Re: iCab PB 3400

2004-09-24 Thread h . katz
I'mn still working with 8.1--any browser suggestions there? Quoting Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Dana Sibera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/09/2004, at 9:25 AM, Mac wrote: So what browser would you use to get gmail to work under OS 8.6? For 8.6, it may be worth trying

7.1 install hitch

2004-05-05 Thread H McCarty
I have a pb 180 I'd like to run with 7.1, but after getting the necessary enabler I'm stuck trying to install it. What is the ( blindingly simple ) procedure for this? Chet _ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV,

5300 partition problem

2004-02-03 Thread H McCarty
I have a 5300c that came with 8.6; I wanted 7.6.1 and a HD with two partitions. I used Apple's drive utility to create two partitions but accidentally made one HFS+ and didn't notice until I had 7.6.1 installed and got the Where have all my files gone deal. I installed 8.0 - same situation -

can't find problem, 3400 display wierdness

2004-01-22 Thread H
As I was about to do a clean install, the screen went on the fritz again. So I hooked it up to an external monitor -- working fine. No problems at all. We took apart the 3400 that has been having intermittent display problems and checked the display cable carefully (doesn't appear to be damaged.)

sudden 3400 display problem

2004-01-21 Thread H
Help! I was merrily surfing along this evening and suddenly, my display just faded right out to white. I immediately restarted the machine, and it was booting normally, but the screen went crazy, banding and flickering, and briefly showing a normal display, then banding and fading out to white.

3400 Display Problem update

2004-01-21 Thread H
I was too tired last night to go through much beyond PRAM, but today when I turned it on, it began to show digital garbage -- not graphic, then suddenly when the Mac OS 8.6 screen came up, it was fine. It continued to boot and acts normally. We're going to take it apart this weekend anyway, and

drive utilities

2004-01-19 Thread H
can anyone give me comments on the following drive utilities? I am wondering if any of the following programs will allow me to format an external usb HD as FAT32 (a pc format, I know, I know) from a pb 3400 or iMac running 8.6 (If you really want me to go into the why I will...) I found: Disk

clicking hard drive

2004-01-17 Thread H
Hello H: In my experience, if the hard drive clicks on startup, then it is probably damaged. Not startup, you got it. Actually, it seems to work fine with any software that is already loaded. I am trying to add a few new programs, and it doesn't like that. Sometimes it also hangs

Think it's shot

2004-01-16 Thread H
the end of checking the media it too got stuck, clicking. I think the drive may be shot. If I can't run a disk diagnose, should I even bother trying a clean install or a reinit? Advice? Thanks H -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

error type 9 problem

2004-01-15 Thread H
MacError says this is a line 1010 trap error (whatever that is...) I'm working on a friend's powerbook 3400/200, trying to help her install some programs (Mixman studio and a few other sound apps.) She says she's gotten this error before but doesn't know what it means. Is this something I could

of usb pc cards, usb 2.0 and firewire

2004-01-12 Thread H
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:47:03 +0100 From: VidaVerde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: archos jukebox recorder v2 and powerbook 3400 I'm running a 3400 under 8.6, using a macally cardbus pcmcia usb. Do you have to insert

archos jukebox recorder v2 and powerbook 3400

2004-01-11 Thread H
Does anyone on the list run anything like this (ie any usb 1.1 external hard drive/mp3 player not an iPod?) I'm running a 3400 under 8.6, using a macally cardbus pcmcia usb. First time I plugged it in, it saw this just fine, mounted on the desktop, I copied files to it, no problem. Second time

archos jukebox recorder v2 and mac os 8.6 yay!

2004-01-11 Thread H
with the iMac, but of course that's gossip for another list. So anyways, if anyone is considering a fancy dancy usb 2.0 based drive device, have heart and trust good ol pc exchange with fat32 pc formatted media. H but I repeated this several times, and also got it to work on the iMac. -- PowerBooks

Mac to PC and back again Re: Getting data between the mac and windows

2004-01-04 Thread H
From: Mr Cranky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Getting data between the mac and windows box Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:01:55 -0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've discovered that my 5300cs meets the minimum requirements for the = two pieces of software

card slots, installing os on 5300, and ressurecting 1400/3400's, and broswers

2003-12-30 Thread H
From: Don Wakefield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upper or Lower Is there a definitive protocol for deciding where to place which cards in my 3400c? From: Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upper or Lower If you want to use just one card, it probably doesn't matter which

Re: 3400/ usb camera recommendations? and pram / green death light suggestion

2003-12-29 Thread H
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 19:28:06 +1100 From: kaldav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3400/ usb camera recommendations? (snip) However, when installing my Ixla digital camera software, the installer removed all the USB system

MP3's on pb's? Mac compatible Players?

