Re: It rained on my three MacBooks!

2021-06-18 Thread Paul Londoner
1 at 21:26, Valter Psicof wrote: > Il giorno 18/06/21 14:46, "Paul Londoner" behalf of paul.londo...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > >I immediately took action by closing the living room skylight and placing > >the Macs keyboards facing down onto the sofa. After this,

Re: It rained on my three MacBooks!

2021-06-18 Thread Paul Londoner
Really? Do you work for Apple or something? If money was no object I would buy a new MacBook or two. That's the whole point! On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 at 14:04, Myles MacVane wrote: > The solution is simple: Buy a new MacBook! > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 8:46 AM Paul Londoner > wrot

It rained on my three MacBooks!

2021-06-18 Thread Paul Londoner
IT RAINED ON MY THREE MACBOOKS!! I’m really devastated after a moment’s carelessness has resulted in all three of my MacBooks getting soaked by rain! I’m so careful and keep telling people never to put drinks on the same surface as a computer. I’ve also read a lot about “liquid damage” on Apple p

Re: Which Mac group? The ALL MACS List!

2021-05-20 Thread Paul Londoner
Valter Psicoff, I'm interested in some older computers than the Power PC Macs. These computers are the so called "home computers". I own an Amiga A1200 with a Motorola 68020 CPU. This Amiga isn't set up to use the Internet, though. Some other computers which people seem to be fascinated with includ

Re: Which Mac group? The ALL MACS List!

2021-05-19 Thread Paul Londoner
Valter, you said "I have installed OSX 10.9 Mavericks, and most software has a version for it (you might have to look for it in some archives, though)." What I meant by my question is that I want to know WHICH archives you look in! AFAIK it's not the Apple website Developers area, not MacIntosh Ga

Re: Which Mac group? The ALL MACS List!

2021-05-18 Thread Paul Londoner
rfly keyboard issues > unresolved I finally paid a bit more and got a 2019 16” MacBook Pro and it > is a dream. Now I just need to do enough work with it to make it pay for > itself somehow... > > Now that my older MacBooks are retired from daily use I hope to make mods > to t

Re: Which Mac group?

2021-05-16 Thread Paul Londoner
ecial about it? My ambition is to upgrade my MBP 2012 computers to be more powerful than models from years later. My ultimate goal is to create a clone of an Apple Silicon MacBook, using an iPad, a Raspberry Pi, or a Banana Pi computer. -- Paul On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 16:49, Bruce Johnson wr

Re: Which Mac group?

2021-04-01 Thread Paul Londoner
lder versions of the apps above are available from the Developers section of the Apple website, requiring a $99 annual subscription. Can you tell me which of the apps above is available from there for macOS 10.13 High Sierra? On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 14:03, Paul Londoner wrote: > Bruce Johnson,

Re: Which Mac group?

2021-04-01 Thread Paul Londoner
on a particular version of macOS. Here's that video by Luke Miani... https://youtu.be/4_AzUtG9h9k On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 20:04, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2021, at 7:12 PM, Paul Londoner > wrote: > > I have done a lot of research into the Mac and its software. Wha

Re: Which Mac group?

2021-03-30 Thread Paul Londoner
I have done a lot of research into the Mac and its software. What I found out was that unless you have the latest macOS installed, then when you try to download apps from the Apple Appstore, you either can't download them or can't run them. I found out about this using a Toshiba Satellite Hackintos

Looking for OS X 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6 for G4

2013-10-20 Thread Paul Brown
At the moment I've got a Power Mac G4 "Quicksilver" which I can't use. I got it from freecycle.org with OS X 10.3.9 installed, This version prevents me from doing various things, but it's also become corrupted. I think the error message is "The bill of materials cannot be found". This seems to mean

Re: Connecting iMac G3 to WiFi

2012-02-28 Thread Paul Brown
Don't worry! I've got it working now. It required a Power Management Unit (PMU) reset, though! On 27/02/2012, Paul Brown wrote: > The monitor is a VGA LCD monitor by ProView. Unfortunately, I've since > bought another monitor and now the Mac won't turn on! I plan

