Re: Battery revival

To whomever posted the instructions on reviving a dead PB battery using Intelligent Battery Recondition: THANK YOU!!! You just saved me $133. (I picked up a 520c with a battery that wasn't even recognized. Followed your procedure and suddenly we had a full battery in it. Ran Battery Amn

Re: 8.6 on 2300 w/22MB

I used 8.6 on my 1400c /133 w/32megs + Ram Doubler... it was still a slug. Dropped back to 8.1.It runs just fine! Just my input..Crabazoid -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

8.6 on 2300 w/22MB

I got a headless 280c with a 2300 mobo that has 22MB of RAM that I want to use as an e-mailer and light browser. Anybody ever use OS 8.6 with that little RAM? 24MB is Apple's minimum. william -- artaudsociety.com MacHeretics -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Sma

Re: Switching resolutions on PB540c-driven external monitor

this one switches automatically... well at least it does on an 8500/200. there are no DIP switches. I do have another adapter that does have DIP switches, might give that one a go if I can find the DIP settings. Ben. > It's likely the DB15-VGA adapter. Mac video determines the resolution > capa

Re: 1400 CD drive- mechanisms?

>--REPLY >teac cd-224e thats what i have in my pb 1400 its 24x works with apple cd-rom >drivers and takes about 5 min`s to swap out the guts from your dead drive to > Thanks for the model#. I'll research it! Brian -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: 3400 CD-RW drive- mechanisms?

How about a CD-RW conversion for a 3400? I notice some vendors list it, but they show it as the same as the later PowerBook G3 233, which I am quite sure it is not. -- Russell - Unknown1 - Idaho USA http://idaho.cjb.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] An Idaho railroad news and discussion list. > From: "joke

Re: What version of Netscape should I run on my 3400?

> I'm still running NS 4.08 Standalone and it feels like flying, compared to > the rest of the bunch. I've been around iCab, Opera, NS 6.2 and Explorer 5, > but I keep coming back to the old 4.08. I myself like 4.79 the best. I keep IE around, though, as a necessary evil. -- ---

Re: 1400 CD drive- mechanisms?

--REPLY teac cd-224e thats what i have in my pb 1400 its 24x works with apple cd-rom drivers and takes about 5 min`s to swap out the guts from your dead drive to install the teac into apple`s cd drive housing nothing else to do but enjoy found mine on ebay i think i paid 24

Re: CD Rom drive

Jim, Have you tried the intech Speedtools cd mounter? Don't know if that will work but it's worth a try. I can also send you a small extension that automatically mounts cd/rom's that Apple can't. Let me know if you want it. Then if it works, maybe I'll follow suit with my 5300cs. > Hi All

Re: What version of Netscape should I run on my 3400?

At 16:43 -0700 16/07/02, Sionnach Aisling wrote: >Looking at the versions available on the web, I don't >know if I want the latest and greatest as thats >probably tuned more for OS9 or OSX... Does it matter? > Which version is best? I'm still running NS 4.08 Standalone and it feels like flying,

Re: Mac printing... slightly off topic.

At 16:48 -0700 16/07/02, Sionnach Aisling wrote: >First off, I'm really considering replacing it with a >new iMac. Will the USB based 930C work with the iMac? > I know the USB will work, but are there Mac Drivers >available? I'm almost positive that I had one of those attached and working with m

Re: Need AOL 3.0

Bruce - I just saw my letter in tonite's digest and note that the link I inserted didn't go thru as a link. Go to keyword: aol 3. That will take you directly to the site you want. Sorry 'bout that. C. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronics

CD Rom drive

Hi All I have a Matshita DVD ROM Drive SR-8183 PCMCIA card drive, that I would like to use with my 5300cs. I have tried to find a driver on the internet and can't. When I tried to load CD ROM toolkit it gave me errors in the loading procedure. The computer has 64MB of ram so that shouldn't be a pr

Re: What version of Netscape should I run on my 3400?

I still use ver 4.7, but I have to admit a preference for iCab and Internet Explorer. I haven't tried Mozilla. Peter -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start

Re: What version of Netscape should I run on my 3400?

>I have a PB3400/200 80MB ram and a 10GB disk... > > I'm >thinking the slowness could be coming from the version >of Netscape I'm using??? > No. All versions of Netscape aren't very good anymore. Mozilla isn't much better. Go with IE 5.x or iCab. That's my 2¢. william -- artaudsociety.com MacHer

Re: What version of Netscape should I run on my 3400?

on 17/7/02 12:43 am, Sionnach Aisling at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a PB3400/200 80MB ram and a 10GB disk... > > I currently have loaded Netscape 4.5 (It was all I > had.) I can't believe how S L O W pages load... I > honestly think I could get refreshes quicker on a > dialup connection

Mac printing... slightly off topic.

I have decided that it's time to retire the fastest machine in my house and buy something new. My fastest machine is currently PC based. It is a Celeron 466 w/128MB RAM. It has a HP Deskjet 930C attached to it via a USB connection. Here's my dilemma First off, I'm really considering rep

Re: 1400 CD drive- mechanisms?

