Re: busted HD, freezing?

For stiction; the cure is to plug it in, power it up, and grab the drive on-axis. Snap your wrist so to accelerate the drive around the spin axis. This may break things lose. As long as it keeps going... The freezer trick, as I've used it, is for drives that spin, but don't read. If the head po

Re: Price Comparison Engines (was Re: Seagate 20gb hd for a kanga?)

You might need some digging to find what you need, though. Does anyone know of any other good Price Comparison Engines for tech gear? How does Froogle fair at this? I use PW, Froogle and pricegrabber.com; it makes an attempt at comparing out-the-door price [i.e shippi

Re: Best of two PB1400s

Just out of interest I opened up the case of that dead screen and I've found that there's a tiny reed switch under the LCD panel (behind the edge of the case, just about where the Apple logo is) and it's broken - literally snapped in two. Can anyone tell me what this reed switch does and whethe

Re: newbie

). 7200.> I've never seen or heard of PhoneNet connectors, unless you mean telephone wire of the sort you use on a modem or telephone. I guess this means another Google, huh? Buzzwords 101 Localtalk is a 230Kb/s physical network that runs from old Mac to Mac via the serial jacks & cables. It

Re: video cables

Figured most of them out by number: TIL 33011 http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/N33001 590-2104: It's got four connectors, 3 DB15's and a triple-row of the same physical size. 922-0706 (590-2104) Cable, DOS Compatibility, External Power Macintosh 6100/60,AV Power Macintosh 6100/66,AV

seeking Kevin Rist

So the PB wireless page at http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html mentioned Kevin Rist as someone who had the http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4835 drivers working in a PB 190. Since I've failed so far, I'd like to chat with him. Anyone know where he can be reached?

video cables

Which PB's use the flat "USB on Steroids" shaped external video connector? We're cleaning out the Den of Inequity and finding a bunch of these cables. We also have a bunch of both Localtalk and ADB cables. Also have one cable whose connector I'll describe as DB-25ish, -- 2 rows of pins, but ~36

Re: In search of 190cs ethernet card

I am searching for an ethernet card for a Powerbook 190cs. I found a 3C589 card and am using it. There have to be lots of such around; they're obsolete for most users. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: PPP Dialer [long]

In OS 8.1 the PPP control panel is separate; you may have to go back and install Remote Access. * PC Exchange (2.2) * PowerBook (7.6.1) * PowerBook Setup (7.3.2) * PPP (1.0.1) < There it isYou set TCP/IP to use PPP, and the use the PPP contro

Re: PPP Dialer

Part of my confusion stems from the fact I don't know what does exactly what. I thought Open Transport was the Apple implementation of TCP/IP & PPP. And Remote Access was the remote desktop scheme, with modem dialing.. How far off am I? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by an

Re: PPP Dialer [long]

So I found a modem card for the 190. But I need PPP software, or at least a dialer. (Does OT/Remote Access have PPP in it?) Yes it does. Where it's hiding depends on what version of OS you're using. OS 8.1 In OS 8.1 the PPP control panel is separate; you may have to go back and install Remote A

PPP Dialer

So I found a modem card for the 190. But I need PPP software, or at least a dialer. (Does OT/Remote Access have PPP in it?) I loaded FreePPP2.6 & promptly killed the box. It hangs at a popup showing only "Modem" port and no text [I assume it's complaining it does not find the PCMCIA modem.] But

Re: PB 540c Car Adapter ??

On Apr 14, 2004, at 2:20 PM, David Lesher wrote: RadiosHack and others sell universal DC-DC adapters. You have choose a plug tip to fix the 540, and set the output of the adapter to whatever the voltage needed is... Ummm, I take it you've never actually *seen* a PB540 power supply, hav

Re: PB 540c Car Adapter ??

Is there such a thing as a car adapter for the PB 540c? RadiosHack and others sell universal DC-DC adapters. You have choose a plug tip to fix the 540, and set the output of the adapter to whatever the voltage needed is... I see 273-1827 as one model... Of course, if the Apple plug is so weir

Re: 190 Wireless, Stage II

A) OK, I now have a bootable external drive. B) Re: installing the Lucent package, Cameron said: go fishing in the System file with ResEdit, find the DRVR resource bundle, and delete ENET0. I did that on the external System Folder. C) I ran the Lucent Installer: http://www.versiontracker.com/d

Re: Booting 190 from external SCSI HD

IIRC, 8.0 supported neither Slaves nor HFS+, 8.1 supported Slaves (but only if one downloaded Drive Setup 1.6.4, which was NOT included with 8.1) but not HFS+, and 8.5 supported both. What are "slaves"? Anyway, 8.5.1 came with everything you need for Slaves and HFS+, and with 8.6 everything fina

Re: Booting 190 from external SCSI HD

At 15:03 -0400 2004:04:13, Yersinia wrote: So I guess I'll make a 100M HFS and the rest HFS+, if that is even possible...> I'm sorry, but I don't know what to tell you. I've never used OS X. Neither of my two Macs are capable of running that. However, the 2 GB HD I formatted with Drive Setup and O