Re: Connecting iMac G3 to WiFi

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Brown
The monitor is a VGA LCD monitor by ProView. Unfortunately, I've since bought another monitor and now the Mac won't turn on! I plan to post details in a new thread. On 25 February 2012 04:12, Christopher Satterfield < christopher1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Was the monitor a regular PC monitor or som

Re: Connecting iMac G3 to WiFi

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Brown
OK, thanks for this. I've since obtained a Power Mac G4 free of charge from www.freecycle.org though. I've hardly used it so far, due to lack of a monitor, then one night with a monitor I bought without a PSU. Either the PSU or the monitor, or both, have blown out now. The details from "About this

Re: Needed - Head phone jack for iMac G3 slot loader

2012-02-03 Thread Paul Brown
What exactly has happened to your iMac sound? I've recently bought one of the same model, as a cheap entry into the World of the Mac, I installed an old version of iTunes, listened to some Internet radio, then a few hours later, one speaker came loose and started vibrating about, followed by the ot

Re: Dead keyboard???

2012-01-24 Thread Paul Brown
I regularly record music in a studio which runs Logic Pro V9 on a Mac Pro with Intel Xeon CPU and a keyboard which looks identical to the description posted on this thread. I told the Recording Engineer about this thread and he quickly found the page on www.apple.com where you can buy a replacement

Re: Help! What to do with iMac Bondi G3 Tray Loading 233mhx cpu 256 mb ram

2012-01-24 Thread Paul Brown
I've just bought a similar iMac, which is G3 Blueberry 350Mhz slot loading. I found out it would need an adaptor to install an Airport card and that nearly all sellers of these on eBay were in Hong Kong or elsewhere in China, so it would take some time to arrive. There's also the option of a USB Wi

New HD for my iMac (addendumb)

2010-10-07 Thread Paul Stamsen
I've been looking for a new hard drive for our iMac. So far I've seen several 2 Tb models at $109, some even shipped. Anyone have recommendations for the best brands? Last thing I need to do is spend the money, installing a badly-made HD!! Thanks, Paul -- To knock a

Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Paul Kemner
Look underneath it- it should say how many mhz the processor is. If it's a slotloading machine with firewire, it should run 10.4 tiger. If you're going to use it for anything, look up how much memory it can take, and max it out. The more memory it has, the more tolerable it is to work with. NeoOffi

Re: Google Chrome OS on a G3?

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Kemner
You might also check with the fink and macports folks. Some of them may already be working on it. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Christian Wacker wrote: > ... > I have booted linux before from my iMac, but I've never compiled > anything, and I'm curious to know what (if anything) will go wrong

Re: Google Chrome OS on a G3?

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Kemner
You might be better off trying to install Debian instead of Ubuntu- the Debian distro is still active. We had lots of trouble getting Xubuntu working on 1Ghz G4 eMacs. We had to go with an older version, and if we updated it it died. The Debian install did take some messing around. It originally b

RE: My 20" 1.25ghz imac Flat screen appears to have apparently died.

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Ring
Do you know a way to disable the internal screen? -Original Message- From: SteveC Sent: 01 September, 2009 10:17 To: imaclist@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: My 20" 1.25ghz imac Flat screen appears to have apparently died. I have an Intel iMac 17" and the screen went bad. So I connected

Re: HP Scanjet 4400c OS9 Driver

2009-07-17 Thread PAUL MC ARDLE
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Bruce Johnson wrote: From: Bruce Johnson Subject: Re: HP Scanjet 4400c OS9 Driver To: imaclist@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, 7 July, 2009, 11:30 PM On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:20 PM, John Callahan wrote: > After problems w/ my HP printer I contacted HP help and much to my >

Re: Emulate Intel Mac

2009-05-28 Thread PAUL MC ARDLE
sheepsaver is not worth the hassle between finding a g3 with 9.04 to extract a rom from an update and then a powermac version of Os 9 it is a nightmare and i doubt it will run games anyhow. --- On Tue, 26/5/09, pangab...@aol.com wrote: From: pangab...@aol.com Subject: Emulate Intel Mac To

Re: Trying to breathe new life into an eMac

2009-05-17 Thread Paul
Decent DVD writers are cheap (under $30 new) these days. I know the recent Pioneer drives will work and are good. The Samsungs are supposed to be good, and will probably work also. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End

