Re: Hard drive failure question...
One thing that worked for me, in getting a stiction-ed drive to work again (it was Quantum Empire 1080MB... had been left unused for 6 months), was to put it in an external case, leave it on a radiator for a bit so that it was well warmed up (makes the grease in the bearings less viscous?), then plug it in, turn it on, and then give the case some smart raps and also shake it about in the air, while it is trying to start up... -- 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/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; 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: Help with take-apart 12 RGB
I might work up some Dutch courage to do the VGA mod one day... Mr Takky's site seems to explain it well but still seems worryingly difficult when you've never wielded a soldering iron before. Havent got the URL offhand, but google shld find it...(Apple RGB monitor VGA Takky) In the meantime, a more pressing problem is that the picture on my 12 RGB only lasts for up to about 30 mins before winking out (going black) with an audible click? The LED remains 'on', i.e. green. It's def something to do w the monitor, not w the computer. As it approaches the point of clicking off, minute by minute, the picture shrinks slight;ly but noticeably and it becomes more and more blurred. I'd like to have a go at repairing it... mike - Original Message - From: Andrew Main [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Help with take-apart 12 RGB Alan O'Neil wrote: I am trying to take apart my 12 RGB monitor (the 512x384 one) and I have managed to remove the screws and get the latches under the feet but past that I'm stuck. Any help (service manual?) from an experienced take-apart veteran? Gregg Eshelman wrote: Going to try the 640x480 modification on it? :) Gamba's link for the Service Manual seems to work: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/manuals.html scroll down to manuals. Haven't taken this apart myself, but am very interested to hear of a possible 640x480 mod. I have one, a cute little monitor but near-useless at its stock resolution; where can I find out about how to make it 640x480? Andrew Main -- 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/ -- AOL users, remove mailto:; 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: Sound and the LC
I think this might be a (common?) fault in the LC. At least, the 2nd -hand one that I bought exhibited this problem. Very faint internal sound. I tried cleaning the contacts for the internal speaker no luck. But resting a huge heavy monitor on the case for a month or two somehow restored the connection... must have crushed the relevant contacts, somehow, somewhere, into life... the sound is back to normal now, even tho the monitor is no longer resting on the case... mike - Original Message - From: Spiritus ex Machina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:57 AM Subject: Re: Sound and the LC HI, Mike, I just checked out the sound on one of my LCs, also running 7.1. The behavior of the system I checked is consistent with your description. I needed to use amplified (powered) speakers to get a significant sound volume. Have you tried powered speakers? Also, be sure that the sound port contacts are clean and that the plug for the speakers is clean. Good luck. Sp00ky Hello - I recently rescued an old LC. It works great, except for the sound. When I first started checking the LC out it was running 6.0.7 and the sound was very low, but audible. I upgraded to System 7.1, which gave me a sound control panel. I opened the sound control and had to adjust the slide bar to the top to hear any of the sounds. I tried hooking up external speakers, and about all that I could hear was the hum. What do I need to do to get my LC (plain LC by the way) to play sounds? My initial intention is to use it as a kids' game machine, so sound is pretty important! Thanks. Mike Sp00ky -- Spiritus ex Machina No matter how paranoid you are, it isn't paranoid enough. -- 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 -- 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: Consultant? old software
I think this is not what you are looking for, Sara, as PO is a full-featured PIM(calendar, contact, Gantt) app, not a brainstorming/idea organizing aid. per se. You might try Inspiration from http://www.inspiration.com/. Another brainstorming/idea organizing aid is MORE 3.1, a freely available PowerPoint-like program for 68k Macs, originally sold by Symantec... forget what the URL is (try Google), but people really rave about it... Mike -- 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: LC Ethernet Cards (was: Re: my new LCIII)
I have had good success in finding old Mac stuff on eBay UK... a year ago, when I last monitored it intensively, it seemed that LC ethernet cards were coming along fairly regularly (once a week?), and generally sold for about £10... The prices seem disappointingly high when compared to the US, but still lower than in the few second-hand-Mac shops that I have found in UK... - Original Message - From: /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 9:36 PM Subject: Re: LC Ethernet Cards (was: Re: my new LCIII) thanks heaps guys, that really helps me to get started :-) the difficulty with ebay is that i'm in the UK, although i've been told that there are places here you can find LC ethernet cards... i'll also need to get a copy of the OS as my LC III was, like so many, found in a skip... its running 7.1 and a heap of interesting goodies on it at the moment... although by the sounds of it, maybe i wont need the OS disks if i can download a driver for installing the ethernet card... do you know of any places to find mac OS upgrades for vintage machines? -- 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
PPP problem
