Re: tons o questions
--- Peter Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pickle et al, Re a certain thread in the compact macs list, but to keep on topic I'm posting here to vintage. what exactly does a GPIB General Purpose Interface Board, DO?. http://www.microlink.co.uk/gpib.html GPIB (Or IEEE-488) was originally developed by Hewlett Packard as HP-IB then changed to GPIB when the interface was accepted as an IEEE standard. It's primary use has generally been in industrial, medical and scientific equipment. If you can find one, you could most likely hook up an HP ThinkJet GPIB printer to your Mac. ThinkJets are tiny inkjet printers that print about as good as a 9pin dot matrix, but without the noise. Since nobody really wants the GPIB or serial ThinkJets, they're usually available on a Take it before I throw it away. basis. ;) (The parallel version has a tiny but loyal following so they usually sell for a little money.) There are five types of ink for the ThinkJet. Black for ThinkJet paper and black, blue, red and green for plain paper. Since you can't (AFAIK) get ThinkJet paper anymore, that type of black ink is pretty well useless. ;) I have a parallel ThinkJet and I've toyed with the idea of attempting to do RGB seperations of an image then print three passes through it on a transparency. :) Dunno what else I'd do with those colors of ink. = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs 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 Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Video PinOuts schematics
Me: For those who want them next week, just reply to me with something like the above. For future use, we'll find a site (close to the MacMissile-site :) and post the URL here. Pickle: When you're ready, e-mail it to me and I can post it somewhere. Thanks, will do. I've been studying these Mac, VGA, SoG, BNC pinouts and schematics for a while, and I have one question: does Multiscan (only) use the 3 sense pinnings to tell the computer what kind of monitor is attached or is there more going on? Can it be that I heard something about I2C? If so, I can put together a configurable connector, with a table of corresponding screen sizes. If not, it's not so simple as it looked :) -mart -- Vintage Macs 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 Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Video PinOuts schematics
At 18:26 +0200 on 02/05/02, mart wrote: I've been studying these Mac, VGA, SoG, BNC pinouts and schematics for a while, and I have one question: does Multiscan (only) use the 3 sense pinnings to tell the computer what kind of monitor is attached or is there more going on? Can it be that I heard something about I2C? AFAICT, *all* Macs use only the three sense pins to determine the type of monitor attached. the pickle FAQ http://macfaq.org/index.shtml Software Archive ftp://download:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//Users/thepickl/Sites/Archive/ http://www.members.jmug.org/%7Ethepickl/archive/ _ -- Vintage Macs 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 Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Video PinOuts schematics
At 6:26 PM +0200 5/2/02, mart wrote: I've been studying these Mac, VGA, SoG, BNC pinouts and schematics for a while, and I have one question: does Multiscan (only) use the 3 sense pinnings to tell the computer what kind of monitor is attached or is there more going on? Can it be that I heard something about I2C? If so, I can put together a configurable connector, with a table of corresponding screen sizes. If not, it's not so simple as it looked :) Apple dabbled with I2C a little on the S-Video In connector on the X100 Power Macs and perhaps some others too. The connection was there to support remote control of a video camera. I don't know if there was any actual use of it or not. The three sense pins on the Mac DA-15 video connector are the sole means of configuring the Mac for the monitor. The early video displays simply grounded one or more of the pins. Roughly starting with the MultiScan displays they started using the sense lines as select lines to increase the available codes. For some configurations you just tie two of the sense pins together, in other cases you need to connect them with a diode. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- Vintage Macs 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 Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
M5880
Google isn't any help on this one (yet) - what the heck model is an M5880? It's not a known model number for any Mac I've ever come across, yet there seems to be at least one other one in existence here: http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/stock1lj/equipment.htm Search on the page for 5880 and you'll find a very vague description, although based on the other information on that page, I think the 5880 was an all-in-one - the price list shows II-series Macs at about 3x the $1099 this one is listed for, and an SE lists at $1807, so this probably isn't as good as an SE. (I think the prices are original purchase prices, since there are SEs listed as being more expensive than Performa 580s.) I've got a guy who just e-mailed me about the serial number decoder with a Mac Plus that he claims has an M5880 serial number on it, but that doesn't make *any* sense to me at all. It's an M0001A according to the back label, and was made in Singapore. A single barcode sticker in the centre of the bottom of the case reads: E9366PZM5880 which is the right format, but just the *wrong* information. 36th week of 1989 makes sense for any of the following Macs: Plus SE FDHD SE/30 II IIx IIcx IIci Ideas? Double bonus points if anyone can explain the SEs on that page that claim to be M5252 and M5251, as well as the SE/30 that claims to be an M5390... the pickle FAQ http://macfaq.org/index.shtml Software Archive ftp://download:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//Users/thepickl/Sites/Archive/ http://www.members.jmug.org/%7Ethepickl/archive/ _ -- Vintage Macs 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 Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Quadra 660AV Problem
I attempted to upgrade both memory sticks on my Quadra 660AV with 32meg sticks and now I can not boot. I am running MacOs 8.1. It chimes but no face at startup, cursor just freezes. Checked pram battery, tried other memory sticks and used another hard drive without any luck. It will not boot from CD drive either. I can hear the hard drives start, but then they just quit. Any ideas on what to check? George -- Vintage Macs 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 Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Video PinOuts schematics
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT, *all* Macs use only the three sense pins to determine the type of monitor attached. The ones with the DB15 connector do, which covers all the non-all-in-one vintage Macs with built in video or an Apple made NuBus video card. :) That also covers PowerMacs up through the beige G3 too. (Just call me Mr. Details. ;-) See? That's a detail. We need those. Capt. Tagon, Schlock Mercenary www.schlockmercenary.com = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs 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 Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
