Re: 5xx stuff

2001-09-28 Thread Vic
on 29/9/01 12:07 am, Paul Nelson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 9:54 PM + 9/28/01, victoria.duggan wrote: >> buy my >> daughter > > Now there's a Freudian slip! > Paul (who's glad his are grown up) > > I would beg to differ but if that email has come from my computer then i must be the

OT: Free E-mail

2001-09-28 Thread Cliff Rediger
OT I'm going to be traveling for a little while and would like to establish an E-mail address not linked to our local server. Any recommendations for services: hotmail? Excite? Yahoo? the mac site? or are they all pretty much the same? Thanks, Cliff -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: email bomb

2001-09-28 Thread Scott Mugan
Never mind, the killer email didn't get posted here though. on 9/29/01 1:47 AM, Scott Mugan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Huh? Never saw any posting related to this. > > > on 9/29/01 12:39 AM, Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> Damn that really sucks. >> >> Maybe the people

Re: email bomb

2001-09-28 Thread Scott Mugan
Huh? Never saw any posting related to this. on 9/29/01 12:39 AM, Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Damn that really sucks. > > Maybe the people on this list can help you replace any obscure software > you might have lost. Hopefully it was all backed up. But it's like having > your ca

email bomb

2001-09-28 Thread Martin
Damn that really sucks. Maybe the people on this list can help you replace any obscure software you might have lost. Hopefully it was all backed up. But it's like having your car dented: even if you're not at fault, even if you pay no deductible, it's a huge outlay of time, to replace everything

buy my daughter

2001-09-28 Thread Martin
At 9:54 PM + 9/28/01, victoria.duggan wrote: >buy my >daughter Can she cook? :) -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! |

Re: 520c Sleep Problem

2001-09-28 Thread Paul Nelson
At 4:47 PM -0700 9/29/01, John Humphrey wrote: >Even on adaptor power I'm having a problem where my PB 520c >won't come all the way back from a self induced sleep. >I could set it up to never cycle down but in that I use it as a desktop >hypercard rolodex etc. I'd rather be able to spin it up as n

520c Sleep Problem

2001-09-28 Thread John Humphrey
Even on adaptor power I'm having a problem where my PB 520c won't come all the way back from a self induced sleep. I could set it up to never cycle down but in that I use it as a desktop hypercard rolodex etc. I'd rather be able to spin it up as needed. I'm running OS 8.1 and have plenty of RAM. A

Re: e-mail

2001-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's really sad someone has nothing better to do and would do this. I suggest they use their programming skills to CREATE instead of destroy. I've got Duo's with more ram than their IQ Original Message: - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 00:17:01 +0100 To

Re: 540 + Reno cd

2001-09-28 Thread Paul Nelson
At 4:18 PM -0600 9/28/01, Pat wrote: >What am I doing wrong? Do I need a different CD driver? I'd like to start up >from this drive if possible to do a clean install of OS 8.0. With the # in the diamond, you have it in SCSI disk mode, and there is nothing on the hard drive being accessibl

Re: 5xx stuff

2001-09-28 Thread Paul Nelson
At 9:54 PM + 9/28/01, victoria.duggan wrote: >buy my >daughter Now there's a Freudian slip! Paul (who's glad his are grown up) -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

e-mail

2001-09-28 Thread Vic
Hi. I dont know weather this is where it has come from but i received an E-mail on my pride and joy (540c) about 40 mins ago saying , With ref to your 5xx stuff do you have any of these and then an attachment to open to see what i believed to be a picture. On opening the attachment i got a black

Re: 540 + Reno cd

2001-09-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
Pat wrote: > I finally acquired a SCSI adapter for my powerbook 540. The 'book came with > a Reno cd player/drive that I can now connect. But, if I connect it one way > (dock I think) I get the scsi logo scrolling across the screen on startup, > and the other way I get the "?". Connecting as dock

Re: www.pure-mac.com

2001-09-28 Thread Bufford Ennox
In the System folder there is a folder called "Internet Search Sites". Pick an appropriate folder and Place it there. Start up Sherlock! You may need to check mark it to make it active. -Buffordz --- Donna Hood Pointer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went there. They have a download which says