2003-12-15 Thread H
Okay, I have a big problem. A few days ago Santa overheard my husband on the phone talking to a friend about how cool ipods and other mp3 players are. I don't know a thing about mp3. What he wants is a player to load all his old favorites -- all his cd's, maybe a bit of vinyl. He doesn't listen

3400 won't take power from adapter

2003-09-22 Thread H
Hello all! We had a power outage here today, and I was on the 3400, typing. The 3400 was plugged into the wall through a surge suppressor. When the power came back on, I plugged the pb in again. It won't take power from the ac adapter. I switched off with my husband's ac adapter. It still

Apple Tech Manual CD

2002-07-13 Thread Mister H
fineĀ­ and now I have two PowerBooks instead of just the one. Mister H -- 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 iBook! | Support Low End Mac

Re: help with ethernet connection for PB3400c

2002-04-26 Thread Krauleidis, Hans H.
the 3400c does support OS 9 -Original Message- From: hope and the anchor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help with ethernet connection for PB3400c Hi. I recently picked up a powerbook 3400c and the previous owner -- I

decent pc card modem wanted

2002-04-24 Thread Krauleidis, Hans H.
Hi... im looking for a decent pc card modem for a pb1400cs/133 that im purchasing.. any suggestions? -- 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

external SCSI CD ROM Help

2002-04-15 Thread Gerry H
Dave: Since Drive setup detects the CDrom OK, but the CDrom doesn't mount, I suspect you don't have a CDrom driver to support that CDrom drive. I also have a a PB 520 and two non Apple (NEC and Toshiba) external CDrom drives. The CDrom drivers from, MacOS 7.6 support many non Apple CDrom

Re: 170 won't boot: please help

2001-10-24 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
Try it without the battery. Absolutely. The exact same thing happened to my 170 after running Battery Amnesia. It ruined the battery completely. Take out the battery and run it from the power cord; I bet it will work fine. Regards, Marshall -- Classic Macintosh Computing

Re: e-mail

2001-09-30 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
I read on this site: http://www.firewallguide.com/macintosh.htm that Eudora uses IE to read HTML mail. That could raise some issues I once received an e-mail (via Eudora) with a web-page attachment from a PC friend. Somehow, the e-mail searched out IE and auto-opened the attachment in

Re: Sources for 68k apps?

2001-09-24 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
any good 68k mac sites? Oh, Buffordz! You can probably find one or two around here someplace. http://www.mymacclassic.com/links.html -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot

Re: Update on 170 modem

2001-08-27 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
No bother at all, Nancy. I'm glad it is up and running! For configuration information, you might want to look here: http://www.mymacclassic.com/iclassic.html and http://www.mymacclassic.com/lab.html You can download the configuration information there that works on my 170. Regards,

Re: Pbook 170 modem

2001-08-26 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
I was lucky enough to find a nice 170 4/40 on eBay last week for just $26! Congratulations! and welcome to the club! I found at LowEndMac, the 170 should come with an internal modem. At least I thought it should. But there doesn't seem to be one. ConfigPPP and ZTerm only see the external

Re: Powerbook performance

2001-08-19 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
The Powerbook was very very noticeably slower. Screen scrolling was especially painful. Does anyone have any theories and/or suggestions for improvement? This is just a theory: After the game loads into RAM, the PowerBook's power saving features come on and don't see the game as real system

Re: PB 170 and Open Transport

2001-08-06 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
Does anyone know which version of Open Transport can be installed on a PB 170? 1.1.1. and 1.1.2 can both be installed with System 7.1, but you must upgrade your RAM to do it. OT cannot run on a system with only 4 megs of real RAM. Under those conditions, Classic Networking (MacTCP/ConfigPPP

Re: PB 170 and Open Transport

2001-08-06 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
I don't know off the top of my head if it is compatible (probably not), but as an example: an 8 MB upgrade for a 165 was just posted on the LEM swap list for $10. Marshall -- Classic Macintosh Computing http://www.mymacclassic.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...

Re: Need PB190 help (was Re: Type of PowerBooks)

2001-07-19 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
I may be mistaken regarding PowerBooks on this one, but: My belief is that AppleTalk, Classic Networking, and Open Transport are all independent of one another, and do not need each other. I use an AppleTalk network which includes 68K machines that have neither Classic Networking or OT on

Re: New 540c

2001-07-15 Thread Marshall H. Lewis
1. Is there any way to gain access to the hard drive - bypass the lock? Try depressing the shift key while the machine is booting. The start-up screen should say, Welcome to Macintosh, Extensions Off. This is the equivalent of safe mode on the PC. 2. If not, where can I download boot