPU.

   You can get heatsink, fan, and grease from a local electronic repair 
supply house like Radio Shack.  An electronic hobby shop would have the 
parts for a better price though.  I hope this helps!

   If you have any questions, please feel free to email me direct at 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

John

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OS8 (5400 and Performa 575)

[Jim Pendarvis]

I've been helping out in the computer lab at my son's school. They let me
bring one of their 5400s home to do some work for them. (They really didn't
have to do that, but then I didn't discourage them either since part of
what they want me to do is play with hardware and software that I haven't
had hands on experience with). Anyway, while cleaning up in the store room
I found an OS8CD, complete with installation manual, which they gave me to
keep for my very own.

I tried this CD on my Performa 575. It boots just fine. But on the 5400
(current OS 7.5.3) it doesn't. It crashes with an illegal instruction
error. It suggests trying again with extensions off, but that doesn't make
any difference.

I have booted the 5400 off of a TechTool Pro CD (7.6.1, 8.1, 9.1) without
problems.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

thanks, jim







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Re: Mac II Needs Adoption

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Is the file system up the spout - cause I never left this message ?!


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68040 sized CPU fans

[Dana Sibera]

Apart from the whether a fan is really relevant on an 040... if I were 
to put a fan/heatsink combination on one of my Quadras, what would be 
the best to look for, by name/description? I've seen some shown 
graphically in ebay auctions which would fit between a drive power 
cable and take their power from there, and seem to be around 1/3 to 1/2 
an inch high and roughly 4cm*4cm - something that could fit quite well 
in even the pizzaboxies. The whole description of socket x or slot y 
type compatible fans, 3.3 and 12 and 5v has left my head spinning 
(aptly) :)

thanks!
dana
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LC 580

[Mark Falzon]

Does anyone know if you can put an LC 580 MB in an LC 520?  Also, can you
use 32 MB 72 pin Simms in a laserwriter pro 630 printer.  It seems like you
could use 32 MB Simms but only 16 MB would be recognized.  I have extra 32
MB Simms to use, but no 16 MB.

Mark Falzon 4 

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Re: Mac II Needs Adoption

[J Sand]

>Dan Knight wrote:
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Its getting pretty bad when the computer is repremanding itself. - LOL

As Hal9000 would say:

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Re: Mac II Needs Adoption

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Dan Knight wrote:

>This is a semi-automatic message from Dan, the listmom.
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Re: Mac II Needs Adoption

[Dan Knight]

This is a semi-automatic message from Dan, the listmom.

Thanks for posting to the list.

Please be careful not to quote *too much* of the original message (your 
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>It's full of information about older Macs... and this site has links to
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>At  9:41 PM 11/19/02 -0500, the pickle wrote:
>>At 18:39 -0800 on 19/11/02, hetorres wrote:
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>>>Thanks, anyway.  Would you know of any sources for MAC software on
>>>diskettes, especially Chess, math programs, vocabulary programs for kids?
>>
>>Got something you can write to diskettes with?
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