Re: g3 memory upgrade

2009-04-21 Thread Paul
Do you have the same problem if you swap each 512 RAM into the opposite slot? Post the specs that get reported in the hardware profile for each RAM when you use them separately. That may give us more clues. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because yo

Re: Motherboard compatibility on slot-loading iMacs

2009-04-21 Thread Paul
Odd but true - I've found that some older standalone DVD players (the kind you connect to TV's, not the kind in computers) can play homemade DVD+R discs. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group

Re: Motherboard compatibility on slot-loading iMacs

2009-04-19 Thread Paul
I think all DVD drives (no matter how old) can read homemade DVD's written on Verbatim brand DVD-R discs. DVD+R came later, and readability on older drives seems to vary with brand of disc. From what I've read, if you have a new-enough drive, it's better to go with a good brand of +R disc because

Re: DVD on G3 iMac

2009-04-18 Thread Paul
The 9.1 CD was able to boot a G4 and it's not from a specific machine. There was no other system installed, so the machine should have automatically booted from the CD drive. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac

Re: Slot Load combo drive for Imac

2009-04-18 Thread Paul
Considering that G3 iMacs sell for about $25-$50, it's certainly not worth buying just a drive for $100, no matter how new and shiny it is. I suppose a firewire DVD drive would be fine, too. Not all DVD drives can read +R and RW, though that shouldn't matter if you're playing commercial pressings

Re: Solid state Harddisk on an iMac G4

2009-04-18 Thread Paul
For reliability at long distance, what about some kind of external drive RAID setup? (And making sure the disks have enough cooling.) Or am I opening a can of worms? There's more than one kind of SSD. The more reliable kind seems to cost a lot more. But I'm not sure which kinds they use in drives

Re: Motherboard compatibility on slot-loading iMacs

2009-04-18 Thread Paul
What happened was that I acquired a bunch of semi-working slot loading iMacs for about $5 each. They all have Firewire. Since they all power up showing the blinking "?", I assume the motherboards are good. One or two have 600 MHz IBM processors. (I pulled one from a machine with a cracked case and

Re: Combo drive for slot-load G3 iMac

2009-04-16 Thread Paul
I wonder if there's a similar drive not specifically made for Mac that would work. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMac

Re: DVD on G3 iMac

2009-04-16 Thread Paul
Make sure you get a DVD drive new enough to read all types of DVD's, since earlier versions came out before +R existed. It took me a long time to figure out why my Mac couldn't read +R and RW discs. If you're only going to play commercial DVD's, this shouldn't be an issue, but it might come back

Motherboard compatibility on slot-loading iMacs

2009-04-16 Thread Paul
There were several sets of slot loading G3 iMac's. They all had a 100 MHz bus, and used the same kind of memory. I have some from at least two different sets. Is it possible to move a motherboard from a later one into an earlier one? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receiv

mighty mouse unstuck

2009-03-16 Thread PAUL MC ARDLE
hi guys i just thought id announce my latest dicovery.. baby oil is proving to be a reliable ally in this time of recession..whenever my mighty mouse ball fails i apply a little baby oil and it worksim not a scientist so cant offer an explanation...yh i think theyre moderating this l

Re: Backup Medium Advice

2008-12-31 Thread Paul
If you get an external hard drive, consider getting one with both Firewire and USB. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMa

Re: How many different eMac power buttons...?

2008-12-31 Thread Paul Perkal
came from an iMac. Your answer raised another question for me. Shouldn't that power button be able to turn ON various iMacs, and at that point (before it's even on), shouldn't it work no matter what system is running? Paul On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Ryan Waldon wrote: > &

How many different eMac power buttons...?

2008-12-31 Thread Paul
Suddenly I find myself with two eMacs discarded by other people glad to get rid of them. One of them has a wrecked power button, and that's where my questions originate. Do all the different eMac models use the same power button? On this one, it looks like the button plugs into a 3-hole connector.

Re: iMac makes annoying whining noise

2008-09-21 Thread Paul Stamsen
(Intel, Aluminum, 2.4GHz, >>1GB RAM, 320GB >> HDD) makes an annoying high-pitched whine sometimes. >>It also makes >> digital "bipping" sounds after increasing/decreasing >>the volume using >> the volume keys. Go to the "Sound" preference an