Test Was: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-09-02 Thread Robert Gray
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Test Was: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-09-02 Thread Robert Gray
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Test Was: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-31 Thread Robert Gray
At 08:27 -0500 on 08/09/04, R.A. Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know I found a page with info on this machine Can someone...point me to that page. Here's a good place to start: http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/seagate/536/pb500.html Lots of good stuff at that site. You may also want

Test Was: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-31 Thread Robert Gray
At 08:27 -0500 on 08/09/04, R.A. Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know I found a page with info on this machine Can someone...point me to that page. Here's a good place to start: http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/seagate/536/pb500.html Lots of good stuff at that site. -- PowerBooks is

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-27 Thread R. A. Cantrell
On 8/27/04 9:42 AM, "Robert Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you mean to send me an E-mail? -- All The best, R.A. Cantrell Visit R.A.'s Old Mac (Mostly) Stuff at: http://tinyurl.com/ubkw -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp:/

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-27 Thread Robert Gray
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Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-24 Thread Clark Martin
At 8:20 PM -0500 8/24/04, R. A. Cantrell wrote: on 8/11/04 7:59 AM, gf sciacca at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure COPR (Command-Option-P-R) is the Power Reset? It's the standard PRAM reset on pretty much all Macs. But Power Manager Reset is usually a separate key sequence. Power Manager

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-24 Thread R. A. Cantrell
on 8/11/04 7:59 AM, gf sciacca at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Are you sure COPR (Command-Option-P-R) is the Power Reset? It's the >> standard PRAM reset on pretty much all Macs. But Power Manager Reset >> is usually a separate key sequence. > > Power Manager reset for Powerbook 500 series: > 1)

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-13 Thread Dan K
Robert Gray, rgray at chesapeake dot net is having a posting problem and asked me: >Would you do me a favor and post the message below just as it's >written? Copy and paste. I've tried to post it over 12 times in the >past three days and it keeps being reject with the common comment, > > "57

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-12 Thread Dan K
"Mattox, Thoma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >The PPC cards created for the Blackbird were made by 2 >companies...Sonnetts (sold as an Apple upgrade) and Newer Technologies. >Both companies used the PPC 603e processors. Sonnetts ran around 117mhz >with 8mb ram and Newer had at least 2 different upgra

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-11 Thread Richard Adams
]> Reply-To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Blackbird 520PPC Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:19:47 -0700 At 11:51 PM -0500 8/9/04, Richard Adams wrote: Hey, RA! I looked up the Power Reset thing (it also resets the PRAM) -

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-11 Thread COCCORP
In a message dated 8/11/2004 1:07:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The third-party upgrades used different multipliers: 3.5X gave you 116.67 > MHz, 4X gave you 133.33 MHz, and 5.5X gave you 183.33 MHz. There may have > been a 5X at 166.67 MHz, too. Yep... there was a

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-11 Thread ACFX44501
>Apple made a 100 mhz upgrade card--and one is residing in my PPC'd 520c >right now. The Apple upgrade is 100 MHz (three times the 33.... MHz bus speed). The third-party upgrades used different multipliers: 3.5X gave you 116.67 MHz, 4X gave you 133.33 MHz, and 5.5X gave you 183.33 MHz. Th

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-11 Thread Howard R. Katz
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: > > I thought there was a 100 as well There was, but not by a third-party manufacturer that I've found info on. Apple made a 100 mhz upgrade card--and one is residing in my PPC'd 520c right now. :) Later.Howard

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-11 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 11/08/04 15:57, Mattox, Thoma at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The PPC cards created for the Blackbird were made by 2 > companies...Sonnetts (sold as an Apple upgrade) and Newer Technologies. > Both companies used the PPC 603e processors. Sonnetts ran around 117mhz > with 8mb ram and Newer had at

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-11 Thread Mattox, Thoma
The PPC cards created for the Blackbird were made by 2 companies...Sonnetts (sold as an Apple upgrade) and Newer Technologies. Both companies used the PPC 603e processors. Sonnetts ran around 117mhz with 8mb ram and Newer had at least 2 different upgrades. One ran at 167mhz with 8mb ram and the o

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-11 Thread gf sciacca
> Are you sure COPR (Command-Option-P-R) is the Power Reset? It's the > standard PRAM reset on pretty much all Macs. But Power Manager Reset > is usually a separate key sequence. Power Manager reset for Powerbook 500 series: 1) remove the AC adapter and battery 2) let it rest for 3-5 minutes 3)

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-10 Thread Clark Martin
et on pretty much all Macs. But Power Manager Reset is usually a separate key sequence. Ciao! Richard From: "R. A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Blackbird

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-10 Thread Gary F . Daught
From: "R. A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Blackbird 520PPC Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 08:27:16 -0500 Bookies, I know I found a page with info on t

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-09 Thread Richard Adams
werBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Blackbird 520PPC Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 08:27:16 -0500 Bookies, I know I found a page with info on this machine but I lost it. The machine is a 520 "Blackbird" form factor but is the Apple PPC 603/100 model with "PowerPC&quo

Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-09 Thread R. A. Cantrell
Bookies, I know I found a page with info on this machine but I lost it. The machine is a 520 "Blackbird" form factor but is the Apple PPC 603/100 model with "PowerPC" in the space on the screen case where you would normally see 520c. Can some one better at Googling point me to that page