Re: Good luck, and questions on NuPowr upgrade

2005-11-21 Thread Richard Adams
SNIP I once bought a 1400c on eBay ($30 + shipping) that came with a 250 MHz G3 upgrade. Ho-ho, that's almost as good a stroke of luck as mine! The previous owner didn't knew because he didn't have the NuPowr extension in the system. I just copied the extension to the Extensions Folder and

Re: Good luck, and questions on NuPowr upgrade

2005-11-21 Thread Richard Adams
SNIP 8.6 is a free downloadable update which I'd always put onto 8.5 -- Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic http://www.pbfanatic.co.uk SNIP Thanks for tha advice, Malcolm, I guess I need to make it a point to do that. What are the major features/fixes for 8.6? Thanks!

Re: Good luck, and questions on NuPowr upgrade

2005-11-21 Thread Richard Adams
SNIP The biggest thing I liked about OS 9 was the Software Update feature, which was a great improvement over having to figure out what updates you needed and where they could be found. However, now all updates are out for OS 9. I went from System 7 to System 9. I really liked 9. SNIP

Re: Power Book 145B

2005-11-21 Thread David I Hassett
Roger Volk (Contractor) wrote: David, I have one you can have for the cost of shipping. Roger Roger Volk 6013 Hope Dr. Camp Springs, MD 20748 David I Hassett wrote: Hi To All, Does anyone know where I can get a 4 Meg memory module for my Power Book 145B? It seems to have an empty

Re: Good luck, and questions on NuPowr upgrade

2005-11-21 Thread Donna Hood Pointer
Here's a link. I think the best thing was Software Update. You can see what else at the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9. It also had some cute thikngs such as knock-knock jokes. You could talk to the computer and have it talk back to you. D On Nov 21, 2005, at 3:31 PM, PowerBooks

Re: Good luck, and questions on NuPowr upgrade

2005-11-21 Thread Dan K
Donna Hood Pointer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know OS 9 needs 64MB RAM and runs on G3, because I had to buy my daughter an extra 32MB chip to put it on her early iMac. It absolutely needs 64MB. Carshes the machine with 32MB. Well, not really, OS 9 _will_ run with only 16MB real RAM

190 screen not functioning...

2005-11-21 Thread Caleb Cupples
Dear Listers, I just upgraded my venerable 190 to OS 7.5.3, and I have run into a bit of trouble. I've got the greyscale display on mine, naturally, and my parts machine had .5.3 before it went to the great Mac store in the sky, so I wasn't expecting any trouble. Well, I've done the install,