[Duo2400] Re: Backup battery

rbook > 2400c and will ship internationally? > > Apple in Sweden does not carry it unfortunately... > If soldering iron is familiar, you might want to try Elfa (http://www.elfa.se), they probably have it or at least they can order one. - Jani Tiainen "The power of man has grown in ever

[Duo2400] Re: off the wall proj

> I don't mean to be a Luddite, but why not make the > whole thing out of plywood, and use a couple of kids > to change the numbers? How do I recall that using child labour is against international laws... or something..? Still this is best alternative so far... =) Jani Tiainen

[Duo2400] Re: off the wall project

sometimes you can get lucky and get those old big bulb-based signs from airports and such when they're renewing and modernizing their announcement systems. Jani Tiainen "I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!" -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest p

[Duo2400] Re: off the wall project

> Can't remember what magazine I saw it in, but several > years ago I read an article on building a scoreboard. > The digits were made to look like large, red "LED" > digits similar to what you see on clocks. > > The trick was to mask off the shapes on the back of > a large piece of clear plexiglas

[Duo2400] Re: off the wall project

> "Jani Tiainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Well, this is pretty good alternative, altough > > ordinary lightbulbs tend to > > wear out in fast speed switching. > > Hmm... I seem to recall just the opposite. That is why > they are (were) used

[Duo2400] Re: [Duo/24000] Ideas Wanted For Long-term LaptopStorage

can get new cells by the time you want to see if Duo is still working. =) I'm not sure how PRAM battery gets over with long storage times. - Jani Tiainen "If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. " -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest

[Duo2400] Re: Laser printers.

> I've seen on eBay old laserjet's selling for next to nothing. I'm assuming > the real cost comes in delivery because they're such big heavy > objects, but > I think one of these things would make a brilliant second hand printer for > an old Mac. Has anyone here ever bought a second hand Laser >

[Duo2400] Troubles with DUO 230

My dear friend DUO 230 has started to be defective. When DUO hasn't been used for a while, it works okay, but after a while (20 - 40 minutes from start) it just blanks a screen and doesn't work until cooled down... Any ideas what might cause that? Also some times strange hissing sound is coming o

[Duo2400] Re: Duo/2400 List - where we all are

> > Wow... I just hang out here near border of Russia. Our country > is sometimes > > called Finland and we produce... Err.. Hmm... Renny Harlins, > Alvar Aaltos > > and Jean Sibeliuses, also not in very great volumes. > > Every time I look to my cell phone I remember Finland...:-) Oh you got me..

[Duo2400] Re: Duo/2400 List - where we all are

> I'm based on a farm on the edge of nowhere in South Wales which is a > subsidiary of the UK. We produce things like Anthony Hopkins and Catherine > Zeta Jones, though not in any great volume. Wow... I just hang out here near border of Russia. Our country is sometimes called Finland and we produc

[Duo2400] Re: ON Topic: Inverter Board

> > Just curious: what is the function of the inverter board in Duo > > screen? I know that inverters convert DC to AC and/or vice versa. > > Why is there an inverter in the screen? Actually AC -> DC converted is usually called (full/half) rectifier (bridge). But that's another story. > > Is th

[Duo2400] Re: lingua franca

> > I don't appreciate foreign language items on this list. Am I the > > only one? > > What's "foreign"? English is common on the net, but it's not a > standard. If > there are more than two people speaking a language on the list, let them > converse (anytime only two people are interested in some

[Duo2400] Re: New life for your Duo

> Some time ago I got a Duo 270c (I am trying to complete a Duo collection; > currently I have a 210, 230, 270c and coming soon a 280c and > 2300c). It was > in good shape except for the top cover (has a burn mark) You can get rid of that burnmark easily by painting cover with a new, maybe more in

[Duo2400] Re: Work created on a Duo, put on floppy disk...Readable on a PC?

