Test Was: Blackbird 520PPC

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

2004-09-02 Thread Robert Gray
for mechanical repair/upgrade procedures. -- 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

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

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-27 Thread Robert Gray
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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 http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-25 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

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) remove

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, 579

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 upgrades.

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-11 Thread Clark Martin
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 520PPC Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 08:27:16 -0500 Bookies, I know I

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

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 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 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.

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 Richard Adams
] 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) - it is Command - Option - P - R. Good luck finding out about the PPC/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 this machine but I lost it. The machine is a 520 Blackbird form

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

Re: Blackbird 520PPC

2004-08-09 Thread Richard Adams
Hey, RA! I looked up the Power Reset thing (it also resets the PRAM) - it is Command - Option - P - R. Good luck finding out about the PPC/Blackbird! Ciao! Richard From: R. A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Blackbird