Re: Dead 140 - revived - partially

2003-06-15 Thread Gary Sparkes
my 140 does the same thing, and mine cannot run off of the battery because a fuse is dead. bad luck on my part, but without batt and wall power it wont work, thou it will work batt only when i find a replacment fuse - Original Message - From: David Pekarsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

x86 emulation

2003-02-26 Thread Gary Sparkes
what kind of x86 emulator (for like dos 5 or 6.22) should/could use on a lc3? (free if possible) -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free

Re: Newbie and PowerBook 520 Question

2003-02-14 Thread Gary Sparkes
shreve? - Original Message - From: Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 4:48 PM Subject: Re: Newbie and PowerBook 520 Question Shreve is selling new old stock 19.2 modems for the PB5xx for $2. Hard to beat that deal. You might

Re: Mac OS

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Sparkes
ahh... thanks anyway! I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the set of DiskCopy images available on the Apple site is not designed to make individual floppy disks, but the images are instead designed to be mounted on the desktop and installed directly from there.

Re: pb 3400c behaving strange

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Sparkes
fuse look for one 125v 5a - Original Message - From: sirksd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:52 AM Subject: Re: pb 3400c behaving strange Gabriel: Did you try resetting the power manager? The power socket itself could be the

Re: Mac OS

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Sparkes
the images are THE FULL INSTALL SET (DISKCOPY) images :) from apple ^.^ - Original Message - From: Joost van de Griek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 5:07 AM Subject: Re: Mac OS On 2003-02-11 01:34, Gary Sparkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Mac OS

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Sparkes
yes, i beleive it is 7.5.3, So, I think I understand that you have DiskCopy images of some OS, and that possibly you are trying to convert these to floppy disks on your PC? yes to that -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: torx in u.k.

2003-02-09 Thread Gary Sparkes
err.. i don't have to listen or bow to a queen! all i have to say is mr. president! and anyone that tried might become the head of state president you do it by blood lines and crap! HAHAHAHA, and air force one is especially nice :) a 300-400 passenger jet converted to hold 50-100 :) gad sir -

Re: What to do when a PowerBook freezes?

2003-02-09 Thread Gary Sparkes
when mine freezes i just hit the power switch and turn it off then on - Original Message - From: JP [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 3:18 PM Subject: Re: What to do when a PowerBook freezes? What Kind of Powerbook are talking here? Need

Re: torx in u.k.

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Sparkes
heh, but... most of us are not lucky to be british or be in that area :) here in the u.k. i got both the torx sizes i needed for getting inside my pb160 from halfords ( a motoring spare parts chain ) , one's in a screwdriver form -the other is for use with a socket set (!) but i treat it

Re: Torx

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Sparkes
hah, i was talking about the 100 series Yeah, hrm... ;-) I suppose that depends on the machine. (Are we still talking about the 5x0?) On my Wallstreet and on my 5300, the screws that retain the case stiffener are VERY deeply recessed. The screws that hold in the keyboard on the 5300 are

Re: Mac OS

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Sparkes
hrm? what should i do? - Original Message - From: k [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:59 AM Subject: Re: Mac OS is there a pc program that can read the disk copy images? on our domestic maclist (macsweden) someone

Re: Mac OS

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Sparkes
its the 7.5.? diskcopy image i need to make floppies from it on a windowspc this was an option if you already had toast a program for burning cds - you can save discimages in that one - and if you have toast in both pc and mac they can read each others images, and toast can mount disk copy

Re: for PB what screwdriver?

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Sparkes
for the 100's(like 100, 140, and up) it is t-10 for the bottom screws, a t-8 for the screw in the back near all the input/ouptut thingys, and t-8 for all inside - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:55 PM Subject:

Re: Torx

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Sparkes
just buy a torx bit set for the screw drivers with the changable tips, it has like t-1 to t-10 (I ended up buying a torx6, 8 sized ones and they aren't so common anymore from what the hardware fellas tell me) -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Torx

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Sparkes
Gary Sparkes wrote: just buy a torx bit set for the screw drivers with the changable tips, it has like t-1 to t-10 Those will not work, as the holes the screws are set into are smaller than the big part of those tips and the tip isn't long enough to reach the screws. -- Bruce Johnson

Re: Mac OS

2003-02-06 Thread Gary Sparkes
is there a pc program that can read the disk copy images? - Original Message - From: Alex Retterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Mac OS From: Gary Sparkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Battery Problem

2003-02-06 Thread Gary Sparkes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Battery Problem From: Gary Sparkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) Subject: Re: Battery Problem Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:15:17 -0800 what other problems

Re: Battery Problem

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Sparkes
on the logic board. Roger Gary Sparkes wrote: My powerbook 140's battery has ceased to function... it only works when the battery is plugged in and the ac is plugged in i was told it was a 5A 125V fuse... i checked it and it went off the resistance scales so i will assume it is bad. would

Re: anyone need a 320MB scsi hard drive?

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Sparkes
need a 320MB scsi hard drive? Ok, the other buyer has backed out. I'd be willing to do $25 shipped to you in the lower 48 states. Still interested? -Hal On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 06:07 PM, Gary Sparkes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Mac OS

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Sparkes
is there any way i can get 7.5.3 on binary disk images so as to write them to floppy on a pc using a program like rawrite (commonly used to write *nux bootdisks)? or is there a program to open diskcopy on windows? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: anyone need a 320MB scsi hard drive?

2003-02-04 Thread Gary Sparkes
lets see... will it work in a 140? - Original Message - From: Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: anyone need a 320MB scsi hard drive? Apple OEM hard drive made by IBM. 320MB capacity, pulled working from a

Battery Problem

2003-02-04 Thread Gary Sparkes
My powerbook 140's battery has ceased to function... it only works when the battery is plugged in and the ac is plugged in i was told it was a 5A 125V fuse... i checked it and it went off the resistance scales so i will assume it is bad. would the fuse being bad cause said problem? i tested

Re: anyone need a 320MB scsi hard drive?

2003-02-04 Thread Gary Sparkes
. On the inside, all the 100 series powerbooks are almost identical. I had another inquiry on it earlier, but if I don't hear back from him by this evening, it'll be available again. I'll let you know either way. -Hal On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 06:07 PM, Gary Sparkes wrote: [EMAIL