> Just me asking silly questions again. I'm looking for some > clarification on > this issue. If my friend writes his reports on Word 5.1 on a Powerbook Duo > 230 and saves them to floppy disk, will these disks be easily readable on > your average PC so that he could print them off from there? We

[Duo2400] Something different

I wondered around net and accidentaly stumbled on this, pretty old thingy. At least something usage for Duo:s.. =) http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/duodigitalframe/index.html --- Jani Tiainen / IT Specialist

[Duo2400] Re: PC->Mac printer drivers

> I have really good result by using windows NT as Mac print > server. It have > the best PS convertor; so it almost support all the PC printer for MAC as > long as NT support it. For MAC, it is just a PS printer. > If you are not using NT server, it is not a for you. I have NT > server as my >

[Duo2400] Re: ADB /PS-2 keyboards

> There's another one for $24.95 at > . What's the > difference between them? > > Trouble is, either way, what does one do about having no power-on switch > on the keyboard? Well you can build power-on switch on your own (microcontroller bas

[Duo2400] Re: OT: ADB /PS-2 keyboards

> Assuming Apple hasn't incorporated encryption into their ADB > protocol, and I > assume they haven't, it is not illegal to reverse-engineer ADB and produce > an adapter. The DMCA only applies in situations when you have to break > encryption in order to reverse-engineer something. Well, DMCA is

[Duo2400] Re: OT: ADB /PS-2 keyboards

> Possible? Yes. Easy and cheap? Hell no. You'd need _at least_ a > programmable > IC, IC programmer, some breadboard and as many PS/2 and ADB ports as you > want to convert. Easy? No, cheap... YES. You can take e.g. Atmel AT90-series microcontroller that is ISP programmable, so you can leave ou

[Duo2400] Re: Do it yourself plastic casting???

> Hi everybody. I was looking around at some cool 2400 sites and I > found the > mobile dog page from Japan. I got looking at the incredible work in the > museum section here: > > http://www.powerbook.org/mobiledog/gurentai/museum/index.html > > My question is this: Does anyone have any idea ho

[Duo2400] Re: 2400 power supply repair

> David, in your case, did you do anything to strengthen the cable at > that point where it usually fails? Any quick and equally 'clean' > ideas for spreading the load? Because most of strain usually concentrated to small area, cables used are so soft that they easily bend. Well, I have used vol

[Duo2400] Re: anyone interested in 3G *SCSI* 2.5" HD?

> Hi list reader, > I saw this 3Gb 2.5" HD on ebay. I'm wondering if anyone has heard > of such a drive. Due to my location I will not be buying, but I was > wondering if you knew how common these v.big SCSI HDs are. Well, AFAIK over 1GB 2.5" SCSI drives are rare, if exists at all... > Which Mac

[Duo2400] ADB specs.

I'm looking for ADB protocol spesification. I'm going to build PC keyboard to ADB keyboard converter. If there is such adapter schematics and code available it would be great. -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at

[Duo2400] Re: IDE vs. IDE ?

>Are there different versions of IDE drives? Or will just any IDE drive > work in a 2300c (assuming it fits)? To be exact IDE is unofficial name fro ATA(PI) devices. There is currently Three ATA(PI) standards, fourth is going under standardization process AFAIK. If drive electronics follow

[Duo2400] Re: advice on battery reconditioning

> I've seen several references recently to trying to revive old batteries. > My situation is that I have 2 for the Duo 210, and they only hold a charge > for a few seconds, so I don't even try to depend on them. > The battery indicator from the Apple menu shows charging activity until it > stops,

[Duo2400] Re: battery dissection

> > Well, you can buy separate Li-Ion cells, that's no problem. But they're > > dangeours if not handled properly as said. > > I have yet to find a distributor or source in the U.S which is willing to > sell larger > size Li-Ion cells. Say 4.2V per cell, in a 4/3AA size. Let me > know where I can

[Duo2400] Re: battery dissection

> Also, when that happens, oxygen is a byproduct from the electrolyte within > the battery. This combination can wreak havock to health > and home. There is however a fusible link within the battery. If this > fusible link blew, as I suspect, there is something terribly wrong > with your batte

[Duo2400] Re: Mac disks on a PC

> There are a couple of commercial alternatives, but one completely > free way is to install Linux, perhaps as a secondary boot or on a > separate computer (whether Intel or Mac). That lets you read and > write both HFS and FAT disks. You also get read-only HFS+ support, > which most of the commer

[Duo2400] Duo + HP Laserjet 5P

I've old LJ 5P which I've used with my PC laptop, but I really would like to print from powerbook and/or duodock. Is it possible? What I need? If I can't use it directly from duo, how about via PC over LAN? -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and f

[Duo2400] Re: DUO 230 and some undesired.

> > First I've problems with my duo. It works perfectly in dock, > but when I run > > it out of dock with external psu, there is some undesired > effects. Most of > > time duo works okay, but some times it just stucks. On some occasion it > > hangs so that screen goes bright white. I have observed

[Duo2400] DUO 230 and some undesired.

somewhere? Regards, Jani Tiainen -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> To