Re: Moving to Google Groups

On Sunday, January 29, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: At 19:40 + 1/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're writing to let you know that the group that you tried to contact (compact.macs) doesn't exist. At 20:05 + 1/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (compact-macs) doesn't exist. I

Re: Moving to Google Groups

On Saturday, January 28, 2006, at 04:34 PM, Mark wrote: Do i have to use a google account to stay subscribed? No. It will not just let me sub my yahoo.com address. Why not? It let me subscribe using this verizon.net address. Perhaps you aren't doing something correctly. *any* valid

ImageWriter II quality question

Hi folks, I have an ImageWriter II that's been in the family since it was bought new in 1988. I hope this is fair game for the list. I used to use it with my Mac Plus, purchased simultaneously in 1988. It's been in storage, and I recently got it out to use with my Apple IIgs. Please bear

Re: help with a mac plus

On Saturday, January 7, 2006, at 03:24 AM, Eddie Smith wrote: At 11:50 AM 1/7/06, you wrote: Does the drive make any sound? I had this happen on a Plus once. When I opened the computer up I saw the drive's connector had come loose. If the drive is connected and it's making noise, the problem

Re: Mac Plus Repair - analog and logic board

On Thursday, December 29, 2005, at 03:27 PM, Thomas wrote: This is absolutely correct. The spare board I got came configured for more than 1MB of RAM, but I been using 256KB SIMMs. After putting in 4MB, the board operates normally, though I noticed the time for the floppy icon to appear take

Re: 128K and 512k For Sale

For Sale posts are only allowed on Mondays. Since it's Monday, give us the details on the systems and what kind of money you want for them. -Nat On Monday, December 26, 2005, at 02:22 PM, Alfred Renteria wrote: I'm not sure if I can post machines and peripherals for sale. I have an origina

Re: Clock Program for the 9-inch Screen

On Friday, December 16, 2005, at 02:07 PM, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote: Am 15.12.2005 um 23:38 Uhr schrieb Tom Howe: Hello: I'm looking for a large clock program that will fill the compact mac screen. This should run under System 6, and ideally will have clock digits about 2 inches high. It would

Introducing the Mac SE/3000

Forgive me if this has already been posted on the list, but I thought the following URL was interesting: http://users.adelphia.net/%7eattilaerika/assembly.html It makes me a little upset no actual Apple electronics are being used, but it's still appropriate fodder for the list... -Nat -- C

Re: System 6 question (was: System 6, Compact Macs on LEM today)

On Tuesday, December 6, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Scott Baret wrote: 6.0.8L runs only on the Classic, Classic II, LC, LCII, and PB100. Except the Classic II, all of those can run other versions. So I've always wondered: what does the "L" stand for? -Nat -- Compact Macs is sponsored by

Re: Very Serious Mac Classic Problem...

On Thursday, November 10, 2005, at 02:17 PM, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote: Am 10.11.2005 um 14:50 Uhr schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: anyone here help? If it is the onboard RAM, is ther anyway I can bypass it? The Classic will boot and run fine, except 95% of the programs I open will pop up with an addr

Re: exchange data floppy help

On Saturday, November 5, 2005, at 08:16 PM, Jean-Marc Melchior wrote: hi, i am looking to exchange data between my mac os x and my mac plus, if I buy a floppy that can read and write 2DD disks, can my plus then read the disks written on the mac os x? No. OS X does not support DD/800k floppy

Re: Mac Classic Platoon

>Speaking of weird things that came with old macs - anyone need an old >1mb MacSnap upgrade board for 512k/128k Macs? I ended up with two and >can't see a need for more than one (other than hoarding). I have no >idea what one would be worth (I have never seen one on ebay or >anything). Let me know

Re: FW: music

ection, so anybody that wants can use them in their Macs. > >Greetings, > >Antonio Rodríguez (Grijan) ><ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/> > >Nat Hall escribió: > >>There is at least one. >> >>I have it installed on my Macintosh IIsi under System 6.0.8. It p

Re: FW: music

>On 24/10/05, Antonio Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know that you can play syntethized music with very thight resources, >> even in an original, 4 Kb Apple ][, using Apple's PLAYER2, a routine >> that weighted a little less than 200 bytes and could play several >> minutes of music from

Re: Dishwashing a Classic II

>I'm not sure that will work, but if you insist! > It will work unless his capacitors are so far gone they *all* need replacing. I think the general success rate is probably around 9 out of 10 with the dishwasher. -Nat >On 10/23/05, Liam Proven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 24/10/05, Noah Wo

Re: SE/30 Woes!

