Re: Cheapest Mac to get P166 speeds

2004-01-24 Thread Michael Dawe
On 24 Jan 2004 at 11:50, Dana Collins wrote: > Greetings all, > New member. I have been following this thread with some interest. > I recently acquired a complete kit of the Apple 12" 166mhz DOS card, > complete with all the cables (inc. the fabled dongle) and software, > including the hacked vers

Re: Cheapest Mac to get P166 speeds

2004-01-24 Thread Darren
Dana Collins wrote: My goal is to slap the card into a beige G3 desktop running at least OS 8.6, with the DOS card running, I hope, WIN 98(se). Is this do-able? The writer of the hack seems to think so, but no one ever explains how to get the OS bumped up from OS 8.1 while retaining the hacked PC

Re: Too many old Macs. Re: sharing printers

2004-01-24 Thread MUGWump
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:48:15 -0800 (PST) > From: Gregg Eshelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Too many old Macs. Re: sharing printers > --- MUGWump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well. (But if it comes to that, Gretchen, I have > > more old Macs than I > > know what

Re: Cheapest Mac to get P166 speeds

2004-01-24 Thread MUGWump
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:48:43 -0500 > From: "Mark D. Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am contemplating upgrading my 7500 (running an Apple P166 card). > However, I still need to run the odd windows program (mostly network > programs that require little horsepower). However,

Re: Cheapest Mac to get P166 speeds

2004-01-24 Thread Dana Collins
On 1/24/04 9:56 PM, Mike of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent > Mark D. Chapman wrote: > >> I am contemplating upgrading my 7500 (running an Apple P166 card). >> However, I still need to run the odd windows program (mostly network >> programs that require little horsepower). However, I want to be able to >>

Re: Cheapest Mac to get P166 speeds

2004-01-24 Thread Mike
Mark D. Chapman wrote: I am contemplating upgrading my 7500 (running an Apple P166 card). However, I still need to run the odd windows program (mostly network programs that require little horsepower). However, I want to be able to run the Windows programs at least as fast as the P166. My quest

Re: sharing printers

2004-01-24 Thread Gretchen Summers
Gregg, I did check out that option yesterday. I really want to keep the printers in there present locations. I have my wireless AP located in the center of my house, with the computers at each end. That gives me the best signal to both computers. Plus, I don't really have a good place to

Re: sharing printers

2004-01-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gretchen Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does turning the firewall completely off count as > "holes in xp's > firewall?" > > I'm really stumped on this part (printing from Mac > to PC). I guess I'm > not the only one having difficulty. I am seeing a > lot of posts from > others who a

Too many old Macs. Re: sharing printers

2004-01-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- MUGWump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well. (But if it comes to that, Gretchen, I have > more old Macs than I > know what to do with and would gladly pass one on to > you--maybe we > could learn Linux together!) Wouldn't happen to have too many old Beige G3 Macs? ;) I swapped my Yeager Prot