Re: [q] File sharing with Beige G3 ---update

2004-12-01 Thread Dana Sibera
Then for some reason after I had to rebuild the desktop on the Quadra 610 I can no longer see the G3 as a Server when using the Chooser and AppleShare. I am using the same wires that used to work and the same hub connected to a router, both are Linksys products and they work fine if I am

Re: [q] 040 PDS PPC Upgrades

2004-09-13 Thread Dana Sibera
Apple's spec database states that a Quadra 950 upgraded to PPC is capable of running MacOS 8.5. Elsewhere, I've read that one must install an enabler from Sonnet to achieve that result. Does anyone have any hard evidence or experience that proves exactly what version(s) of the MacOS can

[q] Yeah, more gmail :).

2004-09-03 Thread Dana Sibera
I know there's thousands of these floating around now, but since I like quadras and quadra users can't be all that bad, I have six gmail invites hanging around to hand out to quadlist peeps. email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the first six people get one. disclaimer: I don't know if gmail even

Re: [q] Yeah, more gmail :).

2004-09-03 Thread Dana Sibera
On 03/09/2004, at 4:17 PM, Dana Sibera wrote: I have six gmail invites hanging around to hand out to quadlist peeps. Just a note to let y'all know they're all claimed dana -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: [q] Mac Quadra 605.

2004-07-27 Thread Dana Sibera
On 27/07/2004, at 11:55 PM, Robert J. Stevens wrote: Quadlist; Is this the right place to post on a Mac Quadra 605. I am having a battery Problem. I asked a friend to help and he drilled out the battery socket. I need to locate the Plus end of the Battery Circuit. The plus is the end towards

[q] CPU of a 650

2004-04-27 Thread Dana Sibera
On 27/04/2004, at 1:37 PM, Rankin, Adam wrote: The 650's CPU is soldered to the logic board -- getting it out without destroying it would be very difficult!!! Both of my 650s have the CPU socketed, and it can be swapped out with a little care. The ones I have look like this:

Re: [q] RAMdisk use

2004-04-26 Thread Dana Sibera
On 26/04/2004, at 7:21 PM, Don wrote: Booting from a RAM Disk should be a matter of setting up the RAM Disk in the memory control panle, and then installing enough of the System onto it to be able to boot up. This thread has provoked a thought that I'd like to ask about. What is the purpose of

Re: [q] WOMBAT?

2004-03-09 Thread dana sibera
On 09/03/2004, at 7:36 PM, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: I saw WOMBAT on one of my machines, and I have never owned a Quadra 800. Eliminating most of my collection (based upon the processor and number of slots), that would leave the Quadra 6x0. The 'x' would represent a machine with a 33

[q] Odd 68040 in an LC580

2004-03-05 Thread dana sibera
A friend found this in his 580 http://www.danamania.com/temp/lc040.jpg A laptop style packaged 68040, on a board, in the normal old everyday cpu socket of the 580. Anyone recognise it as being out of one of the 040 laptops perhaps? a 190? Duo?. It's the same type chip package as in my

Re: [q] Odd 68040 in an LC580

2004-03-05 Thread dana sibera
On 05/03/2004, at 10:44 PM, Michael Dawe wrote: On 5 Mar 2004 at 21:48, dana sibera wrote: A friend found this in his 580 http://www.danamania.com/temp/lc040.jpg I think it's either a stock LC 630 or Performa 630 with the 68LC040 chipset... Not much to go on, and I don't speak Japanese

[q]Re: What's the best NuBus video card?

2004-02-12 Thread dana sibera
On 13/02/2004, at 5:10 AM, Tim Larson wrote: On 2/12/2004 11:17 AM, Powermac felt like writing: I think the fastest boards were the ones made by Radius for the last nubus macs (Radius Thunder IV Gx 1600) since by that time they were one of the few companies left. The built in video is

Re: Quadra 605 Question

2003-10-25 Thread Dana Sibera
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Robert Little wrote: I just keep getting the Macs here... Was gifted recently with 8 machines from my place of employment (they were being retired, and I didn't want to see them trashed), and included in this mixed lot was a Quadra 605. It chimes, but

Q630 extra ram slot soldering.

2003-09-26 Thread Dana Sibera
I've just read http://www.lowendmac.com/quadra/630ram.shtml which describes how a 630 can get an extra ram slot by soldering on a 72-pin ram slot into the empty pads on the motherboard. However, that doesn't fit with my 630, that extra slot which is just solder pads doesn't have enough pins!

Re: Is it really dead?

