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: AC Inverters (Car DC -> AC Power Supplies)

So my question to you all is this: Just how reliable are these devices? Will a generic inverter be reliable enough? 110V isn't a problem (heck, I doubt my household supply is an exact 120V), and the Apple AC adapter will handle down to 100V). You are correct, the alleged output voltage is not

An even better powerbook......

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Re: Where to find dongles

I got a Global Village Platinum Pro PC card in a 5300ce, but no dongles. Anyone have an idea where they might be found these days? It's a model A930, listed as 28.8 modem and 10BT ethernet. Hamfests: http://www.arrl.org/hamfests.html Sunday at Manassas I saw not just dongles but also several "D

Re: Ethernet with Pb 520c, 540c... ?

Hi all, I'm trying to connect a 540c and a 520c to the internet at home. I have an ADSL ethernet modem which acts as a DHCP server plugged to a hub. First issue. The problem is that when I try to connect to the internet with the powerbooks I always get an error message saying that it can't co

Re: powerbooks and generator power

And I've put a multimeter on generator 110V before and the over- and under- voltage spikes are truly amazing. There is a simple technology that helps, at a price. Ferroresonant transformers aka Sola transformers are magnetic tuned circuits that oscillate at line frequency [60hz]. A FR transfor

Re: powerbooks and generator power

So, I'm tired of the power outages in Michigan; I'm going to get a generator. these multiple day outages are insane; Washington state coast (old home) has 70mph winds all the time in winter, and no outages like this...anyway... I know the output from generators is noisy; can someone comment o

190 802.11, was PB1400 wireless

I tried installing the Orinoco drivers on a 190 running 7.5.5 w/24MB RAM. I get a -192 error. I also tried the WaveLAN drivers, it reports that a conflicting driver drvr.enet0 is installed and must be removed first. The 190 also has a GV Platinum card in it which I removed and disabled the ext

Re: PB1400 wireless

How about this: Delete everything that has to do with the wireless card. Go to versiontracker.com Click on "MacOS" (NOT MacOS X duh) type in "WaveLAN" download the drivers it finds you they work fine with my orinoco - in all my machines (including 190cs) But I never got the same card & dr

Re: NiMH batteries in a 3400c?

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Re: question about "The (b) (g) 's !!"

At 07:37 PM 5/1/2004, you wrote: Hi, and forgive the corny title... Can a 802.11b wireless setup (as in my 3400c) work in a 802.11g "hotspot?" Can some (g)-spots (Hey! I HAD TO!) work with 802.11b wifi cards, and some cannot? What about 802.11(b) areas? Can (g) cards work with them? Yes, yes, yes.

Re: PB SCSI termination

At 06:52 PM 5/1/2004, you wrote: >>It has a "weak" termination, which is a termination caused by the 2,000 >>(or so) ohm equivalent internal resistance of the logic devices used to >>send and receive the SCSI signals. > >I've never seen mention of such before; interesting.. With all due respect, if

Re: PB SCSI termination

At 05:31 PM 5/1/2004, you wrote: My 3400 refuses to boot properly, if at all, unless a powered, external SCSI device is attached. I can't tell with a magnifying glass if any components fell off the logic board after a heavy crash on a concrete floor. I did find a tiny rectangular yellow bit (1/16 x

Re: PB SCSI termination

>I've assumed that the 190 etc. has an internal terminator but lack proof. >Does it? It has a "weak" termination, which is a termination caused by the 2,000 (or so) ohm equivalent internal resistance of the logic devices used to send and receive the SCSI signals. I've never seen mention of such be

Re: PB SCSI termination

-- Hmmm. The user manual on the 190 shows a diagram about how to connect various SCSI devices. In the case of one SCSI external device, the diagram shows the cable from the 190 passing through a "pass-through" terminator to the external device. It shows an additional terminator on the second p

PB SCSI termination

I'm having a off-list conversation re: SCSI termination. I've assumed that the 190 etc. has an internal terminator but lack proof. Does it? {Yes, the OTHER end also needs termination, but that's not the question at hand...} -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog

Re: 190 OS8 blues

They work with an unmodified Apple CD-ROM 5.3.1 extension, but they need to have the door open until the first extensions icons appear, then I have to close the door. Any other way, it won't be recognized. So maybe you'll have to experiment a little, and try different CD-ROM extensions from differ

Re: What is Wallstreet's Max Ram?

At 02:07 PM 4/25/2004, Dan Palka wrote: What is the maximum RAM in a 266mhz Wallstreet? It says 192mb at everymac.com But OWC lists as 512mb. ISTM the 192 came from an era when 128 was as big as you could buy, and you had an existing hard-to-reach 64M Ramseeker lists several manufacturer

Re: 190 OS8 blues

A while ago, I tried and failed to get my 190 to "see" a CD drive I plugged into its SCSI port. This despite the fact the Wallstreet would see it. It just occurred to me -- wasn't it the case that some Mac's explicitly looked for Apple-scat in the CDR firmware, and would not acknowledge an "ali

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

Re: PB 540c Car Adapter ??