>By the way, those who have said they dishwashered their motherboards, >did you also run your ROM and SIMMs through as well? > No. Remove the PRAM battery, ROM and RAM SIMMs before washing. -Nat -- Compact Macs is sponsored by . Support Low End Mac

Re: music

>I have an original (128MB RAM) compact mac, and if possible I would love to >play music files on it ( files i currently have on a newer mac) - do you >know if there's any way of achieving this, with any sort of configuration >re. hardware/software? >Thank you >katie Perhaps you meat an original 1

Re: music

>I have an original (128MB RAM) compact mac, and if possible I would love to >play music files on it ( files i currently have on a newer mac) - do you >know if there's any way of achieving this, with any sort of configuration >re. hardware/software? >Thank you >katie Perhaps you meat an original 1

Re: SE/30 Woes!

>Has anyone tried the dish-washer trick? I have never tried it, but some >people have claimed that putting it (just the motherboard!) into a >dishwasher with no soap (given that the capacitors are fine) fixes the >problem. It seems a rather safer approach to just change all >capacitors... or is it

Re: Bell and Howell (KMM28102599I74L0KM)

I have gotten about four of these messages so far. It started yesterday. One of these for every new post that goes to the list. Somebody needs to unsubscribe this e-mail address from the list. Dan? -Nat On Saturday, October 15, 2005, at 03:45 PM, Noah Wood wrote: Why did this show up in t

Re: Startup-Stripes on Classic II

(replies between paragraphs) On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, at 07:03 PM, Scott Baret wrote: For cleaning, I usually use an old towel that I call my "tech rag" and use Endust for Electronics on it. The towel is simply a hand towel like the kind you can get for a few bucks at JC Penney. I've used

Re: Startup-Stripes on Classic II

Your capacitors have leaked onto the traces on the motherboard. This leakage may not be visible to you. This is a recurring thread on this list, and apparently a VERY common problem with Classic II's. It happened to my Classic II last year. Eventually the leakage will be so bad that even

Re: HFS or HFS+

On Monday, October 3, 2005, at 03:22 PM, Antonio Rodríguez wrote: I think HFS has a file/folder name length limit of 31 characters, and that HFS+ raises that limit (perhaps to 255 chars?). That may be the problem. Try to find a file with a very long filename. Greetings, Antonio Rodríguez (G

Re: SCSI ethernet adapter

On Wednesday, September 28, 2005, at 06:13 AM, Brian Harding wrote: I am going to assume it is the dumb 10baseT hub that I am missing that will make this setup work. I will report back when I get a chance to test it this way. Can't you 'force' whatever your trying to link to (router?? switch

Re: Oregon Trail (was: Old school admins, anyone?)

On Tuesday, September 27, 2005, at 08:20 PM, Aaron Lockhart wrote: Actually, not to start a fight :O) I have the original CD that Oregon Trail 1.0 came on, there is a seperate file for the sounds, and there are numerous sounds through out the game. I'd be happy to send you a copy except for

Re: Old school admins, anyone?

AFAIK, the Oregon Trail version that was released for the compact Macs didn't have sound aside from when you shoot bullets in the "Hunting" mini-game. If you're not hearing sound here, turn your volume up. :) It was present even in version 1.0 Otherwise, the game is silent. There was no s

Re: SCSI ethernet adapter

On Monday, September 26, 2005, at 05:07 AM, Daniel wrote: On Sep 25, 2005, at 17:43, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote: Am 25.09.2005 um 22:42 Uhr schrieb Daniel: On Sep 25, 2005, at 16:34, Nat Hall wrote: Hey folks... I'm having a heck of a time trying to set up my Classic II with this stupid A

Re: SCSI ethernet adapter

On Sunday, September 25, 2005, at 01:42 PM, Daniel wrote: Hi Nat. I have a mini EN/SC and a Linksys MR314. The mini EN/SC works fine, but mine must be different from yours. Mine has a single DB-25 on it, so it has to be the last item in the chain. I have had my Plus hooked to an exter

SCSI ethernet adapter

Hey folks... I'm having a heck of a time trying to set up my Classic II with this stupid Asante Mini EN/SC adapter. I've got software installed, and the adapter is hooked up in my SCSI chain. It is the first physically connected device, with an external hard drive connected to it (the hard

Re: posting with gmail

Gary: As you are entering a message, look carefully at the top of the box where Gmail lets you enter message text. There should be a small-font hyperlink option that saws "Send message in plain-text format" or something similar. Just click on it. You might have to first click the "More op

Re: Anyone want to do up a SE/30?

