TiBattery Loose, part broke

2002-04-26 Thread e c
A friend of mine has a TiBook and it works beautifully most of the time. One of the small hooks/clips that hold the battery in and up in position is broken off, resulting in a need to prop or wedge the batter to maitain contact. Has anyone had experience repairing this or a good workaround.

Re: Pismo DVD ROM acting up

2002-04-26 Thread Ronald Romine
I have a odd problem. My dvd drive on my Pismo will only mount DVD disks and not any other CD's. Has anyone ever had a similar problem, or even heard of it? The Pismo CD/DVD drives have a bad rep, especially the LG model. HOWEVER, the problem you mentioned can be caused be a corrupted

Re: Pismo DVD ROM acting up

2002-04-26 Thread James Rohde
On 4/26/02 12:03 AM Laurent Daudelin edified us all by writing: There were basically 2 different brands of drives used in the Pismo. The defective one was an LG, IIRC. If you go in Apple System Profiler, in the devices and volumes section, you should see whether LG or Matshita plus driver model,

Re: TiBattery Loose, part broke

2002-04-26 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 02:39 AM, e c wrote: A friend of mine has a TiBook and it works beautifully most of the time. One of the small hooks/clips that hold the battery in and up in position is broken off, resulting in a need to prop or wedge the batter to maitain contact. Has

Re: Pismo DVD ROM acting up

2002-04-26 Thread George Gunderson
On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 12:42 , James wrote: So unless you can find one cheap (unlikely) Someone on LEM Swap had one about a week or two ago for under $200, FWIW... -- GmG ...the bounty hunters, who are gathered in spaceship BEBOP, will play freely without fear of risky things,

Re: Dual Usb iBook vs Pb G3/333

2002-04-26 Thread Remy Davison
In fact I admit that I'm curious, I'd eagerly hear from you, Remy, and all the other friends on the list about what was the point that made you decide to go for a Pismo/Tibook/Bronze/whatever. As far as I'm concerned I chose the iBook II because, as I wrote before, I really was longing for a

Xcaret expansion bay CD-R/DVD drive

2002-04-26 Thread Sarkar, Rajabrata
I have a Lombard G3 (bronze) Powerbook and would like to get a CD burner for the expansion bay. The Xcaret drive got good reviews by Macworld; does anybody have any experience (good or bad) with this product? raj -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Xcaret expansion bay CD-R/DVD drive

2002-04-26 Thread James
I use one in my 2000 Firewire powerbook and love it. It works wonderful for me and is even Apple bootable and works under Apple Burn and Toaste 5.1 just fine. I am using the CD-RW version which is 8X4x40 i think if i can remember right at this time. It is a good make of drive too matshita or

Re: Xcaret expansion bay CD-R/DVD drive

2002-04-26 Thread Thomas Ethen
The only one I could find on ebay is the Matsushita CW-7586-C, which I expect will not fit in the Pismo case. Tom You could also consider a Matsushita UJDA-330 CDRW which is available on ebay stores http://www.ebaystores.com/id=10525630 and probably fetches around $75 at auction. The

Re: Adobe digital seminar

2002-04-26 Thread patrick fisher
That is what I CAN'T put up with is the quirks and hang-ups of Windows. I don't know how people get things done sometimes. If I needed a reminder, it was the Circuits section of the NY Times yesterday and the bizarre behavior of programs and the work arounds. Macs are perfect, but they are

Expansion Bay Device Carry Case?

2002-04-26 Thread Keith Potter
I just got the VST expansion bay Zip drive for my Pismo. Since I plan to use both that and the original DVD drive pretty regularly, I'm going to have to carry the extra drive around with me. Does anyone know of a good carrying case for a G3 expansion bay device? Does anyone know of any

Re: Expansion Bay Device Carry Case?

2002-04-26 Thread Gary D. Adams
They have cases for them. I did a search for Expansion Bay and found them. http://store.powerbook1.com/pormedbayacp.html They're $20. I just keep mine in a separate compartment of my laptop bag. I have the CD/DVD, Zip 250, and 10 gb hard drive. I think they're fine that way. Gary [EMAIL

Re: Expansion Bay Device Carry Case?

2002-04-26 Thread Erick King
MCE sells them. www.powerbook1.com Click on expansion bay drives, the listing for the cases is down further on the page. 1 for $19, 3 for $49. I use them, they are very nice. Erick On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 03:21 , Keith Potter wrote: I just got the VST expansion bay Zip drive for

Re: Expansion Bay Device Carry Case?

2002-04-26 Thread RLMcKee
In a message dated 4/26/02 4:51:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They have cases for them. I did a search for Expansion Bay and found them. http://store.powerbook1.com/pormedbayacp.html Thanks for the information! The unit price comes down if you order 3... so I have enough to protect every

Re: blank e-mails?

2002-04-26 Thread BG
Hi Gene Eric: I received 5 such emails from the LEM Swap list just now... (Friday, 4/26); yet also one junk mail with no From address; and two legit newsletters also not showing their From addresses... If I understand Eric's reply below, this means these emails are coming from PeeCee people

Re: Deciding Factors

2002-04-26 Thread John Bertram
on 02/4/26 11:54 AM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd eagerly hear from you, Remy, and all the other friends on the list about what was the point that made you decide to go for a Pismo/Tibook/Bronze/whatever. In my case, it was last August, and my 5300 (which had served me well for