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2005-05-22 Thread vicki duggan
I think that any mac is better than no mac. and if she does not have a computer then when you give it to her then she will be pleased. for the cards I would go with the Orinoco card for wifi and for the cpu card try and find a 300 wallstreet cpu card, Should give the best use, hard drive any

Re: Off topic OT : Long weekend topic - what macs do you own?

2005-05-21 Thread vicki duggan
Well not as many as i would like to have Because i love em all they are great, just like kids, (if you treat em right, they are fine! if you don't then you need help) my list is. G4 Sawtooth. wireless (main desktop now) G4 Ibook (mine not to be touched by anyone) G3 crt imac (Used mainly for P

Re: Need HELP with a 3400c

2005-05-12 Thread vicki Duggan
> Any 3, and yet each tested separately work fine? > > Any electronic Engineers out there care to give a thought to this? > > Have you tryed the contact cleaner idea? > -- I think I might try this can I get the cleaner at maplins and what sort of brush do I use. Vicki -- PowerBooks is spons

Re: Need HELP with a 3400c

2005-05-10 Thread vicki Duggan
> > I didn't write the first quote. Only replied to it. > > Why not go to Radio Shack or another supplier and get a spray can of > electronic contact cleaner. And on every single contact pin and hole > and card edge and slot spray the heck out of it scrub it with an old > toothbrush and repeat t

Re: Need HELP with a 3400c

2005-05-10 Thread vicki Duggan
On 10/5/05 8:57 pm, "Fluxstringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> I want to boot from a OS 8.5 CD or a PC Card that has OS 8.6. >> However, the PowerNook doesn't boot anymore. >> I kept it plugged in 24 hours, but now it doesn't even make a noise. >> Could it be a bad power supply board? So

Re: More on my PB 190cs

2005-05-05 Thread vicki Duggan
I think that I should pipe in here because I think if you are going to use the old hard ware on a daily basis then good for you. I still own a duo and use it for text docs on my home network and print to an old laser-writer. I also have an old classic hooked to a apple-one BW scanner and on to the

170

2005-03-19 Thread vicki Duggan
Hi all just got a 170 in the mail and it is in perfect condition nice screen etc: i want to put this in the baby's bed room as a story teller for when she goe's to sleep on a night. What software can i use to get it to read audio books. the specs are 8mb ram with ram doubler giving it 16mb 320

Re: OS 7.0.1 and PB 145?

2005-03-10 Thread vicki Duggan
Hi Bill I have a copy of 7.0.1 on floppy full set from a mac classic or lc can't remember which. I will dig them out if you want. vicki -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

lists

2005-02-24 Thread vicki Duggan
Hi my isp has been off line for email for 1 day and 20 hrs will i need to re sub to the list as i am now not getting any mail. vicki -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Came

Ref Access URL

2005-02-13 Thread vicki Duggan
Hi have you checked to see if the wireless part of your router is restricted. If so you might want to stop the restrictions and then check, also how many wired ports are on the router? and do you have the G3 going at the same time, if so use the port the g3 is on to see if you have any dead por

RE; wireless for 3400c

2005-01-25 Thread vicki Duggan
My 3400 has the max ram in also, and both the orinoco card and the pro wireless card work fine in it. I did have some trouble when first installing the card and i only had 32mb of ram. but since the ram upgrade it has been fine. I do not know what the minimum ram needed for these cards is! bu

Re: Wireless for 3400c

2005-01-25 Thread vicki Duggan
On 25 Jan 2005, at 15:48, Brian Mahoney wrote: Jared Noska wrote: Hi, I got a Enterasys Roamabout card. It's 16 bit and has the 128 bit encryption. It is equivalent to the Lucent gold card. Do you think this will work ok with my 3400c/240 that runs OS 9.1? Also, does it require a certain amount of

wireless for 3400

2005-01-23 Thread vicki Duggan
Hi have you reset everything back to the factory defaults then tried that. I know when i tried doing what you want to with my g3 and my 3400 i ended up downloading ipnet router worked wonders, but i could not afford the licence, and it was cheaper to buy a wired/wireless router. I went for the

Re: Wireless for 3400

2005-01-17 Thread vicki Duggan
Go to the wireless networking section and type (802.11b pcmcia) in thew search box thats all i did. vicki On 16 Jan 2005, at 23:57, Jared Noska wrote: What would I type in on eBay to find those cards? Thanks, Jared -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronic

