Re: Lombard reformat-gizmos

2004-12-14 Thread Kristina Rost
btw thanks to all the advice from list techs... Most USB peripherals will work with your Lombard's built-in USB ports - keyboards, mice, zip drive, etc... Your Lombard already has a 56K modem built-in - why would you need another? As to the Wacom tablet... uh...I had my modem wire in the

Lombard reformat

2004-12-11 Thread Kristina Rost
Hi, The seller of my Lombard sent 3 CD's to try and boot from. One of the OS9 disks works! Do I want to clean install and erase everything? I definitely want to get rid of OS X and use my system and my programs...but... can I keep some fonts...maybe this and that. The CD that does boot

Re: Lombard reformat-gizmos

2004-12-11 Thread Kristina Rost
on 12/11/04 9:57 AM, Ben Dyer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd recommend reformatting the drive, and installing again from scratch. Thanks Ben, That's what I did...I am all up and running now. Now it looks like I do need some stuf to make this my tool. zip drive mouse modem wacom tablet

Re: Lombard reformat-gizmos

2004-12-11 Thread Richard Smykla
Hi, Kristina. Most USB peripherals will work with your Lombard's built-in USB ports - keyboards, mice, zip drive, etc., so you can find those at your local electronics store. Although USB zip drives will work, Zip drives with a SCSI interface are faster than USB ones, and you'd need an adapter

Re: Lombard reformat-gizmos

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 09:55 AM, Kristina Rost wrote: Are the webstores at the bottom of this list just as good as any? SmallDog rocks. They're quite good. As far as gizmos go, usb zip drive are dual mac/win out of the box, most USB mice will work (there's a really cool piece of

Re: Lombard reformat

2004-12-11 Thread Ben Dyer
Kristina, I'd recommend reformatting the drive, and installing again from scratch. OS X installations are fairly tricky to remove properly. If the machine has been running mainly in OS X, there's not much you can keep that will be any good to you in OS 9 -- most of the nice OS X fonts aren't