Re: 540 + Reno cd

2001-09-28 Thread Gary Adams
Do you have the adaptor switch set to "dock?" Just wondering? Pat wrote: > I finally acquired a SCSI adapter for my powerbook 540. The 'book came with > a Reno cd player/drive that I can now connect. But, if I connect it one way > (dock I think) I get the scsi logo scrolling across the screen on

540 + Reno cd

2001-09-28 Thread Pat
I finally acquired a SCSI adapter for my powerbook 540. The 'book came with a Reno cd player/drive that I can now connect. But, if I connect it one way (dock I think) I get the scsi logo scrolling across the screen on startup, and the other way I get the "?". What am I doing wrong? Do I need a di

Re: 5xx stuff

2001-09-28 Thread victoria.duggan
Sorry for the spelling in the last mail I was being moaned at buy my daughter whilst I was typing Victoria -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 |

5xx stuff

2001-09-28 Thread victoria.duggan
Hi And i see that everyone is interested but sorry to let you all know but the guy that replied first i gave first refusal to have said he is sending the money for the postage. Sorry Mrs Pointer i still haave some battery cells if you would be interested. I also have a duo 230 in pieces with

Re: pb500 stuff resources...

2001-09-28 Thread Paul Nelson
At 4:24 AM +1000 9/29/01, Hugo wrote: >What price a working battery? Please... Considering the price of shipping to Oz, why not ask on the Aussie list as well? Paul -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Ente

Re: pb500 stuff resources...

2001-09-28 Thread victoria.duggan
Hi Donner I do not know if you got the last e-mail but the battery is in two pieces and the battery cells are all new (pink in colour ) i did not dare to solder. Victoria -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter T

Re: www.pure-mac.com

2001-09-28 Thread MacinNW
In a message dated 9/28/01 11:07:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I went there. They have a download which says it is a Sherlock plugin. >I >assume this is to put a direct link in to my Sherlock choices. I downloaded >it. Now what do I do with it to get it in to Sherlock? >Donna Pointer-- iMac,

Re[2]: pb500 stuff resources...

2001-09-28 Thread Mike Hebel
H> What price a working battery? Please... I think you misunderstood my statements. I don't have any spare batteries - sorry! I might have been a little foggy when I wrote the original message so I can see how it might be mis-read. >> Same here. I tend to accumulate PB540 parts. I have a cou

Re: pb500 stuff resources...

2001-09-28 Thread Hugo
What price a working battery? Please... Mike Hebel wrote: > Same here. I tend to accumulate PB540 parts. I have a couple of > keyboards, screen, a floppy, one almost complete 8meg 540c (no brick, > batteries, bad drive, no screen clip), mainboard from a 540c, misc > other parts. > H> -- > H> G

www.pure-mac.com

2001-09-28 Thread Donna Hood Pointer
I went there. They have a download which says it is a Sherlock plugin. I assume this is to put a direct link in to my Sherlock choices. I downloaded it. Now what do I do with it to get it in to Sherlock? Donna Pointer-- iMac, ergo iAm > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PowerBooks) > Date: Thu, 27 Se

Re: 2300 Minus Word Processing

2001-09-28 Thread Donna Hood Pointer
This is NOT working for me. I am on an iMac running 9.0.4. I opened Sherlock. I went to custom. I went to the icon on my harddrive for the Appleworks application inside the Appleworks folder. I dragged the icon to the file Type box in the custom window. That moved AAPL to File Type and BOBO to Cre

Re: 2300c Minus Word processing

2001-09-28 Thread Remy Davison
>>Believe it or not, PowerBooks didn't come with a Works package. They >>still don't. Only consumer machines (iMac/iBook) get bundled software >>like that. The 190/5300/2300 certainly didn't. > >I'm sorry, Remy, but I have to disagree here. (Maybe Apple's sales/bundling >policy was different in Ge

5300 keyboard - Is there a fix to make it better?

2001-09-28 Thread Tom Wilkinson
While people are on the subject of 5300s, is there any kind of remedy for the horrible keyboard it has? Is there any spring set or any replacement that gives it a better, keyboard. I love my 5300 but hate the danged keyboard. Tom - -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and...

Re: 5300 REA x3

2001-09-28 Thread MacinNW
In a message dated 9/27/01 06:08:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Well, I called Apple today to ask if I could send my (sort of) >new-to-me 5300 through the REA again. Of course, it's already got the > >date stamp on the battery bay, so that means it's been through twice >already. When I as