Re: Wireless for 3400

2005-01-16 Thread vicki Duggan
On 16 Jan 2005, at 19:11, Clark Martin wrote: At 7:18 PM -0600 1/15/05, Jared Noska wrote: Hi- Could some one direct me to some good wireless cards for the 3400? Do they make just B cards or G as well for them? I'm new to this wireless, as I just got my first Airport card, so excuse my ignorance

Re: (now Macs on TV)

2004-07-29 Thread vicki duggan
> > Yeah why shouls anyone buy an underpowered Mac laptop when they can > have a 3 MHz P4 with that wonderful Windows OS for a lot less ? > > For God sake don't portray working class people as Mac users. That > would give people the impression they were as good as their " Betters > ' . > >

Re: 5300 GLOD

2004-07-17 Thread vicki duggan
> From: Jeff Hubatka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:45:27 -0700 > To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: 5300 GLOD > > I've got a 5300cs with Green Light Of Death syndrome here. The sleep > light just stays on constantly, eve

Re: PB 540c External Monitor

2004-07-16 Thread vicki duggan
> > Right now, all the folders and icons are active only on the PowerBook > Monitor, and we have to drag whatever we want over to the external monitor. You need to go into your monitor settings and change the prefs to the external display. or turn on the video mirror then both the displays wil

Re: PB3400 problems

2004-06-03 Thread vicki duggan
Hi Mad Dog been following the thread for a while and even though i have not had these symptoms on a powerbook i have on a G3 266 desktop i had. after trying everything to get it going again as a last resort i replaced the cpu and it worked. I know that the cpu on the 3400 is soldered to the board

Re: NiMH batteries in a 3400c?

2004-05-02 Thread vicki duggan
On Sunday, May 2, 2004, at 12:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; can you use 190/5300 NiMH batteries in a 3400c? For that matter, can you use 3400c's Li-Ion battery in a 190/5300? Hi i did have success running a 190cs off of a 3400 lithion battery. but when i upgraded it to 8.1 from 7.6 the batte

Re:

2004-04-19 Thread vicki duggan
> I have the bare bones version of the PowerBook 1400c (117mhz/750mb, no cd, > system 7.6.2) and was looking into souping it up to make it usuable for light > web, email, and word processing. I have a couple of questions: > > 1) is it worth upgrading to a G3 Sonnet processor? depends on how muc

Re: 3400c boots only with a powered external SCSI device

2004-04-10 Thread vicki duggan
device (either a CD-Rom or an > HDD) solves everything. The 'book runs like new, i.e. > boots normally from the internal drive. > I took it apart again after getting the pdf from Apple > Dev. notes. I can't see anything broken, yet. There's > no reset button on the 1

Re: 3400c boots only with a powered external SCSI device

2004-04-10 Thread vicki duggan
Hi George have you stripped the book and reassembled it after the fall as if the hdd cable is just sitting on the connector and not connected properly it will interfere with the ide controller on the motherboard and the internal drive will not be powered . vicki -- >From: George Mogiljans

Re: PB3400c ADB chip ?

2004-04-08 Thread vicki duggan
Mad dog thanks for the page will get round to that mod later in the week. will also get around to sending all my results of compatible parts to who ever wants to list them as i do not have a web page. just lots of experiment pages. latest is a G3 tower clocked with higher bus and cpu (but t

Re: PB3400c ADB chip ?

2004-04-08 Thread vicki duggan
Hi Mad dog. could you mail me your url so i can try that adb mod on my 280c . also where do you get all the bits from as you seem to have a never ending supply. also a few things on the Apple and Acer saga from last year. Just got a lombard again a couple of months back, and being one for takin

entourage

2004-03-19 Thread vicki duggan
Hi all after a few days of fooling around and only receiving mails i have found out that my isp does not support entourage at all and will not send any mails done in it so i have reverted back to OL5 for email. So to the guy who wants a 3400 trackpad mail me off list i have one you can have for

Re: USB

2003-10-03 Thread vicki duggan
on 10/3/03 10:33 PM, D. Wakefield (DTP etc!) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > --- On Fri 10/03, vicki duggan < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hi use mac id wannabe and change the gesalt id to that of a pci > desktopinstall the drivers for

Re: USB

2003-10-03 Thread vicki duggan
on 10/3/03 9:47 PM, D. Wakefield (DTP etc!) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How did all of you get your shaved cardbus usb adapters to work on the 3400's. > My 9.1 machine refuses with this exchuse: "USB Adapter Card Support" is not > supported on this machine. Do I need "I wish I were"or somethi