On Friday, September 9, 2005, at 09:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. J. Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a SE/30 that's in rather poor shape. The tabs holding SIMM 2 in place are broken, so any SIMM needs to be glued into place or it will fall out, and the floppy disk drive is worn o

Re: Microsoft BASIC

I did a lot of programming in Microsoft BASIC (good ol' MBASIC.COM) under CP/M as a kid in the 1980's. I even had a compiler for it. At that time, the compiler was a rarity and expensive. I never knew anyone that had it, at least. That was the period where I wished my family would buy a

Microsoft BASIC

Hey folks.. I need a copy of the old Microsoft BASIC application. There is a link for it on System 6 Heaven, but it points to the VieuxMac Archive which no longer exists. I have been searching relentlessly elsewhere and I cannot find it, for the life of me. Anyone? Thanks... -Nat -- C

Re: Here the photo of my collection :-)

What happens during the next earthquake? :) -Nat On Wednesday, August 10, 2005, at 05:13 PM, NODEraser wrote: Ok, that's just creepy. Are they all just stacked on top of each other? That looks like an accident waiting to happen, to me. On 8/10/05, Daniel Daplincourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Mac 512K cooling question

I have a Kensington System Saver installed on my Macintosh 512k. I remember reading or hearing somewhere that the old Macintoshes w/o internal fans (128k, 512k, Plus) would actually be kept cooler if the vents on the topside of the case were blocked off. Is this true? If so, is this still tr

Re: New Classic II

I have the FPU installed on mine. I have never seen or heard of anything else that will go there. The Classic II is a nice little computer, perhaps my favorite out of all the compacts. -Nat On Sunday, July 10, 2005, at 06:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apple's HDSC Set Up utility to initi

Re: Happy Retirement...

These are all very good techniques to use if you are really worried about it. But do you really want to spend the time? Not to say I don't completely respect the ideals of protecting what is considered private information. First, I think it comes back to John Niven's point about anybody act

Re: Classic Analogue Boards Update

On Thursday, June 30, 2005, at 12:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another interesting fact is the late model Classic IIs apparently had a speaker grill drilled into the left side from the factory! I've never seen one. I have a Classic II that I use almost daily to do my budget and fi

Re: Thanks...and some curiosities

Could've been a Miniscribe drive. These were common drives in the early 20SC SE models. If you turn it on and the hard drive sounds like some kind of home appliance in itself, it's probably a Miniscribe. -Nat On Tuesday, June 21, 2005, at 09:30 PM, Scott Baret wrote: By a "Winchester" I w

Re: GuyProfiles.com email message...

On Thursday, June 16, 2005, at 09:26 PM, Antonio Rodríguez wrote: I didn't get it. Did anyone? Stuart Yep, came acroiss here. -J Yeah, I just got one from you, Stuart. Somebody is sending fake spam emails. It isn't too difficult to hack a message's From and Return-path fields, fooling

BrainStorm SE accelerator

I just acquired a "Brainstorm Accelerator" for the Macintosh SE. I guess it accelerates a normal SE to 16Mhz. There is a replacement chip included to accelerate the SE's bus speed, in addition. Does anyone have one of these accelerators in their SE or ever used one? How do they stack up com

Re: Apple Macintosh SE(FDHD) Model : M5011 making a High Pitched Noise

I have an SE FDHD of the same model that does the EXACT same thing. Like you said, the noise REDUCES after a while but it never entirely disappears. After yet another period of time passes, the noise will again increase. This pattern continues indefinitely. I'm not sure what might be failin

Re: Mac 512k/AT MORE

works, then you can easily partition your 6300 into smaller volumes, so no worries. On Jun 7, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Nat Hall wrote: So this was all starting to make sense until someone said the 4GB thing wasn't the problem. The hard drive in my 6300 is 4 gigabytes, with 3.1 gigabytes fr

Re: Mac 512k/AT MORE

So this was all starting to make sense until someone said the 4GB thing wasn't the problem. The hard drive in my 6300 is 4 gigabytes, with 3.1 gigabytes free. That made sense and seemed logical from what you said originally as the cause of the trouble. Now I'm not so sure. I'm going to try

Mac 512k and AppleTalk

Hey listers... I have a Macintosh 512k connected via AppleTalk/PhoneNet to a PowerMac 6300. In the past, I was running OS 8.6 on the 6300 but I recently upgraded to 9.1. Since upgrading to 9.1, my 512k will no longer connect successfully to the 6300. I have the 512k set up to connect autom

Re: Reading a CD on a Classic II

Hi Steven, I'm willing to bet money your problem is that the CDs you are burning on your iBook are in HFS+ format. your Classic II will not read HFS+ formatted volumes. I'm also willing to bet you're using Toast 6.x or later. When you go to burn your CD, click on the "Mac only" button (li