Re: How to boot from a CD-R/W drive?

2004-07-27 Thread RStockdell
It seems the internal CD-ROM drive in my Wall Street PB is shot but I have an external (SCSI) CD-R/W drive and bootable disks of course (I was thinking of Disk Warrior in this case). Holding down the C key on startup didn't work (is this only for the internal CD-ROM drive?) The C key

Re: iBook 700 parts question

2004-06-24 Thread RStockdell
An acquaintance of mine came into possession of a 700-MHz 12.1 G3 iBook with a broken screen. The people at the Apple store plugged it into a monitor and adapter and found out that it works, at least! They didn't tell him much more, at least that he remembers, including which of the two 12.1

sleeping sickness

2004-05-03 Thread RStockdell
I've just tuned in, but I'm not a newbie. I've been on the A2-list, several Mac-lists, the G-list, lem-swap, and now G-Books. I am a teacher. Taught computer lit (among many things). Rebuild computers as a hobby, and have been puttering with about 70 Macs over the last couple years. I now

AppleWorks putting the SQUEEZE on

2004-05-03 Thread RStockdell
I've just tuned in, but I'm not a newbie. I've been on the A2-list, several Mac-lists, the G-list, lem-swap, and now G-Books. I've started another thread - sleeping sickness' - but this is a different problem that is showing up on BOTH IBooks. I have an iBook/600/2001 (snow, dual USB), and a