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... And most of those adapters don't have anywhere near the power or voltage requirement to run a

Re: PPP Dialer

On Apr 14, 2004, at 4:31 PM, David Lesher wrote: 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 I found control panels for

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: summary page for WAPs

At 09:57 PM 4/13/2004, you wrote: I was clicking around last night looking for Orinoco driver issues, and came across a summary page somewhere that listed many many models of WAP and whether or not it supported ethertalk. No, I can't find out where I was, and googling around again today hasn't

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:

Re: Booting 190 from external SCSI HD

At 12:26 AM 4/13/2004, you wrote: >I see 1.7.3 on versiontracker. Is there some reason to stick to 1.6.4 or do >I use it? None except for historical reasons. I immediately converted to 1.7.3 when it came available, and I never went back to 1.6.4. 8.0 and 8.1 came with 1.5-something, IIRC. Thanks

Re: Booting 190 from external SCSI HD

>Will 8.1 support partitions as large as 2GB? By the time 8.1 came out, most desktop machines were made with 2 GB, 4 GB or 6 GB EIDE drives, or 9 GB UW-SCSI drives. Most PowerBooks were made with smaller drives, of course. 8.1 was the first OS to support HFS+. And the Drive Setup 1.6.4 update to

Re: Booting 190 from external SCSI HD

At 07:13 PM 4/12/2004, you wrote: >What utility should I use to refomat it; Apple's or theirs? I use Drive Setup, the latest version, even if I have to patch it to accept the drive. The only case where I resort to non-Apple drivers is where I want (or need) more than 8 user partitions, which Apple

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: HP LaserJet 4ML printing (Was Re: )

At 05:48 PM 4/11/2004, you wrote: No, you misunderstood. It doesn't matter what side of the paper you print on. what matters is if you print on one side and then regularly use the back side to print other things, so as not to waste paper. I had my machine for 12 years. I was regularly saving use

Re: 190 Wireless/System Folders/recovering

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 way to choose at boot..) You have to bless the System Folder you want to boot from. To do this move the Finder file out on to the desktop and then put it back in it

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

Re: 190 Wireless

But when I try to run the installer, I get a message I must first remove the DRVR.ENET0 driver in the System file. Oh? IN the system file? I looked but do not see I tried disabling the 3C589 extension but that's not what it means. Try running the 3C589's software installer and select deins

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: 190 OS8 blues

Can you do an OS installation from an external HD? Even if I can't get the 190 to ever see the CD again, I can easily load a new OS onto the HD, via Appletalk, or mounting the HD to the wallstreet. I assume I can boot from the external HD drive -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: 180 OS8 blues

Late into this string but is the external format in HSF+ by any chance? I don't think the CDs are formatted as HFS+, but I could be wrong. I think they are just straight HFS. I tried other CD's as well. No Joy. Besides, ISTM CD's are ISO9660 are they not? Either way, the 190 would still see t

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

Yeah, it's not exactly intuitive. The rub is that the system folder on the CD-ROM that is used to boot the Mac isn't the same system folder that gets installed onto the Mac with the installer. The one that gets installed is compressed into an installer archive or "tome" that the installer re

Re: 190 OS8 blues

OS 8 can be installed as a full "FAT" version that will run on any supported machine (68k or PPC) and include all the extra bits and pieces that could possibly be needed by any machine, it can be installed as a "core" OS that contains only the bare essentials needed to run on any Mac, or as a

Re: 190 OS8 blues

Worse, the README on the OS8 CD loudly announces it is ONLY for G3's, not other powermac's... Grrris it telling the truth?> Can't be. I'm running OS 8.1 on my 7200/120 which is definitely no G3, and there are numerous listers here who are running 8.1 on PB 190s and having no problems, though

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? --

Re: Powerbook 500 Series Battery Charging

If the battery doesn't have a full charge it prabably won't boot. Are you getting the charging icon (lightning bolt) in the menu bar and control strip? Should also show % charge in the strip. I have intermittent missing lightning bolts on a Wall Street. It's plugged in. The Control Strip tells me

Re: Apple CD 300

Grace Tallman Gooding wrote: > I picked up an old external CD drive today but it doesn't have any cables. > > IF I get this PB160 working, anyone know what cables (this PB to 50 pin > centronix SCSI??) I will need and where to find a driver that will work > with the CD drive? > > Any favorite sour

Re: 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. Where might I find an Ethernet card? Better way to put it -- where do I find a reference as to what cards a

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