My parents' Mac has stopped being able to access the Internet. It's done this before several times and I could always solve it by getting them to re-type their user name and password into the PPP control panel -- seemed like the data had been corrupted or something. The Mac is a IIci running OS 7.6.1 and Open Transport 1.1.2 with 80MB RAM and plenty of free space on hard drive. But now even this measure will not get it to work. The modem dials up OK, modem compression is established, then authentication with the ISP starts... and that's when the modem clicks off. I've looked high and low for a PPP Preferences file to trash, but can't find it... is it invisible? I can find prefs files for TCP/IP and Modem OK... How can I solve this... do I need to re-install Open Transport? I have to do all this diagnostics stuff over the phone as they live some way away, so any easy-to-implement ideas gratefully received... Mike -- 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
sonnet accelerator card mystery
A few years ago I bought a Sonnet Allegro card to upgrade my LC to a 33MHz 030 processor. It came with a system extension called 'Allegro' which presumably smooths its operation... however, I can't get things like RAM Doubler or Open Transport to install properly, as they insist that there is not an 030 processor present (in RAM Doubler's case, it says there is no MMU present). With the Allegro extension loaded, progs like TattleTech report that the 030 processor, the MMU and the FPU are all present (in fact TattleTech sees the machine as an LCII gestalt = 19g). Anyone know how to persuade Open Transport, RAM Doubler etc. that the hardware has been upgraded? mike -- 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: Bin files. Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs]
I never managed to install Open Transport on my LC (via the copy in System 7.5.3 Installer or via an OT Installer (1.1.1 and 1.1.2) on its own). Maybe an earlier version than OT1.1 will work on LC's, but I had no luck with version 1.1.1 or 1.1.2. Actually, to clarify, it was worse than that, in that the LC had a processor upgrade card (Sonnet Allegro 030 33MHz), which the OT Installers couldn't 'see'. The Installer just said you need an 030 processor or higher to run this software or something like that. Kind of presumed when I bought the card that it wld allow me into a wonderful new world of speed and stability, using stuff like OT, but, oh well, now I know different. I'm never quite sure if the card is working at all, actually. 'Clockometer' shows it as running at 33MHz, so I guess it must be... but it still seems that my IIci (030 25 MHz) might be faster (although it does have an FPU... that must help). I searched the Internet q a lot but never found any info on how to make the OT Installer recognize the 030... Anyone had any experience with these cards? Mike Message-Id: a05100e01b786381b5532@[24.132.200.228] mailto:a05100e01b786381b5532@[24.132.200.228] Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:12:31 +0200 From: Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Bin files. Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs] And, um, doesn't Open Transport require at least an 030 CPU? Or have I forgotten something? Haven't ever actually used a Mac II or LC and the only 68000 based Mac I've used was a Classic with a bad HD. Everything else has sported an 030 and newer. 68020 is minumum for OT. -- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html Subscribe to the LEM system6 list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:38:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Bin files. Re: System 7.5.5 [was: my stash of Macs] --- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, um, doesn't Open Transport require at least an 030 CPU? Or have I forgotten something? Haven't ever actually used a Mac II or LC and the only 68000 based Mac I've used was a Classic with a bad HD. Everything else has sported an 030 and newer. 68020 is minumum for OT. Good. It will work on that guy's LC then. :) -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 740 Printers refurbished $79 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac, sign up for PayPal, possible $5 bonus. http://lowendmac.com/ad/paypal.html Star Trek Collection: Movies 1-7 on VideoCD, $38.88 from CoolVCD http://lowendmac.com/ad/coolvcd.html - - - - - Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ 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 Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wierd old external hard drive... any ideas on how to power it up?
I dared to try powering the HD off the floppy port of the Plus, using that odd cable that fitted both ends, and it worked great! Thanks to everyone for their comments on- and off-list... Mike Evans -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 740 Printers refurbished $79 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac, sign up for PayPal, possible $5 bonus. http://lowendmac.com/ad/paypal.html Star Trek Collection: Movies 1-7 on VideoCD, $38.88 from CoolVCD http://lowendmac.com/ad/coolvcd.html - - - - - Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ 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 Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wierd old external hard drive..
Thanks for all the replies on this (and sorry if it was a bit OT for VintageMacs, in that it involves a Plus...)... I will plug it into the floppy port (briefly) to see what happens... BTW, the ports on the drive have no markings or icons... ditto (I think) the cable Will give it a shot anyway. From what I can see of the drive, it looks like other 40MB SCSI drives I have seen out of LC's. Mike Evans -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 740 Printers refurbished $79 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac, sign up for PayPal, possible $5 bonus. http://lowendmac.com/ad/paypal.html Star Trek Collection: Movies 1-7 on VideoCD, $38.88 from CoolVCD http://lowendmac.com/ad/coolvcd.html - - - - - Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ 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 Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
