Re: pcmcia to usb for 3400?

2002-05-13 Thread James
On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 07:42 AM, Pat wrote: Any thoughts on putting a usb card on a 3400? Give it a shot. My 3400 works well with a MacAlly USB card, and I didn't want to shoot $99 for the cardbus upgrade either. I would suggest purchasing one from a store with a liberal return

Re: Help! I've hurt my Duo

2002-05-13 Thread Scott Holder
At 01:34 PM 5/13/2002 -0700, you wrote: One odd thing that it did...after turning it off, I unplugged the power adapter and plugged it back in. It made a series of tones something like four going upscale followed by four going downscale. Could have been three, but I think it was four. Oscar

New hard drive/ questions

2002-05-13 Thread Brian
I ordered and installed in my 1400 one of the 20 gig clearance IBM drives from Other World Computing. Wow, huge difference- super quiet, seems faster (but I've not compared rpm's yet). And it was already formatted for Mac. I only had a couple problems: -installers for some older software

Powerport 500

2002-05-13 Thread Donna Hood Pointer
I have 7.5.5 on my PB520. I had to put that on after I put in a PPC upgrade card. Then I had to also upgrade my Global Village software, because the older version did not work with PPC. However, that done, everything works fine. Check your version numbers. What I have on mine is: Powerport for

pb5300 networking

2002-05-13 Thread Joseph C. Sis, JR.
I would like to be able to network my PB5300ce with my PowerMac 6500, both running OS 8.6. AND Be able to use the modem connection on the 6500 to surf the net through the network. Is this only possible via ethernet? Or can it be done via AppleTalk as well? Either way, what are the critical

Re: pcmcia to usb for 3400?

2002-05-13 Thread Beverly Woods
This comes up periodically, and I will again mention that if you haven't seen it yet the best info I know of on this question is at: http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Cardbus/Cardbus.html There is a list of cards known to work. You do not need a modification of the 3400, just a hacked driver, and

OS 8.1 vs 8.5/8.6 on a PB2300?

2002-05-13 Thread John Wagner
Hello Everyone, I've got a 2300c currently running OS 8.1. Can anyone relate their experience with OS 8.1 vs 8.5/8.6 on the 2300c? I'm mainly interested if 8.5 is a little faster or not compared to 8.1 on the same machine. 8.1 seems to run well, and is stable on my 2300c, but heaven forbid