[q] Identify Old Daystar Upgrade

2005-06-11 Thread Dr.O.M.Betz
It's a pity the pics don't reveal so much. All I can say is that Daystar offered quite a range of upgrades/accelerators at the time and that the control panel you can still download from AppleFritter at http://www.applefritter.com/node/4686 covers the Turbo 040, Turbo 040i, Image 040, Quad 040,

Re: [q] Riggin' up a 635

2004-11-07 Thread Dr.O.M.Betz
>Recently, I had great fortune at a >benefit fund-raiser sale. I landed a Performa 635cd (in great working order, >and with all of its original internal parts) along with a ton of far out of >date software and manuals, a global village external modem, and an apple >laser writer 300 for virtually no

Re: [q] 476 problems

2004-10-26 Thread Dr.O.M.Betz
>l s wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> I just acquired a 476 with no hd or floppy at a >> reasonable price (free). I have an extra hd that >> works (I checked it in a different computer). When I >> put a hd in the 476, all I get at startup is the >> blinking ? . Do I need to put in a floppy to get i

Re: [q] Centris 610

2004-09-10 Thread Dr.O.M.Betz
Adding to Ian Owen's thoughts: the HD in the Centris must have been terminated before you made any change. Remember that termination should be active on the (physically) last device in a chain, so you should have a look at the way you daisychained the drives on the internal SCSI cable: if the cable

[q] machine comparison

2004-07-29 Thread Dr.O.M.Betz
> >If you want to be creative, you can slide the LC630 motherboard into the >5260 and have a nice all-in-one computer. The 5260 and LC 630 use ATA hard >drives, the 660 uses SCSI. They all use the same basic 72-pin RAM type. Yes, >you can also swap CD-ROM drives, etc. > >Hope I've been some help!

[q] Centris hardware problem

2004-07-20 Thread Dr.O.M.Betz
Hi listers, after a couple of years on the Compact Macs list I decided to join the Quadlist because of a hard-core problem with a Centris 610. As this is my first post, I'll introduce myself shortly: I'm German, using and collecting Macs since 1988/System 5.0. Mostly online with a G4 Sawtooth via