Hi I have an external freecom dvd that i use on the pc. and have taken apart to see but have not fitted the inner workings look the same as the 1400 cdrom i have. And to answer a question from ages ago i tried the Acer pcmcia cage in my 1400 it fitts but would not recognise any cards so it does

What version of Netscape should I run on my 3400?

I have a PB3400/200 80MB ram and a 10GB disk... I currently have loaded Netscape 4.5 (It was all I had.) I can't believe how S L O W pages load... I honestly think I could get refreshes quicker on a dialup connection. (I share a Cable Modem connection through a Linksys Router.) My Toshiba P166

Re: 1400 CD drive- mechanisms?

>I havein hand a dead CDROM drive for a 1400; I've read here and there that >people have successfully replaced the mechanism with a non-Apple drive >mechanism, thus making their own 24x or whatever internal CD. This would >be a good solution for me at this time, since now that I've been looking >

Re: PB540 Batteries.... is "dead" really dead?

>Very good advice, however one more tip. With a really dead battery, launch IBR with the right slot empty, then plug in the batt. It should go into "extended precharging" mode. It takes 15- 20 min. Several times may be necessary. Rick > >Hi again, >> >>With the PB540 fixed I was finally able t

Re: Need AOL 3.0 on floppy for my Powerbook 190

>Only AOL can send you the floppy. The older ones do not work, they have >bad aol [phone] numbers and can never be used. Truer words were never spoken (or in this case, written). However, there is one way around this that I have used as a *gasp!* AOL customer who prefers v 3.0 on his old 68k mac

Re: Switching resolutions on PB540c-driven external monitor

At 12:35 AM +1000 7/17/02, b e n w e l l s | headwerkx wrote: >Everywhere I've read it says the PB540 can drive an external monitor up to >1024x768. What gives? Any ideas? Not according to GURU, but lower resolutions are supposed to be supported. The 540 uses RAM as VRAM, so I wonder

Re: PB540 Batteries.... is "dead" really dead?

At 12:33 AM +1000 7/17/02, b e n w e l l s | headwerkx wrote: > >Hi again, > >With the PB540 fixed I was finally able to run EMMpathy and find out what >was goin' on with the batteries... by the looks of things, nothing! EMMpathy >couldn't even read them, though, strangely, after taking out the

PB 190cs & OS 8.1

Hi, all you Powerbook types! I'm still doing crazy things with my little PB 190. I recently installed a 4 GB HD in it, and am in the process of installing OS 8.1 on it so I can use HFS+. It's partitioned two ways; a 500 MB HFS partition with a new installation of 8.1 on it. I'd been booting from

Re: Switching resolutions on PB540c-driven external monitor

b e n w e l l s | headwerkx wrote: > Hi there, > > Well after a couple of weeks of lying idle the 540c finally got its hard > disk erased by some voodoo magic practised by a local Mac guru, and now it's > running 8.1 happily. > > Today I got the external monitor adapter, plugged in a Blue and Wh

Re: duo ethernet

Frank Modica wrote: > "EN/SC requires Asantetalk drivers. I think I got them here somewhere. > p-mail me." > > I have the installer for the Asante adapter, so I'll plug in the adapter > and run that application. > > "Well I don't think your system is seeing it if ethernet isn't presented as > an

Re: going to London

> All you really need is a power lead, just buy one when you get there. It'll > be cheaper than buying one in the US. No, all you need is one of those little plug adaptors like you can buy in airports. I do the same in reverse when I visit the US. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: Powerbook 520c newbie

There is an AWESOME graphic program for macs called Graphiconverter and it is available in GERMAN. Check it out... http://www.graphicconverter.net/files/gc41de68k.sit joseph -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |

Switching resolutions on PB540c-driven external monitor

Hi there, Well after a couple of weeks of lying idle the 540c finally got its hard disk erased by some voodoo magic practised by a local Mac guru, and now it's running 8.1 happily. Today I got the external monitor adapter, plugged in a Blue and White 17" Studio Display with a VGA to DB-15(?) ada

PB540 Batteries.... is "dead" really dead?

Hi again, With the PB540 fixed I was finally able to run EMMpathy and find out what was goin' on with the batteries... by the looks of things, nothing! EMMpathy couldn't even read them, though, strangely, after taking out the battery then plugging it back in again, I could "name" the battery. The

Re: Need AOL 3.0 on floppy for my Powerbook 190

Woops, Bruce - After sending the link to download AOL 3, I realized that you need to be on AOL in order to get to that page. If your girlfriend has AOL, you should be able to download the installer to her computer and transfer it to yours via ethernet. Not sure if it's small enough to put on

Re: Need AOL 3.0 on floppy for my Powerbook 190

Bruce, you can download AOL 3 directly from this site: AOL 3.0 for Macintosh C. In a message dated 7/15/02 11:20:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:24:22 -0700 (PDT) From: lupine blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Need AOL 3.0 on floppy for my Powerbook 190 Hi, e