Re: Getting a PowerBook 520c soon, some questions

2003-10-01 Thread The Calypso Organization
If you want to use it to collect email and need a pcmcia cage for the modem I would suggest keeping the 040 cpu, and not thinking about the power pc upgrade because then you would need to find a rev C cage and they are like ROCKING HORSE SXXX AND IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND. Do you think a PCMCIA

Re: 540c screen fading

2003-10-01 Thread Grizzlygiant
DPrice wrote: Thanks for the inquiry. The screen fades to a whitish color, right now only after several minutes without any activity, prior to sleep. Hope that is an adequate description. I know for a fact that the PRAM battery is out. Hello DPrice: My first suggestion is to take the

Re: GV internal modem/PB 500

2003-10-01 Thread Grizzlygiant
JeffH wrote: On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 07:25 am, PowerBooks wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:53:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Howard R. Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GV internal modem/PB 500 I've got one of these installed in my PB500, and really never had a chance to use

Re: 5xx internal modems

2003-10-01 Thread Grizzlygiant
Howard R. Katz wrote: My understanding is that the 14.4 was the only one ever made for the 5xx series. Later.Howard Hello Howard: My 540's have 19.2 internal modems, one from Apple, one from GV, there were a few other makes. I believe that GV also made faster modems for

Re: Getting a PowerBook 520c soon, some questions

2003-10-01 Thread Howard R. Katz
The PCMICIA cage for the 5xx series plugs into the left battery slot. It's pretty specific to the blackbird series. (I was lucky to snag a rev.c off of eBay--there's a Rev. B on there right now, but the c's show up fairly often) Later.Howard

Re: Getting a PowerBook 520c soon, some questions

2003-10-01 Thread COCCORP
In a message dated 10/1/2003 8:21:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was lucky to snag a rev.c off of eBay--there's a Rev. B on there right now, but the c's show up fairly often) What do the Rev. C's go for these days? Also, I hear that once you wrangle a Rev C. cage

PowerBook 500 series modems

2003-10-01 Thread VicNaz1
The one and only internal modem ever made for the PowerBook 500 series was the Global Village PowerPort Mercury 19.2 Kbps speed V.42 bis modem. It was about the most advanced modem of it's day for that speed and with appropriate compression and clean phone lines it actually delivers about the

pb3400c with skyline 802.11b wireless pccard

2003-10-01 Thread Anthony Vo
Hi Listers, I've just acquired the skyline wireless pc card. The card with asante driver can see my network but when I input the required network password, it gives back garbage signals like [EMAIL PROTECTED] , rectangular boxex etc...Do I need to enter pwd in other forms like Hex..? (if yes,

Re: PowerBook 190 Battery

2003-10-01 Thread ACFX44501
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Re: 5xx internal modems

2003-10-01 Thread ACFX44501
In a message dated 9/30/03 5:55:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I knew the 14.4 came into it somehow. I still need to download those drivers and get mine up and running. :) Sadly, the basic driver package is not available for downloading. You have to have a friend make a copy for you as

Re: Getting a PowerBook 520c soon, some questions

2003-10-01 Thread ACFX44501
In a message dated 10/1/03 7:41:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I can ever get a rev 'C' I intend to find out the differences, with luck it may be possible to bring rev A/B cardcages up to rev 'C' without too much work. The Rev. B card is simply the Rev. A card with several trace cuts,

Re: 5xx internal modems

2003-10-01 Thread ACFX44501
In a message dated 10/1/03 9:47:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shreve Systems was selling these modems in full retail packs around last Christmas time (about the time of their so-called liquidation sale) for $5, and those came with the fully updated (i.e., PowerMac ready) version of the

AirDock

2003-10-01 Thread Jim Oiler
Good Day, I'm brand new to the list. I was pointed here by Drew at alksoft.com. Having spend a bit of time yesterday trolling through the archives for this list, I was surprised to not find any mention of the Farralon AirDock. I have had one for nearly 7 years now and I'm prepared to call that

Re: Alert: PB5300 REA ends Tuesday!

2003-10-01 Thread Scott Howe
Can anyone tell me the address that Apple gave you to send these machines to? I'm boxing mine up myself and lost it. Scott On 9/29/03 4:35 PM, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For all you procrastinators out there, the REA for the 5300 ends Tuesday, Sept. 30 (tomorrow, depending on when

Modem on a PB500

2003-10-01 Thread Howard R. Katz
Thanks to JeffH, I downloaded the configuration files, and finally got ProTerm Mac to recognize the modem, dial out and make a connection--so, I'll be able to surf via my shell account from the hotel room tomorrow nite. Thanks to everyone for their input! Later.Howard

Modems and the PB500

2003-10-01 Thread Howard R. Katz
Thanks to JeffH, I downloaded the configuration files, and finally got ProTerm Mac to recognize the modem, dial out and make a connection--so, I'll be able to surf via my shell account from the hotel room tomorrow nite. Thanks to everyone for their input! Later.Howard

Re: pb3400c with skyline 802.11b wireless pccard

2003-10-01 Thread Howard R. Katz
The manual (on the disk) talks about having to input in hex and gives a hexadecimal conversion chart. I don't have the manual with me (disk or the printout I made) but I think the hex was only necessary for a couple of situations. (the 3 WiFi networks I've connected to so far have all been open

Re: pb3400c with skyline 802.11b wireless pccard

2003-10-01 Thread Anthony Vo
-Original Message- From: Howard R. Katz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The manual (on the disk) talks about having to input in hex and gives a hexadecimal conversion chart. I'll bring the manual disk to open by win's at work since I cannot install the Acrobat into the 3400 (don't have

Re: AirDock

2003-10-01 Thread k
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Re: pb3400c with skyline 802.11b wireless pccard

2003-10-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
Anthony Vo wrote: -Original Message- From: Howard R. Katz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The manual (on the disk) talks about having to input in hex and gives a hexadecimal conversion chart. I'll bring the manual disk to open by win's at work since I cannot install the Acrobat into the 3400

Re: Alert: PB5300 REA ended Tuesday!

2003-10-01 Thread Tom Lee
Can anyone tell me the address that Apple gave you to send these machines to? I'm boxing mine up myself and lost it. Scott Scott, you're almost certainly SOL, I'm sorry to say. AFAIK, you *must* follow Apple's procedure, outlined on their web page. That means staying on the line forever

Re: Alert: PB5300 REA ended Tuesday!

2003-10-01 Thread KG
I got my 5300c/100 back from Apple REA yesterday; I sent it back one more time before the deadline because the power connector broke off again. They replaced the logic board and even replaced some of the case plastics again even though they were fine--it looks like they improved the quality again.

Re: AirDock

2003-10-01 Thread Clark Martin
At 4:17 PM -0500 10/1/03, Jim Oiler wrote: Good Day, I'm brand new to the list. I was pointed here by Drew at alksoft.com. Having spend a bit of time yesterday trolling through the archives for this list, I was surprised to not find any mention of the Farralon AirDock. I have had one for nearly