2003-03-16 Thread Dana Sibera
On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 02:37 PM, Sque wrote: Ah, but there is no CUDA on a 475/605! Ah, but there is. It was the first Mac to have one. Could you explain where this cuda is hiding please. http://www.danamania.com/temp/cuda.jpg shows where things are Under the green circle are

Unknown nubus

2003-02-16 Thread dana sibera
This isn't strictly Quadra related, but as they're mostly Nubus it's vaguely on topic. I bought a card on eBay because it was cheap - and also unidentified. It's given me something to do if nothing else, so it's been worth it. Anyhows - it -seems- to be a video card. a standard DB15 connector

Re: Quadra 800

2003-02-02 Thread Dana Sibera
On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 09:42 PM, R I Barclay wrote: Can anyone help me, please? I was surfing Mac stuff the other day came across a site that gave a pictorial guide to opening a Quadra 800 case accessing the motherboard. Stupidly I didn't bookmark the site now I'm

Re: Quadra Manual

2003-01-18 Thread Dana Sibera
Can someone send me a 630 troubleshooting an/or service manual that spells out how to take apart my 630 to swap out drives? While they're a generally painful machine to completely pull apart, getting the drive(s) out is one of the easy parts! Under the front panel are two plastic 'tabs' that

Re: '030 and '040 question

2002-12-26 Thread dana sibera
Have you tried any faster than 50MHz? I actually plan on doing the same thing with my IIfx, though I was hoping to get a little past 50MHz. FYI the fastest 030 upgrades ever made for Commadore Amigas were 50MHz, anything significantly more was pretty well impossible without a

Quaddoubler

2002-12-24 Thread dana sibera
It shouldn't be benchmarking faster if it's a C650. It should be benchmarking about 30% slower. Well its benchmarking (and simply is working) immensely faster. That's the C650 board with quaddoubler, benchmarking faster than the normal Q800 right?. Just to be clear on things :) (assuming

Re: Heatsinking

2002-11-08 Thread Dana Sibera
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 04:46 PM, Spiritus ex Machina wrote: OK, Scott (or anybody else with an opinion on the matter), what is your opinion about cooling for my Q605? It's got a 68040/25 chipped to 33MHz, 36MB RAM, 2 4-chip VRAM sticks (1MB? 2MB?), and a PDS Ethernet card. I use

Re: 7.1 hacks and other stuff

2002-09-12 Thread Dana Sibera
On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 05:41 AM, Scott Holder wrote: I'll probably write up a page about it and post it too. Having your own web server is great ;) And, it's a upgraded LC475 (33mhz full '040 clockchipped to 33mhz) running Debian Linux, so it's even on topic for this list ;)

Re: Hard Drive Capacity

2002-08-03 Thread Dana Sibera
On Sunday, August 4, 2002, at 01:07 AM, william ahearn wrote: Byron Gardner wrote: I use Ethernet to connect to a 6500 running OS 9.1. The drive partitions both mount on the 6500 desktop but they both show a capacity of 1.99 and that is as high as they go. What gives?

Re: Trickle

2002-07-29 Thread Dana Sibera
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 08:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you know if Q605/LC475s and 6100s provide this trickle?. I'd imagine it's possible they don't, being manual-power-on machines... It'd be kinda typical if they don't, considering they suffer more than most macs from

Re: OS musings on too many macs.

2002-07-27 Thread Dana Sibera
On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 12:33 AM, Craig Phillips wrote: Hi, I suffer from too many macs. 10 macs and 5PCs. When I think of just giving them away, I wince. The trouble with this is people expect you to keep fixing them, or adding SW etc, afterwards. There is nothing worse than

Re: Rescued LC 475 CPU Chip ID

2002-07-15 Thread Dana Sibera
On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 07:18 AM, Spiritus ex Machina wrote: I recently rescured an LC475 box on its way to the recycler. Its provenance is unknown. It has 4M+16M memory, 512K VRAM, and the standard manual-inject HD floppy and 160M hard drive. What I'm not sure about is the CPU.

Re: Rescued LC 475 CPU Chip ID

2002-07-15 Thread Dana Sibera
On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 07:46 AM, Dana Sibera wrote: The one sure test is to download a benchmark prog such as speedometer - Just for completeness, a version of speedometer can be got from: http://mes.emuunlim.com/software/applications/disk_tools.htm be well :) dana -- unnaturally

7.1 Resolution hassles

2002-07-04 Thread Dana Sibera
I'm running 7.1 on a Quadra 605 after running 7.5.3 for a while, and there's a bit of a problem with the monitors control panel. It's a Q605 with an Apple Multiple Scan 14 monitor on it. Under 7.5.3, the Monitors control panel gives me the option of 832x624 - which works very nicely in

Re: 630

2002-06-24 Thread Dana Sibera
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 09:11 PM, vicki wrote: Hi everyone is saying they used a pair of simms I only have 1 ram slot There is no pds but there is a nubus. the ethernet card i put in is from a lc475. as far as I know, the 631 was the only of the series to come with 2 ram slots -

Re: 630

2002-06-24 Thread Dana Sibera
On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 12:09 AM, Tina Holm wrote: At 14:32 +0100 24/06/02, Mark Benson wrote: Well my Perform,a 630 has 2 RAM slots. I just looked. They are on the left edge of the logic board (looking from the back) and are slightly staggered from each other. The LC 630 only has

Quadra obsessions

2002-05-15 Thread Dana Sibera.
Just to share, as always :). My obsession with 605's has spilled over lately to a little time on illustrator and photoshop - if anyone has a need for a reasonably tidy pic of one see http://www.danamania.com/temp/605.jpg be well :) dana -- unnaturally hosted on a Q605,

Re: Rebooting desktop

2002-05-15 Thread Dana Sibera.
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 02:27 PM, Robert J. Johansen wrote: Quadraphiles: If my Q950 has hung or frozen (like it does so frequently with Netscape), it won't re-boot with the three-fingered salute, either. My 950 does just the same on the odd times it crashes. Even turning the key