Re: Booting 190 from external SCSI HD

>Well, I have 8.1 and used Drive Setup to format a 2GB HD, and got 1.9GB >out of it ... So I used OSX to erase/reformat the 2GB drive as HFS+. I move it back to the 190, I copied the system over to it, I bless the System Folder [worked], and I went to change the startup drive. Blat:

190 rebooting secrets

So when I lock it up solid; I have two choices: The Sekret reset button on the back Splat-power; I've heard this called Flower-Power Splat-Power pops up a window; I think at the firmware level. I've never seen a description of what commands work therein. Where do I look for such? -- PowerBo

Re: Booting 190 from external SCSI HD

At 17:19 -0500 2004:04:12, Howard R. Katz wrote: I never had to move it back and forth and "bless" anything--just copied the system folder over to the target drive. I've done this on 2 different volumes. Did you format the target drive with Apple disk setup software first? I didn't know about thi

Booting 190 from external SCSI HD

I've copied the System Folder. But I recall some magic re: getting it Blessed. Missing Manual talks only about how the active system folder is the only one blessed. Q1: I'd like to be able to select a spare boot folder in case I FUBAR the one. But how do I do that? (In OS9 I think there is a wa

Re: Choosing boot

At 17:34 -0500 2004:04:09, Dan Palka wrote: No. But if you have a Mac OS Install CD you ca On Apr 9, 2004, at 5:33 PM, David Lesher wrote: My Mac experience started with OS9.x on iMac/G4's, but I'm sure this is obvious to oldtimers like you folks... How, with older hardware, do I c

Choosing boot

My Mac experience started with OS9.x on iMac/G4's, but I'm sure this is obvious to oldtimers like you folks... How, with older hardware, do I choose what System Folder I'll boot from? Let's assume I backup the System Folder, then with ResEdit mangle it so badly the machine won't boot. Now what

Re: 190 Wireless

IIRC, this refers to a specific *resource* within the System file. I'm not on my 3C589-equipped 1400 at the moment, but as memory serves, go fishing in the System file with ResEdit, find the DRVR resource bundle, and delete ENET0. MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR SYSTEM FOLDER FIRST! And that raises a few

190 Wireless

190 OS8.1 3C598 So I have a Lucent/ORiNOCO card and was thinking & I saw Kenneth's note: Best single URL I've found for wireless info on older Powerbook's: http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html It mentions http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4835 which I grabbed. Bu

Re: What do people think of the SkyLine software?

At 12:36 -0400 2004:04:08, Kenneth Vann wrote: Link for new in box Proxim Skyline cards. http://www.emicrox.com/eShop/productList.aspx?cid=-1&more=1&keywords=PN473a Best single URL I've found for wireless info on older Powerbook's: http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html How valid is this

Re: 190 OS8 blues

A friend found an OS8 non-G3 CD. But the CD refused to appear on the desktop. I put the CD in the Wallstreet and using the 3Com 3C589 card, did the install over Appleshare. The installer first demanded an updated Appleshare but otherwise went smoothly. Once OS8 was running, I used Apple System P

Re: 180 OS8 blues

... now the 190 refuses to recognize the external CD drive at all. So I can't tell if it would install or not. I don't know what's changed since last week. I've played around so more to no avail. A 2GB SCSI drive on the same string *is* seen. The drive works OK on the Wallstreet, but plugging

Re: 190 OS8 blues

The OS8 CD is white with gold & black letters "Power Macintosh G3" SSW Version 8.0 CD Version 3-1.0 691-1919A It will not boot the Wallstreet; I get an error message telling me it's the wrong CD. (This with an external SCSI CD drive..) It will show up, etc. if I start with extensions off. But n

Re: 190 OS8 blues

If it says it's only for G3 equipped Mac's, and you have a pre-Power PC Mac or a 68k Mac, then it wont work. :-( -Original Message- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Lesher Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 2:46 PM To: PowerBooks Subject: 190 OS8 blue

190 OS8 blues

So I've figured out I need the switch on the SCSI adapter cable OFF when I plug in the CD. But my Wallstreet bombs when I have the outboard CD plugged in, unless I have extensions off. {I've not tried the 190 yet} Worse, the README on the OS8 CD loudly announces it is ONLY for G3's, not other

Re: 190 TCP/IP

At 14:24 -0800 2004:03:18, Clark Martin wrote: At 4:05 PM -0500 3/18/04, David Lesher wrote: http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/enet3c589/ I loaded the above for a 3c589 on a 190 with 7.5.2; and it works on Ethertalk -- I can see various printers, etc. on the LAN. But there's no T

190 TCP/IP

http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/enet3c589/ I loaded the above for a 3c589 on a 190 with 7.5.2; and it works on Ethertalk -- I can see various printers, etc. on the LAN. But there's no TCP/IP control panel... I'd like to run ssh from this box. What do I need to get, and where from? --

Serial Comms on 190

So I've been given a 190. It's running 7.5.2. Lacking Ethernet {for now; I keep looking for PCMCIA cards with drivers}, I'd like to use it as a serial port monitor on the firewall. So what serial comm program should I use with it? Where might I find an Ethernet card? If I find one, is there a te